A winner in each catetory of HKU research awards

The Award Presentation Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching and Research (Click here for pictures) was held at 5 p.m. on Monday, November 4, 2002 in the Rayson Huang Theatre.

The Ceremony presents the following four research awards: (1) Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award, (2) Outstanding Young Researcher Award, (3) Outstanding Researcher Award and (4) Distinguished Research Achievement Award.

Our Department is a total winner in HKU's research awards in the sense that we have at least one winner in each of the four categories of research awards in the last three years and the winners are:

  1. Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award
    • Professor W. K. Li (2000)
     
  2. Outstanding Young Researcher Award
    • Dr S. M. S. Lee (2002)
     
  3. Outstanding Researcher Award
    • Professor W. K. Li (2002)
    • Professor T. W. K. Fung (2001)
     
  4. Distinguished Research Achievement Award
    • Professor H. Tong (2002)
     

Our department has a long history of outstanding research, as reflected by the following list of international/external research awards:

Year Prize Awarded by Staff
2001 Year-2000 Chinese National Natural Science Award (Class II) in Mathematics The State Council, People's Republic of China Tong, H.
2000 Humboldt Research Award Alexander-von Humboldt Foundation of Germany Zhu, L.
1995 Krumbein Medal International Association for Mathematical Geology Aitchison, John
1988 Guy Medal in Silver Royal Statistical Society Aitchison, John
1981 Best Paper Award Journal of Mathematical Geology Aitchison, John
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