An art exhibition jointly organized by the ROC Ministry of Culture and Tokyo University of the Arts under the Spotlight Taiwan Project kicked off at the latter institution Oct. 24, the MOC said Nov. 4. The show features lacquer works by 37 Taiwan and 17 Japanese traditional and up-and-coming artists. The MOC has established similar cooperative programs under the project with 19 leading tertiary institutions, such as the University of California, Berkeley, U.K.-based University of London and Germany’s University of Heidelberg.
The ROC Department of Health and Welfare’s Food and Drug Administration joined Taichung City-based China Medical University in inaugurating Nov. 4 a national addiction research and risk evaluation center. The center will help the DOHW promote the prevention of drug abuse by pooling specialized domestic resources, establishing long-term partnerships with think tanks, cultivating public awareness of the dangers of drug abuse, as well as funding research into risk analysis, treatment and prevention.
A smart portable solar tracker developed by Tainan City-based Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology won a diamond-gold award Nov. 4 at the iENA International Trade Fair in Nuremberg, Germany. According to STUST, the tracker was invented and patented by a team led by professor Sheu Yih-ran of the school’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Taoyuan County-based Chung-shan Institute of Science and Technology’s Material and Electro-optics division. (SDH)