Never Done: Endurance. Purpose. Faith.

Hope shapes what we think of the future and our purpose in life.  Yet in Hong Kong, despite its insatiable energy, do the high walls of the city block out the light of hope?   Hope seems to be a problem – a broken promise that is never satisfied.  Is hope like a fairy tale, a…

Faith and Global Engagement is excited to be a conference partner… On March 18-20, 2021 (Eastern Time), Wake Forest Program for Leadership and Character will host a free virtual conference on Character and the Professions. This conference explores how virtuous character sustains ethical leadership across six professional contexts: business, divinity, engineering and technology, law, medicine, and public…

The Character of Leadership is a collaboration between HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU Faith and Global Engagement, The Oxford Global Leadership Initiative, and The Oxford Character Project, sponsored by Templeton World Charity Foundation.

All the best to our Lead for Life 2022 cohort starting on their Year 2 journey. The theme for Year 2 is Service & Flourishing and we wish our students all the best as they are encouraged to take this year to focus on direct community service activities both individually and with their mentor group. 

Across much of the globe — from the United Kingdom to the United States, from Peru to the Philippines — marriage is in retreat and cohabitation is on the advance. The implications of this shift for adults are much debated, but what are the effects on children? In this lecture, University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox will show the repercussions that the rise in…

In what MIT Tech Review has called the “biggest biotech discovery of the century,” CRISPR/Cas9 and related techniques promise easy-to-do, inexpensive, and highly precise genetic deletions, insertions, and functional manipulations to basic genetic processes across the full spectrum of living beings. This holds great promise for advances in agriculture, animal studies, and fundamental biomedical research,…