Three undergraduates from City University will embark on an expedition to Antarctica in mid-December to explore extreme environments. Organised by the university's School of Creative Media, the 21-day trip will see artists, researchers and scientists collect and interpret environmental data using creative visualisation methods. Students will measure changes in the body temperature of penguins using thermal imaging cameras, study how Antarctic plants survive acute exposure to ultraviolet radiation in extreme environments and examine the physical properties of icebergs and the Southern Lights.

Hong Kong Baptist University has entered into an agreement with Hunan University to set up a BaptistU branch of the mainland university's State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics. Both institutions will conduct joint research at the lab in molecular, biomedical and translational sciences with an emphasis on the fields of systems biology and drug discovery in Chinese medicine.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has received a US$500,000 donation from the Tongyi Industrial Group for its Centre for Electronic Commerce at its Business School. The centre plans to conduct a longitudinal study on social networking, establish a databank of best practices of e-commerce and social media, and organise an annual forum on electronic commerce and social media.