RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Senior Scholar Programme (Senior Programme)

No.	Name/ Institution	Approved Length of Fellowship	Affiliated Institution	Research Title	Total Award
1	Prof Clara Wing-chung HO Professor, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University	10 months starting from August 2012	Northeastern University	Herstory: Historical Works by Women in Imperial China	HK$489,800
2	Dr Adolf Koi-yu NG Assistant Professor, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	4 months starting from September 2012	Stanford University	The Roles of Institutional Systems in Affecting Port's Adaption and Resilience to the Impacts posed by Climate Change	HK$168,080

RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Dissertation Research Programme (Junior Programme)

No.	Name/ Institution	Approved Length of Fellowship	Affiliated Institution	Research Title	Total Award
1	Mr Wei DONG PhD candidate in Finance The University of Hong Kong	6 months starting from September 2012	Harvard Business School	Portfolio Management and International Evidence on Market Micro-structure	HK$74,880
2	Mr Chengdi LAI PhD candidate in Engineering The University of Hong Kong	10 months starting from September 2012	California Institute of Technology	Design effective congestion control mechanisms for the wired-cum-wireless Internet, so that the (always) limited network capacity can be fully utilized for data transmission with smooth delivery delay	HK$124,800
3	Mr Mingwei PAN PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics Hong Kong Polytechnic University	8 months starting from September, 2012	University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign	Create and validate a rating scale for group discussion in English formative assessment in the Chinese EFL context	HK$99,840
4	Mr Siyuan WANG PhD candidate in Chemistry The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	10 months starting from July 2012	University of Colorando, Boulder	Investigate the secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation using numerical models, focusing on the impact of water-soluable carbonyls (e.g. glyoxal) via aqueous-particle processes	HK$124,800
5	Ms Xi YU PhD candidate in Neuroscience The University of Hong Kong	6 months starting from August 2012	University of California, Irvine and Johns Hopkins University	The neural substrates underlying the word class processing in Chinese	HK$74,880
6	Ms Caicai ZHANG PhD candidate in Linguistics The Chinese University of Hong Kong	6 months starting from July 2012	Yale University	Neural correlate of talker normalization in lexical tone perception: An event-related potential (ERP) study	HK$74,880