The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

More than 50 golf teams comprising prominent business and community leaders, alumni and friends of PolyU have rendered support to "PolyU 75th Anniversary UBS Invitational Golf Tournament" held on 6 January at Mission Hills Golf Club in Dongguan.

A study by Professor Pauline Cho from the School of Optometry at PolyU and her research team concluded that orthokeratology not only can correct refractive error, but also effective in slowing the progression of myopia.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) today (5 January) conferred the honorary title of University Fellowship upon six distinguished personalities to pay tribute to their significant contributions to the University and the community.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has partnered with Beijing Normal University's GaoZhong Shu-Li-Hua Magazine to launch its Secondary School Science and Mathematics Competition (SSSMC) for mainland students across the country.

More than 200 delegates from around the world are gathering in Hong Kong from now to 2 January 2012 to attend the 8th International Shibori Symposium (8ISS).

A young scientist from PolyU's Food Safety and Technology Research Centre has successfully prepared highly stable selenium nanoparticles by using the polysaccharide-protein complex extracted from the African Tiger Milk mushroom.

PolyU will be celebrating its 75th anniversary next year with the theme "Innovation and Application for the Future".The kick-off ceremony held on 17 November was well attended by around 500 guests from all sectors of the PolyU community.

A pioneering study by researchers of PolyU and the Beihang University in Beijing has unravelled the mystery of why woodpeckers would not hurt themselves in the act of pecking on the trees.

A Russian spacecraft carrying the state-of-the-art space tool made by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is set to embark on a one-year space journey to the Red Planet at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 8 November 2011 Moscow time.

Researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University have achieved further breakthrough in studying graphene on the nano-scale.