DST lecturer wins third prize in Guangdong teaching innovation contest

UIC lecturer Ms Ji Yanyan and her team from the Division of Science and Technology (DST) won the third prize in the Guangdong final of the 2nd National Teaching Innovation Contest for College Teachers with the course Introduction to Robotics.The contest aims to encourage more teachers to innovate teaching methods for higher education and talent cultivation. A total of 1382 teachers and teams fr...

2022/06/22

Two UIC undergraduate programmes rated as national first class

The Ministry of Education (MOE) in China recently released a list of first-class undergraduate programmes at the national level. Two UIC undergraduate programmes, the Statistics Programme and the Computer Science and Technology Programme, were included on the list.The name list is part of MOE's Double Ten Thousand Plan (10,000 first-class undergraduate courses at the national level and 10,000 c...

2022/06/14

UIC students win record amount of awards in Mathematical Contest in Modeling

UIC held a ceremony to present awards to student winners from the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) 2022 and the Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) 2021.A total of 29 teams of UIC students won awards in MCM, including one Finalist (From the Statistics programme: Zheng Yaxin, Du Jinqiu, Gao Qihang), seven Meritorious Winner and 21 Honorable Mention, creating...

2022/06/10

Student research projects funded by provincial government

The Guangdong provincial government has recently funded three natural science research projects designed by UIC students from the Division of Science and Technology.The fund is specially set up to encourage and nurture university student teams in Guangdong to carry out cutting-edge and ground-breaking research on technology innovation.Teams are selected every year and categorised into three typ...

2022/06/02

Road to academic success: Passion, purpose and preparation

UIC encourages experiential learning, guiding students with solid skills both in theories and practice and releasing their potential for good. Here are three students sharing how they locate their paths in scientific research after their four-year study at UIC. Yao Yueying graduated from UIC's Food Science and Technology (FST) programme in 2021. Sh...

2022/05/27

Parent shares experience of her son at UIC

Ms Zou Chunyan, the parent of a fourth-year Environmental Science (ENVS) student Zan Rudai, shared the changes she witnessed in her son in the past fours at UIC. Rudai’s family comes from Karamay, Xinjiang, located in northwestern China. Although Zhuhai is far from Karamay, Zan’s family never feels distant from UIC. Apart from hearing about UIC from their friends, many graduates in Ruidai’s ...

2022/05/24

UIC signs MoU with Università del Piemonte Orientale

UIC has entered into yet another Memorandum of Understanding with an overseas partner university. This latest MoU was initiated by UIC staff in the Food Science and Technology Programme of the Division of Science and Technology, and signed by UIC and the Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO), a university in Piedmont, Italy. The two schools have pledged their mutual interest in developing cul...

2022/05/20

[People of UIC] Meet Huang Kaiyuan: Never too late to change

Success is about how high you bounce when you hit bottom. Having successfully counterattacked adversities twice, Huang Kaiyuan, a Food Science and Technology (FST) graduate, is currently studying at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Analytical Chemistry. In his freshman and sophomore years, Kaiyuan didn't have any goals. At that time, his...

2022/05/18