Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

Chinese University Bulletin Autumn · Winter 2006 42 Professor of Management Prof. Kenneth S. Law has been appointed professor of management from 1 September 2006. Prof. Law obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1990. He had taught in the US and Australia and was a professor at the School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology prior to joining CUHK. Professor of Pharmacy Prof. Vincent H.L. Lee has been appointed professor of pharmacy from 4 September 2006. Prof. Lee obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1979. He had taught at the University of Southern California, and had been an associate director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Science, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration in the US. Professor of Philosophy Prof. Shun Kwong-loi has been appointed professor of philosophy from 2 January 2007. Prof. Shun received his M.Phil from the University of Hong Kong in 1978, his B.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986. Prof. Shun had taught at UC Berkeley and was professor of philosophy and East Asian studies at the University of Toronto prior to joining CUHK. He was also Vice-President of the University of Toronto and Principal of the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Honorary Professors Honorary Professor of Faculty of Engineering Prof. Ma Songde, Vice Minister of Science and Technology of China has been inaugurated as Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Engineering from 1 September 2006. Prof. Ma Songde obtained his B.S. in automatic control from Tsinghua University in 1968. He received his Ph.D. in 1983 and Doctorat d’Etat ès Science degree in 1986 from the University of Paris VI in image processing and computer vision. Honorary Professor of Medicine Prof. Louis J. Ignarro, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, has been conferred the title of Honorary Professor of Medicine by the University from 12 September 2006. Prof. Ignarro received a B.Sc. degree in pharmacy/ chemistry from Columbia University in 1962, and a Ph.D. degree in pharmacology/physiology from the University of Minnesota in 1966. He is currently the Jerome J. Belzer, MD, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine.