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The MOE's Academic Award had 12 winners this year, of whom five are NTU professors. They are, respectively, Professor Ming-Liang Hsieh of the Institute of Art History (category of humanities and arts); Professor Jin-Tan Liu of the Department of Economics (category of social sciences); Professor Gerald J. Chang of Department of Mathematics (category of Math and Natural Sciences ); Professor Ming-Liang Kuo of the Institute of Toxicology (category of biological and medical/agricultural science); and Professor Huan-Jang Keh of Department of Chemical Engineering (category of engineering and applied sciences.)

Professor Hsieh's academic expertise is in art history. Over the past twenty years he devoted himself to the studies of ceramics in the Six Dynasty era of China, while touching upon handicrafts and paintings as well. As his research is not confined to one historical era, and pays attention to the cross currents and convergences of literature and history and to the long development of China's history, he has engendered many profound results.

Professor Jin-Tan Liu's research expertise leans toward the econometric application in microeconomics. In more than twenty years, he has published 54 papers in international journals and books, and 32 papers in domestic journals. His greatest contribution lies in his ability to conduct empirical analysis of indigenous Taiwanese data in combination with modern economic theory, and publish the results in important economic journals such as "Journal of Public Economics," "Journal of Health Economics", etc.

Professor Ming-Liang Kuo
Professor Ming-Liang Kuo

Professor Pao-ti Chang
Huan-Jang Keh

Professor Gerald J. Chang has been involved in mathematics teaching and research for more than twenty years. His research areas include graph theory, algorithms, and network theory. Up to the present he has published more than one hundred seventy papers in international journals. As some of them are widely cited over a long period of time, he has cast a major influence in the international mathematic circles. In the "Scientists Rankings in Mathematics" compiled by Essential Science Indicator in 2007, Professor Chang ranked 411th in the world.

Institute of Toxicology Professor Ming-Liang Kuo is now a professor by special appointment at NTU's College of Medicine, and Vice President of NTU Hospital. In the past two decades, he was involved in the fundamental studies of cancer cell biology. Collaborating with clinicians, he also developed new methods for diagnosis and treatment of cancer. In addition, Professor Kuo has been committed to the studies of the attributes of cancer-resistant tumors, which led him to discover that inflammation of cytokines such as IL-6 could induce the anti-apoptosis mechanisms of tumor cells and increase their resistance to drugs.In recent years Prfossor Kuo immersed himself in the study of angiogenesis and tumor metastasis-related genes, and his research findings were published in high IF journals such as "Cancer Cell, " "JNCI," "Cancer Research," "JBC," etc.

Professor Huan-Jang Keh of the Department of Chemical Engineering was among the first group of tenured professors by special appointment of NTU. His major contributions lie in "the locomotion of colloidal particles," "electro-kinetic phenomena," "dual polarization behavior of particles in electrolytic troughs," and "dynamics of polymers at interfaces." His research website is at: http://www.che.ntu.edu.tw/chinese/people/faculty/KHJ.htm.

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