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' <justify><font size="1pt" face="Baskerville"><font color=white>Teaching Excellence Award</font> <font size="2pt" face="Baskerville"><font size=1 color=#657383> <i>(15/05/2009)</i>', 
' <justify><font size="1pt"><font color=#C9C299> Professor L.S. Chan has been awarded for University Distinguished Teaching Award as recognizes his outstanding contributions to the leadership and scholarship of teaching and learning at both Faculty and University levels.</font></justify>');

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' <justify><font size="1pt" face="Baskerville"><font color=white>Seven new faculty members join HKU Earth Sciences</font> <font size="2pt" face="Baskerville"><font size=1 color=#657383> <i>(01/09/2008)</i>', 
' <justify><font size="1pt"><font color=#C9C299> The Earth Science department at HKU has expanded its areas of expertise to include Oceanography (Goodkin), Planetary science (Lee), Hydrothermal geochemistry (Lemke), Geomicrobiology (Li), Paleo-climatology (Liu), Quarternary geology (Switzer) and Coastal evolution (Zong).</font></justify>');


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' <justify><font size="1pt" face="Baskerville"><font color=white>Water (and Life) on Mars?</font> <font size="2pt" face="Baskerville"><font size=1 color=#657383> <i>(06/03/2008)</i>', 
' <justify><font size="1pt"><font color=#C9C299>HKU Planetary Scienctist Man Hoi Lee featured in a live CRI Webcast, discussing the potential of finding water and life on our next-door planetary neighbour Mars .</font></justify>');


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' <justify><font size="1pt" face="Baskerville"><font color=white>New Environmental Science program</font> <font size="2pt" face="Baskerville"><font size=1 color=#657383> <i>(06/03/2008)</i>', 
' <justify><font size="1pt"><font color=#C9C299>HKU launches a new interdisciplinary graduate program in Environmental Science, integrating 15 academic staff from 5 HKU department, the first of its kind in Hong Kong.</font></justify>');


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' <justify><font size="1pt" face="Baskerville"><font color=white>HKU Earth Scientists at TV Show, &#34;The Last Glacier&#34;</font> <font size="2pt" face="Baskerville"><font size=1 color=#657383> <i>(11/03/2008)</i>', 
' <justify><font size="1pt"><font color=#C9C299>Two HKU earth scientists, Professor L S Chan and Miss Angel Chan, were invited to join TVB&#39;s expedition to Norway, Iceland and Greenland, and participate in the making of its highlighted programme, &#39;The Last Glacier&#39;.</font></justify>');

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' <justify><font size="1pt" face="Baskerville"><font color=white>The Stephen Hui Geological Museum is now open to the public!</font> <font size="2pt" face="Baskerville"><font size=1 color=#657383> <i>(23/01/2009)</i>', 
' <justify><font size="1pt"><font color=#C9C299>The Stephen Hui Geological Museum is open to public during the Weekend on Sat, May 16 and Sun, May 17 to celebrate the International Museum Day Hong Kong, 2009. Guided tours are offered, please contact us for registration.</font></justify>');

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' <justify><font size="1pt" face="Baskerville"><font color=white>Mineral of the month: Covellite </font> <font size="2pt" face="Baskerville"><font size=1 color=#657383> <i>(01/05/2009)</i>', 
' <justify><font size="1pt"><font color=#C9C299> Covellite is a copper sulfide mineral with the formula CuS. This mineral was the first discovered natural superconductor.</font></justify>');