Release time: 2024/04/26 16:03:12
(Central News Agency Information Service 20240426 16:03:12) Kaohsiung Medical University held a President’s Lecture on April 26, 2024, and invited Lin Qihong, President of National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, to give a speech on “Facing the Rapidly Changing Future-The Mission and Vision of Higher Education” “, leading students to pay attention to higher education issues.
President Lin Qihong holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine from National Yang-Ming Medical College and a Ph.D. in biology from Yale University. He specializes in cell biology, cancer biology, biomedical optoelectronics, and genomics. He was a professor of microbiology and immunology at National Yang-Ming University and a professor at the National Institute of Transportation and Communications. Professor of the University Department of Biotechnology, Vice President of the National Chiao Tung University Taiwan United University System, Director of the Health Bureau of the Taipei City Government, Director of the Health Bureau of the New Taipei City Government, etc., and was elected as the first president of the National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University in 2021.
Yang Junyu, President of National Medical University, said that National Medical University and National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University signed an academic cooperation agreement in August 2021. It is the first school to sign an academic cooperation agreement with National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University. The two schools have always had good relations. For academic exchanges and interactions, joint research results presentations and matchmaking meetings are held every year to conduct cross-field research cooperation. President Lin Qihong was invited to give a speech this time, hoping that through his role as the first president of National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, he would integrate the school’s practical experience and lead students to care about higher education issues.
President Lin Qihong said that National Yang-Ming Jiaotong University is a combination of the University of Biomedical Sciences and the University of Electrical Engineering. The merger of Yang-Ming and Jiaotong University has made the field more complete. The school’s philosophy is “people-oriented, science-based, and technology-based.” “, industry as a whole” as the core value, and strives to eliminate the barriers across different academic fields. He put “industry” into the university’s vision, and said that the university should connect the high school vocational side and the industrial side to cultivate the talents needed by the industry; He also encourages everyone to understand that when facing internationalization issues, the purpose of internationalization is to position oneself, and universities should be positioned from a global perspective to achieve “internationalization of local talents” and “localization of international talents”; in teaching, he It emphasizes the need to cultivate talents with both soft and hard power. In addition to the hard power training of professional education, soft power such as empathy, creativity, and judgment should also be cultivated. It also emphasizes that the most important soft power is actually how to interact with others. get along.
Lin Qihong, President of National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, was invited to give a speech at Kaohsiung Medical University (from left, Vice President Wu Zhengyi of Kaohsiung Medical University, Chairman Chen Jianzhi of the Board of Directors of Kaohsiung Medical University, President Lin Qihong of National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, President Yang Junyu of Kaohsiung Medical University, Academic Affairs Wang Yipei long)
Lin Qihong, President of National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, gave a speech titled “Facing the Rapidly Changing Future – The Mission and Vision of Higher Education”
President Lin Qihong held an exchange discussion with students from the National Medical University
Principal Yang Junyu issued a certificate of appreciation to Principal Lin Qihong
Group photo of participants
