Hong Kong University description
Undergraduate Research Program
“Undergraduate Research Program” is a special program aimed at HKUST to develop interest in undergraduate research. Participating undergraduate students will be taught under the guidance of research activities.
In this program, undergraduate students and professors to be entered into a research area, and plans to submit the end of an academic report. Plans are generally three to four months. In 2009, more than 250 undergraduate students completed the program, participating professors about 90 names.
Participating students increased rapidly in recent years, from the initial increase in 2005 to the present more than 70 more than 250, creating a lot of undergraduate research opportunities with professors. Section 30 has more than 2010 students receive full scholarships to a number of the world’s top universities such as Princeton University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Stanford University , Yale University , the University of California at Berkeley , UCLA , card Neijimeilong University , Duke University , etc., doctoral programs. They come from different backgrounds, but all participated in the HKUST undergraduate research projects and inspiration and motivation.
Institute for Advanced Study
HKUST is the only Hong Kong has a higher Research Institute (IAS) of the University, members including several Nobel Prize winners, such as Chen Ning Yang (Prize in Physics), Alexei. Abrikosov (Prize in Physics), David Baltimore (Medicine), Steven Chu (Physics Prize), Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry), Dai Weige Lou Adams (Physics Award), Alan Haig (Chemistry), H ·
Robert Horizon Horowitz (Medicine), Lee (Chemistry), Foli Meira (Medicine), Douglas D · Osheroff (Physics Award), Samuel CC Ting (physics prize), while mathematics the highest honor the Fields Medal winner Michael Atiyah and so on. IAS will drive cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative projects, and national academic, business, community groups and government agencies to establish a close partnership and work together to create the academic and scientific world a new atmosphere, the Hong Kong into a world of creativity and important source of knowledge and power.
IAS function of:
-For the world-renowned scientists and scholars to provide an interactive communication, mutual inspiration of the place;
-Gather the top talents in the cause of China’s science and innovation plays a key role;
-With the South China closely linked to socio-economic development in strategic areas, leading in basic and applied research;
-Nurturing the most promising students, enhance the level of education, new knowledge of science to stimulate public interest.