The first 2010 Inherence from Masters Program, organized by
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, will begin this
summer, where outstanding alumni will share their knowledge and
experience with the students.
Vice-President for Academic Affairs Ming-Jer Tang expressed,
“The words, deeds and thoughts of the outstanding alumni are the
spiritual model and learning benchmark for students.”
Prof. Ming-Jer Tang also pointed out, “The pursuit for
excellence and the advancement toward top are the common goal for
everyone at NCKU. NCKU alumni, more than 140,000 in the world, are
the solid assets of NCKU in becoming an internationally top
university. The outstanding performance of the alumni in each field
has brought great honor to their alma mater.”
NCKU 2010 Inherence from Masters Program, organized by the
Office of Academic Affairs, is accepting applications till June
10th. The masters are Chair Professor Ying-Tai Lung from the field
of humanities, Chief Executive Officer of Uni-President Enterprises
Corporation Chang-Sheng Lin from the field of management, Chairman
of Delta Group Bruce Cheng from the field of technology,
Academician Ching-Wu Chu and Prof. Yia-Chung Chang from the field
of science and Academician Ming-Chiao Lai from the field of
biomedicine.
The six masters will each select one student to learn from them
from July 15th to August 31st, 2010. The candidates are limited to
third-year undergraduate students but are open to all the
departments. Subsidies will be provided based on the study
location. For instance, the subsidy will be NT$150,000 for overseas
study and NT$50,000 for domestic study.
This summer event may take place in the enterprise, foundation
or laboratory established by the masters. Students may also attend
company meetings to understand how company operates and regularly
engage in discussions with the masters to exchange opinions and
ideas.
The masters of the NCKU 2010 Inherence from Masters Program are
one of the best of their fields of humanities, management,
technology, science and biomedicine.
Chair Professor Ying-Tai Lung from the field of humanities
received her bachelor degree in Foreign Language and Literature at
National Cheng Kung University and a doctoral degree from Kansas
State University in English and American Literature.
She became the Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taipei
City in September 1999, joined the Journalism and Media Studies
Centre of the University of Hong Kong in 2004, and established the
Lung Ying-Tai Cultural Foundation in 2005. Since 2008, she has
undertaken the position of Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua
University in Taiwan.
Her writings in the column of China Times were published in a
book of social-political criticism, “The Wild Fire,” in 1985. In
1988, she moved to Germany. Her essays began to appear on European
newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Her work
also began to appear in mainland Chinese newspaper in the early
1990s.
Prof. Lung’s recent book “Big River, Big Sea - Untold Stories of
1949” is about the 1949 civil war and the escape to Taiwan of
supporters of the Kuomintang. It sold over 100,000 copies in Taiwan
and 10,000 in Hong Kong in its first month of release.
Chief Executive Officer of Uni-President Enterprises Corporation
Chang-Sheng Lin from the field of management is the chief engineer
responsible for the internationalization of Uni-President
Enterprise Corporation.
Chairman of Delta Group Bruce Cheng from the field of technology
established Delta Group in 1971, one of the world’s largest
providers of switching power supplies and DC brushless fans, as
well as components, visual displays, industrial automaton and
networking products.
He has donated one million shares of Delta Electronics stock to
establish the K.T. Li Technology Lectureship in 2001. He has also
donated NT$100 million to National Cheng Kung University to
establish the Sun Yun-Suan Green Building Research Center in 2007
and approximately NT$250 million to construct the NCKU-Delta
Building in 2008.
Academician Ching-Wu Chu from the field of science is an
American-Chinese scientist and the former President of Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology.
He received his bachelor degree from National Cheng Kung
University, master degree from Fordham University and doctoral
degree from University of California at San Diego.
He has received numerous awards and honors for his outstanding
work in superconductivity, including the US National Medal of
Science and the International Prize for New Materials. He was an
invited contributor to the White House National Millennium Time
Capsule at the National Archives in 2000 and was selected the Best
Researcher in the US by US News and World Report in 1990.
Dr. Chu is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Academia Sinica, Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE) and the Third
World Academy of Sciences. His research activities extend beyond
superconductivity to magnetism and dielectrics.
Prof. Yia-Chung Chang from the field of science is the
Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of Research Center for
Applied Sciences Academia Sinica since 2005. He received his
bachelor degree from National Cheng Kung University in 1974, master
and doctoral degree from California Institute of Technology in 1978
and 1980.
He joined the Physics Department, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in 1980 as a visiting research assistant
professor, and became an assistant professor in 1982, associate
professor in 1986, and professor in 1991.
His main research interests are in condensed matter theory,
semiconductor electronics, photonic materials, and devices. In the
last three decades he has worked on a series of related topics
including shallow impurities and excitons in semiconductor
superlattices and quantum wells, electronic and optical properties
of semiconductors, surfaces and interfaces, and nanostructures,
phonons and electron-phonon couplings in semiconductors and
nanostructures, non-linear optical properties, many-body effects,
exciton condensation, magnetic multilayers and giant
magentoresistance, photonic crystals, optical metrology, detectors,
lasers, quantum transport properties of nanostructures,
spintronics, and quantum computing. He has published over 260
papers in SCI journals.
Academician Michael Ming-Chiao Lai from the field of biomedicine
is a world-renowned molecular virologist with special expertise in
the studies of the RNA viruses. He was the Distinguished Research
Fellow and Vice President of Academia Sinica, Distinguished
Professor of University of Southern California and Investigator of
Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
He received his master degree from National Taiwan University in
1968, doctoral degree and postdoctoral training from University of
California, Berkeley, California, in 1973.
He has made numerous seminal contributions to the understanding
of the molecular biology and pathogenesis of the coronavirus, which
causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) among other
diseases, and is an author of many textbook chapters on
coronavirus.
Dr. Lai was elected to the membership of Academia Sinica,
American Academy of Microbiology and The Academy of Sciences for
the Developing World. He has served on the editorial boards of many
other scientific journals. He has also received Lifetime
Achievement Awards from USC in 2008 and from Society of Chinese
Bioscientists in America in 2009.
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