HKU’s New TEChno Honcho

How do you help ambitions become a reality? That’s the task for Mr Paul Wang Peng, head of the Techno- Entrepreneurship Core (TEC), which was conceived in late 2022 and officially launched in June.Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area are being positioned to become a...

Out of the Blue

First coined more than a decade ago, the term Blue Carbon (BC) describes the disproportionately large stores of carbon in coastal vegetated ecosystems. In the years since, the role of BC in environmental enhancement has reached international prominence, and Hong...

Invention Turns Waste Heat into Electricity

More than 60 per cent of the electricity generated by power plants and industrial processes is lost as waste heat, and more than half of that is low-grade heat that is difficult to recover. Dr Tony Feng Shien-Ping of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has broken...

Shedding Some Light

In 2018, two Computer Engineering students, Desmond Wong Chi-ping and Felix Wong Kwong-yat, were sifting through numerous ideas to submit for contention in the China Collegiate Computing Contest, when Felix read a news article about the severe shortage of guide dogs...

Mindful Health

Described on its website as ‘a mental health companion for you and your therapist’, Hollo was first conceived three years ago as a solution for young people with mental health issues who tended to fall between the gaps when it came to getting treatment.The concept...