The University of Macau (UM) today (31 March) held a\nceremony in Beijing to confer an honorary doctorate upon Prof Chen Ning Yang,\nwinner of the Nobel Prize in physics. Prof Yang said in his acceptance speech\nthat he felt greatly honoured to receive the highest honour from UM, especially\nwhen this honour was received at Tsinghua University where he has spent more\nthan 70 years. <\/p>
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Guests at the ceremony included Xu Ting, director of\nthe Department of Culture and Education of the Liaison Office of the Central\nPeople\u2019s Government in the Macao SAR; Zhao Lingshan, deputy director of Hong\nKong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Education; Hong Wai,\ndirector of the Office of the Macao Special Administrative Region in Beijing;\nQiu Yong, president of Tsinghua University, Beijing; Lam Kam Seng, chair of\nUM\u2019s University Council; Wei Zhao, rector of UM; Lionel M Ni, vice rector\n(academic affairs) of UM; Philip Chen, dean of UM\u2019s Faculty of Science and\nTechnology; and Liu Chuan Sheng, master of UM\u2019s Chao Kuang Piu College. Lam Kam\nSeng presented the honorary degree to Prof Yang in the company of Rector Wei\nZhao. Faculty members and students from UM and Tsinghua University, as well as\nMacao residents studying in Beijing, also attended the ceremony.<\/p>
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\u2018I visited UM last spring, and the new campus left a\ndeep impression on me,\u2019 said Prof Yang at the ceremony. \u2018At that time, all the\nbuildings on the new campus had been completed, and they looked beautiful. Now\nUM has moved to the new campus, which I believe will have an enormous impact on\nthe university\u2019s development over decades to come.\u2019<\/p>
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UM Rector Wei Zhao thanked Tsinghua University for\nits assistance in organising the ceremony, which allowed UM to present the\nhighest honour to Prof Yang at his alma mater. Rector Zhao noted that Tsinghua\nUniversity was the most important member of the National Southwest Associated\nUniversity (NSAU) during Chinese people\u2019s resistance against Japanese invasion.\nWei Zhao said that NSAU was among the first universities in Asia to successfully\ncombine liberal arts education with research, two important tasks of higher\neducation, and UM\u2019s \u20184-in-1\u2019 model of education, which consists of education\ninside the classroom and education outside the classroom, is designed for the\nsame purpose. And Prof Yang, who has received education at the NSAU, and who\nhas now become a member of UM, is the epitome of UM\u2019s \u20184-in-1\u2019 model of\neducation. <\/p>
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Tsinghua University President Qiu Yong said\nin his speech that over the past three decades, UM has grown to be the best\nuniversity in Macao in a number of areas, such as microelectronics. UM and\nTsinghua University signed collaboration agreements in 2000, and Qiu Yong hopes\nthat faculty and students from the two universities will have more\nopportunities for exchange and collaboration in the future. <\/p>
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Philip Chen, dean of UM\u2019s Faculty of\nScience and Technology, praised Prof Yang as a world-renowned physicist, saying\nthat one of Yang\u2019s most important contributions is that he has changed Chinese\npeople\u2019s self-imposed feeling of inferiority. <\/p>\n\n
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Source: Communications Office<\/p>
Media Contact Information:<\/p>
Communications Office, University of Macau<\/p>
Albee Lei Tel\uff1a(853) 88228004<\/p>
Kristy Fok Tel\uff1a(853) 88228006<\/p>
Email\uff1aprs.media@um.edu.mo<\/p>
UM Website\uff1awww.umac.mo <\/p>
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