Every year, Croucher supports around a dozen young scholars for their PhD studies and research, and here we delve into what it feels like to start out on this new adventure.
Dr Kimmy Wu was awarded a Croucher Fellowship in 2015 at the University of California, Berkeley
Dr Adrian Po was the winner of a Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award in 2023
The day begins for Yasine Malki, in his second year as a PhD student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a stroll along the harbour front by the Science Park
Croucher Science Communication Studentships are designed for people with a passion to communicate the wonder and importance of science to a wider audience
An interview with Croucher scholar Dr Chun Kit Kwok of City University of Hong Kong
For people with a passion to communicate the wonder and importance of science to a wider audience
Dr Richard Tse is a Todd-Croucher Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Croucher News spoke to him recently to find out what it was like to be conducting research in Cambridge and being part of a college going back 500 years
Professor Ng is the first clinician-scientist in Hong Kong to win this award. She and her colleagues have also just published a study with profound implications for the role of gut microbiota modulation in improving symptoms in people with long COVID
How molecularly thin 2D hybrid perovskites are making headlines in Hong Kong and around the world.
Dr Jo Gyu-Boong is interested in just how close an atom can get to absolute zero.
Professor Anderson Shum is harnessing the physical properties of water droplets.
Participating in Croucher Science Week has helped Dr Chan to explain complex science including her research in engineering.
Nicola Wong is using bioinformatics to explore the comparative and evolutionary genomics of different organisms.
Dr Stephanie Ma Kwai Yee on explaining complex science simply.
Professor Ng Siew Chien uses gut microbiome for medical diagnostics and therapeutics.
The field of DNA nanotechnology began with DNA origami less than two decades ago, when scientists discovered that they could fold DNA into different shapes, allowing them to build tiny molecular structures. Today, a Croucher scholar is advancing the field to simulate the qualitative properties of nano scale DNA structures to make them more effective tools for science and medicine.
Speeding up the performance of computers used in machine learning is important for many data-driven applications including advanced drone navigation, self-driving cars and credit card fraud detection.
Over some 20 years as an inspirational science teacher and, later, as panel head of the Science Research Department at Maryknoll Fathers’ School in Hong Kong, To Yuen-man has developed an impressive track record as an effective science educator.
During the second year of Smriti Safaya's Master of Philosophy degree in Earth Science at the University of Hong Kong, while researching earthquakes in central Tibet, she had, if not a eureka moment, certainly one that changed the direction of her life.
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