Annoucements

August 31, 2022 CCHU9013 ‘Cultural Heritages in the Contemporary World’ (Sem 1) The first lecture of CCHU9013 ‘Cultural Heritages in the Contemporary World’ (Sem 1) on September 7 will be delivered online. Please refer to the announcement on Moodle for details of the arrangement. August 26, 2022 CCST9066 ‘Big Data Solutions to Social Problems: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ (Sem 2) The lecture venue of CCST9066 ‘Big Data Solutions to Social Problems: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ (Sem 2) will be changed to Grand Hall. CCHU9014 ‘Spirituality, Religion and Social Change’ (Sem 2) The lecture venue

Thank you for your participation. The Lucky Draw open for HKU undergraduates who took this trivia quiz has come to a successful end! Prize winners are notified by email with prize collection details. If you have any questions, please contact us at commoncore@hku.hk Prize: $100 Starbucks vouchers (x8) Winners: Louise Catherine Torres LAGASCA Chun Wang SY Mianne WONG Pui Ling WONG Kar Yi YEUNG Po Lam Esther LI Po Yan NG Hoi Shan KWONG

WeThrive is a university-wide learning programme designed to equip students with a set of intellectual, intrapersonal, and interpersonal capabilities for nurturing student positive strengths and holistic developments in the University and beyond. Topics will, among others, cover: – What are ingredients to happiness and productivity? – What roles do positive and negative emotions play in a thriving life? – How to explore and utilize character strengths to overcome challenges? – How to recognize thinking traps and cultivate an optimistic mindset? – How to foster engagement and make healthy habits stick? – How to sharpen sense of meaning by setting and

Night Time Design in Hong Kong – Perceptions of Safety Do you feel safe walking alone at night?   The Common Core in collaboration with Arup (https://www.arup.com) is providing the opportunity for students to participate in furthering the sustainable development of the city through exploring how night lighting influences perceptions of safety in different sites around Hong Kong. The project consists of in-class workshops facilitated by Arup’s lightning designers as well as practical fieldwork in the city. Students will learn about night lighting principles, human-centered design approach, and global night management trends, while conducting site measurements and researching user-experience and

Dear Participants,   After careful consideration of the health and safety of our participants and partners under the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 virus in the community—and after consultations with our HKU partners—we have made the difficult decision to postpone Origins of Cinema & Preserving Film Heritage on 10 January 2022 to yet a later date.   This is deeply frustrating since this is already our second attempt, but the new government COVID rules apply to “events and performances,” so we need to align with those guidelines for the health of all.   It looks to be a

U21 RISE (Real Impact on Society and Environment) is an international video competition for student teams to showcase their projects related to sustainability and social innovation. Winning teams will be awarded a prize of USD 2,000 each, together with access to a global network of experts in academia and industry to help scale their projects. If you have a project for RISE, please submit your entry (video + analysis) by 21 January 2022. The University of Hong Kong will nominate up to four (4) undergraduate student projects, two of which can be cross-institutional entries*, to RISE 2021/22. Selected projects for