NO. 761

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ARCHITECTURE FACULTY AND STUDENTS WON SPECIALTY AWARD
Photo 1: Architecture Associate Professor Min-Jay Kang (2nd right) participated the Rotterdam Bi-Annual Exhibition with his students. The photo is taken in front of the Netherland Architecture Institute.
Photo 1: Architecture Associate Professor Min-Jay Kang (2nd right) participated the Rotterdam Bi-Annual Exhibition with his students. The photo is taken in front of the Netherland Architecture Institute.

Supervised by Architecture Associate Professor Min-jay Kang, Architecture master sophomore Zhi-tan Lin and five others won the Specialty Award with their designed work “Spatial Limbo” out of 280 competing works in “The 4th Rotterdam Bi-Annual Exhibition.” It is the first such award won by a Department of Architecture in Taiwan! In addition, supervised by Architecture Lecturer Lo-e Tsao, the work “Zhongxin” by 7 Architecture seniors was also on the Exhibition List, and it would be exhibited on RDM Campus until January 10, 2010.

PRESIDENT CHANG ELECTED AS THE CHAIRPERSON OF FICHET AGAIN
Photo: The FICHET held a moving tea party. President Flora C.I. Chang and the Director of the Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations, MOE, Ching-jen Liu together started the opening ceremony.
Photo: The FICHET held a moving tea party. President Flora C.I. Chang and the Director of the Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations, MOE, Ching-jen Liu together started the opening ceremony.

President Flora C. I. Chang was elected as the 3rd Chairperson of the Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) in July, and she pointed English Associate Professor Lily Hwei-Mei Chen as the executive director. Its office is on TKU Taipei Campus, and the tea opening ceremony took place on Sept. 29. The Director of the Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations, MOE, Ching-jen Liu and many university presidents took part in the ceremony.

MING-LIANG TSAI ON MOVIES AT TKU

The Department of Mass Communication invited renowned movie director Ming-liang Tsai to give a talk that attracted many students to see and ask him for autographs and picture taken.

SCHOLARS FROM BEIJING VISITED TKU

The Graduate Institute of China Studies hosted the symposium “Peaceful Development of Relations across the Strait—Opportunities and Challenges.” With 3 others, Song-ling Zhu, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics, College of Taiwan Studies, Beijing Union University came to have academic exchange with Wu-ueh Chang, Chair of the Graduate Institute of China Studies and several other TKU professors as well as about 50 graduate students.

FRENCH ALUMNI ROMANTICALLY GATHERED TOGETHER IN PARIS

The Department of French hosted the “Overseas TKU Alumni Meeting” in Paris this summer vacation, and about 30 alumni attended it. Admissions Section staff member Li-chiung Chao went to the Meeting. She said, “TKU French Alumni from different parts of the world participated, and all of us were touchingly moved while recalling the nostalgic memories of the student years at TKU even so many years after graduation.”

CHINESE PhD CANDIDATE WON MOE LITERARY & ARTISTIC CREATION AWARD

TKU Chinese PhD candidate Yu-lung Hou captured the Outstanding Special Award out of 35 student candidates at 2009 MOE Literary & Artistic Creation Contest, winning NT$50,000. His impressive winning work is a collection of poems in classical style, Poems of Wandering in Mountains.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION ON YING-ZHEN CHEN

Trend Education Foundation, Literature Development Foundation of Taiwan, Wen Hsun magazine and TKU’s Department of Chinese will jointly hold “The Special Exhibition on Ying-zhen Chen” at the Black Swan Exhibition Hall from Oct 6 to 9. Ying-zhen Chen’s photos, literature journals, manuscripts, letters, etc. will be displayed. The Chair of the Department of Chinese has hoped that the Exhibition will let faculty and students see the literary talent of TKU’s outstanding alumnus, Ying-zhen Chen!”

MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS AT TKU

TKU campus was full of warmly human touch for the Mid-Autumn Festival! To let foreign students experience the Mid-Autumn Festival as a part of the Chinese culture, the Office of International Exchanges and International Education hosted a luncheon party at the basement of FL Building on Sept. 30. International Affairs Vice President Wan-chin Tai expressed that people would usually experience homesickness during festivals. Hopefully the party would ease foreign students’ homesickness.

MOE ASSISTS 54 TKU STUDENTS WHOSE FAMILY HIT HARD BY 88 FLOOD

To assist those students seriously affected by Typhoon Morakot, the MOE set up an “88 Flood Disaster Special Assistance Program” and 54 TKU students had applied before the deadline Sept. 30.

AN EXQUISITE HYGIENE PACK FOR TEACHERS ON TEACHER’S DAY

Don’t be scared of the H1N1 new flu! To care for teachers’ health and protect the campus hygiene, TKU offered all teachers and teaching assistants a hygiene pack including a sponge microphone cover, a tube of disinfection ethyl alcohol and a small cl...

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