The University of Macau (UM) announced yesterday that it will confer honorary doctorates on five “distinguished” individuals, namely Aaron J Ciechanover, Lao Ngai Leong, Anthony Lau Siu Wing, Joseph Sung Jao-yiu, and Wang Anyi, for their “outstanding achievements and significant contributions to social development and education”.
The Ceremony for the Conferment of Honorary and Higher Degrees 2018 will be held on Saturday, December 1, in the University Hall. At the ceremony, Lao will receive the Doctor of Social Sciences honoris causa degree. Lau will receive the Doctor of Business Administration honoris causa degree. Sung will receive the Doctor of Education honoris causa degree. Wang will receive the Doctor of Letters honoris causa degree. Higher degrees will also be presented at the ceremony. The Doctor of Science honoris causa degree for Ciechanover will be conferred separately.
Ciechanover, an Israeli biologist, shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for characterising a protein called Ubiquitin, which is involved in degrading and recycling proteins in cells.
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