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Published: June
1, 2007
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Prof. Y. B. Yang, front left, Prof. Peter
Schuster, Dean of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences, front center, and Dr. Cheun-yen
Hwang, the representative of Taipei Economic
and Cultural Office, Vienna, Austria, took
pictures after ceremony. |
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ˇ@ˇ@Y. B. Yang, our
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, was
awarded the ˇ§Corresponding Memberˇ¨ of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences on May 23, becoming the first person
in Taiwan to obtain this great honor. The prize is
assessed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and
regarded as the highest honor of the Austrian academic
circle.
ˇ@ˇ@The Austrian Academy of sciences was
founded in 1847, quoting the
Royal Society in London and the
Academy of Sciences in Paris as models to
use, equaling to our Academia Sinica in positions.
The Academy represents a learned society like the great
European academies on the one hand and Austria's leading
non-university institution for basic research on the
other. It is currently promoting 65 research
institutions. The Academy consists of two sections, the
Section for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences and the
Section for the Humanities and the Social Sciences. By
way of election, scholars from Austria and abroad are
included among the
full
members, corresponding members or the honorary members
of the Academy. According to the statutes of the Academy
full members are limited to the number of 90 (45
scholars for each section), while 250 scholars (125 for
each section, 55 of which from Austria and 70 from
abroad) can be appointed corresponding members. The
Academy unveiled its 24 members newly elected this year
and reported that among the 12 corresponding members,
Prof. Y. B. Yang was the only one in Asia.
ˇ@ˇ@Professor Yang is one of the
Distinguished Professor in the department of Civil
Engineering, National Taiwan University, taking the
responsibility for the Institute of Engineering
Education Taiwan as the Secretary General at the same
time. He was once elected the Dean of Engineering
College, NTU and appointed the Chairman of Civil
Engineering Disciplines,
National Science Council and so on. In
addition, Professor Yang has brilliant performances in
Academic circle as well; he obtained many important
academic prizes like Outstanding Research Award of
National Science Council, Outstanding Teaching Award of
Ministry of Education.
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