Associate Professor Mohsen Gavahian of the NPUST Department of Food Science is dedicated to research in the field of novel food processing methods, and his work is having an impact. This is evidenced by the fact that each year, for the last four years, Gavahian’s name has been found on the prestigious Stanford-Elsevier Ranking of Top 2% Top-cited Researchers—a list which selects the top 2% of scholars from a pool of 8.5 million researchers globally. He was also awarded the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST, International) Award in 2022. Adding to these achievements, this year (2024) his excellent R&D and teaching capabilities have earned him the Youth Sustainability Leadership Award, which was presented to him on August 8th at the Taipei World Trade Center.

NPUST and the National Science Council (NSC) are working together to promote popular science. In order to make preparations for the “2024 Taiwan Science Popularization Train”, Professor Hudson Hsu and Professor Chang-Hsien Tai of NPUST, and Director General Yeh Chih-cheng and Section Chief Tai-Ju Tseng of the NSC Department of International Cooperation and Science Education called a meeting with several interested parties, including Dr. Tsung-Wei Chang of NCKU and DGE Alfred Lin of Rotary International District 3510. Together, they paid a visit to Director Ing-Shane Yang of the Pingtung County Education Department, and Section Chief Pei-shan Wu of the Teaching Development Section to discuss the project.

This summer (2024), NPUST cooperated with the Tainan Branch of the Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation (MOA) to conduct a soil and water conservation and improvement project at Jingsi Lake on the NPUST campus. On July 11, over 30 teachers and students from the Department of Aquaculture and the Institute of Wildlife Conservation worked together to capture the wildlife living in the lake so that a dredging project could be carried out. Both native and non-native species were removed from the area for safe keeping until the dredging was completed. The team then successfully returned the native species they had captured to the lake. For the species which were not native to the area, a new habitat was also provided.

The UK’s Times Higher Education (THE) special issue recently announced the “impact ranking” of universities from around world. In the overall assessment, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) was situated in the 101-200 tier, while also ranking 5th in the Taiwan and 1st in among Taiwan’s universities of science and technology. Meanwhile, on 5 of the indicators under consideration, NPUST found itself among the top 100 universities world-wide.

The UK’s Times Higher Education (THE) has released the University Impact Rankings for 2024 based on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST), which has seen strong performances for four consecutive years, made a considerable stride forward in the 2024 evaluation, with an overall worldwide ranking of 101-200. Compared with other Taiwan universities, NPUST ranked 5th overall and 1st among the country’s 51 universities of science and technology. On five of the individual indicators, NPUST also found itself among the top 100 universities worldwide—and on one of these, Poverty Eradication (SDG1), it came first in the country, which is a new milestone and cause for celebration on its centennial anniversary this year.

The 25th Sustainable Development Management Seminar was grandly held at 10 a.m. today (5/24) at the NPUST College of Management. A number of distinguished guests participated in the opening ceremony including NPUST President Chin-Lung Chang, Vice-President Shui-jen Chen, College of Management Dean Yi-Chaio Huang, Foundation for Yunus Social Business Chairperson Hui-Ling Tsai, Taiwan Textile Federation Chairman James Kuo, and a number other university and industry representatives.