On March 17, the Fulbright Taiwan (Foundation for Scholarly Exchange) led a delegation of International Education Administrators (IEA) from 16 prestigious U.S. universities to visit National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). The delegation included representatives from Pennsylvania State University, Rice University, Emory University, the University of Florida, Vanderbilt University, and several other state universities. This meeting focused on three core areas—Medicine, Science, and Huayu (Mandarin) education—aiming to deepen U.S. higher education administrators’ understanding of Taiwan’s academic environment and foster stronger collaborative opportunities between the USA and Taiwan.

A delegation from the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) visited Taiwan from March 9 to 11, 2026, for a three-day program featuring academic exchanges and corporate visits. The delegation spent March 9 and 10 at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) to engage in high-level talks focusing on semiconductors, AI medical imaging, and robotic medicine, aiming to foster future industry-academia collaboration and transnational innovative research.

A research team at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has uncovered a new mechanism by which the hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) rewires RNA metabolic pathways in the nucleus, revealing a previously unrecognized strategy used by cancer cells to adapt to hypoxia. The study, led by Dr. Pai-Sheng Chen from the Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology at NCKU, was published in the international journal Nucleic Acids Research. The new research reveals that HIF-1α, aside from serving as a transcription factor, can "rewire" RNA metabolic pathways within the nucleus.

NCKU hosted a high-level delegation from India’s SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) on March 13 to formally renew their university-level MoU and Student Exchange Agreement (SEA). The ceremony was witnessed by leaders from NCKU’s Office of International Affairs, the College of Engineering, and the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.