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The Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) initiated the Asian Beneficial Collaboration in many aspects. “Asian Try Zero-G 2022” is one of the collaborative projects through which the APRSAF invited young people to propose some simple space experiments. “The Water Vortex in a Zero-Gravity Condition,”proposed by NCU student Tsai Jr-Chiun, passed the domestic preliminary selection by the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA). The proposal was further sent to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for international final selection. Tsai’s experimental theme stood out and was elected as the representative of Taiwan.

The research team led by Professor Yu-Hsiang Lee in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at NCU has dedicated on cancer-related drug delivery research for years. Recently, Lee and his team successfully developed a new drug nanocarrier, which is composed of photosensitizers (Indocyanine green; ICG), immune checkpoint inhibitors (PD-L1), and perfluorocarbons (PFC) and is constructed by double layers structure; named ICG-PD-L1-coloaded PFC double-layer nanodroplets IPLPNDs, for photoimmunotherapy of colorectal cancer (CRC), and the research efforts have been published on Chemical Engineering Journal in Feb 2023.

National Central University (NCU) stands out in education for sustainable development. In 2022, NCU won the National Sustainable Development Award in the field of education awarded by the Executive Yuan, one gold and two silver medals of the Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Awards (APSAA), and the award of Excellence in the University Social Responsibility awarded by the CommonWealth Magazine.

The pinecone-shaped NCU Multi-Functional Auditorium, which was inspired by pine trees, the symbolic icon of NCU, was the winner of the DNA Paris Design Awards 2022 in the Educational and Sports category and won the silver prize in architectural designs of the International Design Awards 2021. This award-winning auditorium caught the media’s attention, thereby being widely publicized by domestic and international architectural magazines, mass media, and online platforms.

Professor Liu Jann-Yenq, Dr. Wu Tsung-Yu, Dr. Lin Chi-Yen, and Professor Chang Chi-Wei published the article “The Three-dimensional Plasma Structures and Flows of the Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Due to the Moon’s Gravitational Force” on the world’s top journal Scientific Reports. They fully utilized the data of radio occultation collected by the satellites FORMOSAT-3 and FORMOSAT-7 for the past 15 years, analyzing the three-dimensional structures of the global ionosphere and the lunar tide effect cast upon it by the moon’s gravitational force. Their discovery was unprecedented.