{"id":48229,"date":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/press\/the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-holds-its-70th-congregation-for-the-conferment-of-degrees\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","slug":"the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-holds-its-70th-congregation-for-the-conferment-of-degrees","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/press\/the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-holds-its-70th-congregation-for-the-conferment-of-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese University of Hong Kong Holds its 70th Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-48229","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20111215","keep":false,"details":"<p>The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) held its 70th Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees today (15 December).&nbsp; Dr. the Honourable Donald Tsang, GBM, Chancellor of the University presided at the Congregation.<\/p><p>Four distinguished persons were conferred honorary doctorates in recognition of their outstanding contributions in their respective areas of achievement to academic, cultural and scientificprogress, socio-economic advancement, the promotion of community welfare, and the development of the University.&nbsp; They are: Dr. Ju Ming, Dr. Ho Tzu-leung, Mr. Lee Woo-sing, and Prof. Richard Yu Yue-hong.<\/p><p>Dr. Ju Ming was conferred the degree of Doctor of Literature, <em>honoris causa<\/em>. &nbsp;Dr. Ho Tzu-leung, Mr. Lee Woo-sing and Prof. Richard Yu Yue-hong were awardedthe degree of Doctor of Social Science, <em>honoris causa<\/em>.<\/p><p>Besides the four honorary doctorate degrees, a total of 331 doctoral degrees were conferred at the congregation. &nbsp;These included one Doctor of Science, five Doctor of Medicine, 314 Doctor of Philosophy, ten Doctor of Education, and one Doctor of Music.<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":null,"video_source":null,"video_file":null,"add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":"1214","photos_original":[{"photo":"4ee99fde608f7.jpg","caption":""},{"photo":"4ee99fdee3ce8.jpg","caption":""},{"photo":"4ee99fdf578d7.jpg","caption":""},{"photo":"4ee99fdfeefb8.jpg","caption":"CUHK 70th Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees"},{"photo":"4ee99fe0b7c3d.jpg","caption":""},{"photo":"4ee99fe18b165.jpg","caption":"Dr. Ho Tzu-leung"},{"photo":"4ee99fe23f93a.jpg","caption":""},{"photo":"4ee99fe2ba6e6.jpg","caption":"Dr. Ju Ming"},{"photo":"4ee99fe333223.jpg","caption":""},{"photo":"4ee99fe3a1c5f.jpg","caption":"Mr. Lee Woo-sing"},{"photo":"4ee9a34d9c345.jpg","caption":""},{"photo":"4ee9a34eabd03.jpg","caption":"Prof. Richard Yu Yue-hong"},{"photo":"4ee9a34f5f569.jpg","caption":"Dr. and Mrs. Ju Ming take a photo in front of Dr. Ju\u2019s sculpture \u2018Gate of Wisdom\u2019 together with Prof. Joseph Sung"}],"attachments_original":[{"link":"4ee9a4f51f91e.pdf","text":"Speech of Dr. Ju Ming, Doctor of Literature, honoris causa (Chinese version)"},{"link":"4ee9a4f529922.pdf","text":"Speech of Dr. Ju Ming, Doctor of Literature, honoris causa"},{"link":"4ee9a4f52a878.pdf","text":"Citations of the four honorary graduates (Chinese version)"},{"link":"4ee9a4f52b59e.pdf","text":"Citations of the four honorary graduates"}]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/48229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/48229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}