Spotlights

The campus of the National Taiwan University is an ecological treasure trove, a rare urban oasis in the Taipei City. Following the release of river snails into the wild at the end of August 2021, as a food source for fireflies ... more

NTU set up the Graduate School of Advanced Technology (GSAT) in the Academic Year 2021 according to the Innovation Act Governing the National Key Fields Industry-University Cooperation and Skilled Personnel Training to work with the national policy ... more

Earlier the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced the winners of the 25th National Chair Professorship as well as the winners of the 65th Academic Award... more

This year NTU's performance was outstanding. With a total of six faculty members selected, the number has doubled compared to last year ... more

CTC1-STN1-TEN1 (CST) mutations lead to growth retardation, bone marrow failure, neurological disorder, liver fibrosis, cancer and other diseases. This study found that CST played an important role in DNA... more

Taiwan is one of the few countries with initial success in COVID-19 control without strict lockdown or school closure. The reasons remain to be fully elucidated ... more

Prof. Chih-hao Hsieh and master student Ruo-Yu Pan from the Institute of Oceanography, NTU, together with Prof. Ting-Chun Kuo from the NTOU, unveiled a hump-shaped relationship between aggregation tendency and body size at a within-population scale ... more

Diabetes mellitus is a common metabolic disorder that has a major impact on the quality of life for patients. Early detection and effective therapy are critical in treating diabetes. ... more

As COVID-19 is under stable control in Taiwan, the access control on the main campus will be lifted starting Oct 16. ... more

Profs. Chun-Mao Tseng and Jen-Chieh Shiao from the Institute of Oceanography, NTU, and the US cooperative colleagues worked together as the mercury research team. They initiated a new tool of the mercury accumulation rate (MAR) using top predators to examine global patterns in the cycling and pollution of Hg across the world's oceans. ... more

In compliance with the amended “Guidance on Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic at Colleges and Universities for the Academic Year 2021–12”, which was released by Ministry of Education on October 4, 2021, the University has made the following changes to the official COVID-19 prevention policies ... more

An international research team led by Prof. Pi-Tai Chou (周必泰) from NTU Dept. of Chemistry has successfully explained the mechanism of luminescence in multiple resonance-induced thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) materials. ... more

Genetic research on the developmental genes of aphids in the Department of Entomology at the National Taiwan University (NTU) graces the first issue (August 2021) of redesigned Insect Molecular Biology. ... more

NTU is asking all units to comply with the following measures regarding teaching and learning for the upcoming semester despite the epidemic prevention measures released by the school：All courses shall adopt distance learning ... more

Professor Jia-Yang Juang of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Hon-Tsen Yu of the Department of Life Science collaborated on a study of the mechanics of avian eggshells and incubation. The results of the study are published as the cover story in the international journal Biology ... more

A research achievement on methylome and transcriptome co-analysis of cancer-associated fibroblasts from patients with non–small-cell lung cancer was published in the top international journal, Journal of Clinical Investigation and featured on the journal cover ... more

Testing Disagreement Models, new research by NTU Department of Finance faculty Yen-Cheng Chang (張晏誠) and Kevin Tseng (曾俊凱), doctoral student Pei-Jie Hsiao (蕭珮婕) and Stockholm School of Economics faculty Alexander Ljungqivst is forthcoming in The Journal of Finance, marking the first acceptance of NTU scholars by the journal since 1999 ... more

According to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), the current alert level will be lowered to Level 2 starting July 27. In response to this, the University is asking all of you to fully comply with the newly adjusted measures ... more

NTU has released its second social responsibility and sustainability report, which highlights the results of NTU’s efforts in working towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) announced by the United Nations through its governance, research, service ... more

NTU researchers recently collaborated with Chimei Museum (奇美博物館) to solve an antique Italian violins their secrets hidden for 300 years - special chemical recipes for altering wood properties to achieve special sounds. This study, led by Hwan-Ching Tai (戴桓青) ... more

This year, National Taiwan University canceled its typical in-person graduation ceremony and put out the first-ever NTU online graduation ceremony. The online ceremony was the joint efforts of the Office of Student Affairs and numerous students ... more

Starting July 13, the Athletic Department is opening up the Sports Field and outdoor sports venues for individual use to all members of the NTU community. Please wear a mask at all times ... more

An interdisciplinary research team lead by Prof. Hsien-Yeh Chen across the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology, and the Molecular Imaging Center in National Taiwan University (NTU), has found a new fabrication process of scaffold materials. ... more

In the QS World University Rankings 2022 recently released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), NTU is ranked 68th, one place down from the previous year, and is still the only university in Taiwan that made it to the top 100 list of the rankings. With similar methodology as last year, the rankings were compiled by QS based on 130,000 responses to Academic Survey and 75,000 responses to QS Employer Survey ... more

NTU has climbed one rank up to 20th this year in the THE Asia University Rankings 2021 recently released by Times Higher Education (THE). The five major performance indicators in the THE Asia University Rankings ... more

On May 27, 2021, representatives from National Taiwan University (NTU) and Northwestern University (NU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at a virtual signing ceremony to begin a new academic partnership ... more

The team led by Professor Chin-Hsien Lin (林靜嫻) and Professor Ruey-Meei Wu (吳瑞美), the Department of Neurology, the National Taiwan University Hospital, identified a novel gene and related mitochondrial dysfunction causing familial Parkinson's disease published in the leading journal Brain. ... more

Due to a rapid escalation in the number of COVID-19 cases in Taipei City and New Taipei City recently, the epidemic situation is now approaching Alert Level 3 (orange light). ... more

As silicon-based semiconductors are fast closing in on the physical limits of matter, the global scientific community has been actively on the hunt for alternative materials to replace silicon. Research conducted by NTU in collaboration with ... more

Prof. Chi-Fang Chen (陳琪芳) led NTU research team Postdoc Dr. Shashidhar Siddgangaiah and Ph.D candidate Wei-Chun Hu (胡惟鈞) in collaboration with Prof. Nadia Pieretti and Prof. Roberto Danovaro from Italy showed the long-term fish ... more

In efforts to integrate the admissions information of prospective international and local students, NTU is proud to present our new admissions website ... more

The hepatitis research team at NTU College of Medicine, led by Academia Sinica Academician Pei-Jer Chen (陳培哲), including Professor Shiou-Hwei Yeh (葉秀慧) of the Department of Microbiology, Professor Ming-Chih Ho (何明志) of the Department of Surgery at NTU Hospital and researchers at ... more

The Research Team at NTU Unveils An Alternative Regulation Mechanism of Wnt/β-catenin Activation in Advanced Prostate Cancer ... more

The research team, headed by Professor Chia-Wen (Kevin) Wu (吳嘉文) from the Department of Chemical Engineering, and NTU alumnus Professor Li-Hsien Yeh from the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology ... more

The 2021 NTU Azalea Festival is held throughout March when the azaleas on campus are in full bloom. This year, the Festival goes online due to coronavirus concerns. We invite everyone to watch the Opening Ceremony and join the Department Expo LIVE online ... more

Starting today, the University will ask those entering Taiwan from abroad not to set foot on-campus during the 7-day self-health management following the 14-day home quarantine. ... more

The Lunar New Year holiday is just around the corner and will soon be followed by the spring semester. In compliance with the instructions released by the Ministry of Education (MOE) on February 3, 2021 ... more

Since its founding, National Taiwan University has been a leading higher education institution, but has also always faced various challenges. As we enter the rapidly changing 21st century, front-line faculty members at NTU. ... more

On February 2nd, 2021 at 1:30pm, the opening ceremony of National Taiwan University's Dr. Chen Wen-chen (陳文成) Incident Memorial Sqaure was held, with guests from the Dr. Chen Wen-chen Memorial Foundation, NTU Administration ... more

Among the individuals recently elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2021, four are from Taiwan and, indeed, two scholars to whom these honors are conferred, Prof. Yaow-Ming Chen and Prof. Ai-Chun Pang, are affiliated with the NTU College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) ... more

In response to the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s (MOHW) January 24 expansion of home isolation measures tracing back to people in contact with the confirmed cases at the Taoyuan General Hospital (TGH) ... more

According to the Reminder: Schools of All Levels Should Establish Pandemic Prevention Measures Regulating Gatherings released by the Ministry of Education on January 19, 2021 ... more

Distinguished Professor Yao-Wen Chang, Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received one of the most respected titles for leaders in computing and information technology ... more

Winter vacation will soon begin on January 18, 2021. As the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging globally, the University would like your cooperation and attention to the following during the vacation to jointly safeguard each other’s health ... more

The NTU-KU Joint Symposium 2020 held on December 16, 2020, was conducted both online and onsite due to the pandemic ... more