Graduating student Ieong Un Si
The University of Macau (UM) today (26 May) awarded academic prizes to 63 outstanding graduates at the Congregation 2018. In this academic year, the university gave out a total of MOP 4 million in over 60 kinds of academic prizes and scholarships to more than 380 students.
16 kinds of academic prizes were awarded to 63 graduates at the ceremony: Macau Foundation Academic Prize, Henry Fok Foundation Academic Prize, Bank of China Academic Prize, Luso International Bank Academic Prize, ICBC Macau Academic Prize, Wu's Group Academic Prize, Choi Kai Yau Academic Prize, Lou Tou Vo Mathematics Academic Prize, Jorge Alvares Foundation Academic Prize, BNU Academic Prize, CEM Academic Prize, Synopsys Academic Prize, EasyTone Academic Prize, Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory (LECM) Academic Prize, ERS Academic Prize, and MIL Law Office Academic Prize.
Ieong Un Si from the Department of Government and Public Administration, who was admitted to UM on the recommendation of her secondary school principal, received the Macau Foundation Academic Prize. ‘UM provides a lot of academic resources and an exchange platform for me and other students. In the Honours College (HC), I was able to meet many outstanding and like-minded students from various faculties,’ says Ieong. ‘Through the HC, I had the opportunity to participate in an exchange trip to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States for a semester.’ Ieong discloses that she will study for an MSSc Programme in Public Policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong starting this September and she hopes to give back to society with what she learns.
UM awards scholarships and academic prizes on various occasions, including the convocation, the scholarship presentation ceremony, and the ceremony for the conferment of honorary degrees and higher degrees.
