A small community, with a distinctly international character, in a big city — that’s Morningside, one of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s nine colleges. This series is an exploration of the people that make Morningside so unique. Experience a taste of the microcosm of Hong Kong that is Morningside through stories from locals, internationals, students, faculty, and more. Hosted by Morningside Junior Fellow Alayna Lee.
Learning at a university takes place not only in the classroom, but through relationships with the faculty that work there. Morningside is lucky to have many fellows who serve as dependable mentors for our students. Hear from Professor Nelson Chen and Professor Lowell Ling on how they view mentorship and atypical strategies in education.
3 Sept 2024
Side 7: Defining the Self
Hong Kong is a city at the centre of many crossroads. For some students, labels like “Chinese” or “Hong Kong” don’t feel fully accurate to their experiences. Join us as we discuss what it means to be from a place and how that impacts subsequent self reflections.
4 Mar 2024
Side 6: Service Learning Abroad
As part of Morningside’s general education program, all students are required to participate in some type of service project. Some students choose to join the college’s international service learning trips over the summer. This year, the college led trips to Rabat, Morocco, Athens, Greece, and York, England. Three students from each trip share their experiences abroad and what they learned about local strategies for service.
30 Jan 2024
Side 5: The Changing Power of Language and Storytelling
For Morningside’s 2023-2024 One Book Programme, the author of Innards – a collection of short stories set in Soweto, South Africa – Magogodi oaMphela Makhene visited Hong Kong. During her trip, she discussed her book with Junior Fellow Alayna Lee and her journey as a writer and a storyteller. Her work on Innards and her social enterprise “Love As a Kind of Cure” demonstrates her belief in how communication, creativity, and community can be a force for change.
10 Aug 2023
Side 4: Turning Research Into Comics
Every year, Morningside chooses a book for its "One Book" program. The 2022-2023 One Book choice was Lissa, a graphic novel by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye about medical intervention and the 2011 Egyptian revolution. In this episode, Hamdy and Nye talk with Junior Fellow Kait Roukey about their research in kidney transplants in Egypt and breast cancer in the U.S. and how they were inspired to create a graphic novel based on what they found. Their success demonstrates that academic research doesn't always have to turn into a paper.
11 May 2023
Side 3: University Friendships, Then and Now
The friends we make in university are a vital part of the Morningside experience. Listen to two groups of friends, one made up of Morningside alumni and the other of current students, talk about their relationships with each other and the impact it has had on their university life.
16 Mar 2023
Side 2: Home Away From Home
Many members of the Morningside community are international students. Listen to some of their stories, as they share why they decided to study abroad and how they've maintained a community miles away from home.
7 Mar 2023
Side 1: The Who, What, and Why of Morningside
Morningside is one of the nine colleges at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Listen to current and former Morningside faculty explain how Morningside was conceived and why having a small community as a university student is important.
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