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Ms Rosanna Wong was appointed Chairman of the Committee in November last year, following the resignation of Baroness Dunn.
Other members of the 1995 Committee included the Mr Denis Chang Khen-lee, Professor Edward Chen, Mr Allen Lee Peng-fei, Ms Anna Wu Hung-yuk, Dr Wilfred Chan Siu-yuen, and two ex-officio members, the Attorney General and the Commissioner for Administrative Complaints.
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Research grants for tertiary institutions for 1996-97
The Research Grants Council (RGC) today (Wednesday) announced its decisions on the allocation of $331 million in research grants in 1996-97 to the seven institutions funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC).
The seven UGC-funded institutions are: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Hong Kong.
RGC considered 1,040 applications for a total of $931 million for academic research projects in a wide range of subject disciplines.
Each application was initially screened by one or more of four subject panels Physical Sciences; Engineering; Biology and Medicine; and Humanities, Social Sciences and Business Studies with the help of reports from external specialist assessors/referees.
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The panels' recommendations were then considered by the full RGC meeting on June 19.
This year RGC again decided to allocate $66 million (20 per cent of the funds available) to the institutions directly to support projects costing less than $200,000.
Of the balance of $265 million, some $8 million was reserved for central allocation and $257 million was allocated for projects in response to competitive bids from the institutions.