One source of consolation is that NTU's instructors have already began pursuing cross-disciplinary research, including joint work by the colleges of medicine and science on genetic research and on combining nanotechnology and biochips, and the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science's integration of multimedia digital technology in the arts and journalism.
值得欣慰的是，台大老師已經開始進行跨領域研究，包括醫學院和理學院合作的基因體研究、奈米結合生物晶片的研究，以及電資學院結合藝術、新聞領域的多媒體數位科技等。