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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is launching an online course series teaching Full Stack Web Development on Coursera, the world’s largest open online education provider. Scheduled to start on September 15th, the program, named“Full Stack Web Development Specialization”, is composed of a series of courses taught by the University’s top faculty and accessible to anyone. (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/full-stack-mobile-app-development?utm_medium=listingPage)

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is committed to nurturing students into innovative problem solvers with a sense of responsibilities towards the community. The Division of Biomedical Engineering under the Interdisciplinary Program Office has launched a new program that allows undergraduate students to transform their creativity into innovative solutions for health care problems around the world.

Facing the global trend of internationalization and multiculturalism, it is important for us to develop critical thinking with diversified perspectives of the world. It would be a very precious opportunity to gain such knowledge. That is why Vanessa Lau and Matthew Tang are so grateful for having the chance to work in the offices of United States Congressmen. Supported by the University, the two Global China Studies students under the School of Humanities and Social Science joined an exchange program offered by the Catholic University of America (UCA) at Washington DC. Since January, they have been working as congressional interns in the offices of Chicago Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush and Alaska Republican Congressman Don Young respectively.

In the fascinating, unfolding world of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), a whole new set of relationships between learners is being forged, according to Prof King L Chow, Professor in the Division of Life Science at HKUST, one of the institutions pioneering the way in Asia for these global courses. “In the past, university students would only discuss with classmates when doing group projects. Now in my course, I have seen high school students, a graduate student, an archeologist, chefs and homemakers discussing recipes together.”

Lam Ho Tat Year 2, major in Physics HKUST is well known for its Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), which encourages students to gain early research experience with distinguished professors. UROP is not officially open to freshmen. However, in the first week of the first semester in Year 1, I decided to email Prof Kwok Yip Szeto in the Department of Physics to express my interest. Very fortunately, he decided to accept me and I started doing theoretical physics research under his supervision.

Students in a pioneering credit-bearing elective course at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School learn how investment in social enterprises can help society. By bringing students, social entrepreneurs and philanthropists together, the new teaching model enables students to contribute their ideas and skills to real businesses while making socially responsible investment. The course is open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of all majors at HKUST.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) will add its first three courses on edX (xConsortium) - one of the two major platforms in the world that offers Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in its ongoing efforts to promote this next generation learning medium that not only gives any eager learner worldwide an opportunity to take classes provided by top universities, but also make learning more personalized and flexible for students.The University will also offer a pilot scheme this summer for HKUST students to earn credits for their degree study, provided that they complete six weeks of face-to-face course work on campus on top of the MOOC they take. The course will be listed on their transcript and the credits can be counted as degree requirements.The three new courses to launch between June and September are as follows:

Research has definitely been the brightest gem in HKUST, a focused elite research university.  True to its founding ethos, HKUST’s thoughtful emphasis on both basic and applied research has pioneered today’s globally recognized research culture among its sister institutions and rendered a powerful evocation of all that science and technology can give to nourishing society and humanity.