2025 International Biodiversity Day Forum & Greater Bay Area Nature Education Forum

Recently, Jinci Li, a Class of 2021 undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Science in the Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology of the Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), published a paper titled “Bioeffects of Nanoplastics: DNA Damage and Mechanism” in the SCI journal Nano Letters as the first author. The corresponding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...