UM will\nconfer honorary doctorates on four distinguished individuals, namely\nAcademician He Jingtang, Professor Henry T. Yang, Doctor Ada Yonath, and Professor\nBinglin Zhong, in recognition of their outstanding achievements and significant\ncontributions to society and education.<\/p>
The Ceremony\nfor the Conferment of Honorary and Higher Degrees 2017 will be held on 11\nNovember (Saturday) at 4:00pm in the University Hall. At the\nceremony, Academician He Jingtang and Professor Henry T.\nYang will receive the Doctor of Science honoris\ncausa<\/i> degree. Professor Binglin Zhong will receive the Doctor of Education honoris causa<\/i> degree. Higher degrees\nwill also be presented at the ceremony. The Doctor of Science honoris causa<\/i> degree for Doctor Ada\nYonath will be conferred separately.<\/p>
As one of\nthose pivotal figures who undertake to promote traditional Chinese\narchitecture, Academician He has a passion for the exquisite South China\nLingnan architectural features which he has been working hard to preserve and\nsustain since the 60s of the last century. He secured his guru status in\narchitecture when, on the back of traditional Lingnan aesthetics, he creatively\nformulated his own theoretical system. Signified by what is known as the \u2018two\nconcepts\u2019 and \u2018three characters\u2019, the theory gave a shot in the arm for the\nLingnan school of architecture.<\/p>
Professor\nYang is a world-renowned expert in structural engineering and the current\nchancellor of the University of California Santa Barbara. Apart from his\nbrilliant academic achievements, Professor Yang is undoubtedly one of the great\neducationists in higher education of the United States. He is regarded as being\nin the same league as Charles Eliot, the president of Harvard University from\n1869 to 1909 who famously turned it into a top university in the world as we\nknow it today.<\/p>
Doctor Yonath\nshared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and\nThomas A Steitz for their studies on the structure and function of ribosomes,\nwhich are the tiny particles made up of RNA and proteins. These ribosomes\nspecialise in protein synthesis and are found free from or bound to the\nendoplasmic within cells.<\/p>
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Zhong is a\nrenowned educator with significant contributions to the development of higher\neducation and scientific research. He is currently the president of the Chinese\nSociety of Education, an honorary vice president at Cardiff University, and a\nprofessor at Beijing Normal University. Professor Zhong has also served as the\ndirector-general of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of\nEducation of China.<\/p>
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