by admin | May 15, 2023
Located on a rocky peninsula on the southside of Hong Kong, on the shores of Hong Kong’s only Marine Reserve, the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) is one of the premiere coastal research centres in Asia. Recent expansion work has included state-of-the-art...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
The Digital Arboretum (DA) is the brainchild of Mr Gavin Coates, Senior Lecturer at HKU’s Division of Landscape Architecture. “Teaching planting design, landscape technology and landscape representation are my specialities and, for all of these, taking groups of...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
In the summer of 2019, Dr Peter J Cobb, a joint appointee of the Faculties of Education and Arts, decided to create a course around his archaeological fieldwork in Armenia. The idea was that HKU students would travel to the country the following summer to help with...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
When the Jockey Club ‘Peace and Awareness’ Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative began in 2019, COVID-19 had not appeared on the scene. But the challenges the pandemic has wrought on the mental health of our community – especially youth – have made it both timely...
by admin | Nov 20, 2022
Hong Kong, China and much of the non-Western world have one thing in common: they have embraced the Western idea of a university, where English is the lingua franca and modern academics pursue the goals of speaking truth to power and serving the economy. To the new...
