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Alvis was awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship and named finalist for the 2021 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award.   

Congratulations to Songnian Chen for being named a RGC (Research Grants Council) Senior Research Fellow 2021-22. This extremely prestigious honor aims to provide sustained support and relief from teaching and administrative duties to exceptionally outstanding full professors at UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong, with a view to facilitating their full dedication to research and development and helping universities attract and retain research talent. It is awarded to only 10 professors in Hong Kong each year and provides $7.8 million to support intensive research for a 5-year period. Professor Chen’s project is: Quantile Regression Subject to Sample Selection with Continuous and Binary Outcomes.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our students who received the Dean’s List Award for Spring 2020-21. The Dean’s List recognizes students’ outstanding attainment in fall or spring term.

Congratulations to Prof. Tao Zhu, Junlong Feng, Byoungchan Lee, and Xuan Li

Associate Professor Sujata Visaria has been appointed to the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) at the international research partnership, CGIAR (formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). SPIA is a panel of six experts in impact assessment, tasked with providing rigorous, evidence-based and independent strategic advice to the CGIAR system. This includes efficient and effective impact assessment methods and practices and innovative ways to improve knowledge and capacity on how research contributes to development outcomes.

Find out more about Prof. Sujata Visaria

The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence is to recognize business faculty contributions in terms of teaching excellences in both undergraduate and graduate degree programs.  

Effective from 1 June 2021

The two-year appointment commenced on 1 April 2021.

Project Title: Social Networks and Financial Choices of Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

Speaker: Cindy Chow, Executive Director, Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund