Raised funds to re-establish the Institute of Physics.
Encouraged the preparatory committee in the founding of the Institute of Modern History to formally establish the Institute of Modern History.
Added deputy directors for each institute, to allow a succession of leadership for generations to come.
Institute directors’ terms of office were set at three years, with the possibility of reappointment for a second term.
Founded the preparatory committee for the Center for American Studies.
Managed a call for young Research Fellows; opened the Academia Sinica kindergarten to lessen academics’ childcare difficulties
Promoted participation by Associate Research Fellows in discussions and voting within institute affairs meetings (1970).
Raised funds to create the Institute of Economics; the Institute of Zoology; and the Preparatory office for the Academia Sinica Institute of Biological Chemistry (IBC).
Wang Shih-chieh’s inauguration speech as fourth president of Academia Sinica, in May 1962. (Courtesy Wang Chiu-hwa.)
Ceremony for Wang Shih-chieh’s inauguration as President of Academia Sinica, May 15, 1962. Front row (the seventh from the left, to right): Chen Cheng, Wang Shih-chieh, Chang Chun, Li Chi, Chiang Meng-lin. (Courtesy Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures.)
Lord Killearn (seated) and Prof. Gordon Catlin visit to the diplomatic archives at the Institute of Modern History’s Preparatory Office in February 1963, accompanied by Wang Shih-chieh (second from right) and Kuo Ting-yee (first from right). (Courtesy Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.)
The New York Academicians Symposium in November 1963. Front row (from left): Wu Ta-you, Chiang Ting-fu, Wu Chien-shiung, Wang Shih-chieh, Wang Ging-hsi, Li Shu-hua, and Ho Lien; back row: Wang Shih-chun, Po Shih-i, Chu Lan-cheng, Cheng Yu-huai, Yang Lien-sheng, Yuan Chia-liu, Li Ching-chun, Chow Wei-liang, Ku Yu-hsiu, Lee Tsung-dao, Chiang Sho-chieh, and Liu Ta-chung. (Courtesy Wang Chiu-hwa.)
Greyson Kirk (President of Columbia University, second from the right) and Professor Richard Walker at Academia Sinica in September 1965, with Wang Shih-chieh (center). (Courtesy Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.)