Bright students from Hong Kong Received the High Fashion Charitable Foundation Exchange Scholarships
On 3 January 2018, HKUST Vice President (Institutional Advancement) Dr Sabrina Lin received a HK$ 1 million donation on behalf of the University from Mr Will Lam, Executive Director of High Fashion Group, which is a listed company and a world leading silk manufacturer and distributer. Will wants to establish a scholarship scheme that encourages students to strive for the best and widen their horizon with overseas learning opportunities. The High Fashion Charitable Foundation was set up by his father, Mr Lam Fu-wah and this is their first donation to HKUST.
In attendance on that day were Dr Tony Lam, Associate Dean of Students of HKUST, Mr Roman Lo, Chief Information Officer of High Fashion as well as two scholarship recipients, Mr CHENG, Ka Leong and Mr LEE, Mang Hei Gordon. Both young men are year 3 students and set for departure to Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich this month. They will have the chance to study some post-graduate programs with credits recognizable for their further studies.
The scholarship scheme was established since 2017 (please click here for more details on the scheme) aiming to support ten outstanding undergraduate local and non-local students every year across all disciplines to go on exchange for at least a full semester in non-Asian countries. This year the University has arranged the scholarship recipients to study at leading universities, with three in Switzerland and seven in the United States (namely the University of Southern California; GeorgiaTech; Pennsylvania, Cornell & Columbia Universities). We are grateful for the great support and the confidence of the Foundation in HKUST to raise talents for Hong Kong and the motherland.
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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
