Autumn Issue, 2017

HKU marine ecologist Professor Kenneth Leung awarded the 19 th Biwako Prize for Ecology Established in 1991, the Biwako Prize aims to recognise ecologists under the age of 50 who have made academically and socially significant achievements in the field of aquatic ecology in Asia, and demonstrated great potential to become a central figure in ecology. Research interests of Professor Leung include marine ecology, ecotoxicology, eco-shoreline engineering, marine biodiversity and conservation. He has also made contributions to the development of marine water quality objectives in Hong Kong, and is currently collaborating with the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences to refine the water quality criteria system in China. Professor Leung is also conferred with the title of SETAC Fellow. The SETAC Fellows Award was created in 2010 to recognise members demonstrating both (i) significant long-term scientific or science policy contributions and (ii) service and leadership within SETAC. Professor Kenneth Leung 梁美儀 (left) holding the certificate of merit of the Biwako Prize for Ecology with one of his nominators, Professor Ichiro Takeuchi of Ehime University, Japan. The other nominator was Dr Moriaki Yasuhara from the School of Biological Sciences, HKU. HKU Chair Professor of Humanities appointed Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Professor Frank Dikötter will join a community of more than 100 outstanding scholars and leaders that seeks innovative policy solutions to modern-day challenges. Other Senior Fellows in his field include Niall Ferguson, Robert Service, and Timothy Garton Ash. Specialising in modern China history, Professor Dikötter is the author of the internationally-acclaimed People’s Trilogy , a series of books that document the Great Leap Forward ( Mao’s Great Famine, 2010), the initial years of the People’s Republic ( The Tragedy of Liberation, 2013) and the Cultural Revolution ( The Cultural Revolution, 2016). The first part of the trilogy, Mao’s Great Famine, won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2011. 45