NO. 618 2005-10-03

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INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS INVITED TO CELEBRATE TKU ANNIVERSARY

More than 30 international scholars have accepted invitations from the Graduate Institute of Future Studies for a series of lectures and presentations in commemoration of TKU’s 55th founding anniversary. Among those invited, there are some heavyweights in this field, such as Tim Mack, the Chair of WFSF, Christopher Jones, the Secretary in Chief of the same organization, Walter Kistler, the founder of FFF, Walter Truett Andeerson, the Chair of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Michio Kaku, a Japanese scholar in future technologies, Ervin Laszlo, the founder of the Budapest Club in Hungary, and Clement Bezold, a renowned academic of Future Studies from the US. The fact that TKU is able to invite so many leading experts to visit Taiwan is the result of the success of the university’s efforts in the past 10 years in promoting a future-oriented high education.

ASHIS NANDY AND POST-COLONIALISM

Ashis Nandy, one of the leading scholars in post-colonialism, follows the tradition shaped by Frantz Fanon, Homi K. Bhabha and the like, that colonialism exists in many forms. We may escape from one kind of colonialism, but find ourselves trapped into another kind at the same time.

BRANDON UNIVERSITY, A PROFILE

The president of Brandon University, Canada, Dr. Louis Peter Visentin, will visit TKU in November. He graduated from the University of St. Francis Xavier in 1963 and received his Ph.D. on Cellular Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1969. He had worked some years at the National Research Council in Ottawa until he went to the University of Louis Pasteur, France in 1976, where he worked as a visiting scholar for one year. He became the associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Ottawa in 1983, but he returned to NRC as the top adviser to its deputy chair in 1984. In 1987, he moved to Memorial University in Newfoundland to become the dean of the College of Science. During this period, he won numerous science awards for his outstanding research skills. Furthermore, after 3 months into the job of the dean, he was elected to be the chair of the advisory board of the NRC.

INCREASE IN NSC SPONORED PROJECTS

The cases proposed by TKU faulty and have been approved by the National Science Council (NSC) are 246 so far this year. Five cases more comparing with figures of the same period last year. Overall, the research grants TKU has received for these cases is more than NT$140,000,000.

ALUMNI TO PLANT TREES FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF ANNIVERSARY

Tamkang Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development (OASRD) will hold a series of events to celebrate the 55th founding anniversary of TKU this October onwards. These events include the founding of the Alumni Association in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Alumni Friendly Sport Matches, an election of a new chair, tree-planting activity, and some culture tours.

GLOBALIZATION AND NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM

The College of International Studies organized and hosted a two-day international conference on “Globalization and the New World Order” (Novus Ordo Seclurum) at the Ching Sheng International Conference Hall, this week (5th and 6th). Several key gover...

A TICKET TO SECURED JOBS? TRY CERTIFICATION EXAMS

To have a job guaranteed to you upon graduation is to take as many certification exams as possible, according to most business and finance majors. One graduate student, Chiu Chao-hsian from the Graduate Institute of Insurance, for example, has intended to be qualified for 8 different certificates in the next two years. They are all insurance related ones and she is confident that her wish will be fulfilled as where there is a will, there is a way.

A PIONEERING RESOURCE CENTER OF EUROPEAN

The Chueh Sheng Library of TKU houses an impressive resource center for European Studies, collecting copious official documents of European law, education, culture, transport, various statistics, commerce and arms purchases. Allegedly the only resource center for the new integrated European Union (EU) in Taiwan, there are also over 9,000 books available to students and researchers of related fields. This center is located in U502, the fifth floor of the library.

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