{"id":48698,"date":"2013-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/press\/cuhk-awards-honorary-degrees-to-four-distinguished-peopledoctoral-degrees-will-also-be-conferred\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T00:00:00","slug":"cuhk-awards-honorary-degrees-to-four-distinguished-peopledoctoral-degrees-will-also-be-conferred","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/press\/cuhk-awards-honorary-degrees-to-four-distinguished-peopledoctoral-degrees-will-also-be-conferred\/","title":{"rendered":"CUHK Awards Honorary Degrees to Four Distinguished PeopleDoctoral Degrees will also be Conferred"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-48698","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20131204","keep":false,"details":"<p>The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will confer honorary degrees on the following four distinguished people at its 75<sup>th<\/sup> Congregation to be held on Friday, 6 December, in recognition of their outstanding contributions in their respective areas of achievement to cultural, educational, scientific research and social advancement:&nbsp;<\/p><p><u>Doctor of Laws, <em>honoris causa<br \/><\/em><\/u><strong>Prof. Andrew D. HAMILTON &ndash; <\/strong>renowned synthetic organic chemist, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Organic Chemistry of the University of Oxford&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p><u>Doctor of <\/u><u>Science, <\/u><em><u>honoris causa<br \/><\/u><\/em><strong>Prof. YANG Fujia &ndash; <\/strong>distinguished nuclear physicist, President of The University of Nottingham Ningbo China&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p><u>Doctor of Social Science, <em>honoris causa<br \/><\/em><\/u><strong>Dr. Ronnie CHAN Chichung<\/strong><strong> &ndash; <\/strong>prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist, Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and Hang Lung Properties Limited<br \/><strong>Dr. Katie YANG LEUNG Yin-fong (<em>alias<\/em> FONG Yim-fun) &ndash;<\/strong> famous Cantonese opera performer and philanthropist&nbsp;<\/p><p>Besides the four honorary degrees, a total of 375 doctoral degrees will be conferred at the Congregation. &nbsp;These include four Doctor of Medicine, 349 Doctor of Philosophy, 13 Doctor of Education, one Doctor of Music and eight Doctor of Nursing.<\/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":"1706","photos_original":null,"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/48698","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\/48698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}