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Professor Harindra J S Fernando, currently a Professor and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Program at Arizona State University in the U.S., will speak on the challenges in tackling urban environmental problems in the lecture entitled "Challenges in Tackling Urban Environmental Problems: An Example of a Rapidly Growing City". The lecture will be given at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching Building, The University of Hong Kong.
In his lecture, Professor Fernando will give an example of interfusing academic research with decision and policy making, to illustrate how the two parties converge on a common platform to address an important air quality issue based on scientific information, socio-economic analysis and political considerations.
Professor Fernando was a recipient of the US Presidential Young Investigator Award 1986, ASU Alumni Distinguished Research Award 1997 and the Rieger Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Sciences 2001. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the American Physical Society. He also serves on several scientific journals editorial boards.
Members of the press and interested parties are welcome to attend. For enquiries, please contact HKU's Faculty of Engineering at 2859-2803.
Environmental Sciences Expert to Deliver a William Mong Distinguished Lecture at HKU
10 Dec 2004
Urban environmental problems come to the fore in the coming William Mong Distinguished Lectures 2004.
Professor Harindra J S Fernando, currently a Professor and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Program at Arizona State University in the U.S., will speak on the challenges in tackling urban environmental problems in the lecture entitled "Challenges in Tackling Urban Environmental Problems: An Example of a Rapidly Growing City". The lecture will be given at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching Building, The University of Hong Kong.
In his lecture, Professor Fernando will give an example of interfusing academic research with decision and policy making, to illustrate how the two parties converge on a common platform to address an important air quality issue based on scientific information, socio-economic analysis and political considerations.
Professor Fernando was a recipient of the US Presidential Young Investigator Award 1986, ASU Alumni Distinguished Research Award 1997 and the Rieger Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Sciences 2001. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the American Physical Society. He also serves on several scientific journals editorial boards.
Members of the press and interested parties are welcome to attend. For enquiries, please contact HKU's Faculty of Engineering at 2859-2803.
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