Spotlights

Newly established in 2022, NTU’s University Players Theatre will officially be open next year. The plaque unveiling ceremony was held on December 26. The brand-new interior design and comprehensive equipment of the theater will bring new vitality to the campus, enriching the life of students and faculty ... more

The research team led by Prof. Chun-Liang Pan found that, under mitochondrial stress, octopamine secreted from the RIC modulatory neuron targets the AIY interneuron through the SER-6 receptor to trigger learned bacterial aversion ... more

In order to accelerate Taiwan’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, NTU is actively having conversations about combining NTU’s energy in innovative research and the development of industrial technology to fulfill University Social Responsibility (USR). ... more

Prof. Cheng-Hsiu Tsai and his team’s taxonomic revision of a Pleistocene geoemydid turtle from Taiwan confirms the existence of the Pleistocene Mauremys reevesii. Their results then offer a definitive example for conservation paleobiology – Mauremys reevesii in Taiwan should be considered a native species ... more

Dr. Hsueh-Ping Chu and her team uncovers that TERRA regulates the DNA G4 structures and ATRX occupancy near transcription start sites to regulate gene expression. This is the first study showing that a long non-coding RNA is capable of regulating DNA G4 structures across the genome ... more

In accordance with the latest pandemic prevention regulations announced by Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) and Ministry of Education (MOE), the University updated the pandemic prevention measures on campus as follows, effective from December 1 ... more

Associate Professor Cheng-Hsiu Tsai of NTU’s Department of Life Sciences and University of California, Berkeley collaborated on an international paleontology research project, which findings confirmed for the first time that saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) once existed in Taiwan in ancient times ... more

Four NTU faculty members won the 26th National Chair Professorship and three were presented with the 66th Academic Award. They are the epitome of academic research in the country. Congratulations to them all! ... more

In response to the in-depth discussion on the issue of human survival at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), nine national universities jointly established the “Taiwan University Alliance for Sustainable Governance” on November 11 ... more

NTU celebrated its 94th anniversary with a ceremony at the NTU Sports Center on November 15 and a series of festivities and events throughout the month. The ceremony was presided over by President Chung-Ming Kuan and attended by NTU’s former presidents, senior administrators, as well as alumni ... more

President Chung-Ming Kuan recently led a delegation to Israel. This meaningful trip not only deepens diverse partnerships between NTU and partner universities in Israel but also opens up new possibilities for future collaborations with corporations in Israel. ... more

How do cells initiate the breaks at telomeres? Dr. Hsueh-Ping (Catherine) Chu’s team in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department at NTU discovered that TERRA R-loops and XPF are the drivers. TERRA is a long non-coding RNA, which contains telomeric repeat sequences and forms DNA:RNA hybrids at telomeres ... more

A-BIG-NET project is the first large genetic study of BP in Asian populations, a collaboration between the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (led by Hailiang Huang), National Taiwan University (led by Po-Hsiu Kuo), Virginia Commonwealth University (led by Kenneth Kendler), and Johns Hopkins University (led by Peter Zandi) ... more

This study is jointly conducted by Dr. Hsueh-Fen Juan, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Life Sciences and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics and Director of the Center for Computational and Systems Biology, and Dr. Hsuan-Cheng Huang. ... more

The study from Dr. Kang-Yi Su’s group (Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, NTU) published on eLife identifies a heat shock protein 40, HLJ1, has emerged as a key factor in both innate and adaptive immunity ... more

Congratulations to Associate Processor Kevin Tseng from NTU’s Department of Finance for winning the Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. In order to encourage young scholars to ... more

In October of 2022, Executive Vice President Chiapei Chou signed a new agreement with University of Edinburgh (UE) in Scotland. Also, NTU and University of St Andrews (UOSA) have officially become partner universities ... more

In an article published in PNAS on August 11, 2022, Dr. Hsien-Sung Huang and his team from Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences revealed the clues to the pathogenesis of RBFOX3-linked epilepsy ... more

In accordance with the latest epidemic prevention guidelines announced by the Central Epidemic Command Center and the Ministry of Education, NTU would like to announce the following epidemic prevention measures, effective from October 13, 2022 ... more

Professor Ya-Ping Chiu (Department of Physics, TSMC-NTU Research Center, Graduate School of Advanced Technology) and her team (graduate student Zi-Liang Yang and Dr. Bo-Chao Huang) took part as co-authors in the research of 2D layered semiconductors with cross-sectional STM ... more

On October 7, 2022, Prof. Wen-Chang Chen, Dean of NTU’s College of Engineering, was elected the next President of National Taiwan University. The Presidential Search Committee (The Committee) will prepare all the relevant documents of the new President ... more

NTU has always been striving to improve student well-being. To serve this purpose, the Student Safety Center, Center for Student Well-Being, and the Disability Support Services Office were relocated to the west side of the Administration Building to provide better care for NTU students ... more

Professor Guo of NTU’s Department of Physics, together with coworkers from RIKEN and University of Tokyo, Japan as well as Harvard University, USA, investigated the second-order optical conductivity in topological semimetals ... more

NTU has made great efforts working with the local tribes in XinYi Township, Nantou, to revive not just the millet industry but also the local culture of the Bunun community while meeting sustainable development goals. ... more

The “2022 CommonWealth University Citizen (USR) Rankings” by CommonWealth Magazine hosted an award ceremony on September 8. NTU won the first place in the national public university category for three consecutive years. ... more

An avant-garde immersive experience presented by NTU’s College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), College of Bioresources and Agriculture (BICD), and the Department of Drama and Theatre was unveiled at the Future Exhibition Hall in August ... more

To implement the Taiwan Huayu BEST Program launched by the Ministry of Education, NTU collaborates with its partner universities to promote Chinese language teaching resources in Taiwan. Executed by NTU’s International College, this program not only provides scholarships ... more

To understand how aphids develop asexually and viviparously at the molecular level, Chun-che Chang— Professor in the Department of Entomology in the College of Bio-resources and Agriculture at NTU—has worked on this issue for nearly twenty years since he joined NTU in August of 2003 ... more

Individuals diagnosed or tested positive for COVID-19, please notify the epidemic prevention contact person of your unit/department and report to the “Reporting confirmed cases” system of the NTU epidemic prevention website ... more

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) established the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award to encourage future academic talents of the country to continuously devote themselves to academic research while commemorating the contributions that the late Mr. Ta-You Wu. ... more

Dr. Hsun-Ming Hu, the first author, and Prof. Chuan-Chou Shen, the leader of this international project, published their latest prominent study of the split westerly winds over Europe during the early LIA in the prestigious journal “Nature Communications” on August 20 ... more

The NTU opening ceremony was quite different this year. Titled “#NTU New Life,” the ceremony was one-of-a-kind with a series of meaningful activities presented during the event. In addition to inviting first-year students to take pictures and check in on Facebook ... more

The NTU Digital Learning Center is planning on further extending the NTU MOOC project to high schools nationwide starting from the academic year 2022-2023, offering students the opportunities to utilize NTU’s open curriculum. A series of courses from NTU OCW and NTU MOOC x Coursera will be offered to high school students as independent electives at the beginning of the fall semester of 2022 ... more

NTU Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research (WCDR) helps integrate Taiwan’s early warning system for floods into Belize's disaster management protocols, which effectively minimizes the impact caused by extreme weather ... more

In response to the government’s energy transition policy and moving toward the 2050 net-zero emission goal, NTU and CPC Corporation (CPC), Taiwan jointly signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on net-zero emissions on July 25 ... more

The research team of Prof. Fang-Jen Lee from the Institute of Molecular Medicine recently published an innovative paper, finding for the first time that fibronectin can trigger small GTPase Arl4A/D proteins stability and enhance cell migration ... more

The year 2022 marks the third year of NTU’s “Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report.” Since the announcement of our carbon neutrality goals in 2020, we have proactively developed a carbon neutrality pathway as well as specific measures for the NTU campus to become carbon neutral ... more

Recent research led by Professor Ruby Huang from NTU School of Medicine discovered evidence of architectural changes of the cancer cell genome at the three-dimensional (3D) level during the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process ... more

Academia Sinica recently announced its latest list of Academicians. NTU faculty members Li Chyong Chen and Yiting Li were elected as the 33rd Academicians of Academia Sinica ... more

After more than a year of interaction and collaboration, NTU IoX Center officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) in May 2022 ... more

The team led by Distinguished Professor Ru-Shi Liu from the Department of Chemistry published a review on the evolution of phosphor materials and their applications in light-emitting diodes, in order to clarify the development history of phosphors, the design principles, and the future of phosphor crystal structures ... more

Dr. Li-Pen Wang from the Department of Civil Engineering recently worked with a team of international researchers from Imperial College London (UK), KU Leuven (Belgium) and Rain++ (a UK-based startup) to co-develop a new object-based radar rainfall nowcasting system for the UK Met Office ... more

Pai-Chi Li, Vice President of the Office of Research and Development and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, won the Otto Schmitt Award presented by International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) ... more

The list of winners of the 20th Y. Z. Hsu Science Awards has been announced recently. Five NTU faculty members were presented with the awards ... more

An international collaborative study led by Dr. Kai-Chien Yang, Associate Professor of NTU’s Department and Graduate Institute of Pharmacology, discovered the novel atherorelevant mechano-transduction mechanisms mediated by thioredoxin domain containing 5 (TXNDC5) in vascular endothelial cells ... more

The research collaboration team led by Prof. Chun-Wei Chen (NTU) and Dr. Tsyr-Yan Yu (Academica Sinica) reported the result of the reorientational dynamics of A-site cations in two-dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites (2D OIHPs), which was published in Nature Communications recently ... more

A team of researchers from NTU, NTU Hospital, Academia Sinica, Stanford University, University of California, and University of Colorado, have identified a compound in soybeans that may help to prevent the adverse cardiovascular effects of both recreational and medical marijuana use ... more

Starting from today, all classes (including experimental, practicum, and hands-on courses) will be switched to remote-only instruction for the rest of the spring semester (110-2) due to the ongoing pandemic ... more

In accordance with the latest announcements of Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) and Ministry of Education (MOE), the university updated the pandemic prevention measures as follows, effective from today ... more

A comprehensive plan of two-week distance teaching mode will be applied to all courses (including experimental, practicum, and hands-on courses) from May 9 (Monday) as the drill in prevention measure of epidemic ... more

In accordance with the adjusted epidemic prevention measures announced by CECC for the time from May 1 to 31, the NTU Epidemic Prevention Team has reached a consensus on May 2 and approved the following epidemic prevention measures, which will be implemented as from today. ... more

Times Higher Education (THE) released the Impact Rankings 2022 on April 27. National Taiwan University ranked 37th in the total of 1,406 participating institutions worldwide ... more

In accordance with the latest epidemic prevention measures announced by CECC, the university has adjusted NTU epidemic prevention measures as follows ... more

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) released the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022 on April 6. Of the 41 subjects ranked this year, NTU has 9 subjects in the world's Top 50, and 36 subjects within the world's Top 100 ... more

In response to the recently confirmed COVID-19 cases on campus, NTU has taken swift disfection measures and conducted contact tracing ... more

In response to the current epidemic situation, courses with enrollment of 80 students or above, or appropriate social distancing－2.25 square meters/person－can’t be kept ... more

We received notifications during the extended Tomb Sweeping holidays and again on April 6 that two employees at the University’s Undergraduate Academic Affairs Division ... more

In compliance with the announcements issued by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on March 28, 2022, all NTU faculty members, staff and students are required to wear a face mask at all times ... more

Prof. Chun-Liang Pan and his team found that when nematodes are confronted with cellular stress, they can induce memory and learning behaviors via serotonergic circuits. Their research findings can be found in a recent issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ... more

The collaboration among Dr. Gong-Ru Lin 林恭如 (Professor of NTU’s Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics and the Dept. of Electrical Engineering), Dr. Hao-Chung Kuo 郭浩中 ... more

After two years of cancellation, the annual NTU Campus Recruitment Fair finally returned on March 5th. This theme of this year's fair was "Guiding Digital Transformation & Creating New Applications for Knowledge.". ... more

The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced its latest members on February 9, 2022. In recognition of his international leadership and contributions to earthquake engineering research and design of steel structures ... more

This January, National Taiwan University (NTU) officially partnered with the European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan (ECCT) and joined the European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan Low Carbon Initiative (ECCT LCI) ... more

In response to the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, Taipei City Hospital has announced that, starting from January 24, 2022, individuals experiencing symptoms ... more

In compliance with the announcements issued by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on January 9, all NTU faculty members, staff and students are required to wear a face mask at all times ... more

In her feature-length directorial debut with American Girl, NTU Department of Chinese Literature alumna Feng-I Fiona Roan (阮鳳儀) earned seven nominations ... more