Shi Wei, the president of HKUST, will leave office early this October. Liao Changcheng, chairman of the HKUST Board of Trustees, today (18th) sent an email to the president of teachers and students, announcing the recommendation of former vice president Professor Ye Yuru as the only candidate. She will be on Friday (20th). (Sunday) at 12 noon for an online meeting with HKUST faculty, students and alumni.
After the school board reviewed the appointment, Yip Yuru was expected to be the first female president of the eight aided institutions after the name of the University of Education was rectified, and the third female president of the higher education sector in Hong Kong after the Hui Mei Tak of the School of Education and Zhong Qirong of Shue Yan University.
In 2017, he was nominated by Liu Zunyi and Li Guozhang for the National People's Congress
Ye Yuru is currently a professor of life sciences at HKUST Morningside and director of the Hong Kong Neurodegenerative Disease Center. She stepped down as vice president last month.
Born and raised in Hong Kong at the age of 67, she holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Harvard University in the United States. She joined HKUST as an assistant professor in 1993, and was later promoted to the dean of the Department of Biochemistry, the associate dean and dean of the Faculty of Science, and is a "senior" scholar. .
She has a high academic status and was elected as the world's outstanding female scientist by L'Oreal UNESCO. She became the first Chinese to receive an award in the field of life sciences. She is famous for her research on "elixirs".
Ye Yuru signed up for the Hong Kong National People's Congress election in 2017, holding 174 nomination votes. She revealed at the time that she had won nomination votes from pan-democratic parliamentarians. Other nominees included a number of current and former university presidents, such as the former president of Chinese University. Liu Zunyi, Li Guozhang, Huang Yushan, the then President of the Open University, and Tang Weizhang, the President of the Polytechnic University, she was successfully elected.
Online meeting with teachers, students and alumni at noon on Friday
Liao Changcheng, chairman of the HKUST Council, said in an email that the President's Selection Committee nominated Professor Ye Yuru to the Council and was the only candidate.
The school arranged for her to meet with students, staff and alumni online at noon this Friday, and the deadline for registration was 10 a.m. on Friday.
The school board will review the appointment in the afternoon on the same day. If approved, she will meet with the media later.
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