Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2003

w i n n er of the Go ld A w a r d i n t wo years. Biology Students Receive Croucher Scholarships to Study at Top Universities Abroad Four final year M.Phil. students i n the Department of Biology were awarded the prestigious Croucher Foundation Overseas S c h o l a r s h i ps i n 2003 to p u r s ue Ph . D. studies at top universities abroad, w i t h f u ll f i n a n c i al s u p p o r t f r o m t he C r o u c h er Foundation. Two other M.Phil. graduates f r o m t he s ame d e p a r t m e nt h a d b e en awarded the same scholarship i n 2002. A m o n g these six awardees, f i ve are g r a d u a te s t u d e n ts associated w i t h t he UGC A r ea of Excellence ( AoE) o n Plant and Fu n g al Biotechnology adm i n i s t e r ed by the Depa r tment of Biology. International Honour for Ph.D. Student in Management Ms. Ch r i s t i ne Chan, a s t udent of the Ph.D. P r o g r amme i n Ma n a g eme n t, has w o n t w o p r e s t i g i o us a w a r ds f r om t he Ac a d emy of Management: the Best Paper A w a r d ( I n t e r n a t i o n al M a n a g e m e n t D i v i s i on) and the Barry M . R i c hman Best Dissertation Awa r d. The f o rmer awa rd is g i v en to the most ou t s t and i ng paper (out of mo r e t h a n 290 accepted p a p e rs t h is y e a r ) t h a t m a k e s a s i g n i f i c a nt contribution to t he f i e l d of i n t e r n a t i o n al m a n a g e m e n t. C h r i s t i n e 's p a p e r w a s a b o ut t he i n s t i t u t i o n al p e r s p e c t i ve of f o r e i gn direct i n v e s t me nt strategy. Christine's paper w i n n i ng the Barry M . R i c hman Best D i s s e r t a t i on A w a r d wa s entitled 'Institutional Perspective of Foreign Direct I n v e s tment Strategy: The Case of Japanese Multinational Corporations'. The o t h e r f i n a l i s t s c ame f r o m H a r v a r d University, N e w York University, and the University of Oklahoma. The A c a d emy of Ma n a g eme nt is the oldest and largest scholarly association i n the field of management studies i n the wo r ld and has over 13,850 members f r om 91 nations. Engineering Students Win Nanotechnology and Robotics Awards Ms. Carmen K .M. Fung and Mr. H o y i n Chan, doctoral students conducting research at the Centre for Micro and Nano Systems, w o n prestigious awards at top international conferences for their research projects. Ms. Fung received the Best Student Poster Paper Aw a r d for her w o r k on nanosensors at the I E EE I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n ce o n Nanotechnology, the top annual conference for nanotechnologists across the world. Mr. Chan w o n the Best Conference Paper Awa rd f r om the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Au t oma t i on (ICRA), the most widely attended international conference for leading robotics experts, for his w o r k on biological cell manipulation. B o t h M s . F u n g a n d M r . C h a n are c u r r e n t ly s upe r v i s ed i n their studies b y Prof. L i Wen Jung of the De p a r t me nt of A u t o m a t i o n a n d C o m p u t e r - a i d e d Engineering. From left: Miss Chow Shuk-man, Mr. Lau On-sun, Mr. Li Chee-ho, and Miss Ng Wai-yan will attend graduate programmes at the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, the University of Heidelberg, and Cambridge University respectively. News in Brief 75