DTAIC`s Alumni Newsletter November 2010

DTAIC’s Alumni Newsletter
屏東科技大學熱帶農業暨國際合作系
Department of Tropical Agriculture and International Cooperation
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
July 2010
We have Web page!
In this issue
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A Word from DTAIC Alumni
Association President: Dr. Jian-Chang
Chen (陳建璋)
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University News
Our Alumni Web page
Taiwan’s Vice-president Dr. Vincent
Shiao (蕭萬長) visited NPUST
DTAIC Students Taken to Taiwan
International Orchid Show (TIOS2010)
NPUST Soccer Team
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Department News
Winter Trip: DTAIC Students Visited
Taitung County (臺東縣)
Songkran Festival
DTAIC Faculty Promotions
Graduation 2010
Former DTAIC’s Director: Dr. Po-Yong
Lai (賴博永)
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www.npustdtaic.co.cc
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Getting Closer to You
Obituary
A Word from DTAIC Alumni Association
President
Dr. Jian-Chang Chen (陳建璋)
Department of Tropical
Agriculture and International
Cooperation
Editorial Team
Andy Peng(彭宏盛)
Wendy Huang(黃 識頻)
Celimphilo Shakes Mavuso (馬梧壽)
Edgardo Reyes Calderon (柯德隆)
Collaborators
Joanna Wang (王春妍)
Sophia Huang (黃淑慧)
Susan Kuo (郭凱雯)
Greetings! It is a real honor to write this letter on behalf of the
DTAIC’s Alumni Association. I would like to begin by
mentioning how delighted I am to serve in this position, which I
have held since 2009, at the time after I graduated 2 years from
DTAIC. I am pleased to report that we are making good progress
in a number of areas, not the least of which has been to develop
outreach efforts to our many alumni, and it is in the spirit of
communication and keeping you informed that I write to you
today. I would like to begin by providing you with some
information about myself, for although I have had the pleasure of
meeting many of our alumni, there are also many more whom I
have not yet had the opportunity to encounter. I have been at the
school since 1998, the year I received my bachelor degree. In the
10 years that I’ve spent here and Taiwan University for Master’s
degree and go back to got PhD in DTAIC. Now, I am teaching in
Shih Chien University as a Chair of Recreation Dept. In sum, the
study experience in DTAIC proved valuable to me, especially in
that it allowed me to rethink my current status and to clarify
future goals. I believe it was the same to all our alumni. Now, this
is all well and good, and I am proud to take part in what I believe
is a critical aspect to the work we do, that is, to spread the alumni
contact, to work towards communicating more clearly what it is
that we actually do as DTAIC’s Alumni Association. Let us
respond too with our own voices, and with our work, clear and
firm, innocent and sophisticated, full of possibility. Thank you.
Jan-Chang Chen, Ph.D.
SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY KaoHsiung Campus
Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Recreation Management
Tel:(07)667-8888 Ext. 4350 Cell:0935654262
[email protected]
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University News
Taiwan’s Vicepresident, Mr. Vincent
Visited NPUST
Taiwan Vicepresident, Dr. Vincent Shiao (蕭萬長)
visited National Pingtung University of Science and
Technology. During his visit, faculties and students
from the Department of Tropical Agriculture and
International Cooperation (DTAIC) had the honor
to talk with Mr. Shiao. He encouraged DTAIC
students to study and take as much information
from Taiwan to help their respective countries when
they return.
DTAIC Students Taken to Taiwan
International Orchid Show 2010 (TIOS2010)
Dr. Ho 何韻詩 from the Department of Plan
Industry, NPUST, took DTAIC’s students to the
TIOS-2010. During the visit the students had the
opportunity to appreciate thousands of orchids
species developed by Taiwanese collectors,
businesses and universities. The trip also gave the
opportunity to the students to appreciate the
technology used in Taiwan for the production of
orchids.
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NPUST Soccer Team
The inter-varsity soccer competition was held in
Taichung on the 21st of March 2010. NCKU was
the first team to face NPUST. The entire team
comprised of Freddy (Panama), Marnus (St.
Lucia), Shakes( Kingdom of Swaziland), Idrissa
The Gambia), Seydou (Burkina Faso), Simon,
Modou, Ansumana, Wahab (The Gambia), Harry
(Belize) and Demba, Mustapha, Lamin, Philip ,
(The Gambia), Itchy, Hunter (Taiwan), and Joe
Maliwong (Thailand). The second game was played
against NCHU and it was a walk on the park.
KUAS was the third team to play against NPUST
on the 24th of March 2010 and that was a tough
game. NTU nicknamed TAIDA was the fourth
team and they proved to be much stronger than the
third team but they could not stand the burning fire
from NPUST.
The quarter final stage of the competition was on
the 26th of March 2010 and it was NPUST versus
NATIONAL DONGHUA UNIVERSITY
(NDHU). The quarter final stage of the competition
was another tough encounter for NPUST. With
their zeal and determination, however, they moved
through winning the game a game to zero. The
semifinal was a game against NCTU and in that
game NPUST booked her place in the finals.
Sunday 28th of March 2010 the finals between
NPUST and NTUT were played and with all the
determination and will of the coach the team did
not finish it.
Department News
Winter Trip
DTAIC Students Visited Taitung County
(20 January 2010 – 22 January 2010)
January 20th, 2010
Dr. Ching-Hsiang Hsieh, Dean of the Department
of Tropical Agriculture and International
Cooperation (DTAIC), NPUST, leaded about 50
foreign undergraduate and graduate students from
several different countries to visit Taitung.
are encouraged to treasure and respect the
ecosystem and cultures on this land. Then, Mr.
Chang-Yea Wang, our alumnus and also the leader
of public relationship department of Taitung
Irrigation Association, accompanied us to visit two
irrigation spots and facilities of Taitung Irrigation
Association.
The third stop was at Kasavakan Irrigation Park
which had won the Golden Quality Award from the
Council of Agriculture (COA) in 2007. This visit
was expected to help the course of Tropical
Agricultural Resources Planning in land use,
industrial development, agricultural extension,
agricultural marketing planning, rural tourism
planning, and green fields planning.
At night, the troop stayed in Jhihben, a famous area
for beautiful forest scenery and hot spring. It is also
one major tourist spot in Taitung.
January 21st, 2010
The first stop was at the Taitung Forest Park. It is
the largest recreation forest park in Taitung City
with an open green space and a rich ecosystem
around the Pipa Lake. The shade of green trees and
the shimmering ripples on the lake create a peaceful
and relaxing moment for the students to enjoy.
The next stop was at the Prehistory Museum with
an area of 10 hectares on the south of Taitung City
Kangle Station. Through research,
collection, exhibition, education and recreation, this
museum helps the public to learn more about the
diversity and beauty of nature, ecology, prehistory,
and aboriginal cultures in Taiwan. Moreover, people
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With the advantage of climate, Chishang Township
is producing organic rice with the best quality. It
was once appointed to be offered to the great of
Japan. Nowadays, Chishang meal boxes are popular
nationwide due to the fantastic taste of rice.
Later on, we spent about 2 hours to visit a flower
garden and Chishang Farmers Association to learn
how they improved the quality of the rice. Another
alumnus, Mr. Di-Chuan Hseu, who works in
Chishang Farm, came to had lunch with us in an old
train.
The following stop was at Guanshan Water Park
which is located behind the Guanshan Station. It is
mainly divided into three zones. The water activity
zone (Water Park) is a gorgeous area with artificial
paddling and fishing lakes, streams and fountains.
Department News
Winter trip and Sonkran
It is integrated with environment and ecological
education, bringing water close to the visitors. We
took a bike there and enjoyed the beautiful view.
That night we dwelled at the fabulous Lu-Ming
Hotel.
Songkran Festival
January 22nd, 2010
On January 22nd, the first stop was a 67 ha ranch
and also a biggest sloping ranch in Taiwan, Chu-Lu
Ranch. Dairy cattle are the main ranching animals
and the major objective of this spot is selling fresh
milk and its adding value products such as ice cream
and information about the
feeds, breeding technologies, diseases revention,
enterprise running, and human resources. Thank her
and Dr. Hsieh’s translation very much.
The next stop was a 5 ha herbal garden, Taitung
Natural Applied Botanical Garden. A large number
of pharmaceutical herbs were planted in the garden.
We learn much in the herbs especially the use of
them from the brief video and the tour guide. Then,
we had lunch in there and all the dishes were
traditional Chinese medicine herbs and some meats.
Students from Thailand in DTAIC showed their
rich culture and their organization capacity
celebrating with us, on April 14, 2010, the
Songkaran Festival. The celebration was held in
front of our Department’s building.
Even the drink was made from herbs and good to our liver.
After having lunch, we went to BeiNan River
Irrigation Park where had won The Best
Agricultural Construction Engineering Award from
the COA. The association assigned Mr. In-Jein
Huang, the volunteer team leader of the association,
as a tour guide and navigated in English. And here is
the last stop of this trip.
The Songkaran Festival is celebrated in Thailand as
the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April.
Thai students in NPUST wore their traditional
countries’ customs, did outstanding performance,
bestow blessings, and finally we throw water on the
street as is celebrated in Thailand.
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Department News
Faculty Promotions
Dr. Kevin Yen 顏才博
His research interests are isolation of bioactive
natural products and their mechanisms and
applications in agriculture and biotechnology such
as environmental-friendly agrochemicals, wood
preservatives and anticancer properties. His research
team has already published 8 SCI papers and 15
conference abstracts. Dr. Yen welcomes students
who are interested in plant bioactivity,
biotechnology and forestry products to join his
team.
Dr. Joy Lee 李嘉偉
Dr. Kevin Tsair-bor Yen jointed DTAIC since
August 2005 and was promoted as associate
professor. At 2008. He received his master and
doctoral degrees in forestry from the Forestry
School, University of Montana, Missoula from 1995
to 2003. After completing his PhD, Dr. Yen
returned to Taiwan and worked for the Department
of Forestry, National Taiwan University, as an postdoctoral researcher for an year before he jointed
DTAIC. Dr. Yen not only has practical experiences
in wood science technology and also specialized the
isolation and utilization of bioactive natural
products from plants. The courses he has taught
include special topics of natural products, plant
stress physiology, electron microscopy, biometry,
agricultural research methods and experimental
design, and biotechnology. Currently, He is the
principle investigator of plant bioactivities
laboratory.
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This is the fifth year since I came to the Department
of Tropical Agriculture and International
Cooperation, National Pingtung University of
Science and Technology in 2005. I have no doubt
that this is the best working environment in my
career life so far. I have been enjoying the harmony
and multiple cultures in this department. Without
the support from all the staff and students in this
department, I wouldn’t be able to be promoted to
an associate professor in 4 years. I, hereby, would
like to sincerely express my appreciation to all of
you, and I will keep making contributions to this
department in any way I can.
Department News
Graduation 2010
In 2010, seven Ph.D. were honored their degree, 35 Master , and 20 Bachelor. In June 18, two
Commencements Ceremonies were held to honor their achievements. The first was the ceremony held
by the University ceremony in the theather and the second wasa particular ceremony developed in the
fourth floor of the library’s building
Ph.D. 2010 Batch
Standing (left to right): 張文宜 Chang, Wen-I, 參揚 Saikou Ebrima Sanyang, Dr. 顏才博 Dr. Kevin Tsair-bor Yen, 唐錫度 Seydou
Traore, 朱利斯 Julius Lufeyo Chiwanga Chulu, 方正 Budi Nurtama, Dr. Rebecca Chung 鍾惠雯, Dr. Ho 何韻詩, Rafique
Sunil Krishna, 卡洛斯 Carlos Eduardo Hernandez.
Seated (left to right): Dr. Stella Fan 方中宜; Dr, Albert Liston Charles; Mr. Efrain Ravey Novelo, Belizean Ambassador; Dr.
Mike Guu 古源光, NPUST President; Mr. Roberto Luzcando, Panama Representative; Dr. Henry Chen 陳和賢, Director
of International Affairs; Dr. Ching Hsiang Hsieh 謝清祥, DTAIC Director
DTAIC Director, Dr. Ching Hsiang Hsieh,
lead the graduating students to the 2010
Commencement Ceremony (June 18,
2010). Dr Hsieh is accompanied by Sophia
(黃淑慧) and Ph.D. graduates (From lef to
right: Rafique Sunil Krishna, Budi
Nurtama, Seydou Traore and his daughter,
and Saikou Ebrima Sanyang
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Department News
MSc. 2010 Batch
Graduation 2010
Standing (left to right): 周潤發 Narongrat Maliwong, 歐蘿 Oyungerel Orosoo, 阮圖洪 Nguyen, Huong Tra, 帕瑞察 Parichard
Sangkumchaliang, 方圖岸 Phan Thi Tu Anh,盧可安 Luu, Ngoc Anh, 南西亞 Nanthiya Sangplao, 賈瓦力 Ali Jawo, 斐帝 Lamin K M,
Dr. 顏才博 Dr. Kevin Tsair-bor Yen, Dr. Rebecca Chung, Dr. Ho, 裴尤德 Suraphan Panyod, 何艾迪 Eddie Enslie Holara, 杜蕾瑪
Duurimaa Ser-Od,高成中 Cao Thanh Trung, 莫瑞修 Javier Mauricio García Rodríguez, 葛金頓 Kemston Cato.
Seated (left to right): Dr. Stella Fan 方中宜; Dr, Albert Liston Charles; Mr. Efrain Ravey Novelo, Belizean Ambassador; Dr.
Mike Guu 古源光, NPUST President; Mr. Roberto Luzcando, Panama Representative; Dr. Henry Chen 陳和賢, Director
of International Affairs; Dr. Ching Hsiang Hsieh 謝清祥, DTAIC Director
Bachelor Degree 2010 Batch
Standing from left to right: 林思晴 Bella, 方翊馨 Sheena, 何南斯 Luis C. Hernandez, 游雅雯 Awen, 葉欣紘 Karen, 黃識頻 Wendy, 歐密
爾 Omir A. Castañeda, 葉于慈 Natalie, 李坤霖 Ken, 莊馥榕 Fiona, 古伯特 Armando R. Cuthbert Moren, 亞緹拉 Yadira I. Maradiaga
Dixon, 廖毓婷 Tina, 葉立傑 Jeffrey, 陳冠中 Lance, 蔡加恩 John, 姚柔亦 Joy, 施凱祥 Garnet, 楊舜伃 Ocean, 雷耶絲 Zayda K. Reyes
Paz
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Department News
Former DTAIC Director: Dr. Po-Yong Lai
We are glad to know that our former DTAIC
Director, Dr. Po-Yong Lai 賴博永, is doing
well in Hawaii, U.S. Here is an e-mail extract
of his reply when we contacted and asked
him about his current professional activities.
May 13, 2010
Dear [Newsletter editors]:
It has been a week since I received your email
dated May 5th. I meant to reply to your email
sooner, but I got bogged down by so many
different things happened that required my
attention.
I thought I would be in a better shape, time wise, after the hectic schedule in February. But that has been
proven to be not true. I have been so busy lately in managing 10 different special programs. On top of that, I
am invited to be one of the members of a delegation from Hawaii to accompany Hawaii's Governor to visit
China. The delegation is scheduled to leave Hawaii on June 4th and spend about a week in Shanghai for
celebrating the Hawaii Day at the US Pavilion in The Shanghai Expo and discussing with Chinese officials of
the Ministry of Commerce. The delegation will fly to Beijing on June 11th and again participate in a number of
official functions, including the signing of an MOU by Hawaii's Governor. We will fly back to Hawaii on June
18th.
This trip will be funded by a federal grant, for which the approval will be finalized sometime next
week. Meantime, there are a lot of paper work and coordination required. I am spending quite a bit of my time
to get those things done. To make the situation even more complicated, Mrs. Lai and I are planning visit my
older daughter in Texas. Therefore, I literally have no time to do anything else. This is the reason why I am
writing to you to ask for your forgiveness for not being able to come through with my contribution to the June
issue of the newsletter as you have hoped.
Best regards,
Po-Yung
Alumni’s Web page! What can you find in the Website?
During this semester, we worked to set our Web page to get closer to you. This web page
includes a brief introduction of our Alumni association; information about our Alumni; a
series of photo albums with different activities carried out during the past and recent years;
important news that might be of help or interest to our Alumni; as well as information
about our newsletters, and lastly an open Forum whereby we can exchange our ideas.
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Alumni News Getting Closer to You
How to register and login to have access to the Web page?
Step 1
Step 2
Here
Here
Enter DTAIC Web Page
(http://agriculture13.npust.edu.tw),
and click on the link highlighted
Step 4
Login by typing your username (student ID #) and
password (e-mail address before the @). Example:
student ID #: B5522001, e-mail: [email protected]
Step 3
Here
Here
Click on the link highlighted
above and follow instructions on
how to change your password.
Click on the link highlighted above.
Obituary
Mr. Mao Long 毛龍 (DTAIC 2009 Batch) died on Tuesday, February 10, 2010. In Pingtung City, Pingtung,
Taiwan. Mr. Long, was a first year Ph.D. student in Agribusiness management in the Department of Tropical
Agriculture and International Cooperation. His research interest was Agrotourism and Leisure Farm Tourism.
He was working for Taiwan Power Campany (台電公司 )
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屏東科技大學熱帶農業暨國際合作系
Department of Tropical Agriculture and International Cooperation
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology