COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 17, 2008 – Yue Kuo, Dow Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been appointed a formal member of the Engineering Panel of the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong.
Kuo, who was officially named a member by RGC Chairman Roland Chin, will hold membership through 2010 and serve on the engineering panel of the council, which is Hong Kong’s equivalent to the National Science Foundation.
The RGC is established under the aegis of the University Grants Committee (UGC). It is responsible, through the UGC, for advising the Government of the Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China on the needs of Hong Kong’s higher education institutions in the field of academic research and for the distribution of funding for academic research projects undertaken by academic staff of UGC-funded institutions.
