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ISS COMMITTEE COMES TO INSPECT &TKU STRIVES TO PASS THE TEST
ENGINEERING RESEARCH PAPERS WON PRIZES
TKU PRESIDENT SHARED EXPERIENCES AT INTERNATIONAL FORUM
President Flora Chia-I Chang took part in the 2008 Forum of Taiwanese, Southeast-Asian and South-Asian University Presidents at Cheng Kung University on Nov. 10, chairing the session of “Strengthening and Promoting Students’ Academic Knowledge and Skills.” She shared with 74 university presidents TKU’s experiences in implementing an education of “Three Circles and Five Disciplines” (3 circles: Professional Curriculum, Core Curriculum and Extracurricular Curriculum; 5 disciplines: Conduct, Intelligence, Physical Education, Teamwork and Beauty) in order to cultivate spiritually outstanding and knowledgeably talented students. The Forum has been the largest international conference for university presidents hosted by Taiwan so far, and for the first time, it has extended to the region of South Asia, starting a new era for higher education cooperation between Southeast Asia, South Asia and Taiwan. The Forum provided a platform for participating presidents to share their experiences, promoting higher education, and strengthening international exchanges and co-operations.
PLUM GARDEN OPENING CEROMONY AT LANYANG CAMPUS
GARDEN PARTY AT LANYANG CAMPUS
TKU HANDED OUT MILLIONS FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCHES
To encourage great research achievements, TKU very generously rewarded NT$3,600,000 to the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Center for Water Resources Management and Policy Research, etc. The most glorious was the Departments of Electrical Engineering with NT$1,600,000 awarded. The chief of the Counseling Section, Yen-wei Hu was awarded a trophy for her active promotion of student counseling because of which TKU won the 2008 University for Best Student Counseling. The Robot Research Team at the Departments of Electrical Engineering made brilliant achievements by winning 5 championships including the 2008 FIRA Robot Soccer World Cup and European Robot Soccer Cup. So it was awarded NT$1,500,000 and the supervising teacher, Ching-chang Wong was awarded NT$100,000. In addition, Water Resources Center, Wind Engineering Research Center and Resources Center for the Blind were awarded NT$900,000, NT$700,000, NT$400,000 respectively for their outstanding achievements in research. Ching-chang Wong thanked for TKU’s recognition of his robot research team, and he indicated that his team would use the award money to buy new equipment to make new robots to win more prizes for TKU in future competitions. Yen-wei Hu indicated that TKU had won the University for Best Student Counseling 3 times due to counseling colleagues’ long time endeavors. She also thanked for TKU’s recognition of their work.
TKU PLANS TO ESTABLISH A RETIREMENT BENEFIT SAVINGS SYSTEM
LING-GANG SU WON THE SECOND PRIZE AGAIN IN THE SECOND SHADOW BOXING WORLD CUP
HENG-XIN CHANG WON THE 3RD PRIZE FOR ASCE-TWIG ENGLISH SPEECH CONTEST
THE ALUMNI OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN & SLAVIC STUDIES MET HAPPILY
The reunification of alumni warms up the winter! The Graduate Institute of Russian & Slavic Studies held “Alumni Come Back Home” at E680 on Nov. 8, and 12 alumni with their families gathered together with the Institute Director Maliavin and Assistant Prof. Che-jen Wang as well as some students. They chatted while eating the buffet-styled foods, and the scene was lively warm. Except making friendship with students, the alumni nostalgically recalled their student life episodes, sharing their experiences such as research paper writing, study strategies and social activities, etc. The Section Chief of West Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ying-li Chen spoke freely about the methods of preparing the public service tests. She encouraged students to thoroughly enrich their knowledge now, so they could competitively face powerful challenges after graduation. She said that although the Graduate Institute of Russian & Slavic Studies would be one in a group on European studies, she hoped the Institute would focus on Russian studies. Director Marliavin replied that with the present research scale, the Institute would coordinate student's goal to continue invariably.
