The 19th Congregation, presided over by the Chancellor of the University the Honourable Leung Chun-ying, Council Chairman Ms Marjorie Yang Mun-tak and President Prof. Timothy W. Tong, was held on 27 October on campus. This year PolyU has sent forth 11,106 graduates.

During the Congregation, the University conferred honorary doctorates upon five distinguished personalities, namely, Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Emerita Institute Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dr Edwin Leong Siu-hung, Executive Chairman and Founder of Tai Hung Fai Enterprise Company Limited; Prof. Pai Hsien-yung (in absentia), renowned contemporary writer and a staunch advocate of Kunqu; Mr Patrick Poon Sun-cheong, Chairman of Harvest SCP Group Company Limited; and Ms Güler Sabanci, Chairman and Managing Director of Turkey-based Sabanci Holding and Founding President of Sabanci University. 

Addressing the Congregation, Prof. Tong emphasized the University’s commitment for innovation and said that another form of innovation – social innovation – is needed to address the needs of the underprivileged, social inequality and the widening wealth gap. Details>>