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com-munications as an
MPhil candidate in ELEC. His per
sonal formula for
ma int也nit啥也1A a＼吧ragecomprises 60% hard work,
25% ambition 也1d15% luck.’,The luck includes
many ti山gs,like the friends I made here.’,Lany made a point of keeping up with his wee划yreadi.t1g
assignments, "no matter how long it took"
S
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graduates will receive theUniversity
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Academic AchievementAward at the Thi吋 Congregationon
2-3 November for their consistently outstanding work, exemplified by their cumulative grade average of 10. 75 out of 12, the equivalent to a solid A average. Congratulations!
CHAN Kwok Ho, BEng MECH
叮叮e have the best faculty in Hong Kong," says Ch剖1,who came to the ter-ritory from Macau S以 yearsago. After
completing a Higher Diploma at Hong Kong Polytechr世cUr世versi句 heh·位15-ferred to HKUST in 1993. He attributes his success to concentration and hard
work. His advice:’,Spend more time in
the Library.’,He is now 也.1assist也1t SU-pervisor i.t1 CGS Macau, a waste
h·eat-mentpl位1t. Beate BIENIEK· MOORES, BBAMGTO Bieniek-Moores is in Beijing doing an intensive Pu-tonghua course. ’,I believe that my BBA degree from
HKUST combined with a command of Mandari.t1 will
會
a 叫 mewell to take advantage of expanding b的iness opportunities m 出eGreater Chi.t1a," she says.
Continuous hard work and a co11Sta.ntly
question-ing 也1dexploring 1ni.t1d ’，叭，erethe b山ldi.t1gblocks
of my achievements’,. She hopes to return to HKUST to do an MBA.
GAN Wai Chuen,
BE.ngELEC Gan is con出山1g at HKUST as an MPhil candidate
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.
.看奇 in ELEC. He airl1S I - ，，苟言有一一－－＇ to find a j的趴 his • 中 ' area .of speciality - controlling en-gineermg. When 1 , he transferred to f 』 HKUST from a t 。 IfR
polytechnic twoyears ago, he was ir吐tially overwhelmed by the workload. But he soon cau~ht on.’,You musth位.1d
in yom homewor丸
you do it, make sur噎 youfully under百ta.ndit."
Rajesh H. HATHIRAMANI,
BBAFINA
Consistency 但1d bal但Ke 紅Etwo keys to the success of Ha趴i.t'amani,one of verγfew bachelor
’
s degree holderson the foreign exchange sales desk of
a major securities firm.’,I believed
that if I worked consistently over 也ne,I could achieve somethi.t1g.’,He
found his lecturers to be 屯xcellent’， ’，叮叮叫絕 timeto teach you on an individual basis, crea也1ga support自 ive envi.t'omnent.’,His
advice:’,Al-ways believe in your ability to
achieve.’,
David WoNG Chi Leung,
BEngCOMP
Read, re\ iew, tmderstand. Wong says
if students read their' assignmen怡， do their homework and fully tmder-st剖1dit, they should do well 凶 ex ams. This worked for the MPhil candidate who is study凶g
distrib-utedcompu他1gat HKUST, and who
is ainli.t1g for a PhD ir1 the field. In 位1e sLUnrner of 1994, David helped organ-ize the China Exploration Project,
which took 20 HKUST students to Beijing to see how computer science ,.;,ii is developing.
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Patent Approval for Pain-free Drug Delivery
I-I
KUST has beengranted its second patent by the U.S. Patent Office. The patent, awarded to Prof. Jeffrey Wong of the Department of Biochem-ish-y and Dr. Michael Tam from CUHK, a former PhD student of Prof. Wong, covers a novel drug delivery system specifically designed for
the deli，叫yof protein or peptide drugs. Protein and peptide drugs are becon加g in-creasingly important as therapeutic agents. Many widely used therapeutic agents are proteins, for example insulin, which is used in western medicine to control diabetes.
Millions of people the world over inject themselves daily with doses of insulin to help control their blood sugar levels. Replacing
those injections with a pa凶的method of drug delivery such as an inhalant is now a possib址，
ity, even if it is still a very distant one.
’,h principle it’s possible, that’sthewhole
objective of this development. But it is still a long way off," says Prof. Wong.
The basic idea is relatively simple - use a surface active agent to help the prote凶 cross
the membrane of the lw1gs and pass into the bloodstream. The 廿icky bit was to come up with a surface active agent that would not ir-ritate the membranes at the s也ne time. The answer lay within our own bodies. Lung surfactant, a naturally occurring smface active agent that facil期 testhe inflation of the lungs,
Prof. Jeffrey Wong
was found by the resear℃h group to have all the advantages 趴 helpingthe protein across the membrane, without the irritating prop缸，
ties.
Combining the protein drug with the surfactant requires a nebuliser toα·eate a mist that can be inhaled into the lungs. "In O山﹒ case, we are not treating lung conditions, we 紅E
using the lungs as an entry to the b。你 I tl油水
th.is will be useful for either chronic admin.is-tration or prophylaxis, as not m但1ypeople are
wil山g to inject themselves every day with prophylactics.’,
The patent application was 組edin May 1993
through the Technology Transfer Centre and awarded on 19 September.
Nasal Delivery of TCS on Plasma [TCS] 4000 O TCS (n=4)
.
TCS + Surfactant (n=4) nunu nunu nu < U qu 門，‘ 一EbcEO 匕咽 E 的帽－ a 1000 。 。 40 80 120 160 Time (min) 200The graph illustrates the enhanced absorption of plant protein trichosanthin, or TCS, by the bloodstream in the presence
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uppercurve） 。fthe lung surfactant.
HK Supernet a Partner in Regional Internet Consortium
T h e HKUST brainchild Hong Kong Supernet will loin forces with the region
’
s leading Internet service providers - Inter‘IPacific Inter‘net of Singapore 一
and the Sumitomo Corp. to build a high speed Internet backbone for Asia.
The new joint venture, Asia Internet Holding, promises to transform conun山ucationin Asia with infrastructure thatw山 vastly accelerate the speed of inter-Asia traffic. It w山 alsoprovide a com-mon interface for all Internet serv”
ice providers in Asia to link into the Internet.
.is the natur祉 elech·on.icbackbone of Asia that AIH proposes to build," says Prof. Eugene Wong, VP-RD, and a vice-chairman of the new venture.’,In
so doing, we shall redraw the Internet map and conunun.ications
趴 Asiawill never be the same.’,
Asia Internet Holding will be established in Japan this month with an i.tutial paid-up capital of US$6m血.ionin equal conh·ibutions from the four founding parmers.
’,For Hong Kong Supernet, the launch o
{
AIH is a partiportant event," Prof. Wong says. Members of the AIH consortiur r l
do not take on parmers lightly, and to be selected as a founding member of the con-sortium signifies a recognition in which we take just pride.’,
Prof. Eugene Wong ’,From Japan to the north to Si.t1gapore in the
south lies an axis along which are fotmd some of the fastest growing economies of the world. Tlus
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In
Brief
The HKUST Senate agreed w1animously on 11 October to reconunend that JUPAS extend the deadline by which JUPAS applicants can change their program choices or priori-ties to a date after the an-nouncement of the HKALE (AL, AS and UE) results.
Dr. Kin Yin Li (Mathemat-ics) will be awarded the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished
Teach-ing for 1995 at the Third
Congregation. Special mention was made of two nominees, Dr. Khaled Ben Lataief (ELEC) and Dr. Mark A. Montgomery (So-cial Science) for their high quality teaching.
The University will award its Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distin-guished Service at the Thi.t-d Congregation to 年
Kin-fa.i Epsilon, who as the second President of the Students
’
Un.ion tuuted all85 societies tu1der the SU umbrella.
During November, Park 'n Shop will have a trial period of extended hours (until 8 p.m.), a greater va-riety of fruits and vegeta-bles particul剖句 on Tues-days
’
and a change in stock. These changes are the result of a recent meet-ing of the Park’
n Shop "us-ers group”
and representa-tives of the campus store. A team of HKUST busi-ness students won the’,Advertising Express 95’, competition, bea他1gtheir co山1terpartsfrom the five other wuversities. The con-test, sponsored by the East-ern Exp，白s,required entrants to develop a com-prehensive advertising package, including a TV spot, for the newspaper.
Opening the Artist
’
s Black Box of Treasures
I
可l背e BlackB叫 Exer
cise was initiated in the
summ巴rof 1995 by the L
]rban Council and Zu
I 1 i Icosahedron as a jointWho is an artist? Black Box Exercise Ill, an exhibit of installation a仕 atthe Expo Hall
from 1 to 9 November, challenges the contemporary notion of the artist as a producer of consumable products by celebrating the artist within each of us. Curator Danny
Yung explains the background of the exhibit.
Forty-eight of these boxes have been selected for the HKUST Black Box Exercise III exhibition. community arts project. It aimed to serve as a bridge between the
arts community and the community at large, stressing participa-tion in the arts for all. Twenty－趴ros巴condaryschools were involved, and over 1,000 students, parents and teachers took part in the
To the viewer and producer alike, every black box is a mini-gallery containing a personal statement on the nature of the art of expression.
pro
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ect.In Black Box Exercise II, students, teachers and prominent artists worked side by side, each develop-ing a mini-installation, a three-dimensional sc叫pture
or a collection of objects that would fit into a black wooden box measuring 12"x12"x10’,. At first the
suggested theme was ’, Edu-cation in Hong Kong九 but
later the theme was ex-tended to include almost any topic imaginable, from
environmental protection to sexual identit予 from overt political issues to private subjective experiences.
Yet the display of these boxes together does provide a collec-tive view of the spirit and state of mind of the people of Hong Kong. Exhibits of this sort also remind us that artworks are not necessar自
ily measured by monetary value but by the strength of the concept
and spirit within them.
Director of Education W.K. Lam peers into one artist's self-con恆的自dworld at the Black Box
Exercise II exhibit held in August at the Sheung Wan Civic Centre.
ON THE
LIGHT SIDE
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e
are justly proud of thefa叫tywe
have recruited. Our constant bragging about their pedigrees is reminiscent of the conversations one hears at a Cat Fanciers' Association competition. (For quite a fewye但丸 mybest 台rendwas a Siames巴 cat,and
I have been to more than one cat show, so I know.) I sometimes d油1kwe should give out an annual 可estin Show九·ibbonat the Congregation.
To further 仕umpetthe quality of the academic staff, we are publishing a Faculty Profile booklet. This will tell the world where our distinguished academics got their PhDs, did their post-docs, or held aca-demic appointments. It will also outline
GENESIS, 1 Nov 1995
In Black Box Exercise 血， membersof the HKUST commur吐ty
have joined the creative parade. No fewer than 16 of us took part in this exercis巴， includingfaculty members, students, administrators and family members living on campus.
Viewers of the exhibit are permitted to touch and open the boxes with care.
Black Box Exercise III is a joint project of the Arts Endowment Committee, the Office of Public Affairs and the Visual Arts Society.
Vanity
Flair
their research interests. And, I almost for-got, it w山 includea picture of each and every one.
Maybe we have gone a bit overboard in ego-stroking here. Some of the staff have reacted as if people are going to use
出ispublication to select candidates for the Mr Universe pageant. Come on, guys (I have it on good authority that it is the male egos that have been deflated by the pho-tograph.ic evidence), we are not trying to claim we have the best-looking fac叫tyin Hong Kong, or the world. As a group, the faculty here is not a bad-looking btmch, but I am pretty sure glamour didn
’
t co山1tin appoin恤1ent.
Maybe this is wrong. If it matters that much to the staff, perhaps it should be given a greater weight in personnel mat-ters. I could ask Personnel to ensure that next ye但·＇scatch-all ad in the SCMP in-eludes the statement’,Only hunks need apply." We will have to work on the guidelines for substantiation, too. They
probably should require that candidates be "outs tan ding in one of the· following: teaching, research, and appearance’,and acceptable in the other two. That should get rid of the real dogs at least, and the rest will have to be good scholars or teachers to make up for their lack of stunning good looks.
Personally;I gave up 廿yingto be pho-togenic ye但·sago. Since I have to use a mirror to shave every morning, I have had to get used to that face. Before I even see
the results of a photo session, I know the
dop巴ygrin that results when the photog-rapher says "smile’, combined with the bags under my eyes are going to make me look like a demented panda.
I t恤1k 自ffshould just be glad we don't use their Hong Kong ID photos in the
Pr可Ile. Mine is so bad I use it to frighten trick-or-treaters on Halloween. On the other hand, it
’
s lucky for me, since I have to write this column, that people keep com-ing up with new ways to be silly.. QUESTIONS? ANSWERS!
Q
In this summer session, manynew UG students screamed and gave sharp cries in LG7 throughout the day. They are all adults. Don't they know their behavior disturbs staff and PG students in the common areas?! Where can the staff and PG students com-plain, and how can we avoid these dis-turbances?
A
Luke Wong (DSAO) and Mike Hudson (DEMO): "Students, when organ-izing large-scale functions on campus, are always reminded not to generate exces-sive noise which may cause nuisance to others on campus. In general, our stu-dents are considerate and well-behaved. The more noisy activities are often held away from teaching facilities and residen-tial quarters. The screams and sharp cries that emerged occasionally in the few weeks immediately before the new aca-demic year were part of the natural and enthusiastic expressions of the hundreds of new students taking part in orientation activities. Last summer, we had no fewer than 25 orientation camps. Most were held on campus. We are happy that our students are taking an active part in cam-pus life. We will keep on reminding them not to generate excessive noise. Com-plaints can be directed to either the Stu-dent Affairs Office or the Security Office."Q
I am a Junior Staff Quartersresi-dent and would like to know if the lawn
area near the quarters will be used for future parking areas. We often have
dif-ficulty in finding a space, which leads
some to park illegally at the entrance
gate. EMO has advised us to park at
Senior Staff Quarters, but it's far and I feel unsafe using the pedestrian tunnel at night.
A
Mike Hudson (DEMO): "A pro-posal to secure funds for the conversion of the grassed area into a carpark was put by EMO to the Minor Works Priority Com-mittee earlier this year. The request was assigned a low priority by the Committee and, with $20 million of requests compet-ing for $11 million in available funds, it will not be possible to carry out the work this financial year."It has recently become apparent that
by no means all residents would support the proposal as a piece of grass near the residence is an important and valuable as-set for family recreation. It would be ap-preciated if JSQ residents would send their views by e-mail to eostuenq."
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E-111nil your q11estio11s to genesis or fnx them to 2358 0537.
Swimming Club Holds Record-Breaking Meet
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ST swimmers, including students and staff members,broke 10 University records at the 3rd Aquatic Meet, held at the campus pool on 8 October.
Under a brilliant autumn sky, about 150 people cheered the 50 swimmers competing in the annual event organized by the Students' Swimming Club and the Sports Association. The Student Affairs Office sponsored the event.
The two individual men's champions were Lee Wing Kai (CENG) and Leung Tze Wing (MATH). Both walked
away with three gold medals and a UST record, Lee in the men's 100 meter backstroke and Leung in the men's 100 me-ter breaststroke.
Lam Man Sam (BIOL) was the women's individual champion, bagging three gold medals and a record in the women's 200 meter crawl.
The winning departments in the interdepartmental championship were Computer Science in the men's division, Marketing in the women's, and Computer Science in the overall category.
New UST records:
1. Men's 50m Crawl 28.37s Chan Pak Fai (BIOL) 2. Men's 50m Butterily 29.66s Zhang Qian (STAFF) 3. Men's 1 OOm Backstroke 1min31.3Bs Lee Wing Kai (CENG) 4. Men's 1 OOm Breaststroke 1min21.79s Leung Tze Wing (MATH) 5. Women's 200m Crawl 2min48.66s Lam Man Sam (BIOL)
6. Men's 200m Crawl 2min40.81s Chan Wai Kuen (CHEM)
7. Men's 200m Breaststroke 3min18.68s Leung Tze Wing (MATH)
8. 3min18.68s
Dress Rehearsal
Winners of Inter-school relay receive their prizes. (above)
The race begins ... (left)
Men's 200m Medley
9. Women's Dept. 4X50m Relay
10. Staff 4X50m Relay
Lee Wing Kai (CENG)
2min38.80s Marketing
2min13.12s Old Boys
UST graduates ready themselves for the Third Congregation, to be held on 2-3 November.
Students
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Union Victory
S tudents' Union president Francis Lo Tat Chi called it the "main dish" of the 11 October Senate meeting.
For more than one hour, the third-year Chemical Engineering student debated, cajoled and finally convinced the University's top aca-demic policy~making body to amend its dis-missal policy.
SU-proposed changes will give students more opporttmities to improve their perform-ance before facing dismissal, and a broader defi-nition of poor academic standing.
Lo expressed his opposition to the policy proposed by the Corrunittee for Undergraduate Stt1dies at the first Senate meeting he attended in his capacity as SU president last April.
"I was a nervous newcomer sitting in the
7th-floor Cotmcil Chambers next to deans and department heads and high-level academic staff," Lo recalls.
But his nerves were kept in check by his firm belief that he is among equals in the Senate.
"We are all members. I am free to discuss, to
argue," he says.
Despite the SU's clearly stated opposition in April, the CUS submitted the same proposal to the October meeting.
When Lo realized the dismissal policy had not been amended to reflect SU views, he de-cided to propose an amendment. The Senate
meeting was only a week away. In that short time, the SU held a forum for stt1dents to discuss the SU amendment and Lo privately lobbied
sev-era! faculty members on the changes.
At the recent Senate meeting, it was up to Lo to defend his proposed amendments.
He expressed the Stt1dents' Union's widely supported belief that it was unfair for a stt1dent to be considered in poor academic standing for failing a core course or comses.
"I quoted one department's curriculum from the Academic Calendar. Ten of 11 courses
the first-year stt1dents must take are classified as core courses. If a student fails one, should that be grounds for disrnissal?" Lo argued.
A clear majority of the Senate agreed with him on this point and passed his amendment, to his obvious delight and relief.
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Dance Performance (Dance Society)
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Forum on Political Parties
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Rock & Roll in UST (B剖1dSociety)
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有一個“分布型的中心” 系統，以東京為主要的 網絡中心，用高速的T3線路駁通美國，新加坡及 香港則作為分區中心。這個網絡系統的分布形式 將︱爐流通量的需求及國際租用線路的稅收安排而 作出適當的調整。 亞洲環球電腦通訊網絡集固有限公司將於十 一月在日本成立，前期投資高達六百萬美元， 由 問家創辦企司平均集資。該主幹網絡將為亞洲國 家的環球電腦通訊網絡服務供應企司提供一個共 用的界面， 接過環球電腦通訊網絡，取代以前與 美國的獨立聯蟹。
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教授3將與著名德國拜耳製藥公司（Bayer A.G.）的研 究人員合作，開發新一代的抗瘡疾藥物。 這項研究是以傳統的抗獲疾草藥青萬素為基礎， 都能治教授從事有關青萬素的研究多年，堪稱這1f面 的研究專家。他說，中國古藉早有記載有關植物青龍 具有抗瘡疾性能 3 現已知這種性能來自植物中一種稱 為青萬素的成分。不過由於青嵩素化學結構不穩定， 很容易喪失藥性。這次共同研究的目的，便是要用化 學合成的方法，對現青葛素的結構加以改造，找出更 具穩定性的新藥。 瘡疾是一種以蚊子為主要媒體的傳染病。這種過 去曾以為被控制住了的可怕的瘟疫， 如今正捲土重 來，再也不可掉以輕心。據世界衛生組織的估計，現 在全球約有2.8億人染有瘡疾，亞、非、拉丁美洲最受 威脅。因此，有關瘡疾的研究 ，再次引起了科學家的 重視。作為一種有效的抗權疾藥物，青萬素一直以來 都是求過於供。 郁能i台教授的工作2便是用化學方法增加青幫素 的產量，同時進行穩定的青蓄素衍生物的研究 ，希望 藉此提高青首素的供應。 關於用化學方法提高青萬素產量的研究 ，都能治 教授已有成果。他與研究夥伴早在八九年便發現，植 物中既含有的青萬酸，可以通過某種化學反應的途 徑，轉變成為青嵩素。由於植物中青首酸的含量遠遠 高於青萬素，故此項發明，實際上是將青葛素的產量 提高了三倫之多。 對於這第二階段的研究，都能治教授信心十足。 他希望下一代的抗虐疾藥物能具有更好的性能，例如l 易溶於水便於人體吸收，不會分解待過快，能維持更 長的藥性等，以達到 “藥半功倍，’的目的。 青當是一種草藥，廣泛地生長在中國南部及四川 等地。地區不同 ，青萬的生長形態大小也有異，其葉 子為藍綠色，帶特殊香味，花期在秋季。育背最好的 採摘時期便是在它落花之後。 傳統上，青當也像其它中藥材般煎湯而服。直至 一九七二年， 中國大陸成功地在青當中分離出一種白 色晶體 ，難i容於水，並證明這是植物青萬中治療瘡疾 的關鍵物質 ，故當時名之為青首家。 （上圓）憧物青蓄的花卉。國
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悍司 我住在初級員工宿舍（JSQ），懇知道 附近的草坪會否發展為停車場？我們常常苦 無泊車的地方，有些人只好將車子非法泊在 入口的大問前。校產管理處建請我們將車泊 在高級員工宿舍（SSQ），但路途遙遠，且我 覺得晚上的行人隧道並不安全。 同創 一九九五年十一月一日 （下圖）從青菩提鍊成青萬棄的過程。 罕莘 校產管理處長克遜回覆﹒“校產管理處在年初向MinorWorks Priority Committee
提交建議，要求撥款將草地改建為停車場， 但委員會認為，是項工程不應獲優先考慮。 由於委員會只有十一萬元的基金，申請的撥 款數目卻高達二十萬元，在本財政年度將不 可能開展有關工程。 再說，民居附近的草地對家庭休憩有著 極其重大的意義，相信居民也不一定會同意 上述建議。初級員工宿舍的住戶如有任何意 見，請電子量l\i監eostue1啥。” （請將問題傳真至23580537或電子郵遞genesis。）
陳國浩 工學士 （機械工程學） 陳國浩認為， 自己縛獎 的最主要原因，是離鄉 別井 。 何解？他說－ ＂由於家人不在身邊， 我可以更專心 u.z：書。” 陳國浩有雙重身分，他 生於香港，持香港身份 設sl旦他本為澳門居民。六年前，他隻身來港，為的是接受更好 的專土教育。他在當時的理工學院完成三年機械工程高級文憑課 程後2便轉到科大來。 得到學業成就槳，陳獨浩當然感到高興。他說 “我並不是 太聰明的人，得獎純是將動補拙J有甚麼秘訣傳授學弟學妹 嗎？ “多泡崗書館。” 王志良 工學士 （計算機科學） 閱讀、複習、理解。 王志良表示，如果向 學閱讀指定的資料， 做家課並完全消化， 他們在考試時應沒有 問題。這個1J法對他 來說行之有效。他現 在科大攻韻分布式計 算碩士課程， 目標是博士學位。去年夏天，他參與策劃 “中國 探索青︱釗”，與十九名科大同學往北京考察計算機科學在中國 的發展。
