Director Chung-Hsuan Chen, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Genomics Research Center, is going to the United States for academic affairs from February 16 - March 3, 2014. During his absence, Deputy Director Chia-Ning Shen is the acting director.

         Director Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology, will attend an international conference in Korea from February 20-23, 2014. During his absence, Deputy Director Fu-chang Wang will be the acting director.

         Director Ting-Kuo Lee, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Physics, will go to the United States for academic affairs from February 28–March 8, 2014. During his absence, Deputy Director Yang Yuan Chen will be the acting director.