National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) was established in 1953 as Provincial Taiwan Maritime Technology College. Eleven years later, in 1964, we became a maritime college that offered bachelor's and master's degrees in various maritime fields. During this period, the college was supported by the Taiwan Provincial Government of the Republic of China. In 1979, we became a national institution and were renamed the National Taiwan College of Marine Science and Technology. A decade later, in 1989, the college became a full-fledged university.
At present, NTOU has seven colleges - Maritime Science and Management, Life Sciences, Ocean Science and Resource, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Ocean Law and policy, and Humanities and Social Sciences. These Colleges house 22 undergraduate departments,11 graduate institutes,27 master programs, and 20 doctorate programs.
The University has undergone significant growth and change. It is now recognized as one of the nation's most important centers of high learning and scholarship, especially in the marine sciences, maritime studies, and fisheries.
Responding to society's changing needs and the widening interests of our students, we are developing into a comprehensive university with a unique maritime focus. We aim to be an internationally known institution of higher education. Towards this end, our social sciences and liberal arts programs are developing as a core part of education at NTOU. The University is rapidly moving toward providing a positive learning environment and culture for intellectual and personal growth, with ocean interests as our unique characteristic.
We have been conducting a series of experiments related to "fish reproductive physiology," "sex differentiation and sex change in fish," "reproductive endocrinology and reproduction in coral," "hormone regulation in fish," "maturation mechanism in fish," "environmental physiology and immunity in fish," and "reproductive physiology in prawns" in the past 20 years at the National Taiwan Ocean University. The researches are focusing on marine animals, essential aquaculture species (black porgy and grouper).
The most significant contribution to the scientific community is the studies of "reproductive biology and physiology in aquatic animals" (representative work). A series of experiments were conducted, such as sex differentiation, sex change mechanism, regulation of reproductive hormones, gonadal development and growth, gametogenesis, maturation, and reproduction control. We have many important new findings and significant contributions to the theory and applied aspects of reproductive physiology.
