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CARRIE CHANG FINE ARTS CENTER WINS QUALITY AWARD

Carrie Chang Fine Arts Center has won 1st TKU Quality Awards after some stringent scrutiny. Li Chi-mao, the Director of the Center is appreciative of the recognition given to the efforts he and his staff have put in since 2000, its inauguration. They have been dedicating the center to make art accessible to everyone.

TWO ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS WIN NT$ 20,000 FOR THEIR GREEN CONCEPT

Lian yi-ting and Chang Ting-ting, two seniors of the Architecture and Building Technology Department, won a Very Good Work prize for their drawing entitled: “Density, People, and Lungs” in the category of “students” at the 2006 Taipei Architects Association Contest. They were awarded with NT$ 20,000 prize money.

TWO RUSSIAN STUDENTS AT TKU WON THE SECOND PLACE IN CHINESE SPEECH CONTEST

DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH AND JAPANESE SELECT STUDENTS FOR JUNIOR ABROAD PROGRAM

The Departments of English and Japanese will begin their process of selecting junior students who wish to study one year abroad at TKU’s nine sister universities (Lists of the universities are provided at the departmental website respectively). English Department welcomes the department’s sophomores from its both day and night programs as well as those of other disciplines to apply, whereas Japanese Department restricts applicants to Japanese Department only. Apart from sophomore students from both day and night programs, Japanese Department also accepts applications from third year transfer students and those who take Japanese as the second major.

TKU INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ENJOY STICKY RICE BALLS

SILVER-HAIRED ALUMNI ARE SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO TKU FOR A SPRING TREAT

Each spring the Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development (OASRD) organizes a “Spring Festival” inviting alumni to see the colorful blossoms at Tamsui Campus. This year the festival is scheduled to be held on March 18 and alumni graduated between 1950 and 1958 will be the guests of honor for this particular occasion.

MOE PRAISES TKU E-BUSINESS PROGRAM

A six-year old TKU e-Business Program for Information and Electronic Industries, set up by the College of Management, has won a Prize for Good Work from the Ministry of Education. TKU is one of the nine universities, alongside with National Cheng Chi and Chung Chen Universities, to have won MOE’s “Project for Integration of Manufacturing and Business Technology Awards” recently.

WHAT A FLAMINGO STYLE OF SAYING HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

THOUSANDS OF INDIGENOUS TREES TO BE PLANTED AT LANYANG CAMPUS

TKU and Luodong Forestry District Office (LFDO) have collaborated on a project to transform Lanyang Campus (LC) into an ecological park of indigenous plants. LFDO would provide Lanyang Campus thousands of seedlings and Prof. Wang Ming-jen of the Information and Communications Technology Management Department of LC will oversee the growing of these trees. There are four stages of tree planting, with the first one completed in November last year already. In this stage, approx. 3,000 azalea cultivars were planted and now are in full blossoms. The second stage of planting will be marked with a ceremony attended by TKU Founder, Dr. Clement Chang, TKU President, Dr. Flora Chang and some local (Ilan County) dignitaries on March 10. The ceremony will also celebrate the unveiling of a sculpture entitled “Hsuehshanl Tunnel”, a gift from the renowned sculptor, Yang Ying-feng. His sculpture is also named as “Rising Sun Above Hsuehshan Tunnel, Love of Lanyang And Devotion to Tamkang” and stands right next to Clement Chang International Conference Hall of LC.

LAST YEAR’S GRADUATES ARE HIGHLY SATISFIED WITH TKU AS THE MAJORITY OF THEM CONTEMPLATING ON PURSUING HIGHER DEGREES

The results of a survey on last year’s graduates reveal that 94.33% of them are satisfied with the education they received at TKU. In terms of their career planning, one third of them would apply for grad schools in Taiwan. These figures are based on the analyses conducted by the Career Planning and Placement Section who distributed a questionnaire on line. The responding rate was 90%.