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Taiwan Teens Ranked 2nd Globally in Civic Literacy

With the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education, Taiwan applied for the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS2016) in 2013. Professor Liu Mei Hui, from the Department of Education served as the organizer for the project that is made up of teams in different universities. On November 7, 2017 the preliminary result was released, showing that compared to countries in Europe, Asia, the Americas, Taiwan ranks second in the world in terms of citizen awareness and gender equality support, and ranks first in ethnic affiliation support.

CEO of Wonder Workshop Vikas Gupta Visited NTNU

National Taiwan Normal University has been promoting the Industry-academic Cooperation for a long time. CEO of the famous U.S. startup Wonder Workshop Vikas Gupta visited NTNU on the morning of October 17, Professor Wu Cheng Chih and Associate Professor Chen Zhi Hong from the Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education, Ms. Chen Yi Fen from Taipei First Girls' High School and Mr. Huang Wei Ming and Ms. Weng Zhen Yuan from Dong-Hu Junior High School share their ideas with Mr. Gupta on the trends of program education, curriculum development and teaching aid design of primary and secondary schools in the world.

Prof. Lin Received Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Education

Associate Professor Trinity, Yu-Tzu Lin and Professor Wu Cheng Chih and graduate student Hou Ting Yun have received the best paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Education. The first author Lin Yu Tzu was given the award by the president of IEEE Education Society, Claudio Brito. Theodore E. Batchman Best Paper Award

UC Berkeley Signs MOU with NTNU

NTNU signed an MOU with the University of California, Berkeley. UB Berkeley will send 3 university students from the Dept. of chemistry to NTNU. This is a great opportunity for students to learn from each other academically, broaden their horizon and it’s also a good start for cooperation.

Team of Lin Si Min from Dept. of Life Science Discover Buergeria Otai

Do you know that the sound made by frogs can be the clue to discover a new species? Prof. Lin Si Min with students Wang Ying Han, Hsiao Yu Wei discovered a new species of tree frog in Taiwan through sound and behavior. The result, “Acoustic differentiation and behavioral response reveals cryptic species within Buergeria treefrogs (Anura, Rhacophoridae) from Taiwan”, was published in September on PLOS ONE.