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IN THE NEWS
New Research Head Prepared for the Future
D r Otto.Lin is used to Hong Kong in transition. He
arrivedduring the late 1940s as newcomers flooded in. Now, hehas
returned as Vice-President for Research and Development at HKUST,
hoping to help Hong Kong compete in an evenfaster-changing
world.After his early years in Hong Kong, Dr Lin took his first
degreein Taiwan, then ea rned a PhD in chemistry from Columbia
University. He worked in product and process R&D for the Du
Pont Companyover 17 years, his work on polymer rheology
contributing tothe commercialization of Du Pont productl
