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Dr Zhang Caicai, Associate Professor of CBS, has been awarded funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) National Major Project on Brain Science – Young Scientist category (the China Brain Project) for her project in the area of language, cognition, and neuroscience. The funded project is entitled “Neurocognitive markers for typical language development and language disorders in children: A longitudinal study based on long-term memory, sleep and brain development”.

The MOST National Major Project on Brain Science involves 59 research areas and directions with an overall funding beyond 31 billion. Dr Zhang’s project is the only project in Hong Kong funded under the Young Scientist category.

Dr Chen Si, Assistant Professor of CBS, receives the PolyU Young Innovative Researcher Award (YIRA) 2022. The University received 59 submissions across 22 departments covering all faculties/schools in this inaugural round and Dr Chen (whose research focus is robot-assisted training for children with autism spectrum disorder) is named one of the six YIRA awardees.

The YIRA aims to honour young PolyU researchers under the age of 35 who have demonstrated novelty, contributed to technology advancement, and propelled transformational innovation into solutions for addressing problem in society with a vision for a positive change to the future.

Prof. Eric Friginal recently joined the Faculty as the new Head of ENGL. Before joining PolyU, Prof. Friginal was Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language (ESL) at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was also the Director of International Programmes at the College of Arts and Sciences at GSU. An interview with Prof. Friginal will be featured in the upcoming issue of the Faculty Newsletter.

CBS has launched its first ever MOOC course! The course provides insights for business leaders, senior managerial members, and communication professionals by discussing the major communication challenges encountered by businesses around the world which in turn, helps the participants to advance their career in the ever-changing communication environment. If you would like to learn about “effective social media communication”, “big data analytics” and “fake news handling”, you can now know it all in just one course. Click HERE to learn more.

Our students Ma Jianfei (Year 1 student of the BALT programme) and Lin Meishan (Year 3 student of the BACBS programme) won the first-class awards in the first China Young Translators’ Contest (B Category). The competition has received more than 10,000 entries from students of over 1,600 local and overseas schools and other industry participants.

A CBS PhD student, Zeng Weixin, won the first prize in the 7th Paper Competition of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Postgraduate Academic Exchanges in Foreign Languages and Translation Studies 2022 co-organised by, among others, the Hong Kong Translation Society and Sun Yat-sen University.

The Competition attracted over 250 entries covering the areas of foreign literature, linguistics and applied linguistics, translation studies, cross-cultural studies, and national and regional studies.

EVENTS

• (13-15 July 2022)20th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics
• (6 August 2022)STU 10th Anniversary Symposium - The Future of Speech Therapy in Hong Kong
• (18 October 2022)PolyU 85th Anniversary - Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Consciousness, AI, and Ethics (TBC)
• (19 November 2022)PolyU 85th Anniversary Performance cum Putonghua Recitation and Demonstration Workshop