by admin | Nov 19, 2021
“This philosophy allows for interesting research in multiple areas including bamboo, engineered wood, Augmented Reality (AR), and many more,” said the Laboratory’s creator Dr Kristof Crolla, Associate Professor in the Departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering...
by admin | May 12, 2021
Unusually for an ecologist, Dr Hannah Mumby’s first interest was anthropology. She switched track to study the ecology of big mammals beyond primates – especially elephants – to see if it could lead to new questions about our own species. But the more she studied the...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
News stories about the atrocities inflicted on whales by the Japanese whaling industry inspired final-year Biological Sciences student Andy Vu Ka-hei to dig deeper into the problem. But the more he learned, the more he realised that whaling is not quite as clearcut an...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
For all the publicity and enthusiasm generated around renewable energies such as solar, wind and biomass, their actual adoption has not been so remarkable. Although their usage in electricity generation has increased from 0.6 per cent of the global total in 1973 to...
by | May 7, 2020
A course on aquaculture was the inspiration for HKU students to design a new kind of raft for cultivating oysters and then launch a start-up company, Soonlution, to develop and market it. Called the Modern Shellfish Home (MSH), it is specifically designed to withstand...
