A total of six CUHK graduates have received the Croucher Scholarships and Fellowships for further studies in the academic year 2011–12 at prestigious overseas institutions.


Mr. Lam Ka-kit, who graduated from CUHK with first class honours in mathematics and information engineering in 2011, has been admitted to UC, Berkeley to pursue a PhD in engineering. Mr. Lam said, 
‘I am glad that to receive the scholarship and would like to thank the Croucher Foundation for its continual support on funding students to further their studies and research. I hope that we all do good research to benefit the society in the future.’


While studying at CUHK, Mr. Lam received a number of different awards. He was one of the recipients of the first Professor Charles K. Kao Research Student Exchange Scholarships 2009–10, which supported him to attend a research exchange programme at MIT in 2010. Prior to that, he had obtained the Caltech-Hong Kong Undergraduate Research Fellowship in 2009 to carry out a summer research project at Caltech. He also won the HKSAR Government Scholarship and the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship. 


The Croucher Foundation is a private endowment set up in 1979 to promote excellence in the natural sciences, technology and medicine.

List of CUHK Graduates Awarded Croucher Fellowship/ Scholarship 2011–12