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DEATH IN TAIWAN WENT ON THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TV CHANNEL

An unusual documentary film that portrays two stories exploring life after death by a local filmmaker was broadcasted by the National Geographic TV Channel to the world in early December this year. Shih Chu-der, the filmmaker, with the help of his sister, spent 18 months to make this film that is entitled “Spirit Talk”, which originally spun out their desire of helping one of their friends to overcome the death of her husband. Shih used the only way he knew best to cope with grief and that was to make a film out of this grieving process.

ART OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE CLAY SCULPTURE FINDS ITS PLACE AT THE CHINESE DEPARTMENT

TKU SAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DON QUIXOTE

TKU PRESIDENT BECOMES THE CHAIR OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION

In light of the impact of globalization on the quality of Taiwan’s higher education, Ministry of Education (MOE) had asked all the 107 higher educational institutions in Taiwan to raise funds to set up a foundation dedicating to the promotion of a better higher education. As a result, apart from the subsidy of NT$ 15,000,000 given by the MOE, each institution chipped in NT$ 150,000 to establish a Higher Education Foundation for International Cooperation, which had its first general meeting last Friday, Dec. 23, to address the issue of international exchanges.

TKU HAS BEEN PRAISED FOR ITS EFFORTS IN THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION REFORM

The Center for Curriculum and Instruction Research of TKU College of Education held a forum on the “Implementation of the Education Reform—the Past and Future of the New 1-9 Curriculum and Teaching Implementation Guidance Project, at Taipei Campus on...

STAR-GAZING TOPS THE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CONTEST

A total of 106 teams from 51 universities and colleges participated in a competition organized by the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Moeaidb), The 10th National Collegiate Service Innovation and Projects for Information Managemnt Awards, on Dec 17. TKU topped the Information Technology category, while winning a second and a third in the category of Information Applications. For these results, the chair of TKU Department of Information Management, Shaw Ruey-shiang wants to thank the efforts the students put in and the support of the university to his department.

TKU SHINES AT THE WORLD ROBOTIC SOCCER GAMES ONCE AGAIN DESPITE STEEP COMPETITION

This year’s FIRA (Federation of International Robosoccer Association) Robo World Cup was held in Singapore between 10 and 17 of December. For those who are the fans of robotic soccer should remember well that TKU won the championship two years ago. This year, TKU teams did not win any gold, but still managed to shine despite intense competition from other 82 teams (of 16 countries), by winning a silver in the RoboSot category, and the fourth place in the HuroSot (Humanoid robotic soccer) category.

FUTURE PHYSICISTS TO GATHER AT TKU FOR A WEEK OF EXPLORATION OF THE UNIVERSE

In celebrating the World Year of Physics 2005 and also the year of Einstein, TKU was honored to have won the right to host a week’s science camp, known as the WYP 2005 Physics Young Ambassadors Symposium, for a group of international young students of physics, starting this weekend, Dec. 30. This is also one of the last activities held all over the world in a centenary commemoration of Einstein’s relativity theory, and for this important occasion, TKU has invited Dr. Douglas D. Osheroff, the 1996 Nobel Prize laureate of Physics, from the University of Stanford for four special lectures in the coming week. .