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On July 23, Soo-Young Lee, the chairman of the KAIST Development Foundation, donated real estate properties worth approximately 57 million USD to KAIST, setting a new record for the largest donation the institution has ever received. Chairman Lee also donated 6.7 million USD worth of real estate in
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Jehyuk Cho Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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KAIST conducted a commencement ceremony to celebrate the graduating class of 2020 students on August 28. The graduation ceremony was held in a blended online and offline format to account for the social distancing guidelines in place for COVID-19, which had also caused the ceremony to be postponed i
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Ada Carpenter Head of News Division
2020.09.25 19:46
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From September 3, the usage of on-campus cafes in KAIST has been significantly restricted. Eating inside the cafes will not be allowed in most cases. In response to the recent second wave of the coronavirus in Daejeon and South Korea, the KAIST Task Force (TF) for the Prevention of COVID-19 announce
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Ada Carpenter Head of News Division
2020.09.25 19:46
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A research team in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, consisting of Professor Sung Gap Im, Dr. Do Heung Kim, MS candidate Keonwoo Choi, and PhD candidate Won-Tae Jang, reported a novel technology that uses a one-step deposition process to increase the transparency of refractive
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Tung Nghiem Xuan Junior Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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A team of researchers from the Data Mining Lab in the Graduate School of Knowledge Service Engineering have developed “Hi-COVIDNet,” a deep learning AI system that predicts the number of inbound COVID-19 patients entering Korea from overseas. The team, led by Professor Jae-gil Lee and PhD student Mi
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Seowon Choi Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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On the morning of September 9, The KAIST Global Strategy Institute (GSI) hosted its third online international forum titled “Post Corona, Post Human: Medical and Bio Engineering Revolution”, broadcast live on Korea TV, Naver TV, and Youtube. This forum explored novel biomedical approaches to treat b
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Seowon Choi Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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The KAIST Undergraduate Association (UA), FLEX, announced on September 2 a change in the retake restriction policy for undergraduate courses. The new policy stated that retakes for up to two courses taken during the 2020 Spring semester will not count towards the limited retake count.Due to the upsu
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Juhoon Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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On September 5, online KAIST communities were flooded with criticisms of several student clubs, based on rumors of them meeting on and off campus amid the second wave COVID-19 outbreak.The controversy began when an anonymous post on Everytime, a popular university community app, reported a club that
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Juhoon Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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On May 4, KAIST and Seoul National University (SNU) became the two newest members of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). As one of the first Korean universities to hold membership, KAIST has proven itself as a frontrunner in space-related research in the country, and expects more col
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Youngil Ko Head of News Division
2020.06.23 01:47
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As elementary, middle, and high schools began to sequentially resume face-to-face school classes starting from May 20, KAIST Global Institute for Talented Education (GIFTED) responded by providing special online relay lectures on the topic of virus and infectious diseases due to increasing concerns
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Woong Gyu Park Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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A research team led by Professor Jeongku Kang of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering developed an energy storage material for Li-O2 batteries that control electrocatalysts and stabilize the movements of reactants at an atomic level. This new technology can produce energy densities ten
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Jisun Lee Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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A research team led by Professor Hyun Myung from the School of Electrical Engineering has developed a drilling biomimetic robot called the “Mole-bot”. Measuring 26 centimeters wide and 84 centimeters long and weighing 26 kilograms, Mole-bot can excavate three times faster than conventional models, a
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Hanbit Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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Professor Kwang-Soo Kim, the director of the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory at McLean Hospital, and the McLean-Massachusetts General Hospital team have provided the world’s first successful case of treating a patient with Parkinson’s disease (PD) by reprogramming the patient’s own skin cells into
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Woong Gyu Park Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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A group of researchers led by Professor Jihun Oh from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have presented three new approaches for modulating local carbon dioxide concentration in gas-diffusion electrode (GDE) based flow electrolyzers. Their study showed that moderate local CO2 concen
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Hanbit Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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In a letter to KAIST students on May 30, KAIST Provost and Executive Vice President Kwang Hyung Lee announced new guidelines for the final examination and the upcoming summer semester. A few courses will conduct offline exams, but the majority must remain online. While June 29 marks the first day of
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Chrysan Angela Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer semester dormitory application will be conducted differently from usual. Students already staying in dormitories during the spring semester — international students who arrived in Korea before March 25, and Korean students who have received permission to stay
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Chrysan Angela Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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A research team led by Professor Sung-Hee Lee from the Graduate School of Culture Technology developed a novel neural-network-based framework for constructing a latent motion manifold that can represent a wide range of human motions in a long sequence. The team introduced several new components that
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Assem Dikhayeva Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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A research team led by Professor Juho Kim from the School of Computing has developed a system called SolutionChat that provides real-time moderator support during online chat discussions. The study was published in Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.As a res
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Assem Dikhayeva Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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A research team led by Professor DongSoo Han of School of Computing has developed a new software that assists prompt and efficient public health surveillance without the risk of privacy concerns, called “Prevention System for the Pandemic Disease Infection (PreSPI).” This software utilizes the “smar
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Jisun Lee Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 00:39
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A group of researchers in the Department of Biological Sciences led by Professor Seung-Hee Lee have confirmed that somatostatin (SST), a neuropeptide molecule, can enhance visual processing and cognitive faculties. This is a result of its ability to reduce certain excitatory inputs in the cortex.The
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Zunnoor Awan Junior Staff Reporter
2020.05.26 21:58