The Far Eastern Y. Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation announced the winners list for the "Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professor Award" and the "Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award" recently. Among the winners of the list, half of them are faculty members of NTHU.

Each year, the Foundation honors one outstanding scientist with its Scientific Chair Professor Award in each of the following four categories, i.e., Nano Science and Technology, Communication and Optoelectronics, Bio-medical Technology and Green Technology. Prof. Shang-Jr Gwo, Dept. of Physics and Prof. Ching-Tsai Pan of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering are two proud winners of the Nano Science and Technology and Green Technology categories respectively. Both of them will receive a trophy and a prize of NT$ one million. While they are happy to receive the awards, they are also very thankful to the graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who have contributed in their respective research projects. They both indicated that without the assistance of so many talented and devoted people, they would not have been so successful with their researches.

The Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award is divided into four categories, namely, Nano Science & Technology, Communication & Optoelectronics, Bio-Medical Technology and Green Science and Technology. Among the eight selected winners in these four categories, half of them are from National Tsing Hua University. There are: Prof. Rong-Ming Ho, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Prof. Jer-Liang Yeh, Institute of Nano Engineering and Micro Systems, Prof. Yao-Win Hong of the Institute of Communication Engineering as well as Prof. Shiue-Cheng Tang of the Dept. of Chemical Engineering.