Media Review, No. 3/2005

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Media Review (No.3/2005)

Prepared by the Office of University Development and Public Affairs

A total of 39 substantive news reports mentioning UST were collected. ** denotes items involving OUDPA in providing information or statements upon enquiries, issuing media invitation, issuing press releases, or setting up interviews.

1. UST Engineering School held a ceremony to celebrate being ranked no. 20 in engineering and information technology by The Times' Higher Education Supplement** 16 clippings (21/1-22/1); Commercial Radio (21/1) and RTHK (21/1).

2. Newspapers supplements on UST's ranking successes in 2004** SCMP, Ming Pao Daily News and Apple Daily (21/1).

3. UST and C K Life Science Int'l Holdings Inc's joint study on the efficacy of anti-tumor products for breast and prostate cancer The Sun (21/1).

4. UST, HKU and CUHK's Early Admissions Scheme for Secondary Six Students to receive applications 3 clippings (20/1).

5. Ireland's Science Foundation delegation to visit UST The Standard (20/1).

6. Dr Ngok MA (SOSC) commented on the abortion of a Legislative Council meeting and other political issues 7 clippings (20/1).

7. Prof Shiu-Yuen CHENG (DSCI) talked about UST's undergraduate admission criteria and science internship programs** 3 clippings (19/1).

8. A survey on the reading habits of students from the seven local universities including UST 3 clippings (19/1).

9. UST has been invited by the Innovation Technology Commission to host an R&D centre in nanotechnology Metro (19/1).

10. ZHANG Baoqing, China's Vice-Minister of Education sought stronger ties with HKSAR universities during his visit to Hong Kong, including UST Ta Kung Po (19/1).

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Because of restrictions on photocopying newspaper articles, OUDPA is unable to provide clippings for photocopying. Most of the clippings are however available in HKUST News Clippings Online (http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/newsclip.pl) through the Library's subscription to the WiseNews service. Enquiries can be made to the media and editorial unit of OUDPA at x8555 or x6317.