Academics urge tighter rules on China links
CHINESE GRANTS: National security agencies should charge professors who accept illegal funding from Beijing, as they could be a threat to security, academics said
By Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Academics called for stiffer penalties and criminal charges against professors who take unauthorized grants from China after the Ministry of Education on Thursday fined National Taiwan University (NTU) chemical engineering professor Lee Duu-jong (李篤中).
Fan Shih-ping (范世平), a National Taiwan Normal University professor of East Asia Studies, on Thursday said that Taiwan-China academic exchanges often occur in a legal gray zone, as Chinese research institutes are more often than not state affiliates with Chinese Communist Party representatives on their staff.
NTNU professor 1st Taiwanese to receive distinguished chemistry award
02/18/2021 09:48 PM
Chiu Mei-hung (邱美虹) / Photo courtesy of the NTNU
Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) Chiu Mei-hung (邱美虹), a professor at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), has become the first Taiwanese to receive the Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering award by an international scientific organization, the Taipei-based university said on Thursday.
Chiu, who currently teaches at the school s Graduate Institute of Science Education, was among the 12 awardees recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) this year, the NTNU said in a statement. These 12 awardees have been selected based on excellence in basic or applied research, distinguished accomplishments in teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership or managerial excellence in the chemical sciences, the IUPAC said in a statement on Feb. 8.
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