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24 23 Professor Johannes Chan (pictured below), Dean of the Facul ty of Law, who obtained a Bachelor of Law degree from the Universi ty, was named Hong Kong’s f i rst honorary senior counsel in 2002-03. The honour was in recogni t ion of his work educating future generations of lawyers and promoting human rights. Associate Professor Ronnie Poon (above), who received his Master of Surgery from the University and works in the Department of Surgery, received one of the University’s recent outstanding young researcher awards. Professor Jim Chi Yung (below), Professor: Chair of Geography, who received a Bachelor of Arts from the Universi ty, was recent ly named a recipient of an outstanding research student supervisor award. Professor Yuen Kwok Yung, who received both his Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the Universi ty and is now Chai r of Infect ious Diseases in the Department of Microbiology, was recent l y named as an outstanding researcher. The Department of Community Medicine has given me opportunities to explore various medical research areas and collaborate with other outstanding scholars around the world. Recently, I went to London for a project with St George’s Medical School on the impact of air pollution on health in the Hong Kong population. Patsy Chau, who graduated in 2002 with a Master’s degree in Statistics and now works as a research assistant in biostatistics and computing with the Department of Community Medicine. “ ” “ ” I was a new student so I never dreamed that I would be involved at this early stage in such a meaningful study…We were researching valuable information to help the people of Hong Kong, my home, as well as people in other countries.. Carmen Butt, who began her MPhil in Molecular Biology in January 2003 and was involved in a project that isolated a SARS-like coronavirus in cats. The results were published in the prestigious international journal Science . “ ” “ ” The Review 2003 INVESTING IN RESEARCH