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Tunghai University-News--Tunghai University allies with National Museum of Natural Science
Tunghai University allies with National Museum of Natural Science
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- Date : 2016-12-14
To establish sustainable and stronger cooperation, the National Museum of Natural Science’s Director-General Wei-Hsin Sun and Tunghai President Mao-Jiun Wang signed a collaboration agreement on December 6. The purpose of the agreement is to promote general science jointly and to root science in the education industry.
The academic collaboration between Tunghai and the Museum started with the teaching faculty program in 1998. Over the years, dozens of researchers of the Museum have come to teach in Tunghai. The courses include Invertebrate Study, Marine Ecology, Fundamentals of Life Science, Fundamentals of Ecological Diversity, The Folk-Art of Taiwan, Atmospheric Science, Fundamentals of Space Science, Earth Science-Geology, The Social Impact of Modern Biology, From Human Evolution to Human Genome Project, Scientific Viewpoints at National Museum of Natural Science, and more. Topics cover life science, earth science, anthropology, humanities, and arts, encompassing great diversity beloved by students. This year, the Head of Science Education Department, Dr. De-Hsiang Liu, offered an online course "Story of Mankind” at Tunghai. Through the new media of internet, the course has opened a new chapter of cooperation between the National Museum and Tunghai University.
According to Director-General Wei-Hsin Sun, besides the main buildings located downtown Taichung, the National Museum of Natural Science has three additional complexes, including the Earthquake Museum of Taiwan, Chelungpu Fault Preservation Park, and Fonghuanggu Bird and Ecology Park. The three sites complement one another and serve as ideal platforms for general education of science. Collaboration with educational institutions has always been an intended direction for the Museum’s development. In the past, the Museum is already working closely with Tunghai University specifically in the area of life science. By signing this official agreement, the two parties intend to add new collaborative projects and raise the quality of previous projects to generate more aspects in teaching and sharing.
President Mao-Jiun Wang of Tunghai University congratulated the Museum for being a significant and successful part of Taiwan’s scientific education in the past 30 years. Due to location advantages, Tunghai University has been able to take advantage of having the Museum as an important helper in providing fundamental and general education courses on campus. He hopes the two parties would fully collaborate in science, humanities, social studies, arts, and creative design. The newly-signed agreement will definitely witness a start of an extraordinary future. The diverse collaborations between Tunghai and the Museum not only bring resources into the campus, but also root deeper into high schools and colleges through the connections of Tunghai University.