Highlight
Hong Kong’s first breast milk
nutrient database
PolyU has analyzed nutrient composition of breast milk and diet habit of local lactating women and established Hong Kong’s first breast milk nutrient database.
 
Achievements
PolyU is in top 100 in four academic disciplines according to this year’s URAP Field Based Ranking.
Viewpoint
Fostering eco-friendly mushroom farming in Shifang
Dr Gilbert Chan at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology shared how PolyU students assisted Shifang farmers to improve production method, thus achieving safe and eco-friendly mushroom-farming.
Research
A low-cost self-cleaning nano-coating can keep curtain walls clean and durable through photocatalysis.
Connections
Earlier on, two student teams travelled to Korea for fashion merchandizing and earned retail experience at "Fashion Seoul 2015" competition.
Snapshots
This summer, the University organized a series of university-life-experiencing programmes for some 800 secondary school students.