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WANG DAN DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY: TAIWANESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARE TOO GENTLE

YEAR-END PARTY---THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS SENDS PRETTY BOYS AND GIRLS

It is almost the end of year. The get-together year-end party for faculty and staff will be kicked off at 7 floor of Shao-mo Memorial Gymnasium at 1:30 pm on February 9th. The host of the party, College of Business, will prepare wonderful performance and decoration at the new place this year. At the party, school will present awards to teachers with outstanding research plans last year including quality award, excellent staff award, senior staff award, excellent teacher award, and special contribution award in TKU in order to appreciate teachers’ hard-working efforts.

FIVE UNITS ENTER INTO THE SECOND STAGE EVALUATION FOR TAMKANG QUALITY AWARD

The Division for Educational Evaluation and Development, host of Tamkang Quality Award, announced last week that five units, including Carrie Chang Fine Arts Center; Office of Research and Development; Curriculum Section, Office of Academic Affairs; Student Housing Guidance Section, Office of Student Affairs; and Documents Section, Office of General Affairs, have passed the document evaluation, and hence can join the second stage evaluation. The committee will proceed the evaluation by interviewing and rating in person, and select the only award-winner.

45 STUDENTS, INCLUDING FOUR FROM LANYANG CAMPUS, TO BE THE EXCHANGE STUDENTS IN 2007 ACADEMIC YEAR

The outcome of the exchange-student selection for 2007 academic year, held by Office of International Exchanges & International Education (OIEIE), has been announced a few days ago. This summer vacation, 45 students including Liu Hsing-chang (sophomore, Dept. of Software Engineering) will go to TKU’s 24 sister universities, both Japanese and non-Japanese sister universities, to study respectively. The students of Lanyang Campus join the selection for the first time, and 4 students have been chosen.

TKU PRESIDENT PRESENTS A FLAG FOR TKU SERVICE TEAMS

Without any worries about the cold weather, the social service team set out once again in this winter. 8 clubs, including Goodwill Group and nearly 230 teachers and students join this activity altogether and dedicate their love during this winter vacation. Office of Student Affairs is to hold the “Flag Presenting Ceremony For Community Services During Winter Vacation” at B712 at 10:30 A.M., on January 10. TKU President C. I. Chang will personally give the flag to them.

SPEECH TO COMMEMORATE A PAST-AWAY TEACHER:

To commemorate Professor Huang Hsien-tang, who pasted away because of liver cancer, Department of Japanese held a “Japanese-Taiwanese Memorial Speech in Honor of Professor Huang Hsien-tang” on December 25. Professor Chao Shuen-wen of NTU, a good friend of Professor Huang, was invited to make a speech. The fund raised by school teachers and alumnus was carried to Professor Huang’s wife Lee Li-Yun. However, she insisted on not accepting the money, and had the money donate to school instead.

FAREWELL PARTY FOR 10 TEACHERS’ RETIREMENT

According to Office of Personnel, 10 teachers will retire from 1st of February. Since the winter break of 50 days is coming soon, many teachers and students are holding farewell parties to express humane concerns to those retired-teachers-to-be, including Han Yao-lung (Dept. of Chinese), Huang Shih-hsion (Dept. of Information and Library Science), Chen Wei-yen (Dept. of Physics), Huang Deh-yen (Dept. of Chemistry), Chen Kwei-ju (Dept. of Chemistry), Yeh Ho-ming (Dept. of Chemical Engineering), and Hsiao Shih-hsiung(Dept. of. German). Two teachers apply for early retirement: Yeh Hung-sa (Dept. of History) and Liu Tsung-heng (Dept. of Banking and Finance).

79 TEACHERS WON “TAMKANG LIGHT” MEDALS FOR THEIR MILLION-DOLLAR PROJECT GRANTS:

To encourage active involvement in research projects in the past 2005 school year, in the year-end gathering, TKU Founder Clement Chang has offered “Tamkang Light” medals to those professors who have directed research project of more than one million NT dollars fund, or those whose cumulated amount of grant in recent five years has added up to 2.5 millions NT dollars. For the 2005 school year, there are totally 79 winners.

TKU PROFESSOR AND GRADUATE OBTAIN PATENTS FOR PLANAR NOTCHED ANTENNA: IN TAIWAN AND US

TKU Associate Professor, Dr. Li Ching-lieh, and a TKU alumnus Chang Chien-ping have co-invented a “Planar Notched Antenna System” and obtained patents both in R. O. C. (2006, 8, 1) and in US (2006, 11, 7). This invention will be applied in laptop, Bluetooth head-phone and other 3 C utilities.