Academia Sinica, the nation’s top research institution, is launching a second wave of recruitment targeting prospective doctoral students in the wake of continued uncertainty over the US academic landscape.
The effort, part of Academia Sinica’s fast-enrollment program, is focused on doctorate candidates who have been admitted to top-tier universities, but have not yet registered, the institution said.
The students would first undertake an internship at Academia Sinica for several months before joining its Taiwan International Graduate Program next year.
Photo: Yang Yuan-ting, Taipei Times
The initiative offers 13 programs, including six in the life sciences, and seven in mathematics and physical sciences, its Web site says.
Students in the program receive a tax-free monthly stipend of NT$40,000 in their first year, which can be extended for an additional year based on performance.
Further financial support depends on their thesis advisers, the Web site says.
The second round of recruitment follows US President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict foreign student visas at Harvard University on national security grounds.
Harvard is permitted to admit international students after two federal courts ruled in its favor late last month and early this month.
Previously, Academia Sinica had accepted 11 doctoral candidates during its first wave of recruitment, launched in April.
That effort came in response to a Nature poll of more than 1,600 respondents, which found that 75 percent of US-based scientists were considering leaving the country due to drastic changes in the research environment.
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