In summer, the School of Life Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) offers some lab visits and activities to Secondary School students, who are interested in studying life sciences. On 27 June 2017, I was involved in … Continue reading Experiential learning
On 6 and 13 May 2017, another course related to applied biochemistry was offered to 14 gifted and talented students; two of them had also completed the previous applied biochemistry course held in Winter Term. The rationale to offer applied … Continue reading 2017 PGT Spring Term course
It is my second time to join Asia-Pacific Association of International Education (APAIE) since 2011. Interestingly, both conferences were held in Taiwan: Taipei in 2011 and Kaohsiung in 2017. This year, I presented a poster paper related to the utilisation … Continue reading APAIE 2017
A recent shocking news reported that a patient died from an infection, which was initially diagnosed as sore throat. I remembered, some years ago, I discussed with my students in BCHE4030 Clinical Biochemistry about the possibility of deadly sore throats … Continue reading An episode of BCHE4030
There is an interesting display in New Asia College Library: I suppose it is a piece of arts; yet, it is highly scientific. When any one of the cogwheels is turned, all others will also turn at different time: sooner … Continue reading ‘Fusion’ between arts and science
On 7 and 14 January, it was a pleasure to offer my first course related to applied biochemistry for the Program for the Gifted and Talented in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Seventeen outstanding students had completed the course and … Continue reading First course for the ‘Program for the Gifted and Talented’
Responding to the comments of our alumni, a more comprehensive new course titled ‘Biological science student knowledge enhancement course’ was offered in the summer of 2015-16. During this course, we surprisingly discovered the great potential of our students, who were only from … Continue reading New CUSA course in this summer
As in previous years, current and graduated undergraduate students from the Biochemistry Programme have been invited to form the student teaching team in 2015-16, to share their knowledge and experiences with secondary school students joining the Science Academy for Young … Continue reading CUSA Student teaching team 2015/16
Today is the start of the 5th HKAGE Biotechnology course we offer. Many talented have joined us and I wish them have fun and learn something from the course. Continue reading HKAGE course 2016
In 2015/16, there are 15 successful Biochemistry students presenting their experimental final year projects. Their nice presentation have been recorded to produce some e-learning educational programmes. … Continue reading BCHE4903 presentation
