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NUK assists international students to attend 2022 Kaohsiung Little Southeast Asia Community Carnival
【Promotion of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) series】Around Kaohsiung Station, there lies Kaohsiung Little Southeast Asia Community. Aside from being a co-living circle for migrant workers, Taiwanese new immigrants and international students, it also acts as bridge between knowing Kaohsiung and Southeast Asia, acting as one of the local resources for Kaohsiung to become an international city.Hsing-Hao Wu from Office of International Affairs of NUK not only participated in the opening ceremony in person but also arrived at the bazaar with colleagues to cheer the students up and enjoyed this grand event.In order to facilitate communication between citizens and new immigrants (migrant workers, Taiwanese new immigrants and international students) and create more opportunities of knowing and interacting with each other, Kaohsiung Friends of Indonesia Association-KFI, along with Labor Affairs Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government, Sinsing District Office, Sanmin District Office, NUK and 7 colleges in Kaohsiung, held “2022 Kaohsiung Little Southeast Asia Community Carnival” at Kaohsiung Little Southeast Asia Community on October 9th, from2:00 pm to 7:00 pm.In addition to numerous Southeast Asian snacks, Southeast Asian cultural performances, lucky draws and educational experiencing activities, there were also more than 30 crowded stands and 20 more Southeast Asian specialty stalls.In order to fulfill University Social Responsibility, National University of Kaohsiung enhances social activation and integrates into local life, organizing 2022 Kaohsiung Little Southeast Asia Community Carnival.Nineteen NUK international students from Indonesia, Malaysia, and so on collaborated in preparing for 2 food stands. The creative cuisine, based on their familiar hometown food, was turned into Chicken Satay with Chutney, Mee Goreng, Indonesian corn cheese pie, etc.International students of NUK not only learnt how to arrange activity and manage income and expenditure while preparing for the food stands but also helped residents of Kaohsiung know more about them through promoting different cultures and delicious cuisine.#SDGs17
2022 IYSL Online - SDGs Innovation Competition: Idea of helping abused women won the championship
【Promotion of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) series】 Held by National University of Kaohsiung, 2022 IYSL Online - SDGs Innovation Competition is coming to the third, and the finals were on October 5th. The top 10 teams from sister schools in Taiwan, Indonesia, India and the Philippines showed their abilities in turn. In the end, the team from Philippines Bicol University won the championship with the idea of designing an APP called WISP (Women Inspiring Support and Progress) to help local abused women, gaining the biggest prize.Team WISP stated that one in four women aged 15-49 in the Philippines has experienced domestic violence, and in Bicol where they are located, the proportion of women experiencing violence is much higher than in other regions. That’s the reason why they designed the APP and built a support system to help abused women get out of life difficulties and become financially independent.As for the runner-up and the second runner-up, Indian RIT Institute of Technology students won those prizes. The runner-up, Analysis of Solid Waste and Potential Scope for Refused Derive Fuel in Islampur City used Pyrolysis technology to reuse waste plastic into fuel, fulfilling Circular Economy.The second runner-up team STARK Tech developed a machine to shovel livestock manure to replace manpower for India is the fifth largest poultry farming country in the world. This move can improve the environmental hygiene of the farm.Three other teams won the Rising Star Award. The AMBAH team from NUK indicated that using biomimetic Saharan silver ants’ hair as thermal insulation building materials to lower the indoor temperature by 4-5 degrees, for the hair can reflect and block sunlight.Another team called SPROUT from Philippines Bicol University designed an APP to teach the public how to turn household kitchen waste into fertilizer, and resell it to local farmers to turn leftover into gold.From Indonesia University Tanjungpura, the team Pi Feed indicated that agricultural waste such as pineapple peels can also be reused and turned into organic livestock feed.Upholding the spirit of University Social Responsibility, IYSL committed to advancing SDGs. After Yueh-Tuan Chen, the president of NUK started the campaign, the videos that presidents of the sister schools recorded across the sea were showed to encourage participating teams to solve social issues and lead the society towards sustainable development.This event also invited Jiunn-Rong Yeh, former Minister of Education and Chair Professor of National Taiwan University, to give a special speech, encouraging young students to cultivate the ability of facing future challenge through civic participation and social practice.Hsing-Hao Wu, International Director of the event, said that through multiple partnership, IYSL works with sister schools at home and abroad to promote sustainable vision and cultivate students’ global perspective, which is of far-reaching significance.#SDGs4 #SDGs5 #SDGs11 #SDGs12 #SDGs13 #SDGs17
Digital Learning Partner Program in NUK earns recognition and is awarded by Ministry of Education
【Promotion of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) series】 National University of Kaohsiung has participated in “Digital Learning Partner Program” with Ministry of Education since 2015. The president, Yueh-Tuan Chen, invited Professor Tsung-Fang Wu, Department of Applied Mathematics, and Professor Chih-Hung Wu, Department of Electrical Engineering, to be in charge of this program. With the support of administration and teaching departments for 8 years, students of NUK help the students of primary and secondary schools in Kaohsiung, Tainan, Chiayi through regular and fixed-point online companionship without being restricted by distance.The core value of this plan is to accompany lives with life, and to teach lives with life. This also echoes the spirit of SDGs – to balance the educational gap between urban and rural areas, and to establish a social care platform for practice. At the aspect of knowledge, learning, verification, creation, cooperation, they form an interactive cycle to implement sustainable development goals.This year, NUK has an outstanding performance in Outstanding Model Selection Activities of MOE just like the past few years. Six teachers and students stood out from 2,600 digital learning partners from 25 universities across the country and 131 national primary and secondary schools, and all of them were awarded.The two students who won distinguished teachers of learning partners (21 in total) respectively are Chia-Hui Wu and Hsu-Cheng Chao from Department of Finance; distinguished digital learning partners (35 winners in total) are Yu-Ting Su and Yu-Hsuan Su from Department of East Asian Languages and Literature.The winners of outstanding class teacher of national primary and secondary schools (18 winners in total) are Ming-Chia Wu from Ka-bua Sua Elementary School, Tainan City, and Yi Hsieh from Chingshan Elementary School, Tainan City.The following is the digital learning partner program described by the 6 award-winning teachers and students:“Smile and the world will smile with you. This sentence probably is the best answer to how to become an excellent partner. Make great efforts and treat everyone sincerely. The students can feel the sincerity, and you will also gain something in it,” said Chia-Hui Wu.“Work hard, so the change will come true. It’s the effort of digital learning partners that makes good teaching quality. It’s the dedication of teachers that makes here a friendly teaching environment. Everyone should perform their functions and keep an open mind, so that we can move on to the greater future together,” said Hsu-Cheng Chao.“The art of education lies not in the ability to impart, but in motivating, awakening, and encouraging. I was frustrated when first being as a digital learning partner, but then I realized the meaning of digital learning partners lies in learning and growing with children after I made teaching material that fitted the needs of children. Students actually remember every effort we made. Their enthusiasm for learning also awakes my power of learning all kinds of things,” said Yu-Ting Su.“It was fate that made us meet each other, and accompanying that ushered the growth of us. One day, a student told me that he didn’t want to graduate from his school, for there was no such Digital Learning Partner Program in junior high school, and they might never meet again. I think that Digital Learning Partner Program is a plan with great continuation value, bringing students opportunity and hope. The digital learning partners can also grow and learn during the course. Both sides will definitely gain more diverse thoughts and knowledge from each other,” said Yu-Hsuan Su.“Every companionship is a seed of hope to be sprouted. Because of the experience of being a digital learning partner in college, it makes me know more about how to cultivate tacit understanding on teaching interaction with students. I expect that both digital learning partners and students can grow together, so the seeds of hope will sprout successfully,” said Ming-Chia Wu.“Share the joy of studying to people around you with a grateful heart. When I saw students express thanks to the digital learning partners with tears in the final video, I realized that they all remember our love and dedication, and they also learnt how to give this gratitude back to others,” said Yi Hsieh.Through the invisible network, Digital Learning Partner Program connects a group of strangers who had no chance to know each other into a "Cloud e-Family" to support each other, prompting them to grow and thrive.The Awards Ceremony had been held at Fu Jen University on September 16th. The Ministry of Education also issued a Certificate of Appreciation to National University of Kaohsiung in recognition.#SDGs4 #SDGs10
NUK held a retro party with Khut-Kang Business District at Mid-Autumn Festival
【Promotion of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) series】 Directed by Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs, National University of Kaohsiung collaborated with Institute for Information Industry, Startup Talk, and Kaohsiung City Yancheng Khut-Kang Business District Development Association, conducting “KHUT-KANG Modern Time’s” on Mid-Autumn Festival long weekend. With a strong retro style, it led the public to see the beauty of Khut-Kang in the 1970s.“KHUT-KANG Modern Time’s” was held near the Green Eight Park of Yancheng Khut-Kang Business District on September 9th, which lasted for two days. There were music performances, antique selling, and a retro bazaar.Otherwise, Taiwan Association of Culture Sustainability for Two Stroke Scooters was invited to hold an old car party and design puzzle-solving activity, thus attracted people at the bazzar to deeply visit the stores in the business district.NUK said that the school has been linking industry and society actively, and they also connected with Khut-Kang Business District Development Association, local cultural workers (72 DESIGN studio) and neighboring stores to discuss holding this event together. Leading students to perform at the opening ceremony and to set up stalls at the bazaar obviously gave full play to the value of university and the spirit of co-prosperity.Kuang-Tsan Hsu, the chairman of Kaohsiung City Yancheng Khut-Kang Business District Development Association, stated that the association has long been concerned about the development of the business district, hoping that more people would visit and get to know more about Yancheng Khut-Kang Business District through this event. They also look forward to shaping the form of cooperation between industry, official and university in the future, and jointly promoting the local characteristics.#SDGs11
NUK opening ceremony: Encourages students to cultivate cross-domain capabilities
【Promotion of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) series】On September 5th, 2022, National University of Kaohsiung (NUK) officially held a physical opening ceremony for Freshmen. The vice president, Tsung-Fang Wu, encourages Freshmen to involve with diverse academic programs such as “AVR” actively aside from taking required subjects. As the nearby Qiaotou Science Park and TSMC are massively under construction, the students must seize the chance and enrich themselves.Since 2019, the outbreak of COVID-19 has intensely affected the whole world and fully changed traditional education patterns. For instance, the Freshmen at the opening ceremony must have experienced taking classes through distance learning while they’re in high schools. Yet, students certainly have dreams about college life, and one of the most dreamlike things is to grow with their mates on this green campus, said Tsung-Fang Wu.Tsung-Fang Wu emphasizes that NUK has been constantly working on improvement, innovation, and creating a high-quality learning environment for students. Especially, the “AVR Program,” which was established this year, leads students to learn more about the future development of Metaverse in advance. Joining AVR Program will immensely develop interdisciplinary learning skills.Otherwise, the Student Activity Center, which won City Construction Golden Quality Award for Architectural Design, has opened on the school anniversary day this year. It provides a spacious place for school clubs, and Chunghwa Post Company will also presence in it in the future. Many stores are invited, showing the spirit of sustainable development.As some countries loosen restrictions in this post pandemic era, National University of Kaohsiung will interact with more than 340 sister schools frequently and encourage students to apply for exchange students, participate in online forums, and expand diverse visions.Tsung-Fang Wu also gave Freshmen a pep talk. He firmly believes that choosing NUK is definitely a wise choice, for school authorities keep devoting all the resources to the innovation of society and sustainable development. The excellent performance of NUK gained recognition from all walks of life. Among public general medium-sized universities, NUK won championship of “2022 Enterprises Favorite College Students Survey” in Cheers magazine; as for “2022 THE Impact Rankings” in Times Higher Education, NUK ranks 6th in Taiwan, 401st – 600th worldwide.National University of Kaohsiung gives full play to build Kaohsiung a stronghold of 5G and AIoT as government promoted Great Southern ProjectSouthern Semiconductor S Corridor. Besides, NUK has established industry-academia cooperation center with ASE to foster advanced scientific and technological talents, shooting for Semiconductor Talent Training Program of Industrial Development Bureau. Institute for Information Industry and NUK also assist enterprises in digital transformation with practical cases. In the meantime, both sides provide optimization services for startup companies in Asia New Bay Area.#SDGs4 #SDGs8
STANFORD UNIVERSITY NAMES WORLD’S TOP 2% SCIENTISTS, 2021. SEVEN SCIENTISTS FROM NUK ARE RECOGNIZED
Stanford University has recently released a list that represents the top 2 per cent of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines. In an acknowledgment of the high standard of research being undertaken at the National University of Kaohsiung (NUK), the Stanford University has included seven scientists from NUK to its annual list of top 2% scientists in the world. Out of seven scientists who figure on the list are two from NUK’s Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering including Prof. Chien Hsin Yang (楊乾信) and Prof. Wen Fu Ho (何文福), and one each from the Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong (洪宗貝), and Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Prof. Tsung Fang Wu (吳宗芳), and Dept. of Information Management, Prof. Ying-Feng Kuo (郭英峰), and Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Prof. F.-K. Liu(劉福鯤). The report was prepared by a team of experts led by Prof. John Ioannidis, the eminent Professor at the Stanford University. The database was created to provide updated analyses and a publicly available database of top scientists. Updated databases and code are freely available in Mendeley (https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw). The database provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator.
Asia Virtual Academy - 2021 Spring Lecture Series opening ceremony
In partnership with sister universities, National University of Kaohsiung opened the Asia Virtual Academy - 2021 Spring Lecture Series on April 13th. With the aim to maintain academic mobility and deepen friendship with partner universities throughout the difficult times, NUK launched the virtual lecture series. The overarching theme of the series is “Global Studies and Sustainability”, since NUK has been committed to supporting and promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With the joint efforts of our valued partners, Bicol University in the Philippines, Nong Lam University in Vietnam, Universitas Tanjungpura in Indonesia, National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan and Vel Tech University in India, NUK believes that we will learn from each other and gain different perspectives through the lectures in the next six weeks. In the opening ceremony, the distinguished guests from our sister universities also joined virtually to celebrate the beginning of a long-lasting friendship and strong collaboration.In the keynote speech, Prof. Shao-Hsun Keng shared his insights on the topic of Automation and Changes in Occupational Skills. Over 300 students and academics from home and abroad participated online, marking a resounding success of the event. The opening lecture given by Prof. Keng was the first of the six virtual lectures, which will continue every Tuesday through to May 18th. Join us and register now athttps://forms.gle/Pa7iJWzYELYB8dEm6
