An Enviable Challenge

The Faculty of Dentistry has had an eventful year. It was named second best in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025, the ninth time it has placed in the top three since 2015. It was also selected for incubation as the Global Hub for Future...

Agent of Change

Professor Jay Siegel’s path to academia was never a foregone conclusion. He came from a blue-collar family – his father was a foreman in a plastics factory – and he started off at California State University, Northridge, intending to become a pharmacist.But a shift...

Safe to Swallow

About 80,000 people in Hong Kong live in nursing homes and 60 per cent of them suffer varying degrees of swallowing difficulties. That means if food is not prepared to the appropriate texture and size, they risk choking. Often, nursing homes compromise with a puree of...

Training Guardians of Heritage

The Historic City of Vigan in the Philippines, established in the 16th century, is one of the best preserved planned Spanish colonial towns in Asia. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, it experienced two powerful earthquakes in 2022 that severely...

Dream Big, Start Small, Learn Fast

When Professor Chui Chun-kit was an undergraduate, he realised there had to be a better way to learn than passively listening to lectures and absorbing information. This realisation inspired him to become a university professor, determined to transform the learning...