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The invention competition of the 2022 Taiwan Innotech Expo announced the list of award winners. Among 516 entries of patents, National Central University (NCU) was awarded seven gold medal awards, three silver medal awards, eight bronze medal awards, one platinum award (the ultimate honor of the competition), and one Hon Hai Technological Group Special Award and emerged as the biggest winner of the invention competition of the year.

The closing ceremony for the first Sports Game of the University System of Taiwan (UST) took place on the basketball court in Yi-Reng Hall at NCU on October 16, 2022. “Though the weather was not cooperating and we had no choice but to cancel the tennis competition, fortunately, other games ran smoothly. What is more important is that all the players showed their sportsmanship in every single game; this was a great start for the first UST Sports Game,” said the UST Chancellor Dr. Lih-Juann Chen.

Climate change is a crucial global issue. In 2022, the Arctic Expedition Team of National Central University (NCU) organized by members of the College of Earth Sciences at NCU carried out several scientific missions such as geophysical survey, satellite geodesy, permafrost and groundwater monitoring, and wave and current survey of the Arctic Ocean. The research team successfully acquired precious research data on the Arctic. In addition, NCU collaborated on a joint research project with Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, embodying citizen diplomacy and widening the international visibility of Taiwan as well.

October 11 has been officially designated as “Taiwan Girls' Day.” The purpose of the day is to promote girls’ rights to equity and care. Gender NCU, a team in the creative community, ideaNCU, proposed and carried out their project “Happeriod: Every Little Drop about Menstruation” in micro courses. The whole project includes a special exhibition of menstrual education with interactive games and lectures, expecting to facilitate the public’s understanding, respect, and inclusiveness of menstruation, a natural and physiological phenomenon.

The AI research team of NCU’s NLP lab stood out from other competitors and won first prize in the Style Change Detection (SCD) task with their AI language models at the PAN 2022, an international competition held by the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The team consisted of two doctoral students Ms. Tzu-Mi Lin and Ms. Chao-Yi Chen, and one master's student Ms. Yu-Wen Tzeng at the Department of Electrical Engineering of NCU, under the supervision of Dr. Lung-Hao Lee, associate professor at the department.