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PRESIDENT CHANG INSPECTED THE REFURBISHMENT OF LABORATORIES IN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

TKU GRADUATE CHAO-YU WU’S PAPER WON EXCELLENCE PRIZE FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION

Wu Chao-yu, a graduate from Dept. of Information and Library Science, won the Excellence Prize for his paper “Application of Interpreting Materials in the Process of Digital Preservation,” directed by Dr. Ouyang Chung-jang, in NAA’s 2009 National Conference, “2009 National Archives Administration, Technology and Application of Long-term Preservation of Digital Archives.” In addition to certificate of merit, Wu won 20,000 NT SOGO gift coupons. The awarding ceremony took place on November 19, at the international conference hall of National Taiwan University Hospital.

SEVENTH ASIA PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON WIND ENGINEERING WAS HELD AT GRAND HOTEL

Seventh Asia Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, co-held by Taiwan Association for Wind Engineering (TAWE) and TKU Wind Engineering Research Center (WERC), took place at the Grand Hotel, Taipei, from Nov. 8 to 12, in which more than 200 scholars in the wind engineering field from 19 countries presented 183 papers and 8 speeches. One German professor expressed that this was the best international seminar he has ever attended. Dr. Cheng Chi-ming, Director of WERC, indicated that the Conference was not only successful but also won many feedbacks and appreciation. He was really grateful to the staff that spares no effort to prepare and hold the conference.

DR. KAO HSUN-FANG WILL SERVE AS THE MEMBER OF ISTE’S EXECUTIVE BOARD

Dr. Hsun-Fang Kao, Dean of College of Education, is elected as one of the members of the Executive Board of International Society for Teacher Education (ISTE) recently. Dr. Kao indicated that being in this position she has to work as hard as possible and take the full responsibility to serve. “I think I can learn a lot of new concepts and methods from this position,” Dr. Kao said. “Apart from improving my own ability, these new ideas can also be introduced into College of Education and Center for Teacher Education of TKU to train our future teachers.”

MASTER STUDENT TUNG WEN-WEN GOT MOE’S SUBSIDY TO RESEARCH INTO OVERSEAS CHINESE EDUCATION

Tung Wen-wen, a second-year master student of Dept. of Information and Library Science, got the subsidy from International Humanities Manpower Training Program, one of the sub-programs of MOE’s 2009 Humanities Education Medium-term Innovation Program, to do the research at San Francisco Bay Area on overseas Chinese teachers’ needs of writing teaching materials and library information, and the research results can be provided and applied in the future when creating new teaching materials.

CHI-JU WU’S APEC TOUR

“PICTURING AMERICA” AT TKU WITH SCOTT ROBINSON

Under the invitation of the Graduate Institute of the Americas, Scott Robinson, Director of American Cultural Center, American Institute in Taiwan, visited Tamkang University to give a speech, “Picturing America,” on November 5. By making use of many paintings on the historic events in the America, Director Robinson introduced the American history from the indigenous beginning to the modern USA, including important events of European colonization, the war of independence, Civil War, the Great Depression, and the industrial revolution. For instance, Robinson displayed Paul Revere's Ride to signal the first page of the War of American Independence; Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River to tell the epic of the American Independence; The Last of the Mohicans to showcase the bravery of the Native Americans; The Veteran in a New Field to symbolize the rebirth after the Civil War.

DELEGATES OF TOKYO FOREIGN LANGUAGE COLLEGE VISITED TKU

A delegation from Teacher Training Program, Tokyo Foreign Language College, led by Dr. Fukao Noriko, visited Division of Continuing Education Japanese Center at Taipei Campus on November 11. The program has sent delegates to Tamkang University every ...

TKU STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN “CROSS-STRAIT CULTURAL EXCHANGE CAMP FOR ELITE COLLEGE STUDENTS”