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DR. YANO, VICE PRESIDENT OF KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY, VISITED TAMKANG FROM SEPT. 16 TO 20

FOREIGN STUDENTS WERE INVITED TO TASTE MOON CAKES ON THE EVE OF MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL

TAIWAN HOME-RUN BEEP BASEBALL TEAM RECRUITS NEW PLAYERS TO WIN THE THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP OF WORLD SERIE

“Taiwan Home-Run” (THR) Beep Baseball Team is formed by TKU alumni and blind students. After they won the championship of the National Beep Baseball Association World Series for the second year in July 2005, the TKU team, temporally named “Brave New Sight”, actively recruit new players for the third championship next year.

TKU TO HOST THE 2009 ASIAN WIND ENGINEERING CONFERENCE

Chair of Wind Engineering Research Center, Dr. Cheng Chii-ming led faculty of Dept. of Civil Engineering, including Professors Lin Yuh-yi, Wu Jon-chen, Wang Jen-mu, Chang Cheng-hsin, and two Ph. D. students, Tsai Ming-shu and Fu Chong-lin, to attend the Sixth Asian Wind Engineering Conference at Seoul, from September 12 to 14. The delegation has read five papers at the conference. Wind Engineering Research Center, TKU, because of its outstanding progresses, wins the honor to host the next Asian Wind Engineering Conference.

USE PERMIT FOR EDUCATIONAL AREAS IN LANYANG CAMPUS TO BE AUTHORIZED THIS WEEK

INTRODUCING DISTINGUISHING FUTURALOIST, MICHIO KAKU

Michio Kaku is not only a hyper-space physicist but also a famous future studies scholar.

HONORABLE VISITOR FROM TKU SISTER UNIVERSITY:

Dr. Ing. Ivan Wilhelm, CSc., President of Charles University of Prague, was born in Republic of Sloevnia. in1942. He graduated at the VSB-Technicka Univerzita Ostrava in1964. As an expert in nuclear physics, Prof. Ing. Ivan Wilhelm has beeing teaching and instucting nuclear physics.reseraches since he graduated. In 1967, he was hired by College of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, to teach nuclear physics and related courses, and he continued his study at Charles University. After obtaining his Ph.D degree, he kept teaching there.

CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES FOR TAMKANG’S 55TH ANNIVERSARY

Tamkang invites her sister universities to share the happiness of the 55th anniversary: a series of celebration activities will be held from November 5 to 8. According to Office of Internationa Exchange and International Education, presidents, vice presidents, chairs of board of trustees, numbering 40 in total, from 23 universities in 11 countries come to Tamkang with their good wishes.

CHEN KAN-NAN AND OTHER THREE PROFESSORS REPUTED AT INTERNATIONAL INVENTION EXHIBITION

Professor Chen Kan-nan (Office of Research and Development), Lin Meng-shan (Department of Chemistry), Lu Po-chien (Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering) and Lee Chin-lieh (Department of Electrical Engineering) will display their results of research and development at the first “Taipei International Exhibition of Invention and Technological Exchange” from September29 (Thursday) to October 20 (Thursday).

PRESIDENT CHEN PUBLICLY HONORED WANG MEI-LAN, WANG YUNG-HSIN,

President Chen Shui-bian publicly honored TKU’s Professor Wang Mei-lan, Wang Yung-hsin, Kuo Bang-hsiung, and Lin Chun-zhong, who have been dedicating to education for 40 years, at the “Ceremony for Distinguished Senior Teachers” held at Youngming Mountain on September26. In total, 73 Tamkang’s teachers whose teaching careers reach 10, 20, 30 and 40 years were rewarded.