Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2001

The55 t h Congregat ion f or t h e C o n f e r m e n t o f D e g r e e s A total o f 3,969 degrees were conferred at the University's 55th congregation on Thursday, 9th December 1999 at the University Mall. Prof. Arthur K . C Li officiated at the ceremony as Vice-Chancellor of the University. The occasion also saw the conferment of degrees on the University's first batch of 11 Master of Clinical Pharmacy graduates. This year honorary doctorates were awarded to five distinguished persons. The Honourable Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, was conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. Prof. Daniel Chee Tsui, 1998 Nobel laureate in physics and Arthur LeGran d Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa. Prof. Amartya Kuma r Sen, 1998 Nobel laureate in economics and Master of Trinity College at University of Cambridge, Prof. Fei Xiaotong, internationally renowned anthropologist and professor of sociology at Peking University, and Mrs. Daisy L i Woo Tze-ha, philanthropist and dedicated leader in voluntary social services, were each awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa Their citations were written and delivered by Prof. Andrew Parkin o f the Department of English and Prof. Serena Jin of the Department of Translation. Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen also spoke on behalf of the honorary graduates. In the afternoon, the four constituent colleges, the Part-time Degree Programmes (for first-degre e graduates), and the Graduate School (for master's degree graduates) also held graduation ceremonies for their students.