Cover Story:
The 'One Health' Challenge
The 'One Health' Challenge
Research:
A New Angle on Views
A New Angle on Views
Health threats from animal and environmental sources are on the rise – not just from COVID-19, but antimicrobial resistance and other infectious diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). HKU academics have been at the forefront producing collaborative, multidisciplinary research to identify and control these threats.
It's widely agreed that a view of nature is beneficial to our well-being. Now a new urban study uses open big data to see how view height is a factor too in high-rise cities like Hong Kong.
Research:
Vital Signs
Vital Signs
Research:
Simple Materials, Complex Outcomes
Simple Materials, Complex Outcomes
A wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor with a novel high-performance memory transistor can detect atrial fibrillation and identify potential stroke patients.
The Faculty of Architecture's new Building Simplexity Laboratory has been created based on the philosophy that simplicity in construction can still facilitate spatially complex systems, and in this age of post-digital architecture, simple algorithmic design procedures can lead to complex geometrical built forms.
Teaching and Learning:
Advanced and Affordable Care
Advanced and Affordable Care
Knowledge Exchange:
Natural Life Lessons
Natural Life Lessons
The Faculty of Dentistry's new Multi-Specialty Clinic is training a new generation of specialist dentists and also rendering complex treatment affordable to the general public.
The Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum houses a vast collection of specimens of our hugely varied natural heritage, and was opened with a mission to promote wider understanding of conservation and research into local and regional biological diversity.
Knowledge Exchange:
Twitter Alert
Twitter Alert
People:
Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation
Given social distancing, more and more people are leaving the city at weekends and heading for the countryside. A new bird-watching app could help them not only get next to nature but get to know it too.
The new Chief Information Officer and University Librarian, Ms Flora Ng, is spearheading a new wave of rapid digitalisation in the University's Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS).
Books:
Museums of Remembrance and Forgetting
Museums of Remembrance and Forgetting
Arts and Culture:
Art from All Angles
Art from All Angles
The National Mall in Washington DC houses dozens of museums and monuments that venerate America's past. But until this century, the dark histories of African Americans and Native Americans were largely ignored. Dr Tim Gruenewald argues that attempts to right that wrong have been falling short.
Science, Technology and the Arts combine in a new interactive initiative – STArts – at the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) to make the museum learning experience more dynamic.
Cover Story:
The 'One Health' Challenge
The 'One Health' Challenge
Health threats from animal and environmental sources are on the rise – not just from COVID-19, but antimicrobial resistance and other infectious diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). HKU academics have been at the forefront producing collaborative, multidisciplinary research to identify and control these threats.
Research:
A New Angle on Views
A New Angle on Views
It's widely agreed that a view of nature is beneficial to our well-being. Now a new urban study uses open big data to see how view height is a factor too in high-rise cities like Hong Kong.
Research:
Vital Signs
Vital Signs
A wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor with a novel high-performance memory transistor can detect atrial fibrillation and identify potential stroke patients.
Research:
Simple Materials, Complex Outcomes
Simple Materials, Complex Outcomes
The Faculty of Architecture's new Building Simplexity Laboratory has been created based on the philosophy that simplicity in construction can still facilitate spatially complex systems, and in this age of post-digital architecture, simple algorithmic design procedures can lead to complex geometrical built forms.
Teaching and Learning:
Advanced and Affordable Care
Advanced and Affordable Care
The Faculty of Dentistry's new Multi-Specialty Clinic is training a new generation of specialist dentists and also rendering complex treatment affordable to the general public.
Knowledge Exchange:
Natural Life Lessons
Natural Life Lessons
The Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum houses a vast collection of specimens of our hugely varied natural heritage, and was opened with a mission to promote wider understanding of conservation and research into local and regional biological diversity.
Knowledge Exchange:
Twitter Alert
Twitter Alert
Given social distancing, more and more people are leaving the city at weekends and heading for the countryside. A new bird-watching app could help them not only get next to nature but get to know it too.
People:
Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation
The new Chief Information Officer and University Librarian, Ms Flora Ng, is spearheading a new wave of rapid digitalisation in the University's Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS).
Books:
Museums of Remembrance and Forgetting
Museums of Remembrance and Forgetting
The National Mall in Washington DC houses dozens of museums and monuments that venerate America's past. But until this century, the dark histories of African Americans and Native Americans were largely ignored. Dr Tim Gruenewald argues that attempts to right that wrong have been falling short.
Arts and Culture:
Art from All Angles
Art from All Angles
Science, Technology and the Arts combine in a new interactive initiative – STArts – at the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) to make the museum learning experience more dynamic.
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