On 24 November 2025, Professor Alaa El-Din Ahmed Bekhit from the Department of Food Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand, delivered a lecture at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) as part of the Food Science Distinguished Lecture Series. The event was moderated by Dr. Xiaoyu Luo, Assistant Professor in the Food Science and Technology Programme.Prof. Bekhit is a renowned scholar ...

On 18 November 2025, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) marked its 20th anniversary with a special guest dialogue hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research and Application for Data Science (hereinafter “the Key Lab”). The event brought together three internationally renowned scientists—Professor Joachim Frank, recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize ...

Wu Tianxing, a BNBU student of the Class of 2022 from the Food Science and Technology, has stepped into a new chapter from food science to biomedical research. He is currently working at a leading pharmaceutical research company in the US, on the preclinical development and transformation of scientific and technological achievements of the stem cell therapy products.A risky and life-changing decisionBack ...

Twin sisters Xing Mingyu and Xing Mingfang, who have studied together from primary school to UIC, are prepared to embark on postgraduate life at the University College London (UCL). Though identical in appearance, the twins have been distinct in academic choices and successes.Xing Mingfang (left, younger sister) andXing Mingyu (right, elder sister)The twins made a decision to follow their heart...

Academic website of global influence ScholarGPS has released lists of Highly Ranked Scholars, on which UIC Provost Prof Patrick Chau, Head of Department of Life Sciences Prof Xu Baojun, Prof Wang Qing-Guo of Department of Computer Science were selected to the lists of Highly Ranked Scholar.The website also announced the Institutional Rankings in Fields, Disciplines, and Specialties, in which UI...

On April 25, 2024, Prof. David Parker, Global STEM Chair Professor of Department of Chemistry at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), and Adjunct Professor in Food Science and Technology (FS) at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), delivered an engaging lecture titled “Excitement in F Block: Luminescent Lanthanide Probes and Sensors”. The ...

Zhou Yifan is a UIC student of the class of 2021 from the Food Science and Technology Programme. She is now studying for her PhD at the Faculty of Life Sciences of University College London.Zhou developed a research interest in food and disease during her undergraduate study. Guided and encouraged by the Head of UIC's Department of Life Sciences, Prof Xu Baojun, she began to conduct review stud...

Clarivate released the statistics of ESI (Essential Science Indicators) from 1 January 2013 to 30 April 2023 on 13 July 2023, and UIC's Food Science and Technology Programme entered the list of the world's top 1% discipline of Agricultural Sciences (including Food Science).A total of 190 disciplines from 25 universities in Guangdong were included in the global top 1% list this time, and UIC is ...