Winter Issue, 2010

63 Mark Tso On-man 曹安民 (MBBS 1961; DSc 1994) Professor Tso (left), Founder and first Director of the Peking University Eye Centre, received the Friendship Award from the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. He is also Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Michael Tsang Wai-yin 曾偉賢 (BA(AS) 1982; BArch 1985) Michael’s architectural project “Boutique Cinema@ Windsor” won three awards in 2010 including the Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards - Gold Award and China’s Most Successful Design Awards. Lynn Yau Foon-chi 邱歡智 (BA 1981; MEd 2006) Congratulations to Lynn who was awarded the Hong Kong Scholarship for the Clore Leadership Programme (CLP) for the period September 2010 – July 2011. Together with 20 other potential leaders from across the world, Lynn will participate in a leadership programme which includes residential courses, extended secondment to overseas cultural institutions, original research, individually selected training, mentoring and coaching in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Lynn is the Chief Executive Officer of The Absolutely Fabulous Theatre Connection, an actress and a qualified simultaneous interpreter. She is currently an examiner for arts criticism, drama and literary arts for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and an advisor to Radio Television Hong Kong. Li Xia 黎夏 (PhD 1996) Professor Li (left) has just been awarded the Yat-sen Chair Professorship “ 逸仙學者　　講座教授 by Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University for his distinguished contributions to geoscience. Professor Li is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Sciences at SunYat-sen University. He is one of the earliest scholars to reveal the problems of rapid land development in the Pearl River Delta internationally. Professor Li got his doctorial degree at HKU under the supervision of Professor Anthony Yeh Gar-on 葉嘉安 (BA 1974). Lai Kar-neng 黎嘉能 (MBBS 1975; MD 1983; DSc 1994) Congratulations to Professor Lai (left), Yu Chiu Kwong Chair of Medicine, who received the Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Award and the Ross Bailey Lecture Award given by the Asian-Pacific Society of Nephrology in 2010 for his outstanding contributions to science in the region.