welcome to National Central University

Held at the library of National Tsing Hua University, the event welcomed 15 graduate students, who joined the program this autumn from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Russia.

PhD student Poshih Chiang and his supervisor Professor Wen-Ping Chen at the Graduate Institute of Astronomy of NCU reported the discovery of two cool, and youngest brown dwarfs known so far.

Why were theropod dinosaurs so powerful and dominant in Jurassic Period? The researchers discovered that one of the reasons that made theropod dinosaurs the top of the food chain was the saw-like cutting edges on the side of their teeth. And the structure of these saw-like teeth resembled springs very much, rendering the teeth uneasy to crack. The findings were published in the internationally renowned journal Scientific Reports on 28th July, 2015.

In honor of Justice Albie Sachs, the winner of Tang Prize and the former Judge to the Constitutional Court of South Africa, National Central University, Taiwan, proposed to name Asteroid No.175419 after him.