UIC Environmental Science Department Pioneers "Green Campus" Initiative

The Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC) has been selected as one of the “Green Schools in Guangdong Province” in 2024 (see https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/18NcMMkVftEvdigDAkHqjA for details).The Environmental Science program at UIC has provided full support in the process of establishing a green school, especially by undertaking extensive efforts in ...

2025-01-13

New Horizons in Environmental Science: Bionic Submersibles Pioneering the Future

On November 25, 2024, researcher Fan Dixia from the College of Engineering of Westlake University was invited to the campus of UIC to give a lecture entitled “Soaring in the Ocean - Imagining Future Bionic Submersibles” to the undergraduate students of Environmental Science and graduate students of the Master's Degree Program in Sustainable Energy Technology and Management. The lecture was hosted ...

2024-12-06

Environmental Science Students from BNU-HKBU UIC Successfully Deploy Self-Designed Water Quality Buoy at Hengqin National Wetland Park

On December 1, 2024, Dr. Ge Mingming from the Environmental Science program at BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC) led a team of senior students to Hengqin Erjingwan National Wetland Park, where they successfully deployed a self-designed water quality monitoring buoy, ENVS-1.During the design process, the Environmental Science students took ecological conservation into full consideratio...

2024-12-05

UIC inspires new ideas for ecological innovation on forum

UIC's Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) co-organised a forum named the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Nature Education and Ecological Economic Forum with Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin on 18 May 2024 to mark the 24th International Day for Biological Diversity.The two parties signed a strategic cooperation agreement to deepen their partnership in education...

2024-06-04

[People of UIC] Guo Rui: Ploughing in Environmental Science for academic breakthroughs

Guo Rui was a UIC student of the Class of 2017, studying in the Department of Life Sciences. After graduating with a master's degree in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University & Research, she was admitted to the University of Queensland's (UQ) research programme for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Technologies with support from the China Scholarship Council.Guo RuiGuo Ru...

2023-10-25

Faculty members of the Department of Life Sciences Visited Institute of Science and Environment of the University of Saint Joseph in Macao SAR, China

The UIC Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) and the Institute of Science and Environment, University of Saint Joseph (ISE-USJ) in Macao SAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate academic and research cooperation between the two institutions in 2022. On March 1st, 2023, six faculty members from the Department of Life Sciences (DLS) visited ISE-USJ to discuss the potential areas ...

2023-03-22

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

[People of UIC] Meet Dong Shengkun: liberal arts inspire research career

Receiving a liberal arts education at UIC inspired Dong Shengkun to firmly step on the road of scientific research and helped him lay the foundations to become an associate professor in a renowned university in China.Dong Shengkun, who graduated from UIC's Environment Science (ENVS) Programme in 2011, continued his Master's and PhD studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), US.

2022-03-16