NYCU Hospital and Yang Ming Crusade Perform Community Service and Visit Elderly People in Yilan for Ninth Year Running
The “Yangming Crusade Yilan Team” formed by 24 medical students conducted simple health tests for nearly a thousand residents over 65 years old This summer, the Yang Ming Crusade and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Hospital continued their community service in Yilan for the ninth year in a row.
Affirming the Right to Diversity: New and Modern Gender-Neutral Library Restrooms
Construction of the multi-purpose sharing space on the sixth floor of the Chiao Tung campus was completed in September 2020. It represents an accomplishment of the library’s plans for a gradual spatial transformation in recent years, in line with the themes of using space actively and breaking down spatial boundaries
Liching Medical Club Goes Native
During the summer of 2020, the Liching Club—based at Yang Ming Campus of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)—traveled to Qatu Village of Nantou County for its tenth consecutive year of offering medical services and raising awareness of local issues regarding medical and health care, childhood education, culture, and
Audiobooks for the Blind — NYCU’s Movement in Continuous Humanistic Care
To protect the rights of people with visual impairments, the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University library first devised plans for creating audiobooks in 1998. Following consultations with multiple parties, the library decided to collaborate with six magazine publishers, including CommonWealth Magazine, Crown Magazine, and Evergreen, and recruit volunteers for
Take Me by Your Hands: Offering Education in Small Villages
The Jullay International Volunteer Team consists of student volunteers from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and bases its operation mainly in Jamyang School, a boarding school located in Ladakh, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Since 2010, the team has provided volunteer services offering free education to children
Bringing Knowledge to Those in Need: Reimagining Schwetizer’s Program by Serving Disadvantaged Students in Remote Areas
In 2013, the Center for Teacher Education of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) began implementing the Schweitzer Program, which was established by the Ministry of Education to encourage student teachers to realize the spirit of the educator Albert Schweitzer, that is, caring for the disadvantaged and providing professional
