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Notes from a Sufi Shrine in Sindh, Pakistan

Pei-Ling Huang 黃佩玲 March 13, 2015

  The heat of the day had receded as we walked into the shrine after ‘isha, the final evening prayers. The marble ground felt cool to our bare feet when we took off our sandals and went in. There was no guard at the gate, no shoe-keeping stand, and people

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Conversations: Names, Mingling, and Speaking Up

Yann-Ru Ho 何彥如 March 13, 2015

     When I first arrived here in the United States to pursue graduate studies, I not only noticed the language difference, but also the unfamiliar conversation conventions. I realized that many conversations here operate according to a different communication style than what I was used to back home. Here

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My Reflections

Randall Nadeau, Jennie Farris Railey King Professor in Religion, Trinity University March 3, 2015

    Taiwan is a welcoming, multicultural environment offering wonderful opportunities to international scholars. I have known Taiwan for 30 years, having first come at age 28 to teach English for a summer at the Tainan YMCA, and returning a year later for Chinese language study at the Stanford Center

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On Shamanism, Positivism, and Shifting One’s Frame of Reference

Mary Hamilton, B.A., Fordham University March 1, 2015

     An important skill that I have adopted for living overseas in a different culture is shifting my frame of reference to accommodate new experiences or ideas.  Living in Taiwan for the last six months has certainly challenged me to do so in refreshingly unexpected ways.       Since new

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Seeing the Coral for the Reef

Nathaniel Maynard 馬耐德 February 28, 2015

     According to research by the Kenting National Park (KNP), more than 80% of Taiwanese people will visit the park at some point in their life, and of those, 70% will go to one of the park’s coral areas. Over 400,000 international and domestic tourists visit the area each

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Mathematical Modeling: The Formosan Landlocked Salmon

Laurie Battle, Professor of mathematics, Montana Tech February 28, 2015

In recent decades, dam removal has become a frequently-used strategy for restoring natural stream habitats because dams deteriorate river channels and often lead to decreased diversity of species. Taiwan has many short and steep rivers in the high mountains, where strong rainfall creates high water velocity. As a result, the

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Robert Anthony Siegel: An American Novelist in Taiwan

Fulbright Taiwan February 26, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7p2201fvRI    Robert Anthony Siegel is an associate professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of two novels, All the Money in the World and All Will Be Revealed. His awards include O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the

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This Invitation

Amber Kao February 24, 2015

“It began with an invitation from the Fulbright Program to spend a year in Taiwan and now an invitation for the audience to enter into the choreographer’s world: an invitation to dream, to wonder, to be innocent, to feel pain…to sacrifice, learn, re-learn, let go…to die, to live…” Created as

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Smart Sensors for Safer Bridges: An International Collaborative Effort

Kenneth Loh 羅健晃 February 24, 2015

Bridge Scour      The erosion of soil, sand, and riverbed materials near bridge foundations due to flowing water (or wind in some cases) is a phenomenon known as bridge scour. Despite our awareness of its occurrence, bridge scour remains one of the deadliest causes of overwater bridge failures worldwide,

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Chinese Buddhist Poetry and Academic Lineages in Taiwan: Part Two of Two

Jason Protass, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University February 24, 2015

     In this two-part essay, I survey two important academic lineages in Taiwan and their contributions to the study of Chinese Buddhist poetry. In the first part, I focused on the cohort of scholars that worked and trained at National Chengchi University. In this second part, I examine the

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