香港城市大學（大學）將頒授榮譽博士學位予三位傑出人士：塞爾日‧阿羅什教授 (Professor Serge Haroche)、李宗德博士，GBS，OStJ，JP、溫德林‧沃納教授，以表彰他們對教育及社會的重大貢獻。頒授儀式將在2017年11月舉行。諾貝爾物理學獎得主塞爾日‧阿羅什教授將獲頒榮譽理學博士學位。阿羅什教授是城大高等研究院資深院士及法蘭西公學院榮休教授，他的研究主要在量子光學及量子資訊科學等範疇。

除空中霧霾易，除心中霧霾難。高等研究院資深院士郭位教授認為這是一個講究數據的年代，可惜數據常被口號取代而遭誤用濫用，如何避免抱著小數據或無數據空洞打轉、高調口號幾近野獸饑渴似地治理方式的掌權者才是百姓面臨的最大挑戰呢！

香港城市大學校長及高等研究院資深院士郭位教授日前榮獲「亞洲社會關愛領袖獎」，並加入成為「社會關愛企業計劃」約章的參與領袖。郭教授出席6月5日舉辦的社會關愛諾貝爾獎學人頒獎典禮。活動由社會企業研究所及亞洲知識管理學院主辦。

There are only four APT laboratories in China but not a single one south of the Yangtze River. That means CityU’s APT Lab is pretty special for the study of nanostructures in advanced materials. And it is even more special because CityU’s APT technology produces data faster, cheaper and more efficiently than any other models. Professor C.T. Liu, IAS Senior Fellow and an expert in new materials, shared his insights on advanced materials.

Really, really small, but very, very strong: this sums up the very specific advanced material that scientists led by IAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu at CityU have created.

IAS Senior Fellow Professor Robert O. Ritchie was named the 2017 winner of the Morris Cohen Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) for "seminal contributions to the mechanistic understanding of the fracture and fatigue of a broad range of engineering, bioinspired and biological materials". The award was presented at the TMS-AIME Annual Awards Ceremony during the 146th TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego on 1 March 2017.

IAS Senior Fellow Professor Herbert Gleiter was awarded the Medal of Friendship - Order of Merit by Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government of PRC. This order was awarded (for the first time to a citizen from abroad) for the foundation --- in 2011 --- and the successful start of the "Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience" at Nanjing.

IAS Senior Fellow Professor Way Kuo says information must be properly captured and scientifically analysed to improve our predictions and responses to a whole range of natural and human disasters, free from the interference of ideological biases.

5月4日出版的《自然》紙質版雜誌的封面主題是“POWERFUL ALLOY”（“超強合金”），這是一項由香港城市大學副校長、香港城市大學深圳研究院院長、先進結構材料研究中心主任呂堅率領的科研團隊取得的科研成果。這也是近年來，中國研究單位在物理、材料科學等領域的成果首次被選為這本權威科學期刊的封面故事。

2017年5月4日，國際頂尖的科學學術期刊《自然》發表了一篇題為“雙相納米結構鑄就最強鎂合金”的封面文章，這是中國結構材料界本世紀首次在《自然》雜誌上發表封面文章，引發業界廣泛關注。新材料線上®第一時間對論文通訊作者，法國國家技術科學院院士、香港城市大學副校長呂堅進行了獨家專訪。