Bulletin No. 2, 2011

News in Brief   41  Young Scientist Excels in International Arena Prof. Rossa Chiu of the Department of Chemical Pathology reaped two international research awards—the 2011 International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) Young Investigator Award and the 2011 Professors’ Prize endowed by the Association of Ac ademi c Heads of Clini c al Biochemistry Departments in the UK. There was keen competition for both awards as only one recipient was selected for each from around the world. Prof. Lo Yuk-ming Dennis Elected to Royal Society Prof. Lo Yuk-ming Dennis, Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Early fellows of the society include scientists such as Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and Charles Darwin. Professor Lo is the second CUHK scholar to have been awarded the distinguished fellowship after former Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and Nobel Laureate in Physics, Prof. Sir Charles Kao. CUHK Rated Asia’s Top University for Mathematics CUHK was rated one of the top 50 universities for mathematics in the world by Times Higher Education . Times Higher Education worked with its data supplier Thomson Reuters to do an analysis on the world’s top research institutions for mathematics based on citation impact of research papers. It was found that CUHK is the highest ranked institution from Asia for this subject area, and 15th in the world.