Spotlights

Associate Professor Cheng-Hsiu Tsai of NTU’s Department of Life Science and researchers from 20 institutions worldwide led by Roberto Rozzi collaborated on an international paleontology research project to assess island extinctions globally. This study has been published in Science on March 10, 2023 ... more

NTU welcomed the delegation from University of Tsukuba (UT), including Prof. Nagata Kyosuke (永田恭介), President, Prof. Kanaho Yasunori (金保安則), Vice President, and Prof. Ohneda Osamu (大根田修), Executive Officer for International Strategy. After many online meetings and events during the pandemic, it was very meaningful to host this delegation in person at NTU. President Wen-Chang Chen (陳文章), and Prof. Jiun-Haw Lee (李君浩) ... more

Assistant Professor Vita Pi-Ho Hu (胡璧合) of Department of Electrical Engineering recently won the 2023 L'ORÉAL - UNESCO Award For Women in Science. Prof. Hu’s research interests include Ferroelectric FET, emerging memory, advanced nanoelectronics, low-power/high-performance SRAM, monolithic 3D IC, and design technology co-optimization. ... more

Dr. Pao-Kuan Wang (王寶貫), Academician of Academia Sinica and Distinguished Chair Professor for Research of NTU’s Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, recently won the Nikolai Dotzek Award presented by the European Severe Storm Laboratory (ESSL). This award is the highest international honor bestowed on scholars of severe storm research. Dr. Wang has dedicated himself to atmospheric science and thunderstorm physics research ... more

As the pandemic recedes, the NTU Azalea Festival finally returned to a physical event after three years of waiting. The themed slogan of the Festival this year is “Colorful azaleas beckoning the spring, Diligent students chasing their dreams.” President Wen-Chang Chen (陳文章) hosted the opening ceremony on March 11. The NTU student clubs and the NTU Wind Band also presented their performances at the ceremony ... more

Congratulations to the 2023 NSTC Outstanding Research Award Winners! The list of awardees are as follows. Leeyih Wang (王立義), Research Fellow, Center for Condense Matter Sciences (Chemistry), Wen-Liang Lee (李文良), Professor, Department of History (History), Shuei-Liong Lin (林水龍), Professor, the Graduate Institute of Physiology (Kidney Medicine), Han-Mo Chiu (邱瀚模), Attending Doctor ... more

On March 2, NTU held the NTU iNGO Academy Signing Ceremony to officially launch the NTU iNGO Academy. On behalf of NTU, President Wen-Chang Chen (陳文章), Executive Vice President Shih-Torng Ding (丁詩同), and Vice President for International Affairs Hsiao Wei Yuan (袁孝維) signed Letter of Intents with nine non-governmental organizations to cultivate sustainability talents together ... more

VISION 2023 NTU Campus Recruitment Fair kicked off grandly on March 4. This year, about 310 companies participated, with 448 booths set up at the physical exhibition. This year’s fair was divided into seven sections: Information Technology, Finance, Corporate Groups, Diversified Industries, Human Resources, NTU Start-ups, and International Talent Training. The “NTU Start-ups” and “International Talent Training” sections were especially added to the fair to provide students with more diversified and international career options ... more

Congratulations! Prof. Hsin-Chih Lin (林新智) from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering won the 2022 Hou Chin-Tui Distinguished Honor Award. Established in 1991, this award is supported by Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp. and the THS Foundation. There have been 18 faculty members from the NTU College of Engineering who were conferred this award ... more

Congratulations! Prof. Helen K. Liu (劉康慧) from the NTU Department of Political Science has been elected as Board Director of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). She will be assisting in hosting the 2023 and 2024 ARNOVA Annual Conferences. Founded in 1971, ARNOVA is a diverse community of scholars, educators, and practice leaders that strengthens the field of nonprofit and philanthropic research in order to improve civil society and human life ... more

On Feb 3, NTU welcomed our prestigious guests visiting us from our partner university—Cornell University, including Provost of Cornell University Michael I. Kotlikoff, Vice Provost for International Affairs Wendy Wolford, and Asia Director for International Alumni Relations Hongnan Ma. The delegations were greeted by Prof. Hsiao-Wei Yuan (袁孝維), Vice President of International Affairs at NTU, who is also a Cornell University Alumni, and met with NTU representatives. ... more

Prof. Syuan-Jyun Sun(孫烜駿) from the International Degree Program Climate Change and Sustainable Development, working together with the research team led by Prof. Meghan Duffy from University of Michigan, used a zooplankton-fungus (Daphnia dentifera-Metschnikowia bicuspidata) disease system to experimentally investigate how temperature impacted physical barriers to infection and cellular immune responses. They found that Daphnia reared at warmer temperatures had more robust physical barriers to infection but decreased cellular immune responses during the initial infection process ... more

Through both single-cell and laser-capture microdissection transcriptomic profiling, the research team led by Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin(林盈仲) from the NTU Institute of Plant Biology, PhD students Chia-Chun Tung (董家均), Shang-Che Kuo (郭尚哲), Jhong-He Yu (余中合), and Assistant Research Fellow Chuan Ku (顧銓) from the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, demonstrate the developmental lineages of ray and fusiform cells in stem-differentiating xylem across four divergent woody angiosperms. ... more

In the warm spring of March, NTU is once again hosting the 2023 NTU Azalea Festival. The slogan of the festival this year is “Colorful azaleas beckoning the spring, Diligent students chasing their dreams.” As the pandemic is easing, NTU resumes on-site festivities to celebrate this annual event ... more

In accordance with the announcement of the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) of loosening the mask-wearing regulations indoors from February 20 and the Ministry of Education’s announcement of easing mask restrictions indoors at school of all levels from March 6, NTU announces the following epidemic measures effective from the upcoming semester (111-2). The measures will be flexibly adjusted according to the latest CECC announcements ... more

Prof. Chih-hao Hsieh from the Institute of Oceanography and Prof. Chun-Wei Chang from the Institute of Fishery Sciences, NTU lead an international team and develop a novel method that successfully anticipates the occurrence and type of a variety of critical transition events. This study, published in Science Advances (Jan 2023), overcomes the long-lasting challenge in revealing a quantitative threshold as well as distinguishing types of critical transition by early warning signals using empirical data collected in real-world systems ... more

The 2023 Taipei International Book Fair was grandly held at Exhibition Hall 1 of the Taipei World Trade Center from the end of January to the beginning of February. NTU Press (NTUP) organized an exquisite book exhibition under the theme of “Knowledge Intersections” at the venue. The creative booth design presented the academic publications of NTUP collected over the years. In addition to the book exhibition, NTUP also hosted nine seminars, attracting many readers to participate ... more

At the beginning of 2023, the Year of the Rabbit, NTU held a ceremony on January 31, inviting former Presidents and current President Wen-Chang Chen (陳文章) along with other honorable guests to celebrate the Spring Festival. During the event, Chung-Ching Chen (陳崇青), doctoral student from the Graduate Institute of Musicology, and Musician Sayun Chang (張幼欣) were invited to perform two songs with liuqin. ... more

With the financial aid provided by NTU alumnus Yun-Chu Huang (黃雲駒), along with the assistance of the department office and the alumni society of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, the landscape of the atrium located between Building No. 4 of the Department of Horticulture and Building No. 5 of the Department of Bioengineering on the NTU main campus has been transformed into an exquisite garden with ecological education value ... more

Professor Wen-Chang Chen (陳文章) took up the post as NTU’s 13th president on January 7. The ceremony was overseen by the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s Political Deputy Minister of Education Mon-Chi Lio (劉孟奇). Former Presidents Chen Sun (孫震), Wei-Jao Chen (陳維昭), and Pan-Chyr Yang (楊泮池) all gave congratulations to President Wen-Chang Chen during their warm speeches ... more

Under the leadership of Executive Vice President Chiapei Chou on the restoration project of the former residence of Professor Jing-Nong Tai, NTU has successfully transformed this historical place into a one-of-a-kind cultural landscape—Jing-Nong Tai Culture Center ... more

The international team led by Dr. Hsun-Ming Hu, Dr. Shih-Yu Lee, and Prof. Chuan-Chou Shen revealed the detailed history of the westerly winds belt over the past 6,500 years. The research was published in the top journal Nature Communications on December 21. ... more

The research team led by Professor Pi-Tai Chou from the Department of Chemistry successfully broke through the world record of strong organic light emission to 1000 nanometers. This outstanding research result was officially published on October 10, 2022 in the top journal Nature Photonics. ... more