As shared in one of my previous posts, I have been teaching the General Education courses for Chung Chi College and Shaw College for some years. I am feeling grateful right at the beginning of 2019 that my effort in General … Continue reading College General Education
It is my pleasure to present two posters together with my honorable colleagues in the ‘Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2018’ held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) The theme of the two posters was about the pedagogical innovation with interactive virtual reality (VR) technology, which will be applied in the laboratory courses in CUHK Biochemistry Programme. We proposed to employ VR for the training of 1) immunohistochemistry in the field of cytopathology and 2) Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) in the field of chemical pathology. Both of the laboratory techniques are very popular ones, which will certain bring … Continue reading First trial of VR for laboratory skill training
In addition to new directions, there are also some traditions of ‘dry lab’ skills training in BCHE4640 Aspects of Neuroscience Laboratory, for example, we have been collaborating with the University Library to offer tailor-made workshop for our students. In the … Continue reading The tradition of BCHE4640
It has been quite some time since we last offered a computer laboratory in a practical course of the Biochemistry Programme. This year, in BCHE4640 Aspect of Neuroscience Laboratory, we made a strategic move to include the training of SPSS … Continue reading A new page to analytics
The Orientation Day 2018 was held on 20 October (Saturday). This year, the School of Life Sciences (SLS) made some major effort to renovate and modernize … Continue reading Orientation Day 2018
I am excited to learn about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year has just been awarded to Prof Allison and Prof Honjo for their profound discovery of cancer immunotherapy. Many students in my classes were very interested … Continue reading The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018
Dated back to 2009, I have been involved in adult education, such as the Master of Science Programme in Biochemical and Biomedical Sciences (BBMS) and other Secondary School Biology Teacher and Technician training workshops offered by the Education Bureau. In BBMS, … Continue reading Adult education
It was my pleasure to offer CUSA1013 Great Discovery in Biomedical Discoveries again for the second time on 25 August 2018. This summer course was dedicated to Secondary 1 to 3 students, hoping to foster their interest in biomedical science. … Continue reading CUSA1013 again!
In an earlier Program for the Gifted Talented course titled ‘Biochemistry and Infections‘, we came across infectious diseases caused by viruses, such as dengue fever (DF). The current local cases of dengue fever in Hong Kong present a good illustration of that … Continue reading An episode of ‘Biochemistry and Infections’
Continue reading An episode of ‘PGT Biochemistry and Infections’
Another interesting scenario during CUSA3003 Biological Science Student Knowledge Enhancement Course was that we discussed about microbiology, where influenza caused by virus was briefly discussed. From … Continue reading An episode of CUSA3003 II
