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TKU HAS BEEN AWARDED WITH THE HIGHEST AID AMONG PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES FROM MOE

Ministry of Education (MOE) has awarded TKU with NT$ 152,989,510 worth of funding for 2006 academic year. It is the highest among Taiwan’s private universities and institutes.

TKU GRADUATE PROGRAMS ARE PULLING IN SOME “STAR” POWER

The list of this year’s new students on the TKU graduate programs at the College of International Studies is filled with “stars”. Yet the “stars” are not movie stars, but high ranking military officers with many stars!

TWO PROFESSORS OF GIIASS BECOME ADVISORS FOR NSC

Professors Wong Ming-hsien, and Chen Wen-jenq of the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies (GIIASS) have been invited to become the advisors for Taiwan’s National Security Council (NSC) recently.

FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR THREE TIBETANS TO STUDY CHINESE

DEPARTMENTS OF COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AWAIT ACCREDITATION FROM IEET

The Institute of Engineering Education, Taiwan will arrive TKU for a two day visit (October 16/17) for the accreditation of three of TKU’s departments in the College of Engineering. The departments concerned are Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering. Results of IEET’s visit will be announced at the end of year. Next year, three other departments of the same college will apply for similar accreditation and they are Departments of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering, and Architecture.

FOUR ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS ANNOUNCE WINNERS

Four scholarships set up in the names of TKU alumni announced their winners recently. These scholarships are Lin Wen-yuan Scholarship, Madam Chen Chang Yue-nue Scholarship, Hsiang Lin Ltd. Scholarship and Gao Lee Tiao Scholarship. The ceremony awarding the winners was held on October 3, presided by Chen Min Nan, the Director of TKU Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development, and Gao Chuan-zhuan, the son of the founder of the Gao Lee Tiao Scholarly. A dinner party was organized following the ceremony.

MID AUTUMN BARBECUE UNDER THE FULL MOON AND SHINING STARS IN LANYANG

COLLEGES OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT, HAND IN HAND, WELCOME THEIR NEWCOMERS

The first time ever joint Freshmen Welcoming Party held by the Colleges of Business and Management was held in the evening of October 4 at the Student Activity Center. The chairpersons of the 12 Departments from both colleges stood on stage together, hand in hand, to open the evening’s variety show. A program that was put out by the more senior students of these departments who wanted to show their heart-felt welcome to the newcomers.

CAN YOU TURN TRASH INTO GOLD?

Well, it may not be that necessary. However, a competition held by the Extracurricular Activities Guidance Section does require you to have some kind of imagination to turn trash into something useful. If you can do that, the top prize money of NT$ 20,000 may buy you some gold.

AN ART FEAST TO TAKE PLACE IN TAMSUI

More than 100 works of arts by over 70 artists will be displayed in the Carrie Chang Fine Arts Center (CCFAC) between 18 and 28 of November. This exhibition features mainly local artists or artists who have deep connections with Tamsui that include Li Chi-mao, the Director of CCFAC, and Chang, Ben-hang, the Associate Director of CCFAC. Apart from them, 7 TKU staff and faculty members are also involved in the exhibition. They are Koo Chung-kuang, Yang Ching-yi, Wang Hsiu-chi, Wu Shih-wei, Tseng Chang-shen, Tzui Cheng-tsong, and Feng Wen-hsing