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HARMONICA AND CHINESE MUSIC CLUBS WIN AWARD AGAIN

After winning the second place in quartet in the National Student Music Contest the other day, the Harmonica Club got excellent grade and was ranked the fourth place in tutti section in parallel with National Taiwan University (NTU), National Tsinghua University and National Taiwan Normal University last week.

37 TEACHERS SELECTED AS OUTSTANDING CLASS CONSULTANTS FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEAR.

A total of 37 teachers have been chosen as outstanding class consultants for this academic year. They will be cited on April 16, 2003.

STUDENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN PERFORM VIVIDLY THE OPERA OF SWAN KNIGHT

PRIORITY PLACED ON PURCHASE OF INTEGRAL INSTRUMENTS TO UPGRADE THE ABILITY OF ACCEPTING PROJECTS

Tamkang University (TKU) President Dr. Chang Horng-jinh instructed Colleges of Sciences and of Engineering to integrate the instruments and equipments held by their departments and graduate institutes. He said that the school authorities would purchase the large-scale integral instruments this year in principle so as to hoist the using efficiency of laboratory equipments and promote the academic study.

CHEN TING-KO HOPES TO UPGRADE STUDENTS’ ‘READING ATIMOSPHERE’ IN COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT

Prof. Chen Ting-ko, Dean of College of Management, said that in order to strengthen and upgrade faculty and students’ capability of “research and reading”, each of the ninety- nine full-time faculty members of the college should at least submit a study case to National Science Council (NSC) or other research institutes per year and each student should submit a report for each course per semester.

COLLEGE OF SCIENCES KEEPS VITALIZING DEPTS & INSTITUTES; BIOTECH INSTITUTE SETS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIO

The College of Sciences (CS) keeps vitalizing its departments and institutes. The Department of Chemistry has been approved by the Ministry of Education to change the names of its two divisions starting from the 2003 academic year. While the Department of Mathematics has also applied to change one of its division names to Division of Data Science and Mathematical Statistics starting from the 2004 academic year.

TKU ATTACHES GREAT IMPORTANCE TO NANOTECHNOLOGY STUDY; TKU PRESIDENT MEETS EXPERTS ON THE ISSUE

Nanotechnology will be the most popular subject in the 21st Century. Tamkang University (TKU) President Chang Horng-jinh positively invited professors who are expert at nanotechnology to meet at L522 Classroom at 11:30am today for the purpose of helping professors conduct the nanotechnology research.

SCHOLARS URGE TO ATTACHE MORE IMPORTANCE TO WORLD PEACE; NO WAR WOULD HAPPEN IF FOLLOWED CONFUCIANIS

“The war would not easily break out if the West followed the doctrine of loyalty and forgiveness of Confucianism” Ho Xiaosin, Deputy Chair of Department of Sociology, University of Nanjing, said.

BURKINA FASO PRIME MINISTER YONLI VISITS TKU: TALKING WITH STUDENTS