A Master of Materiality

Architecture is a discipline of both art and construction, but sometimes, the latter can get lost in debates about meaning and aesthetics. Not so with Professor Chang Yung Ho, who has won a slew of international awards and held such positions as Founding Head of the...

HKU Community Pharmacy Opens Shop

When Professor Ian Wong Chi-kei arrived at HKU from the UK in 2011 to head the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, he was struck by one thing: training was focussed almost entirely on public hospitals. This was very unlike places like the UK, Canada and Australia...

Reading Between the Lines

The team led by Professor Shelley Tong Xiuli from the Faculty of Education have published an original theory that bridges language skills and reading comprehension, and developed an innovative programme to help Chinese-English bilingual children with reading...

Live Action Learning

Immersing students in clinical environments is always a challenge. Pandemic restrictions, large class sizes and other obstacles make it difficult to provide sufficient real-life exposure. But with the aid of technology – and a well-constructed debriefing...

AI for All

People are bombarded everyday with information about and created by AI technology. Some of it may be true, some misleading, some deliberately wrong. But it can be difficult to separate facts from the noise. With that in mind, the University is launching a mandatory...