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C. Y. Tsai (蔡嘉寅)

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C. Y. Tsai (蔡嘉寅)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: C. Y. Tsai
  • Chinese: 蔡嘉寅
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: 台灣彰化
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

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  • Purdue University — Ph.D. 植物與植病學系

Employment

  • 台灣大學遺傳學系植物科學研究所 — 兼任教授
  • 台灣大學遺傳學系植物學系 — 教授, 主任
  • 台灣大學生物技術研究中心 — 籌備處主任
  • 美國普渡大學遺傳學系 — 教授, 副教授, 助理教受

Family

  • Wife: 陳雪嬌

Role in the Community

  • Founding participant of the North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association (NATPA): among the sixteen professors at the first organizing meeting, University of Chicago international house, 1980-02-16, per a founding memoir (ourjourneys69, EN: ourjourneys69-eng).

  • Elected a General Director (一般理事) at NATPA’s first council; later served as NATPA’s second president, term beginning 1981-08-01, elected at the 1981 annual meeting co-hosted with the Taiwanese American Conference–East Coast and TAA (same memoir, ourjourneys69-eng).

  • With fellow ex-president 賴義雄, the most active volunteer as principal/deputy liaison when NATPA’s 10th-anniversary annual meeting was held in Taipei in 1990 (ourjourneys107).

  • Tenth-term president of NATPA (from 1989) — his own memoir narrative in ourjourneys47 records that he served as deputy (副手) to ninth-term president 陳文彥 in 1988–1989, then succeeded him as tenth-term president and drove NATPA’s first-ever Taiwan-hosted annual meeting (June 1990, 國賓飯店 Taipei, ~150 members and spouses attending), serving on the organizing team as 副總協調人 and 農業組召集人. The “second president” note above refers to his 1981–1982 term (listed as 第二屆會長 in the same roster); both terms are confirmed by the same record — no conflict.

  • Attended the 1990-04-21 second preparatory meeting for NATPA’s 10th-anniversary Taipei annual meeting at 賴義雄’s home in Washington D.C. (with 胡勝正, 陳文彥, 吳漢南 and others); in May 1990 NATPA sent him back to Taiwan for two weeks to invite participating institutions and scholars, and he co-founded the in-Taiwan preparation committee with 吳樹民, handling venue, lodging, and reception logistics (ourjourneys107).

  • Lectured on “以基因工程解決缺糧困境” (solving food shortages via genetic engineering) at a community program (ourjourneys47); TAH encyclopedia entry 09.

  • Corpus re-scan 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221400-4): fresh grep (蔡嘉寅 / C. Y. Tsai) returned exactly the works already linked above (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47); memoir text re-checked (founding 16 at Chicago 1980-02-16; General Director slate; 2nd president term from 1981-08-01; 1990-04-21 D.C. prep meeting at 賴義雄’s home with 胡勝正, 陳文彥, 吳漢南, 賴淳彥, 李賢淇, 林靜竹; May 1990 two-week Taiwan invitation tour with 吳樹民) — all facts already absorbed, nothing new.

  • Corpus re-scan 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230800-4): grep re-run, same five work hits (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47) — page saturated, no new material.

  • Corpus re-scan 2026-09-25 (slice 09240700-10): fresh ZH+EN greps (蔡嘉寅／C. Y. Tsai) returned the same five work hits (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47 + index); memoir passages re-checked (founding 16 at Chicago 1980-02-16, General Director slate, 2nd president from 1981-08-01, 1990 D.C. prep meeting, May 1990 Taiwan invitation tour) — all absorbed, nothing new. Verified-saturated SKIP.

  • Corpus re-scan 2026-09-26 (slice 09250900-24): fresh ZH+EN grep returned the same five work hits (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47 + index) — all absorbed above. Verified-saturated SKIP; no new facts, no new conflicts.

  • Corpus re-scan 2026-09-26 (slice 09260400-15): fresh ZH+EN grep (蔡嘉寅 / C. Y. Tsai) returned the same five work hits — all absorbed above. Verified-saturated SKIP.

  • Corpus re-scan 2026-09-30 (slice 09260800-6): fresh ZH+EN grep (蔡嘉寅 / C. Y. Tsai) returned the same five work hits (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47 + index) — all absorbed above. Verified-saturated SKIP; no new facts.

Sources

— re-grep 2026-10-03 (slice 09300315-12): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47, works index), all absorbed above. Verified-saturated SKIP. hits-hash=1b47cab109c5 — re-grep 2026-10-04 (slice 09300848-18): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47, works index), all absorbed above. Verified-saturated SKIP. hits-hash=3cafedb4a458 — re-grep: fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged, all hits already absorbed and wikilinked; verified-saturated. SKIP-with-reason. hits-hash=1b47cab109c5

Slice 09300900-18 (2026-10-05): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ hit set unchanged (#603, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys107, ourjourneys47, works index); re-read of ourjourneys47 (his own memoir narrative) surfaced previously unabsorbed facts — he served as deputy to 9th-term president 陳文彥 (1988-89), succeeded him as 10th-term NATPA president, and led the 1990 first-Taiwan annual meeting as 副總協調人/農業組召集人. Absorbed above; both the 1981 “2nd president” term and the 1989 “10th-term” role are confirmed by the same record (different terms) — no conflict, no HOLD. DEEPENED.

— re-grep: fresh single-quoted ERE ZH+EN grep of works/+articles/ — hit set unchanged, all hits already absorbed and wikilinked; verified-saturated. SKIP-with-reason. hits-hash=1b47cab109c5 — re-grep (蔡嘉寅 / C. Y. Tsai, ERE works+articles): hit set = {index, #603, ourjourneys47/69/69-eng/107}, identical to prior slices; 107 lecture line re-checked (以基因工程解決缺糧困境 — 蔡嘉寅教授), already absorbed. No new corpus facts, no conflicts. SKIP-with-reason (verified-saturated). hits-hash=1852d08eb2db

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