The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture called ’Food for a Voyage to the Mars: Fantasizing Future Food’ by the Vice President of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) Professor Rao Pingfan on 8 May. The guests were Dean of DST Professor Stephen Chung, Food Science and Technology (FST) Professor Xu Baojun, Environmental Science (ENVS) Professor Daniel Ruan, Director of General Education Office (GEO) Professor Mildred Yang, and GEO Professor Sookja Kim Chung.

Using VC technology to present this talk to an audience at UIC, a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University (Ottawa), Prof J David Miller, gave a lecture titled "Mycotoxins: threats to public health and the agricultural economy". This lecture was organised by the Division of Science and Technology (DST) on 26 October.

UIC recognised the excellent achievements of teachers and acknowledged the commitment of 41 long-serving staff members at a ceremony on 23 February. Prof Baojun Xu (Professor of Food Science and Technology, DST) was given the President’s Award for Research.

Dr Karen Poon, Associate Dean of the Division of Science and Technology and two of her students have successfully patented a method of producing vitamin B12 from vegetarian food. The patent was...

Dr. Karen POON (Associate Professor, Associate Dean of the Division of Science and Technology) and Dr. Bo LEI (Associate Professor, Programme Director of Food Science and Technology) have been nominated in May for High-Level Talents by the Zhuhai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. This is the first time UIC has received the nomination.

Dr. Bruce Xu from Food Science and Technology Program in DST was invited to attend "the 2nd Innovation Development Forum of Chinese Food Industry-University-Research" which was held on November 2-4, 2012 in Beijing. Dr Xu won "Outstanding Research Talent Award". During the meeting, Dr. Xu presented a report entitled "Telomerase Inhibitors Derived from Natural Foods and Their Anticancer Activity", Dr. Xu also attended the 1st editorial board meeting of a new international journal Food Science and Human Wellness, and received letter of appointment as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the first editorial board of Food Science and Human Wellness with a four-year engagement period.

Dr. Baojun (Bruce) Xu, assistant professor of Food Science and Technology at Division of Science and Technology, United International College (UIC), has been selected by the Maxwell Science to be the Regional Editor of Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology (AJFST), starting from December 1, 2010. Previously, he also has been named as an Associate Editor of Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of The Open Nutraceuticals Journal since joined UIC.