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NTNU Goes to Malaysia Recruiting Students

In respond to the New Southbound Policy, the higher education of Taiwan is actively looking for great students. Five Presidents from top Universities of NTU system and Yunlin Universities worked together and went to Kuala Lumper, Malaysia from November 4th to 6th and held 3 orientations. Around 356 spots are open for South East Asian students who are interested in the nice teaching quality Taiwan offers.

NTNU Grabbed Runner up at 2016 Mobileheroes

This year, a total of 372 teams, nearly a thousand contestants, joined the 2016 Mobileheroes, a competition that aims to develop a variety of innovative, wearable devices, application and Internet of Things with EMediaTek LinkIt. Solve the problem we face in everyday life with technology. The team “NTNUME_SPLab” led by professor Wu Shuen De of the Department of Mechatronic Engineering grabbed the runner up.

Chair Professor Yang Mu awarded the 2016 Cikada Prize

Chair Professor Yang Mu was award the 2016 Cikada Prize by the Swedish Institute. In the afternoon of November 11th, the ceremony was held at the VIP room of NTNU. President Chang, Chair Professor Yang and other distinguished guests showed up. The Chairman of the Cikada Prize, Lars Vargö came to Taiwan to give the prize to Prof. Yang in person.

Two Journals from NTNU are accepted by Scopus

Scopus, the world-renowned journal analysis and documentation library, organized the "Scopus and Strategy for Improving Visibility Forum" at the GIS TAIPEI TECH Convention Center on November 16th, under the arrangement of Elsevier. The awarding ceremony was held for Journals being collected from June 2014 to June 2016. Two journals from the English Department was given the award, respectively, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics and English Teaching and Learning.

Alumnae Chiang is the First Asian Lecturer in School of Visual Arts

“There’s always chance” said Chiang Meng Chih, NTNU alumni graduated in 2009. Chiang was born in Pingtung, Taiwan. It was due to the poverty of her family that she has self-studied art since she’s a child. In 2005, she graduated in the honor of the first place from art talented class of National Pingtung Senior High School where she received 3-years full scholarship. Meng was later accepted to a BFA in Visual Communication Design from National Taiwan Normal University, as the recipient of Merit Scholarship. She actively explored to a great diversity of design and developed a new perspective on creative expression.