The HK$15 million gift from the late Dr Chung Sze-yuen, GBM, JP (1917–2018) will be used to establish the Sze-Yuen Chung Fund in support of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS).

Professor Way Kuo, President of CityU and HKIAS Senior Fellow, has been bestowed the title and rank of Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Legion d’ Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour).

Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IAS Senior Fellow Professor Stephen Smale and Dr. Indika Rajapakse from the University of Michigan Medical School present a way to employ math as a tool to reveal how genetic material and the relationships of cells ultimately produce the function of a various tissue types.