Another year and another class of graduating students will say goodbye to their alma mater and start a new journey. The four years spent at UIC is some of the best years of their life. How many storie...

Dr. Baojun (Bruce) Xu, professor and programme director of Food Science and Technology Programme at BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC), has recently been appointed by the Elsevier to be an As...

Zhang Xinchun is a 2016 Food Science and Technology alumna of UIC who is currently busy with the preclinical research and development of cancer drugs in AbbVie, a famous American biopharmaceutical company. From food science to biopharmaceuticals, she has dared to cross over and jump out of her comfort zone and challenging herself to achieve even more possibilities.

A research article by three Food Science and Technology (FST) alumni of UIC's DST, Liu Yongxiang (graduated in 2017), Cai Chunzhi (graduated in 2016) and Yao Yiliang (graduated in 2019) as the first...

Gao Yue, an alumnus of Food Science and Technology (FST) at UIC, found her biotechnology dream during her UIC education. Through unremitting efforts, she broke the boundaries of her profession and is now doing an internship at Harvard Medical School in the US. In June 2018, with excitement and passion for biotechnology, Gao Yue graduated from UIC and chose to go to Northwestern University to study biotechnology.

Many outstanding entrepreneurs and talents have been active in various industries amongst the UIC graduates. On 6 April 2020, Food Science and Technology (FST) invited seven alumni to share their entrepreneurial experiences after graduation. The sharing session was chaired by the Director of the FST programme, Prof Xu Baojun.

​Recently, associate professor Baojun Xu from FST as a corresponding author published one review paper titled ” An insight into anti-inflammatory effects of fungal beta-glucans” in Trends in Food Science & Technology. This journal is an official journal of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), and the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST). It is belongs to famous Elsevier Group. It is the only truly international peer-reviewed journal publishing critical reviews and viewpoints of current technology, food science and human nutrition.

Vice President of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) Prof Rao Pingfan delivered a distinguished lecture to UIC students on 25 September. The topic of this lecture was ‘How Important Is Food Science for Human Being?’