About the Talk:Despite completing secondary school biology, many adults have only a very basic knowledge of human reproduction. In the 21st century, advancements in science offer more insights, treatments, and choices for conceiving and bearing children.In this engaging talk,  Dr. Aftab Amin from HKUST’s Division of Life Sciences will explore genetics, inheritance, fertility issues, IVF, and more. He will help make this topic accessible whether you’re planning a family or simply curious. The talk will also include a 10 minute VR demo of the human reproductive system.Notes:This talk supports the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):SDG 3: Good Health and Well-BeingSDG 5: Gender EqualityThis is a HMAW1905-recognized event in the "Personal Enrichment & Community Service" category under the "Self-directed Experience" of HMAW1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. To receive 1.5 hours, you must attend the event in full and miss no more than 10 mins.The talk will be recorded and photos will be taken during the talk. By attending or participating in this event, you are giving your consent to be photographed and video recorded and you are waiving any and all claims regarding the use of your image by the University. About the Speaker:Dr. Amin, a PhD holder in Molecular Medicine from HKUST, is an innovative educator and researcher. His teaching, enhanced by Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and AI, has earned him prestigious awards, including the Educational Technology Innovation GOLD Award (2024) and the Thetos Early Career Distinguished Teaching Award (2024-25) Registration link: https://library.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/10868         

About the TalkHow did Germans imagine global order after the Second World War -- in the event that they won? This is an alternate future that has been widely discussed in counterfactual fiction and film. But it was also an outcome that many German intellectuals actually envisaged between 1939 and 1945.In this talk, Prof. Derman will share insights from his current book (in progress) about German theorists who challenged the liberal international order. Between the 1890s and 1940s, they argued that global capitalism and governance were doomed to fail. The only sustainable form of international order, they claimed, was a world divided into blocs or “great spaces,” as they called them, each led by a great power. Their visions of a "de-globalized" world order underlay many aspects of Nazi propaganda and diplomacy. They have persisted, in many surprising ways, up to today. Registration:  https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/10635 About the SpeakerProf. Joshua Derman is an Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities at HKUST. He received his Ph.D. in modern European history from Princeton University, and his A.B. in philosophy from Harvard University. Prior to joining HKUST, he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.Professor Dermans research focuses on modern German history, and, in particular, the international dimensions of German political and social thought. His current research projects investigate the intellectual history of Nazi Germany.He has recently taught courses on European and world history, fascism and totalitarianism, geopolitics, the theory and practice of prediction, and the social theory of capitalism. Please Note:This is a HMAW1905-recognized event in the “Personal Enrichment & Community Service” category under the Self-directed Experience of HMAW1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness.To receive 1.0 hours, you must attend the event in full and miss no more than 10mins.Photos will be taken during the talk. By attending or participating in this event, you are giving your consent to be photographed and video recorded and you are waiving any and all claims regarding the use of your image by the University.

About the TalkThe Chinese economy has not had the widely expected rebound since pandemic restrictions were lifted in late 2022. High debt levels, falling property prices, excess capacity in many industries, falling foreign direct investment, and tepid consumption growth have all contributed to a weak recovery and stubborn deflationary pressures.Commentators predict that the Chinese economy has peaked, and that it is now undergoing ‘Japanification’ – a reference to Japan’s lost decades marked by a prolonged period of sluggish growth, falling asset prices, and debt deflation. In response, the Chinese government has launched an ambitious plan – emphasising the technologies and industries of the future – to invest in ‘new quality productive forces’, increase productivity, and ensure technology self-sufficiency in the face of growing trade tensions. Amid the slowdown at home, Chinese firms are investing heavily in the rest of world, especially in other developing countries.What are the causes of China’s post-Covid slowdown? Is the slowdown structural or cyclical? And what are its likely impacts on the rest of Asia and the world? 
 In this talk, Prof. Donald Low  will examine the causes and economic consequences of the zero-Covid policy that the Chinese authorities pursued for much of the pandemic, as covered in his latest book, The Price of Zero: Chinas Policy Missteps During & After Covid (Call no. RA644.C67 L69 2024).Register here: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/10538
The book will be available for sale at the talk for HKD $120 (cash & FPS only).  About the Speaker:Donald Low is Senior Lecturer and Professor of Practice at the HKUST Institute for Public Policy, as well as Director of Leadership and Public Policy Executive Education (LAPP) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).He’s the editor of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (2011), the lead author of Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (2015), and co-author of PAP v PAP: The Party’s Struggle to Adapt to a Changing Singapore (2020).  Notes:This is a HMAW1905-recognized event in the “Personal Enrichment & Community Service” category under the Self-directed Experience of HMAW1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness.To receive 1.0 hours, you must attend the event in full and miss no more than 10mins.Photos will be taken during the talk. By attending or participating in this event, you are giving your consent to be photographed and you are waiving any and all claims regarding the use of your image by the University.

講座簡介是次講座以西貢區的鹽田梓天主教客家村為例子，闡述原來已經離散的村民，在特殊條件之下回到荒廢的小島上發展文物保育，與外界合作聯結，推動社區復興。講者並會以他近期在大嶼山大澳和䃟頭村推行的文物保育項目進行對比，探討邊緣鄉郊復興的問題和策略。鄉郊社區的活化，為有興趣參與的市民和香港科技大學學生提供對另類的生活空間和社會關係，以致身份認同建構的寶貴知識和經驗。 講座進行期間將被錄影及拍照出席此座談會的同學可獲CORE1905課程中"Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness"的1.0小時學習時數。同學須於入場及離場時出示學生證以作記錄名額有限,請各位報名留座 講者: 張兆和副教授張兆和副教授多年來在香港科技大學人文學部從事人類學教學和研究工作。研究範圍主要是中國西南地區及香港族群社區歷史文化和身份認同。 

About the TalkProfessor Ying Chau will share her first-hand experiences with mentorship, the joy of mentoring students and how she has been shaped by her own mentors. She hopes to encourage students to seek mentors in their own life journey. Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/index.php/event/9353/ NoteThe talk will be recorded and photos will be taken during the talk.This is a recognized event in the "Self-directed Experience" component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour. About the Speaker Ying Chau is Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Her current research interests include the design and translation of drug delivery approaches and biomaterials for ocular applications and immunotherapy, as well as self-assembled nanostructures derived from polymers and biomolecules. The technologies developed from her lab are now being commercialized by start-up companies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Currently, she is serving on the board of directors of the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (Hong Kong), the editorial boards of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Elsevier), and as Associate Editor of Drug Delivery (Taylor & Francis) and Frontiers in Drug Delivery (Frontiers). Professor Chau is deeply interested in education innovation and a strong advocate for empowering students for impact creation. She is the Founder and Director of Student Innovation for Global Health Technology (SIGHT) at HKUST. She and her team were recognized as finalists in the 2021 UGC Team Teaching Award. She was named the “Leading Woman in STEM” at the 2021 Annual Women of Influence (WOI) Conference & Awards organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham).  

About the TalkIn this talk, Professor Du will share on her latest research about the animated film-making activities of the North China Film Company (a branch of the Manchukuo Film Association (株式會社滿洲映畫協會) also known as Manying (滿映) between 1937–45), which was located in wartime Peking.Focusing on a Chinese cartoonist and animator named Liang Jin (?–1972), as well as a few Japanese animators at the North China Film Company, she will show that although Manying’s animated filmmaking followed a philosophy of "territorialization" and localization, it  still made a fantasy world distanced from the wartime realities of China and Japan. This enabled the animations to transcend wartime political controls, persist through a tumultuous regime change, and assume multiple afterlives  as "ghosts" animating Chinese socialist cinema, despite institutional efforts to erase them from the history of Chinese animation and live-action filmmaking.Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9298Notes:This is a recognized event in the "Self-directed Experience" component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour.No photography by the audience or any recording of this talk and its examples is allowed. About the SpeakerProfessor Du received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012 and joined the faculty of the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. Her book, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s, (2019) is available in the Library in both paper and e-book format. She is currently working on two other books tentatively titled Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (1937-1945) and Suspended Animation.She is interested in animation, film, media, feminist film criticism, critical race/ethnicity studies, transnational film studies, modern Chinese literature and visual culture, women/children/animal/machine/technology, travel/migration/diaspora, and modernity/modernism studies.Recently she started a new research project on women animators in China and is editing a few volumes about animation and new media. She is also the founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, which is dedicated to introducing and promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.  

About the Talk:Singapore appears to be moving towards a more open, competitive democracy. But this obscures the resilience of a conservative ruling party that has proved itself adept at accommodating popular sentiments without significant democratisation or political liberalisation.What are the prospects of political reforms in a liberal-democratic direction in a country that has long defied the predictions of modernisation theory? How resilient is Singapore’s model of illiberal democracy or soft authoritarianism? And will such reforms undermine the strong state and economic success that have been the hallmarks of Singapore?Prof. Donald Low of HKUST will discuss these topics, covered in his recent book, PAP v PAP : the partys struggle to adapt to a changing SingaporeRegistration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9064This is a recognized event in the “Self-directed Experience” component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour.Photos will be taken during the talk. The Chinese edition of the book,  威權政治之困境 : 新加坡未來政治想像 = PAP v. PAP... will be available for sale at the talk for HKD $100 (cash only).  Enquiries: Victoria Caplan (lbcaplan@ust.hk) About the Author:Donald Low is a senior lecturer and professor of Practice in Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as director of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies.. He is the author of Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (2014), in e-copy in our collection; and the editor of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (2012) in hard-copy in our book collection (HC445.8 .B45 2012)  

About the Talk:“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”
- Albert EinsteinThe world is in a constant state of change, with multidisciplinary innovations now common in engineering. In the fast-changing areas of science and technology, we need to strike a balance between learning current state-of-the-art (which is always heading to obsolescence) and strengthening our understanding of the scientific principles behind technological breakthroughs.In this talk, Prof. Rhea P. Liem (MAE) will share her insights on the university as a place to learn how to learn, and a platform for students’ self-discovery activities, which are timeless.Speaker: Professor Rhea LiemRhea Liem is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). During her academic career at HKUST, she has been twice awarded the School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Awards (in 2018 and 2021). She is also the 2021 UGC Teaching Awardee for the Early Career Faculty Members category. Her research and teaching are focused on aeronautical engineering and aerospace computation, particularly in aircraft design and air transportation. She is also a 2012 Amelia Earhart Fellow, which is awarded to women in aerospace research.Registration: https://lbcube.ust.hk/ce/event/8662Related news:
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Women in Engineering – meet Prof Rhea LiemThe talk will be recorded and photos will be taken during the talk.Students may attain 1 hour credit for the HLTH1010 Healthy Lifestyle Course "Wellness and Personal Enrichment" moduleZoom meeting ID and passcode will be sent to registrants at 5pm, 1 day before the talk.

座談會簡介 / About the Talk 三位剛畢業的化學及生物工程學系同學在2020年春季的Product and Process Design 課程 project 中，經劉元帥教授指導和和科大校友創業家何寶琪女士協助下，成功研發和推出長效抗菌護手霜。這次講座會介紹化妝品的科學知識以及抗菌護手霜的研發。Three CBE students came up with the idea of creating a long-lasting antimicrobial hand cream in the Product and Process Design course in Spring 2020. With the tremendous support from Prof. Marshal Liu and alumna-entrepreneur Ms. Vanessa Ho Po-Ki, the idea came to fruition and the product was successfully commercialized.This talk will focus on the science and function of cosmetics and the development of antimicrobial hand creams. 登記報名: https://lbcube.ust.hk/ce/event/7790 講者簡介 / About the Speakers 劉元帥教授 (Professor Marshal Liu)Dr Marshal LIU is currently Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Associate Director of Center for Engineering Education Innovation, at HKUST.Being a teacher with passion, dedication and versatile teaching methods, Dr LIU has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Teaching Award in School of Engineering, and Common Core Teaching Excellence Award for the course Food Science and Technology. His research is focused on food processing, product design and development.Dr Liu is also committed to providing students with fulfilling and pleasant learning experience, to mentoring students for all-round growth and development. Dr Liu is interested in entrepreneurship and has worked closely with several alumni on the startups. One team won the President award in HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition for wastewater treatment in 2018. In 2020, he joined efforts with UG students and alumni to develop and launch the long-lasting antimicrobial hand cream, in response to the battle with infectious diseases. The cream has been very popular among the community.何寶琪女士 (Ms. Vanessa Ho Po-Ki)1998香港科技大學化工畢業，1999年開辦公司，面對沒資金，沒人手，沒網絡資訊的配合下，先後於美國取得試劑品牌香港區總代理權，在山東設立提純工廠，再建立自己的試劑品牌銷售至世界各地。近十年，専注產品及設備開發，去年，本港設廠生產多種疫情產品。未來日子，公司會投入更多資金，支持本港科研，培育更多未來的社會棟樑。  備註出席此座談會的同學可獲 HLTH1010 中 “Wellness and Personal Enrichment” 單元 1.5小時學習時數講座將使用視頻和攝影記錄Zoom meeting ID 和 passcode會在講座前1天下午5點電郵通知已報名的同學和同事 報名請往 https://lbcube.ust.hk/ce/index.php/event/7790/ 如有查詢，請聯絡 Ms. Eunice Wong (lbeunice@ust.hk)。 

About the Talk (Powerpoint slide)In this talk, Professor Gietel--Basten will discuss his recent book, The Population Problem in Pacific Asia. This book is one of first to look in-depth at the issue of low fertility in Pacific Asia.  Considering  the whole region in context, there is also a focus on China, where he addresses such questions as , "why does the "two-child ideal" turn into a "one-child intention?" and  whether the two-child policy is Chinas "silver bullet".A lively speaker, Prof Gietel Basten uses qualitative and quantitative data and examples from newspapers and other media to help us come to a better understanding of the so-called population problems in the region.You can register at Library Event RegistrationHLTH1010 HKUST students may attain 1.5 hour credit for the Healthy Lifestyle Course after attending the seminar.This event will be recorded using video and photography.About the SpeakerProfessor Stuart Gietel-Basten is the Director of the university’s Center for Aging Science; and is Associate Dean (Research) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.His research covers the interplay between changing population dynamics and public and social policy. He is is especially interested in the fertility transition; conceptual approaches to ageing; and population policy. He is the co-ordinator of the GGS-Asia project, which seeks to run the Generations and Gender Survey in Asian settings – including Hong Kong.He received his education at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD in historical demography. Before coming to HKUST, he was an Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford. He has also been an adviser in Population and Development at the UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology and a Research Scholar at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.