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YU-HUI WANG WON THE CROWN OF POETRY RECITATION CONTEST

Edgar Allan Poe said, “Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.” The Department of English had an English poetry recitation contest on Dec. 23. It attracted more than 40 students, and 28 were non-English majors. All competitors tried all their best and lively recited their poems with rich emotions. Finally English senior Yu-hui Wang won the 1st prize of NT$2,000 with an emotionally charged dramatic style. The 2nd, prize of NT$1,500, the 3rd of NT$1,000 and the 4th of NT$800 went to English freshman Si-hui Gu, Chinese junior Yu-sheng Chang and English sophomore Chiao-lan Yin respectively. There were 3 fifth prizes of NT$500 each and they went to English seniors Yu-rong Chao and Shang-huan Yu and International Trade freshman Yi-ting Li. Every winner was also awarded a certificate.

ARCHITACTURE PROFESSORS AND ALUMNI WON NATIONAL GRAND PRIZES

The Department of Architecture has won endless awards! Alumnus Ying-jun Xie was just awarded the Taipei City Cultural Award of NT$300,000 by the Department of Culture Affairs, Taipei City Government. He also won the 10th Outstanding Public Service and Contribution Award, while TKU Architecture Lecturer Xie-neng Zhuang got the 10th Planning Design Contribution Award by the R.O.C. Architecture Association. In addition, Associate Professor Sheng-yuan Huang and Lecturer Jia-kai Yang also won the 2008 Taiwan Construction Prize. The Department Chair Kwang-tyng Wu said, “The fact that faculty and alumni won prizes not only proves the excellent ability of the faculty but also shows faculty’s best examples for the students.”

ARCHITECTURE SENIOR CAPTURED THE FIRST PRIZE IN LAND BRIDGE CHART CONTEST

SEXY RAINDEER BECAME QUEEN OF THE CHRISTMAS PARTY

TKU WON THE CHAMPINSHIP IN CLASSICAL POETRY SINGING COMPETITION

TKU’s Ching Sheng Poetry Club seized the championship prize in “The Third National High School and College Old Love and New Joy Classical Poetry Singing Competitions” by the Center for Education and Humanity Studies, Taiwan Normal University. The title of their poetic song was “The Song of Bright and Sacred Fire” which captured the first prize and best performance award among more than 10 competing teams in the New Joy Group. They were awarded the prize of $NT15,000 and a trophy on Dec. 20.

PLAIN LIFE FESTIVAL HAPPILY CAPTURED 1460 SMILING FACES

DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN’S KARA OK CONTEST ATTRACTED 124 PARTICIPANTS

The Department of German held a Kara OK contest that attracted 124 people to participate last week. It had 14 groups, and to coordinate Christmas day, the department also considerately prepared cakes and small German biscuits. The atmosphere was happily warm, and everybody also immersed in the wonderful singing.

BRODEN COOPERATION WITH 19 MAINLAND UNIVERSITIES

Leading a delegation of 5 including International Affairs Vice President Wan-chin Tai, President Flora Chia-I Chang went to Guangzhou University for the Opening Ceremony of the Joint Construction Engineering Research Center for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and signed academic exchange agreement with Guangzhou University President Jian-she Yu. Thus Guangzhou University has become TKU’s 19th sister university in the Mainland.

ALLIANCE WITH TAIPEI COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY

TKU COOPERATED WITH ACER TO SET UP SECURITY OPERATION CENTER

Cooperated with Acer eDC, TKU has set up a Security Operation Center (SOC) and become the first university in Taiwan that owns the independent technology of the SOC and manages it independently. On Dec. 25, Acer eDC and TKU showed the result of the SOC and it attracted some mass media for interviews.