by admin | Nov 23, 2023
A proud native of Scotland, Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart comes to HKU after a remarkable career that has included time at top universities around the world, most recently at the renowned Northwestern University in the US. Retirement was looming, but Professor...
by admin | May 23, 2023
For years, data science was the purview of engineers and computer scientists, among them Professor Ma Yi, Chair Professor and Director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (IDS) and an expert in computer vision. But recently it has reached a...
by admin | May 17, 2023
When Professor Zhou Qiang took up deanship of the Faculty of Science last autumn, he arrived in a place with several stellar achievements. Six professorial staff were among the top one per cent of highly cited researchers in their fields in 2022 (according to...
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 | May 25, 2022
We are all familiar with the ubiquitous image of a hummingbird hovering in front of a flower as it drinks the nectar but scientists only proved they could in fact taste sweet in 2014. Now a new study has shown that songbirds are also able to distinguish sweet tastes...
