Feb 2009 A HK$2 million donation from Lee Kam Woon and his wife, Mrs Lee Shum Shuk Yuen has created an endowment fund to support The Journalism and Media Studies Centre’s (JMSC) a new digital media learning initiative. The gift was donated in honour of Mr Lee’s late parents, Lee Shu Pui and Leung Wai …
Feb 2009 Dr Roland Soong, the executor of Ms Eileen Chang’s estate, chose to set up a HK$1 million scholarship fund at HKU in memory of the late Ms Chang, the legendary Chinese writer. The scholarship will support female undergraduate students from the Chinese Mainland or Taiwan to pursue studies in the arts and humanities, …
Jan 2009 Forty-one research postgraduate students of various disciplines received awards at the Award Presentation Ceremony of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Graduate School held in December 2008. The recipients of these awards are selected based on the quality of their thesis and academic performance. The University Postgraduate Fellowships were established in 2007 by …
Nov 2008 The Doris Zimmern HKU Cambridge Hughes Hall Scholarships were established through the generosity of The Doris Zimmern Charitable Foundation by Dr Ronald Zimmern, son of Mrs Doris Zimmern. The scholarships enable students and alumni from The University of Hong Kong to pursue Master’s degrees at Hughes Hall, the oldest graduate College in the …
July 2008 In November 2008, the University held the “First-in-the-Family Education Fund” ( FIFE Fund) Presentation and Sharing Ceremony at which the first recipients of the FIFE Fund shared their learning aspirations and sincerely thanked all supporters of the Fund. Launched in April 2008, the Fund received support from The University of Hong Kong Foundation …
“First-in-the-Family Education Fund” (FIFE Fund) Presentation and Sharing Ceremony Read More »
May 2008 The First-in-the-Family Education Fund (FIFE Fund) encourages those who are the first in their family to attend university to embrace the intellectual challenges of higher learning. It enables them to benefit from learning opportunities outside the classroom, beyond their families’ affordability. BACKGROUNDUniversity education is an investment in future generations.We live in a knowledge society …
Feb 2008 At a recent reunion of the Science Society 1977, Exco members donated $230,000 for the Lam Chi-him Memorial Prize in Physics Scholarship. The scholarships are awarded respectively to the best students completing the first year, and the other the second year, of the BSc curriculum in Physics. Lam Chi-him (BSc 1979) was a …
Feb 2008 In keeping with a good old HKU tradition, volunteers from each faculty of the Class of 82 have come together to organise a reunion to rekindle our friendships and refresh our memories of the University days and to do something meaningful together. To celebrate their silver jubilee with a worthy social cause, the theme of …
Class of 1982 fundraised for the Alumni Green Fund Read More »
