AWARDS
The Smith and Newphew Award for the most outstanding student in years one and two on the Veterinary Nursing and Practice Administration BSc programme has been awarded to Katy Wilkinson , at the University of Bristol.
The New Zealand Vice Chancellors' Committee has awarded the Patricia Pratt Scholarship for 2001 to Netgazette , a graduate in performance bassoon at Victoria University of Wellington.
The Casey Holter Memorial Prize , founded to highlight the need for research into hydrocephalus and spina bifida, has been awarded to Jaleel Miyan and Clare Draper , both from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Carole Sobkowiak , secretary of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has made the following promotions:
Associate professorships
Guochang Zhang , accounting; Larry Qiu and Susheng Wang , economics;
Katherine Zin , management and organisations;
A.V. Muthukrishnan and Dilip Soman , marketing.
Adjunct professor
Changqi Wu , economics, associate director of undergraduate programs;
Surendra Mansinghka , finance; Acting head of the department of economics;
Siu Fai Leung , associate professor.
The following have recently been appointed :
Clive Lennox , assistant professor of accounting, former reader at the University of Bristol;
Jang-Ok Cho , associate professor of economics, formerly on the faculty of Sogang University, Korea;
Albert Ma , professor of economics, former member of the faculty at Boston University;
Kiang Luo , assistant professor of finance, formerly at the University of California, LA;
Yilin Wu , assistant professor of finance, PhD at University of Chicago;
Jin Zhang , assistant professor of finance, formerly at the City University of Hong Kong;
Albert Ha , associate professor of information and systems management, formerly on the faculty of Yale University;
Qing Li , assistant professor of information and systems, PhD at University of British Columbia;
Jaepil Choi , assistant professor of management at organizations, PhD at Rutgers University;
Ellick Wong , assistant professor of management and organisations, PhD at the Chinese University of Hong Kong;
Ying Zhao , assistant professor of marketing, PhD, University of California at Berkeley;
Rongrong Zhou , assistant professor of marketing, PhD at Columbia University.