Energy Conservation Lecture Opens Series

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[evdate 1991-07-23] THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 12/F World Shipping Centre, 7 Canton Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon. Hong Kong. Facsimile No. 7367123 Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Chia-Wei Woo. BS. MA PhD

For immediate release 23 July 1991

Energy Conservation Lecture Opens Series

"Conservation and Renewable Energy Resources" is the title of the first in a series of free popular science lectures which will begin this Sunday, July 28, at the . Hong Kong Science Museum. Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Development of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Professor Thomas Stelson, will be the speaker. The lecture is open to the public, and is scheduled for 4:30-6 p.m. in the Museum's Lecture Hall (2 Museum Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui East).

Energy is a field of particular expertise and longstanding interest for Professor Stelson. He has research interests in a range of fields, has published widely, and has served on many national and international organisations. Concerned with the world energy crisis, he has initiated research and development of new sources of energy, particularly solar energy, and has won international respect as a leader in these fields. From 1979-81 he was Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Solar Energy in the US Department of Energy, managing programmes with a budget of US $1.7 billion (HK$13.3 billion). He has served as Chairman of programmes for the US National Academy of Science for US/Soviet and US/Poland co-operation on energy conservation, research and development; he has also served on the Energy Engineering Board of the US National Research Council, and on the Energy Research Advisory Board of the US Department of Energy.

Professor Stelson was born in Iowa, USA, and educated in civil engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Before joining HKUST, he was Executive Vice-President of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

This popular science lecture series seeks to introduce and explain topics of modern science and technology, from microelectronics to biotechnology. There will be one lecture on the last Sunday of each month, July-December. All speakers will be professors and lecturers from HKUST, with particular expertise in their chosen lecture topics. ,

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