22 Jan 2025

Science Teachers Recognised with HKU Excellence Awards 2024

Congratulations to our academics for receiving the University's research and teaching excellence awards in the HKU Excellence Award Scheme 2024.

The list of award recipients is appended as follows:

Outstanding Teaching Award

Dr Ka Ho LAW

Dr Ka Ho LAW
Associate Head (Teaching & Learning) and

Lecturer, Department of Mathematics

Outstanding Researcher Award

Professor Shuang ZHANG

Interim Head and Professor,

Department of Physics

Outstanding Young Researcher Awards

Professor Jian HE
Assistant Professor,

Department of Chemistry

Professor Zhongxing HUANG
Assistant Professor,

Department of Chemistry

Research Output Prize

Professor Timothy BONEBRAKE

Associate Dean of Science

Professor, School of Biological Sciences

Details of the awarded journal paper: '"Genomic analyses reveal poaching hotspots and illegal trade in pangolins from Africa to Asia", Science, 382(6676), 1282-1286 by Tracey-Leigh*, Cheng, Wenda*, Xing, Shuang*, Bonebrake, Timothy C.* and other researchers.

Congratulations to all the recipients on their well-deserved achievements!

The Outstanding Researcher Awards scheme aims to recognise, honour and reward exceptional work in research by staff of the University. The scheme includes the Distinguished Research Achievement Award (DRAA), Outstanding Researcher Award (ORA), Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA), Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award (ORSSA), and Research Output Prize (ROP).

The DRAA, ORA and OYRA are awards made to recognise individuals for their outstanding research accomplishments. The ORSSA is to recognise exemplary and effective supervisory guidance and support to their research postgraduate students. The ROP is a Faculty-based award to honour the best research output from each Faculty.

The Teaching Excellence Award Scheme aims to recognise, reward and promote excellence in teaching at the University. Under the Scheme, there are four categories of awards, viz. University Distinguished Teaching Award, Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA), Early Career Teaching Award (ECTA) and Teaching Innovation Award (TIA). Besides individual awards, both OTA and TIA comprise team awards to recognise and encourage collaborative effort and achievement in enhancing teaching and learning. Faculties should encourage their teachers with outstanding contributions to teaching and learning to apply for these awards.

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