19 May 2022
Probiotics proved to enhance fish growth performance
A research team of the School of Science and Technology has found that using a common probiotic bacterium, Lactobacillus Rhamnosus strain GG (LGG), as the feed supplement for cultivation of mud carp fingerling can improve the growth performance of the fish and enhance its resistance against the infection of pathogenic bacterial Aeromonas hydrophila....
12 Apr 2022
New anti-virus technology developed
Partnering with a start-up company, HKMU discovers that strong positively polar polymeric filter can effectively arrest and inactivate viruses and bacteria including the SAR-Cov-2 virus in a short period of time. This technology can be applied to medical and other daily use products to protect public health....
30 Mar 2022
Integrating into Hong Kong - Starting with South Asian Food and Music
As a multi-cultural society, Hong Kong has attracted many ethnic minorities to settle in. In a recent study, Dr Terence Shum Chun-tat, Assistant Professor of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, found that food and music are key components of South Asian culture that help ethnic minorities to express, retain and construct their own culture in the new social environment....
10 Nov 2021
Hong Kong Metropolitan University, the authority of Guangdong Neilingding Futian National Nature Reserve and Shenzhen University signed a framework agreement earlier to jointly establish the "Greater Bay Area Mangrove Wetland Research and Development Centre" to promote the cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. ...
21 Sep 2021
HKMU achieves pleasing results in the RGC funding schemes
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) achieves remarkable results in the latest round of the Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector of...
21 Sep 2021
The latest top-funded RGC projects
In the latest round of the Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector of the Research Grants Council, HKMU has achieved pleasing results in the Scheme, and has been granted research funding of over HK$16.1 million for eighteen projects....
19 Jul 2021
World's top scientist leads OUHK research team - Interview with Prof. Nora Tam
Prof. Nora Tam Fung-yee has been engaged in environmental science research for 40 years. She is the first scholar in the world to discover the ability and mechanism of mangroves in purifying sewage and degrading persistent organic toxic pollutants. Joining the OUHK last year as Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Conservation, Prof. Tam is now leading the research team of the Centre for Research in Environmental Science to further enhance the University’s scientific research capabilities....
3 Jun 2021
OUHK and HKLSS join hands to survey housing needs of the grassroots
The Public and Social Policy Research Centre under the School of Arts and Social Sciences of The Open University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Lutheran Social Service have jointly conducted a research to gauge the views of the residents of sub-divided units on transitional housing. Based on the findings, suggestions on the construction and re-construction of transitional housing in the future are made....
3 Jun 2021
To offer a short-term solution to housing problem, the government announced the transitional housing projects in 2018. Non-government organisations (NGO) have been coordinated to increase...
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