Congratulations to our academics on receiving the University's research and teaching excellence awards under the HKU Excellence Award Scheme 2025.
The list of award recipients is as follows:
Early Career Teaching Award
Dr Kin Sum Leung
Assistant Lecturer,
School of Biological Sciences
Outstanding Researcher Award
Professor Jianyao TANG
Associate Head (Research) and Professor,
Department of Chemistry
Outstanding Young Researcher Awards
Professor Haibo JIANG
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry | |
Research Output Prize
Professor Ryan McKenzie
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Details of the awarded journal paper: “A climate threshold for ocean deoxygenation during the Early Cretaceous", Nature, 633, 582-586 by Bauer, Kohen W.*, McKenzie, Ryan*, Cheung, Chris T.L.*, Gambacorta, Gabriele, Bottini, Cinzia, Nordsvan, Adam R.*, Erba, Elisabetta, Crowe, Sean A.
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 that 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.
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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). In addition to individual awards, both OTA and TIA offer team awards to recognise and encourage collaborative efforts and achievements in enhancing teaching and learning. Faculties should encourage their teachers with outstanding contributions to teaching and learning to apply for these awards.
