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CRAZY OVER KINMEN, WHALES AND DOLPHINS

An exhibition of on-the-spot sketches of the Kinmen Island was unveiled last Tuesday, Sept. 12 at Carrie Chang Fine Arts Center. 8 artists from Kinmen flew in for the opening ceremony who were also available for signing. Because of that, many art lovers from TKU went by and collected their signatures.

STUDENTS FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD GATHER AT TKU

A special semester opening ceremony for international students was held last Monday, Sept. 11 at the Ching Sheng International Conference Hall, presided by Dr. Feng Chao-kang, the Vice President for Academic Affairs (sitting in the center of the picture). This year, there are nearly 50 international students coming from France, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Korea, Japan, and Panama. The biggest group is of the 8 students from Reitaku University of Japan (the first from left in the picture is the lecturer from RU who accompanied his students to TKU).

LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNALISTS VISIT TKU

An official of the Government Information Office, Tao Zhi-wei, accompanied four journalists from Latin and South America to visit TKU last Wednesday, Sept. 13. They joint the class, “The current affairs of Latin America” of the Graduate Institute of ...

BEIJING UNIVERSITY AND TKU HAVE DIALOGUE ON FOREIGN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGES

Prof. Sung Mei-hua led 14 faulty members from the six departments of the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures (CFLL) of TKU to attend the Cross-strait Foreign Languages and Literatures Symposium hosted by Beijing University on September 5 and...

TKU RECEIVES AID FROM EU TO RESEARCH ON INTEGRATION

The Graduate Institute of European Studies and European Union Research Center have been awarded with 12,000 Euro (approx. NT$500,000) by the Jean Monnet Action 2006, a project supervised by the EU, to organize a series of courses for five years exploring issues of EU and European integration. In the first year, a course named exactly as such—“European Union and European Integration”—will be offered by Profess Tzou Chong-ko and is open to all students at TKU.

EMERGENCY ROUTES TO EXITS NEED TO BE WELL SIGNPOSTED AT THE NEW GYM

The long-anticipated Shao-mo Memorial Gymnasium was finally open to students at the beginning of the semester. Students are excited and impressed by the choices of facilities and the ample space that is available for activities. However, they are quite confused by the layout.

STUDENTS’ TOP CHOICE: ENGLISH-SPEAKING LANYANG CAMPUS

GOOD-BYE, MY OLD TREE

HUMANOID ROBOT SOCCER PLAYERS HAVE WON NT$ 330,000 FOR CREATIVE DESIGN

The humanoid robot soccer players designed and created by a team from the Department of Electrical Engineering (DEE) have been adorned with top awards in the categories of Applications and Creativity of the Golden Silicon Awards organized by Macronix International Co.. For this achievement, the team received NT$ 330,000 prize money and wide recognition. These robots also won the team a third place in the FIFA RoboWorld Cup in July this year.

SOFTWARE GIANT DONATES SOFTWARE THAT WORTH OVER NT$ 20,000,000 TO TKU