With the assistance of the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Chicago, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Illinois System, one of the top public universities in the United States, which includes student and faculty exchanges as well as joint research in areas such as semiconductors, biomedicine, electric vehicles, materials science, and Chinese language education.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by NTHU president W. John Kao and University of Illinois System president Timothy L. Killeen. The signing ceremony was held at NTHU and was witnessed by representatives of the Ministry of Education. The ceremony was followed by a dialogue on the topic of “Global Higher Education — Opportunities and Challenges.”