Issue: January 19, 2009 (Archive)

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Show your metal
At first glance, you'd hardly expect the slender and chic Alinoz Yee Wai-ping to be associated with the tough industrial metalwork process. But the assistant art director of the Hong Kong Metal and Earth Sculpture Studio knows all there is to know about metal casting, glass crafting and enameling. Yee is a sculpture artist who teaches for a living.

Report card mixed as teaching activism hits high
Like many Georgetown University seniors, Olubukola Bamigboye, right, has no shortage of postgraduate options. She has a line on an internship with a fashion magazine, is considering law school or might train for a spot on the 2012 US Olympic track-and-field team.

Room at the top
Dory Streett didn't beat around the bush in telling students at a Los Angeles high school recently about Colby College, a liberal arts school in Maine. It's 4,800 kilometers away, there's snow for long stretches and its community of Waterville has only 16,000 residents.

Crash and burn
On the same night earlier this month that the US Senate was killing legislation to bail out automakers, seniors in vehicle design at Pasadenas Art Center College of Design were putting on what should have been the show of their young lives.

Financial crisis brings new life to MBA school
Entrepreneurship, business ethics and risk management are likely to be more prominent in master of business administration programs given the credit crunch, predicts Nigel Banister of Manchester Business School Worldwide.

Master of the game
Following the advent of technology, putting a jinx on monsters and shooting zombies have replaced board games as the most popular entertainment. But the age-old form of amusement still has its kicks because outwitting your opponents over a game board gives the same rush of adrenaline.

Nifty brain work
On her back in a dark tube, Blair Smith held still as a scanner combed her brain with magnetic waves. Words flashed by her eyes: the 11-year-old had been told to press the button in her right hand if the word was real, the button in her left if it was nonsense. The answer itself was less important than the map the scanner would make of which areas of Blair's brain lighted up when she struggled with a word.

Risky business
While major financial institutions in the world are laying off staff, local universities are launching new business programs to pump new blood into the industry. The Chinese University of Hong Kong has just announced a double major program in quantitative finance and risk management science to produce more sophisticated financial practitioners.

Virtual hospitality
Students of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University no longer have to wait for their teaching hotel to be completed before they get training. They can practice their skills at its online virtual hotel.

Won worry
The global credit crunch has caused banks to crumble, stock markets to plunge and South Korean parents to wonder if they can still afford to be the world's largest exporter of foreign students to US schools.

They have the write stuff
Hong Kong Baptist University has invited nine prestigious writers for this year's International Writers Workshop. The group is made up of award-winning authors who also excel in other fields, including as translators, playwrights, scriptwriters and radio program hosts.

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