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TAMKANG FACULTY DISCOVERED NEW BACTERIUM FOR FUTURE ANTICANCER USE

Dr. San-lang Wang, Director of Life Science Development Center in College of Sciences, newly discovered a bacterium that could deconstruct Monascus hyphae; Food Industry Research and Development Institute (FIRDI) has recognized it as new variety and Dr. Wang planned to name it as “TKU001.” Dr. Wang claimed that TKU001, whose patent application is being reviewed, not only can be developed into an anticancer drug in the near future, but will also benefit medical science in general in the future.

BSI AWARDS TAMKANG BS7799 CERTIFICATE SETTING A MODER FOR TAIWAN’S ACADEMIA

TKU’S 241 NSC RESEARCH PROJECTS

According to Office of Research and Development, TKU’s 241 research projects for the 2004 academic year have been accepted by National Science Council, 7 less than last year, and granted about NT$150,000,000, 8 million less than last year.Among the approved projects, 144 (more than 50%) are proposed by Colleges of Science and Engineering, which attests to their dominance over other colleges; College of Management occupies the second place with 33 projects, followed up by College of Business’s 20, College of Education’s 16, College of Liberal Arts’ 12, and other colleges’ all lower than 10.

MEMBERS OF MINISTRY OF EDUCATION’S EVALUATION COMMITTEE TO DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY CALL FOR TKU’

Professor Shi Cheng-hsiung (National Taiwan Normal University) and other seven members of evaluation committee visited TKU last Monday (October 11) and Tuesday, part of the evaluations of Chemistry-oriented Departments national wide (conducted by Chinese Society of Chemistry under Ministry of Education’s commission.) The committee members indicated that TKU owns excellent software and hardware; and they suggested that other universities visit Tamkang and wished that professors in Department of Chemistry advance to higher level of academic research.

COOPERATE FOR TAMKANG’S FOURTH WAVE

TKU will hold academic year 2004’s Conference on Teaching and Administration Innovation at Chueh-sheng International Conference Hall at 9 a.m. this Friday (October 22); about 200 will attend the conference.

TKU TEAM WIN PRIZES AND 400,000 NT IN SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN COMPETITION

MINIMUM SEATS OF STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES OCCUPIED FINALLY

The Make-up Election for the 13th Student Representative Assembly announced the result on Oct. 14, 2004. Eleven among the fifteen candidates were elected. With these 11 newly elected and the original 19 members, TKU students finally secured their minimum Student Assembly members.

TOWARD 2005: DIALOGUE WITH DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS

To report on the development of the “TKU 4th Wave,” Tamkang Times will hold a series of symposiums entitled “Toward 2005: Dialogues on the TKU 4th Wave.” The first symposium will invite two former Ministers of Education, Dr. Chaur-shin Yung and Jong-tsun Huang to have a dialogue.

19 FOREIGN STUDENTS REGISTERED AT TAMKANG UNIVERSITY FOR ITS GOOD ENVIRONMENT

This new semester witness some of foreign newcomers in our campus. According to the statistics of Office of Academic Affairs, 19 foreign students apply for studying in Tamkang University (TKU). Most foreign students are from Southeast Asia countries, especially Japan and Korea. Unusually, this years three are students from Poland, Hungary, and even Costa Rica.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MASTERS DISCOURSE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Hold by TKU Alumni Business Club, a series of speeches named “Dialogue with the Masters” will be held on the Alumni Hall in the fifth floor of TKU Taipei Campus on 4:00 p.m. this Saturday. This series of speeches invited a TKU alumnus, Pei-wei Chaio, CEO of Chiahui Cooperation and chair of the Great China Office of Life Office Management Association (LOMA), to have a conversation with the chair of the Department of Business Administration, Chu-ching Wang. The topic of this conversation is “How to use Knowledge Management to Improve the Efficiency of Business Administration.”