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NEWSLETTER July 2012 No. 3 Vol. 6 National | Tsing Hua | University Y T RSI E AL V ON I I T A N TSING HUA N ContENTS U st th 1 The 101 Anniversary of Tsing Hua and Her 56 Year in Taiwan 2 NTHU Honors Three Outstanding Alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award 3 The Legacy of Tsing Hua Grandmasters 4 Nobel Laureates Inspired NTHU Audiences 5 Professors Rong-Long Pan and Yuh-Ju Sun Have Their Important Research Published in Nature 6 Farewell Class of 2012! 7 AEARU 30th BOD Meeting and 1st Distinguished Lecture Series in Nanjing University 8 NTHU Volunteer Group Goes to Malaysia This Summer 9 NTHU Placed On the Top Among Taiwanese Universities in Leiden World University Ranking a b THE 101ST ANNIVERSARY OF TSING a President Chen welcoming all guests and stating this year is the true 100th anniversary TH HUA AND HER 56 YEAR IN TAIWAN of Tsing Hua. b Distinguished guests gathered for the joyful occasion. he founding anniversary Hua in Beijing as well as the first Chinese Studies was established. Dr. of Tsing Hua is celebrated President of NTHU when it was Mei was instrumental in recruiting on April 29th this year. April re-established in Taiwan in l956. many grandmasters to join the T29th was the exact date when Tsing During his 24 years of service as Academy and made the Academy a Hua Academy started to operate in the President of Tsing Hua in Beijing key research institution specialized 1911, Beijing. Traditionally, NTHU and NTHU in Hsinchu, Dr. Mei laid a in the studies of Chinese literature, has adopted a policy to celebrate solid foundation for both institutes history of thought and philosophy. her founding anniversary on the last and led both of them to develop After reflecting on the glorious Sunday of April so that it would not and become the elite institutions on history, President Chen turned interfere with academic activities. both sides of the Taiwan Strait. All his attention to the recent President Lih J. Chen indicated that three Nobel laureates that Tsing Hua accomplishments that NTHU using 28 years as a cycle; it would had cultivated, Dr. Yung-Tseh Lee, has accumulated. NTHU has not take 7 years, on the average, to have Dr. Chen-Ning Yang and Dr. Tsung- only been ascending in the world the 29th of April to coincide with Dao Lee were studying on Tsing Hua rankings; our faculty members have a Sunday. Thus, April 29th of 2012 campus when President Mei was the also received numerous national and is actually the 100th anniversary of presiding president. Furthermore, international awards recognizing Tsing Hua. it was during Dr. Mei's term as their research accomplishments. President Chen indicated in his the Dean of address that this year also marks Academic the 50th anniversary of the passing Affairs that the of the late President Mei Yi-chi who world famous served as the President of Tsing Academy of c President Chen with the distinguish guests. d Cutting the birthday cake (from right to left, Dr. Way Kuo, Dr. Tien- Yien Li, President Chen, Chairman T. J. Tseng and Chairman Robert Tsai. c 1 |National Tsing Hua University |2012 Vol. 6 No.3 Many of their research results were they have excelled. awarded three of her alumni with the published in the most prestigious Chairman Tseng also reported on the 13th Distinguished Alumni Awards scientific journals such as Science, progress of the Alumni Gymnasium. to Dr. Tien-Yien Li, Dr. Zhong- Nature and Cell . President Chen Funded with the donations coming Ping Sun and Chairman Robert believes that while we have just from alumni in Taiwan and abroad, Tsai celebrating their outstanding witnessed the highest number of this multi-functional gym will soon achievements in their respective research articles published, by be completed in six months. It will fields. NTHU faculty members, in the most be another beautiful landmark on Last but not the least, a NTHU prestigious outlets this year, this our campus and a great symbol of World Expo was organized and trend will continue and increase in the loyalty and devotion of all alumni hosted by all international students the years to come. toward NTHU. who are currently studying on Mr. T. J. Tseng, Chairman of the On behalf of the class which campus. Twenty-nine nations were Unimicron Technology Corp. and graduated 40 years ago, President represented in the expo featuring a member of NTHU Alumnus Way Kuo of City University of Hong music, dance and theaters aiming at Association, indicated that the Kong took the podium and shared showcasing beautiful aspects of their growth of his alma mater over some of his memories of the fashion home cultures. the last year is phenomenal and and dining facilities on campus when astounding. Faculty members' he was a student here at NTHU. researches are well-recognized He indicated that these memories world-wide and more importantly proved that even though technology students are brighter than ever as and society are changing rapidly, exemplified in all kinds of national the basic principles of an excellent and international competitions that university remain the same. These are the emphasis on the quality and an attitude to deal with issues directly and righteously. President Kuo also emphasized that in the minds of all graduates of NTHU, their love and devotion toward their alma mater will not only remain the same but will increase and deepen as time goes by. d During the ceremony, NTHU also 2012 Vol. 6 No.3 |National Tsing Hua University| 2 a b NTHU HonoRS THREE a Photo of the three distinguished alumni with OUTSTANDING ALUMNI WITH THE President Chen (from right to left: Mr. Robert Tsai, Dr. Tien-Yien Li, President Chen, and DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD Dr. Zhong-Ping Sun). b Dr. Li accepted the Certificate of Distinguished Alumnus. fter a yearlong consideration a rigorous scientist and inspires all alma mater and has made great and discussion at the his students to do the same. He said contribution towards developing Selection Committee, NTHU that being smarter than others is not NTHU's Department of Mathematics. Ahas recently announced and awarded a sufficient condition to success; to Dr. Zhong-Ping Sun received the 13th Distinguished Alumni Awards be able to understand the problem her Ph.D. in Materials Science to three outstanding entrepreneurs is much more conductive. He and Engineering from Cornell applauding their excellence and further stressed that his method of University after graduating from acknowledge the contributions they solving problems is to devote one NTHU's Department of Nuclear have made. They are: more minute than others, and that Engineering in 1974. She is currently Dr. Tien-Yien Li who is a graduate extra minute could be the very step the Vice President of Corporate of the Department of Mathematics needed on the road to success. He Planning at Taiwan Semiconductor and currently a Chair Professor often reminds his students to "do Manufacturing Company (TSMC). at Michigan State University. An it with all your heart; persist until Before joining TSMC, she served extremely accomplished applied the very end and never give up at IBM for 23 years as the General mathematician; he formulated the easily." Additionally, Dr. Li said that Manager of Taiwan Corporation "chaos" theory with Dr. Jim A. learning and doing research require Technology Group, which had Yorker and ushered in a new era for thorough understanding, especially brought her a spot in the Hall the scientific community with their in mathematics, because memorizing of Fame in the IBM Corporation research on the chaotic dynamical the logical process with scanty Technology Group. system. Moreover, Dr. Li, Dr. R. B. knowledge is useless, one should After graduation in 1980, she entered Kellogg and Dr. Yorker's method and look at a problem from different the top IBM Research Center in New theory on how to calculate Brower angles. York as a researcher, and discovered set point broadened the modern Aside from his busy schedule at that many research findings failed research on homotopy continuation Michigan State, Dr. Li has taken a to be materialized in the process of in algorithm. great deal of his time to promote product manufacturing. Eager to find With the motto of "live as if today computational science in Taiwan. a solution for such a gap between is the last day," Dr. Li made himself He is also passionate about his R&D and manufacturing, Dr. Sun 3 |National Tsing Hua University |2012 Vol. 6 No.3 c d asked to be transferred into the as the plans of manufacturing and c President Chen presenting Dr. Sun with the department of product development business development Certificate of Distinguished Alumnus. and later to the manufacturing sector Dr. Sun and her family share a strong d President Chen presenting Mr. Robert Tsai hoping to find solutions to fill such bond with NTHU. Her father and with the Certificate of Distinguished Alumnus. "gaps." siblings are all NTHU's alumni. She is In 1993, Dr. Sun voluntarily also a member of Club One Hundred and medium firms since 1997. He transferred to the marketing field. In and has made many generous believes to serve as a consultant 1996, she was asked to specialize in donations toward the development of to small enterprises at their early the sales of technologies developed NTHU over the years. stage of development is to give back by IBM Technology Group in the Mr. Robert Tsai is a graduate of the the support he received when he fields of microelectronics, hard Department of Chemical Engineering first started his own business.