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NTNU Chair Prof. Liu Kuo Sung Becomes Member of American Academy

The American Academy serves as a champion of scholarship, civil dialogue, and useful knowledge. As one of the country's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, the Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing the nation and the world. Recently, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced its new members in 2016 with a total number of 213 people from 17 countries. Liu Kuo Sung is one of them. As a chair professor in NTNU and an alumnus from the Department of Fine Arts, he is the first Taiwanese member in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Human Activity is within 700 km

The Chair Professor of Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, NTNU and member of Academia Sinica Cheng Chin-Chuan visited NTNU on April 27th and gave us a marvelous talk about history, language and culture. The topic of his speech is about the limit of human activity is around 700 km. Prof. Cheng delivered his key point in different facets.

Credit Programs for NTU Triangle Alliance Students

National Taiwan University (NTU), National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) are three geologically related institutes of higher education, each with its own academic focus. In order to best integrate their resources, the three universities have together established the “NTU Triangle Alliance”, with a principle of equality and mutual benefit. In addition to the courses available to students of the three universities, partial spots from the credit programs will be provided since next semester.

English Teaching & Learning Celebrating its 40th Birthday

Founded in 1976, English Teaching & Learning is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2016. Editors of this journal held a seminar of ETL 40-year publication on the 23rd of April to look back to the past and welcome the next endeavor. Nearly 100 participants came to this event, such as graduate students, publishers, and scholars interested in this journal.

Cabinet Appointments Announced, NTNU Alumni Made Their Ways

Lists of cabinet appointments by The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have been announced and several NTNU alumni has become part of it.