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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.

How can we precisely measure road roughness and the resulting drivers' comfort with science? The research team led by Dr. Chen Shih-Huang, Director of the Department of Civil Engineering at NCU, collaborated with Nichireki Co., Ltd from Japan in assembling “Fuji-Jade Summit 1,” a brand new pavement surface condition survey vehicle. It is the fruit of success nurtured by Nichireki’s more than 70 years of experience and new technology and 50 years of solid academic foundations built by the Department of Civil Engineering at NCU. In addition, it was the first time that the Taiwanese successfully applied the 3D pavement surface image system to conduct an automatic pavement survey, which made a great leap in Taiwan’s technology of pavement surface condition detection.

In 2022, NCU celebrated the 60th anniversary of its re-establishment in Taiwan. The stainless steel sculpture “NCU 60” was unveiled in the opening ceremony on Sep. 6 for the completion of the newly-built circuit surrounding NCU. The innovative design and construction methods applied to this circuit route longer than 1,600 meters can be considered unparalleled among the circuit constructions in other universities.