ENVS postgraduate application experience sharing

On March 17, 2021, UIC ENVS organized a postgraduate application experience sharing session and invited four alumni currently pursuing their postgraduate studies overseas to share their experience in making applications to secure a place for postgraduate study, adapting to the life overseas and excelling in postgraduate studies.

2021-03-18

ENVS Teacher-Student Dialogue Night

On March 10, 2021, the ENVS Dialogue Night was organized to encourage communication and interaction between teachers and students. The event started with a speech by ENVS programme director, Dr. Tsim Siu Tai, introducing the Mentor Caring Programme and the Academic Advisor Programme. Following the speech was a dialogue session where students were engaged in meaningful conversations with teacher...

2021-03-11

ENVS Career Night

On March 3, 2021, UIC ENVS invited three alumni to share about career development and their work experiences. The alumni are employed by the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center, the Pearl River Water Resources Commission and the Guangzhou Zike Environment respectively. The sharing was conducted via online mode and had garnered encouraging responses from the participants.

2021-03-10

[People of UIC] Meet Wang Yixin: Using research to fight COVID-19

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) threat cannot be defeated without the in-depth study of COVID-19 by scientists. Wang Yixin, a post-90s graduate from Environment Science (ENVS) Programme at UIC, who continued her PhD study in Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU Med), has been conducting scientific research and hopes to unlock the rest of the novel coronavirus. Yi...

2021-03-04

Distinguished Lecture 丨Prof. HO Kin Chung: Harmful algae research: From Hong Kong to the Polar Regions with particular reference to environmental management in the Greater Bay Area

On 7th December, invited by Environmental Science Programme of Division of Science and Technology, Prof. Ho Kin Chung, world renowned expert in harmful algal bloom, Special Appointed Professor of Shanghai Ocean University, delivered a ...

2021-01-19

MoU signed with Lancaster University

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between UIC and Lancaster University, UK, on 29 November. The MoU encourages direct contact and cooperation between partner institutions, and their students, faculty, and administrative staff for the purpose of study and research.Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) at Lancaster UniversityThe delegation from Lancaster University consisted of Distingu...

2020-09-08

Lancaster University seeks further collaboration

The Division of Science and Technology (DST) invited guest speaker Prof Kevin Jones, a Lancaster University professor from the UK, who established the Lancaster Environment Centre, to give a lecture 8...

2020-09-01

Lecture | The development of emerging membrane distillation technology for seawater desalination and advanced membrane fabrication

On Sep 26, 2019, Dr. Guo Jiaxin, a postdoctoral research fellow of the City University of Hong Kong and a UIC ENVS graduate of year 2014 delivered a lecture titled ‘The development of emerging membrane distillation technology for seawater desalination and advanced membrane fabrication’. In the lecture, he shared about the underlying principles of membrane distillation, its applications partic...

2019-09-30