Something for Everyone in
Fifth Anniversary Celebrations
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s coming of age, a program of special events will run until the end of the yea1~ says Dr Priscilla Chung, Director of Public Affairs. "Programs to come willin-elude the inauguration of two new research instih1tes, distinguished lectures and cultural events, as well as activities for the University family. I think that there w山 besomething for everyone.’, Mark y。ur Calendars
Perhaps the higl吐ight of the calendar for most people will b主a weekly RTHK 5 radio show on science and technology, featuring UST faculty (see story below). Also on offer to the public will be popular science lechll'es at the Hong Kong Science Museum.
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KCR and MTR stations. Sirr曲rexhibitions atLand-Jt }(
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up-. v , to-date with developments in SBM and R&D
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E 可品 Invigo叫ing CL伽：e on the campus, the
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new Center for the Arts has plenty to offer.~ An undoubted highlight will be a film series 凶 by the reri'owned director Stanley Kwan，、 who 1為rillbe an 訂tist-in自residenceduring the fall semester.
Pianist Choi Sown-le will retmn to the campus at the end of September to host a series of noon concerts of Chinese music, and the Hong Kong Sh·ing Quartet will also perform as UST
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s quartet-in-residence.Opening later this month in the Library Gallery is 位.1 exhibi-tioi1 of Chinese calligraphy,,’,Roaming in the Arts’,. In November.
the HK Young Artists Association will present an exhibition enti-tied’,Rethinking Hong Kong.’,
If all this still fails to grab you, don
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a photography and graphics contest, a video workshop ... the list goes on. Join us!Begim山1gti叫
Chaimel 5 on 百1山sda﹜Fnightsat7pm t 0 hear’UST scientists discuss their la test re-search with veter叩 radiop巴rsonali句rPoo
erly-people from a.II · walks of life tune into om Radio 5, which covers
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President Chia-Wei Woo will kick off tlle weekly half-hour C也1toneseprogram, the UST Tecl111ologtJ File, on 5 September. TI1e pro-gram is being presented as part of the Uni-versity
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s Fiftll Amliversary celebrations.’,Of course we have cooperated with many institutions before on differentsubjec峙， but this is tlle 自rsttime for us to focus on sci-ence 剖1dtechnolog},’,says program producer
Teric Chetmg.
’,TI1e program is targeted to the general public," he says,’,Sh1dents, blue collar work
ers, housewives, professional driver丸 theeld
tnral 也1deducational pro-grµms-anything not on the main channel.’,
Dr Steven Kong in the Public A丘阻·sOfficeis working with RTHK in
org也lizingthe 26 sched
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President Woo will kick off the weekly radio· program, the UST uled programs, which Technology 向旬，will be pre-recorded.
Among the researchers slated to be inter-viewed are Dr 也n-ManLee (Civil and Sh'L眩目
tural Engineering), who will talk about landslides, and Dr Y. S. Wong (Research Cen
’,We hope that tllis program can develop·
into a long-term feahll'e," producer Chetmg says.
R在王KCham1el 5 can be found at 783 kHz tre), who will discuss novel ways to treat AM, and at 106.8 mHz FM for tl1ose who Ji.ve
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Advanced Materials Research
Institute Inaugurated
A心伽m巴 outof a brains -ing session for applied R&D will fi-nally come to fruition tomorrow (5 Sep-tember) when the Advanced Materials Research Institute (AMR!) is officially in-augurated.
The AMRI, which Prof Nelson Cu巴， Head of Physics and Director of AMR!, de-scribes as a "pulling together of laborato-ries”,grew out of a desire to do some出.ing
in line with the University
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s mission to help the ecopomic and technological de-velopment of Hong Kong.’,Advanced materials is certainly a
very important area for Hong Kong. Ad-vanced materials are central for the devel-op_ment of new devices or products and improvements in exis仙1gones, includin~
lower production costs, longer useful life or new uses,’,says Prof Cue.
’,Our intention is to provide a struc-ture to bring fac叫tyof di丘erent disciplines together to work on research in new
ma-terials, and also to train students to pro-vide manpower for Hong Kong
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s ind us-tries," he says.Developing sh·ong ties with local com-panies will be.a major thrust of the Insti-tu 惚， particularly with the view to
initiating collaborative research projects. Research work is already tmderway on the Ins ti tu妞，sfirst m句orcollaborative project (see story below).
’,We can provide the faculty expertise
and advanc巴dequipment needed for re-search and development in the area of ad-vanced materials, industry can help u s
det巴rmin巴 thedirections for that research,' says Prof Cue.
After the inaugmation ceremony. spe-cial guests, including Annie Choi, Assist-ant Director-General of Industry in the Government
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s Technology Department, and Dr York Liao, Executive Director of Varitronix Ltd, will tour some of the nine laboratories to make up the Al\.也1F
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search project. Professor Ping Sheng and Dr Xiao Yan are leading the research work into the design and fab-rica tion of novel materials for mag-netic recording 、 heads, funded to the tune of $1.15 million by local manufacturer SAE Magnetics (HK) Ltd.
higher storage density 缸，etwo areas where improvements could be made in magnetic recording heads, according to Dr Y，也.1. TI1巴
fundamental.
re-sear℃h being car-ried out in the project could eventually lead to
such
improve-口1ents.
SAE accounts for about 25% of the world market iri magnetic recording heads, an essential
• Physics P「ofPing Sheng is working with
Staff from SAE will work closely with reseachers at AMRI during the two-year project, becoming more fa-miliar with ad-vanced research techniques. ’,In turn,o山 students will be exposed to the operations of the compan
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colleague D「 XiaoYan to develop materials
that would mean better magnetic 「ecording
devices, AMRl's first 『esearchproject with industry.
devices, such as tape r巴cardersand com-puter hard disks. Increased reliability and
employees for local industry,,’,says Prof Nelson Cue,
Director of AMRI. 2
Students to Get
Technological
Wake-Up Call
I t doesn't m伽 if you’
ve been teach-ing one ye也﹒or20:Asilent classroom in response to your questions on the lec-ture you have just given is upsetting.
Prof Nelson Cue (Physics) thinks tech-nology has a solution to a room full of non-committal stares.
Beginning this semester, students in his Contemporary Physics course held in LTE will be issued
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machine. a hand-held graphics calculator upon entering the class. During his lecture, Prof Cue w山 stop periodic祉lyto assess sh1dents
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grasp of concepts by posing a question. The studen 帖， who will be paired off to encourage discussion, will consult their partners and tap the an-swer into the calculators, which are con-nected to a PC.A commercial software package will immediately tabulate the answers and display the percentage of right and wrong answers on the PC screen for all to see.
"If a lecturer w也1tsto see an indi” viduals仙dent’S respons巴， heor she can. The technology could be also used for examination and teacher evaluation,’, Prof Cue says.
Two Biochemistry faculty, Dr Raymond S.C. Wong and Dr Wan-Keung Wong, will aiso be using the in-teractive technology for their lectures in LTE.
About 50 sh1dents in two sections of General Physics were inh·oduced to the 叮lass-talk’， technologythis past spring. In a survey conducted at the end of
the term, students said they fow1d an-swering questions during class helped give them a better w1derstanding of the subject matter, and "class-talk’,made them pay more attention in class.
’,Dus will be a prototype,’,Prof Cue
says. "I think all lecture theaters should be so equipped. Students are encour-aged to tl由1kand respond,’,
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Celebrating
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Five Years
Gen巴站 is叮skiηgfo1111diηgn正ll/li/1 圳ηtors,fnc11lty 叮/1{ reflect on o川戶rsI five yen低 Pr仿枷叫
by 呵nsweringthe question, whnt is our 111ost re111nrknble ncliieve111e11t?
為紀念科大成立五周年，《同創》 特地邀請創校行政人員及教職
員回顧五年來走過的日子－。校長吳家瑋教授率先暢談科大的成就。
Our most remaJkable achievement must be that we are already such a wor世－renowned university, thanks to the hard work of our talented and dedi-cated staff. According to Govern-ment
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s original plan for us to open in the fall of 1994, we should be at this moment not even two years old. Yet we are already at our targeted full size! Om students perform well 趴 international competitions. Our graduates have no difficultyfinding jobs, and are praised by
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Looking to a Bright Future: President Chia-Wei Woo(I「ont
and center) their employers. Our faculty and distinguished guests applaud the University’
s official opening on continue to lead, by large mar－的 October1991.“在我心目中 ，科大最出色 的成就，是它在教職員的努力耕 耘下 ， 已成為一昕世界知名的學 府。政府原定計劉是要科大到一 九九四年秋季才招生 i但我們把 開學日期推前了三年，現在已在 慶祝五周年紀念。學生人數今秋 將達七千 ， 圓滿地完成任務， 達 到飽和狀態。 五年懼，科大培育的學生表 現傑出，在國際比賽中展現優秀 的成績 i 畢業後不但沒有就業之 憂 ，遺體待﹛廳主的讀賞。科大的 教師們也卓越超群，在爭取研究
gins, in the competition for
re-search grants, and th巴拉·published papers a自 ath·actingworldwide attention. In terms of applied R&D, projects from large to small and covering many frontiers, have already had a significant im-pact on Hong Kong
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s industry and business.徑費方面，遠超其他院校，所發表的學術著作受到世界各地學者的注
目 。此外 ， 科大在應用研究和開發方面，也為本港政府機構和工商界
作出了許多實質的貢獻。
We are said to have awakened Hong Kong
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s tertiary sector, which is very important, if true, since it will take the combined strength of all of Hong Kong’
s tertiary institutions to help her achie, e the economic transition from a labor-intensive societv to a有人說 ，科大為香港專土教育帶來了街擊。假如科大真有這能
耐，意味的是我們正在與香港大專院校同心合力為香港的經濟轉型作
出貢獻 ，令它早日脫離勞工密集的階毆，蛻變成為一個以現代科技為 modern technology-based society.
y 基礎的社會。
All that in less than five years. Pretty remarkable indeed. 不到五年時間有這樣的發展， 值得自傲和慶賀！ ”
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Enters Four Teams
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Tra
ilwalker
La叫間問 ap-peal went out from the Social Club for volw1teers to join a UST team for this year
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s Oxfam TrailwaJker. After an overwhelming re-sp011Se, not one, not two, not tlu-ee but戶Ill'te何nsfrom UST will enter the Tr也lw剋ker
event this ye也﹒－thefirst time for the Uni -versity to take p位tin the event
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s 15-year l世story.Coordinator Tin Ming Kwok, senior technical officer in the Chemish·y Depart-ment, says he wasn
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t prep也·edfor the en-thusiastic response.’,We even have some people on a w也包1glist!’,With just a few. short months to go
tmtil 出e daun加glOOkm challenge on 28
November, the focus for all the team members is on training. Although dis-tance exercises will not start tmtil tl1e end
of 趴ismonth, some of the 16 enh·ants are
already getting in shape-physically and mentally.
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’,My teammate Tze Kin Cheung has entered fom times and he says it is a great challenge
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says David M祉， teclmician in the Physics Dep紅恤1ent,who is enter-ing for the first t凶1e. ’，Notonly do you need physical power, you also need to廿旭.1yourmind一it’sa test of mental and
physical endmance.’,
Dr Lydia Price, assistant professor of
m也'ke也1g 位1dmember of the all-women
team, says she and her teammates are
’,probably in reasonably good shape". On regular hiking trips, they have covered one or 趴rosections of the Maclehose Trail at a time-good practice for the real 也ing.
’,We’ve already disco，叫“ thatyou reach a point when you are in pain, but you manage to keep goirig,’, says Dr Price.’,The interesting thing is that we don’t seem to reach these points at the same time, so there’S 也1opportwuty for those people in a good bit to encourage the others.’,
Working together is vital, according to Mr Kwok. "All four team members must cross the 幽1etogether to get a team certificate. So it
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s very important to get to know one another during .the train-ing-to work as a team and be compat-ible with one 也1other.’，But the Trail walker is not just a physi-cal and mental challenge. It
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s also about raising money for charity. Mr Kwok hopes the four teams together can raise more than $100,000.'Each team member needs to sign up sponsors, so support from the UST commmuty is greatly wel-come.Money raised w山 beshai吋 between
Oxfam Hong Kong, local charities for people with disabilities and Gurkhas in Nepal.
Vo/1111/eers nre still 11eetfetf for f/,e s，仰or! tea11悶，
cooki11g food and giving plenty of enco11rage111e11f
m,tf 111oral s叩port.
If
you're i11terestetf, e-mail 土 M.Kwok (cl此τuoklm)or Michael Cheng (Jo川 i11g).
STUDENT FOCUS
Getting to Know You
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n August, tl1e Atrium sprang to life once again as the hub of sh1dent activity. Shident societies worked overtime to attract new students to their ranks and their a1mual orientation, or O'Camps. They set up colorful~and some very elaborate-booths during comse registration. The Music Society cleverly h·ansformed an oblong table into a shiny grand piano. TI1e Windsurfing Society decided to ride the winning sails of local Oly1npic golden girl, windsurfer Lee Lai-Shan .• San San's photo festooned the club's booth.During the last two weeks of August, more than 30 societies staged tl1ej_r carefully planned O'Camps-several days of games and activities designed to make new students feel a part of things.
By the time the incoming class was officially wel-comed by the President, Prof Chia-Wei Woo, on 30 August, many of the more than 1,900 new under
-graduates and 461 postgraduates already felt at hori1e. In this, HKUST' s Fifth Anniversary yea1~ the Uni-versity reaches what has commonly been referred to as its "steady-state" enrollment of about 5,600 1mder-graduates and 1,600 postgraduates.
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If I Had a Hammer: Dressed in society T-shirts designed •
especially for the O'Camps, new students get into the empowering spirit of team-building games.
Spinning a Web: Student societies •
built eye-catching booths to entice new students to join their ranks during course registration.
• Tinkling the Ivories: Music Society members behind the keyboard · encourage new students to join their efforts at making and appreciating beautiful music.
If You Could See What I See: Laughter was the most pleasing sound emanating from O'Camp activities held all over the campus during the last two weeks of August.
The
Fire's
Hot!
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he Engineering Srudents' Union's (ESU) dream of a barbecue by the UST beach will soon be a reality. Year-one civil engineering students have been busy this summer constructing the pits, tables and benches as part of their compulsory industrial train-ing program with Poly U.
Kevin So Kin Lam, ESU chair-man, says the original plan of seven pits was scaled down to five for reasons .
of safety and overall appear-ance. The barbe-cue platform is below the ath-letic field.
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Why is the reservation of LG4 music rooms restricted to students while staff have access to the service only when they are accompanied by students? What is the guiding principle? if the above-mentioned facilities were open to staff when they are ·not used by students, wouldn't university resources be better utilized?
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Bonnie L. S. Cheng (Secretary to Sub-committee for Manage-ment of Student Amenities): "The four LG4 music rooms form one part of shident amenities. Only sh1dents are entitled to book and use the rooms at any time they like. In fact, the frequency of use is very high; music rooms are almost fully booked by students during term. The Sub-committee for Management of Student Amenities, formed by sh1dents and staff members, fully 1mderstands staff mem-bers' concern. We will try to make special arrangements for staff on an individual basis provided that regular use by shtdents will not be affected."E-111nil your q11estio11s to genesis orfnx them to 2358-0537.
VOX POP:
Genesis
asked a
group
of new
students
to take a quick break from O'Camp games to answer our question:
Why d
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d you choose UST?
This school chose me. It's not my first choice. I wanted to do speech and hearing at HKU. I hope I will be happy here. ·
Lorraine Shin Loi Yan, Biology
It was determined by my exam result. I wanted to do physiotherapy at Hong Kong Poly U.
Calvin Ng, Biology
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HKUST was my first choice because it's new and the facilities are excellent.
Fung Hui, Physics
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UST is a new tmiversity. I like a healthy workload. I like many homework assignments and working hard.
Victor Lui,
Physics
UST is an excellent scenario. It
was my second choice, but I am having a good time.
Winnie Law, Biology
HKUST
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Home Affairs
• B叮 KaiChiu (EMO）仙.mo山1eeshis marriage to LUK Wai Ling on 12
May 1996.
• FUNG Tak Yee (BICH) announces the birth of WONG Tsz Ch山1on 27 May 1996.
• Anthony TAM Ying Yan (OLS) a1mounces the birth of TAM ChLmg
Hong on 21 J LU1e 1996.
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科大三九龍灣
專線小巴擬將開設
在不久的將來往返科大市
區的必經之路，在彩虹及 藍田地鐵站以外，還多了一個選 擇 牛頭角。 在坐巴士、空調巴士、 TVB 城巴以外 ，還可以坐專線－ 小巴。 運輸署正計，剖開設來往科大 至九龍灣的專線小巴服務。該條 小巴專線﹔︱寄以九龍灣企業廣場為 總站（即九龍灣工業區附近） 途經牛頭角地鐵站、清水i彎道、 新清水灣道、順利村道、協和 街、康寧道及觀塘道等地。 專線小巴站﹔︱寄設於大學南 間 ，即 TVB 電視城側。 科大學生會一直致力爭取 改善科大與市區的交通。去年開 學時，學生會，使曾發起一個聲名 運動，共搜集了一千九百多個數 名 3 交予運輸署，爭取早日開設 科大至市區的小巴路線。這次運 輸署計剖開設小巴專線，當中也 有學生會的一分努力。 學生會大學事務秘書馮志 偉表示： “我們爭取于年多時 間，現在總算成功了一半。我們 還得看小巴專線正式運作後3是 ﹒ 小白專線站擬設於大學南鬧。 否真能滿足同學的需要，予以方 便。” 馮志偉擔心，牛頭角地鐵站非為總站 2 同學上車會有困難，而九龍灣企業廣場位置也 太偏僻，甚為不便。 學生會在七月初致信運輸署 3 表達他們對 小巴專線的意見。學生會提出 ，科大南悶位置 偏僻，對乘客構成不便 3 小巴站仍以北間為首 逛。此外，他們希望該小巴線能提供通宵服 務。 運輸署以通宵小巴服務需求不大為由 ，拒 ． 新小巴專線會為科大同學及教職員提供更多選擇。 絕了學生會的要求。鑑於現時科大正們北間的 馬路過於狹窄，交通繁忙 3 小巴站設於北悶 ， 也不可行。校園服務處已向運輸署建議，小巴 先停北闕 ， 以南間為小巴站。有關建議正在研 究中 。 不過，隨著明年初大學中心敢用 ，新落成 的教職員宿舍及研究生宿舍相繼入伙 3 原來 “人跡罕至” 的地方將會望得熱鬧起來。南悶再 也不會是學生會形容的 “偏僻，’ 了。 誠如會計學系二年級學生王殷傑昕吉》多 一條小巴專線，總是好事。“我沒有住宿舍， 在彩虹坐 91M 回學校 ， 巴士在第二站便 ‘飛 站2 ，或久候未見巴士，實屬屢見不鮮。”Announcements
• Salaries will be paid on Thursday,
26 September 1996.
月薪將於九月二十六日發放。
