美東南區中華學人協會大家庭，
農曆新年快樂！鼠年的初一將在下週末（1/25）到來。 這2020年從一開始就發生一系列的重大事件。台灣的黑鷹事故，美國伊朗衝突的緊張局勢加劇，台灣歷史性的總統和立法院選舉以及中美貿易戰的暫停。危機與轉機的並存，讓在我們邁入了21世紀的第二個十年有對上世紀美國繁榮的20年代有所期許。
我們有個好消息要宣布。經過我們的副會長提名委員會主席吳珠菊博士數月的辛勤工作，陳美蘭博士已經同意接受提名，作為我們CAPASUS新的副會長候選人。吳博士和陳博士特別在青年學者委員會的服務領域，在培養年輕一代的領導者方面有重大的貢獻，這對我們組織的永續經營十分重要。讓我們向陳美蘭博士的勇氣和勤奮精神表示衷心的祝賀和支持，期許她將我們CAPASUS 協會成功的延續到下一個十年。
我們在這裡宣布兩個即將舉行的活動。第一個活動是1/25–1/26（10:00am-4:00pm）在亞特蘭大的TECO文化中心舉行的亞特蘭大農曆新年園遊會。CAPASUS有組織和售票的志工。請不要忘記來參加文化活動（舞獅和舞龍等），在餐飲攤位上品嚐19個台灣夜市的一些美味。園遊會的更新和詳細信息也可以在此處找到。
第二場活動是2/8（2:00pm-4:00pm）在亞特蘭大TECO文化中心舉行的2020年台灣大選後論壇。論壇將由CAPASUS主辦，由 謝復生博士和 黎建彬博士擔任主講人，而我們的副會長 張嘉蘭博士將擔任論壇主持人。該活動將分析台灣大選的結果及其對台灣民意和主要政黨的未來的影響。此活動將向公眾開放。更多詳細信息將在即將發布的新聞稿和傳單中發布。
最後，我報告一下我們在2020年8月1-2日 年會的準備工作在組織方面取得了良好進展，會議的標題為“互聯的網絡世界– 5G，WiFi6，太空通信和網絡安全”。幾位受邀的演講者已初步同意參加，我們仍在努力爭取其他演講者和這項活動的資金。仍有許多工作和障礙需要克服。我們仍然需要您的幫助和參與才能成功完成任務。鼠年是中國十二生肖週期的開始，祝所有CAPASUS成員家人和朋友新年好運平安，身體健康！
朱子宇
Dear CAPASUS members and families,
Happy Lunar New Year! The new year of rat is coming next weekend (1/25). This second decade of the new millennium started with flurries of significant events. The tragic of Blackhawk accident in Taiwan, the heighten tension in the US-Iran conflict, a historical presidential and legislature election and signs of truce in the trade war between US and China. There are both crisis and opportunities to make it another roaring 20s of the 21th century.
We have a great news to announced. After months of hard work by our VP nomination committee chairwoman Dr. Chuchu Wu, Dr. Mei-Lan Chen had agreed to accept the nomination as our new VP candidate for CAPASUS 2021. We are grateful for both Dr. Wu and Dr. Chen for their services especially in the area of early career scholar committee where they both played an critical roles to cultivate the young generation of leaderships that is important to the sustainability of our organization. Let us give our sincere congratulation and support to Dr. Mei-Lan Chen for her courage and hard-working spirit will help CAPASUS extend our success into the next decade and beyond.
We also have two upcoming events to announce here. The first one is the Atlanta Lunar New Year Festival at Culture Center of TECO in Chamblee, GA on 1/25 – 1/26 (10:00am-4:00pm). CAPASUS has committed several volunteers in organization and ticketing. Please do not forget to come and enjoy the culture events (Lion and Dragon Dance etc..), sampling some of the 19 food stalls at the Taiwan-nigh-market- style booths. The update and detail of this event could also be found here.
The second event is the Taiwan 2020 Post Election Forum on 2/8 (2:00pm-4:00pm) at Culture Center of TECO in Atlanta. It will be hosted by CAPASUS with Dr. Fuh-Sheng Sheih and Dr. Chien-Pin Li as our keynote speakers and our VP Dr. Catherine Chang will be the moderator. This event will analyze the outcome of this Taiwan general election and its implications to future of the major pollical parties in Taiwan. It will be open to general publics. More detail information will be published in the upcoming press release and flyer.
Finally, I would like to report that we are making good progress on the organization of the upcoming August 1-2, 2020 annual conference with a title of “A connected World – 5G, WiFi 6, Space-based Communication and Cybersecurity”. Several invited speakers had tentatively agreed to participate, we are still working hard to secure other speakers and funding for this event. There are still works and obstacles that needs to overcome. We will need your help and participation to make it into a success. Year of Rat is the start of the Chinese Zodiac cycle, wish all members will have good fortune and good health for their family and friends!
Fred Chu
CAPASUS President 2020
