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The Awards Ceremony for the 11th Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences was held on December 16 on the first floor of the Tsai Yuan-Pei Memorial Hall (Faculty Club), Academia Sinica. This year, five books were selected for the award: four in Mandarin and one in English, covering topics such as English literature, Chinese literature, sociology, and philosophy. It was our great pleasure to recognize this year’s award winners, whose thought-provoking books explored a vast range of ideas and challenged preexisting theoretical frameworks.

The names of awardees for the 2022 Academia Sinica Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award have been announced, and the Awards Ceremony was held on October 28 (Friday), with AS President James C. Liao presiding and presenting medals and prizes to the awardees.

Elsevier and the Board of Executive Editors of Elsevier’s Tetrahedron journal series has announced Academician Chi-Huey Wong as the recipient of the 2022 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, in honor of his outstanding contributions in organic synthesis research. Dr. Wong is the first scholar from Taiwan to receive this award.

Newly elected Academicians and Honorary Academicians were announced by President James C. Liao and Conveners for the Convocation of Academicians in the press conference after the closing of the Convocation on July 7. This year, a total of 19 new Academicians and 3 Honorary Academicians were elected.

Marking a world-leading breakthrough in bio-energy research, Academia Sinica President James Liao was awarded the Samson-Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Energy and Smart Mobility for Transportation in February of 2021. The ceremony took place in Tel Aviv last November, with President Liao attending virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 2, the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei (ISECO) celebrated the honor with him, with Representative Omer Caspi conferring the award on behalf of the Israeli Prime Minister. President Liao’s recent research largely focused on combining biology and chemistry to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In particular, by redesigning the metabolic pathways that transform greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into fuel or chemical products, his research allows for more efficient use of carbon energy. President Liao hopes that scientific research will move us closer to a future with net zero carbon emissions.

The Awards Ceremony for the 10th Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences was held on December 9 on the first floor of the Tsai Yuan-Pei Memorial Hall (Faculty Club), Academia Sinica. This year, five books were selected for the award: two in Mandarin and three in English, covering topics such as history, art, and English literature. It was our great pleasure to recognize this year’s award winners, whose thought-provoking books explored a vast range of ideas and challenged preexisting theoretical frameworks.