The University of Hong Kong will confer Honorary University Fellowships on four distinguished individuals, namely,
Mr George Joseph HO, Mr LO Sheung Yan, Dr Norman SZE Nung Chi, and Mr Henry WAI Wing Kun, in recognition of their contributions to the University and society. (Please click here for the photos of four Honorary University Fellows)
In light of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, the University initially decided to postpone the Honorary University Fellowships Presentation Ceremony originally scheduled for September of that year to late February 2021. Given the ongoing developments in the COVID-19 situation, the ceremony was not held in February as planned. Accordingly, the four distinguished individuals mentioned above will be honoured at a ceremony to be held at HKU in the Fall Semester of this year to receive the award together with the Honorary University Fellows of 2021, for which nominations are now being invited.
Virtual Brain Week will help schoolkids, home-bound attendees get out of their heads
This year’s cerebral celebration will bring a packed roster of researchers from Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science and beyond into classrooms and homes to expand knowledge about the brain.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Kids across Rhode Island are familiar with the signs that spring is on its way melting snow, longer days and plastic models of brains popping up in classrooms. The latter is a hallmark of Brain Week R.I., a series of school visits, fairs, presentations, performances and events held each March to make brain science fun, educational and accessible for everyone.
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Globally 78 million people have glaucoma. That is every one in 200 people aged 40, which rises to one in eight by age 80.
Most people with glaucoma are not aware of it as most glaucoma patients have zero symptoms.
Catch the disease early and you have a great chance of preserving your vision for the years to come.
Ahead of World Glaucoma Week (7-13 March 2021, #glaucomaweek), Australian researchers published the largest genetic study of glaucoma identifying 44 new genetic variants that may lead to new treatment targets.
Ten Australian institutions involving some of the country’s most prominent glaucoma researchers – including Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Jamie Craig and Flinders University colleagues with the Australian and New Zealand Registry of Advanced Glaucoma (ANZRAG) consortium – were involved in the international effort which analysed genes in more than 34,000 people with glaucoma across multiple ancestries for the first time.
Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of new subscription-based journal,
Current Applied Materials. The first issue of the journal will be available online by the start of the year, 2021.
The Editor-in-Chief of the journal is Prof. Yong Liu. Prof Yong Liu is a Principal Investigator of the Chinese State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Optometry and Visual Science, Wenzhou Medical University, with an appointment of Director for Laboratory of Nanoscale Biosensing and Bioimaging (NBAB).
Dr. Ferid Murad (Nobel Laureate) and Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (FRS) join the editorial board of
Current Applied Materials as honorary advisors for the journal.
Current Applied Materials publishes original research articles, letters, reviews/mini-reviews and guest edited thematic issues dealing with various topics related to Materials Science in China, while contributions from abroad are also welcome.