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Every month, KAIST faculty and students garner a multitude of domestic awards. In the middle of April, it was Professor Duck-Joo Lee of the Department of Aerospace Engineering who was awarded for his contributions to science and technology. In the 32nd 21st Century Award Ceremony, hosted by the 21st Leaders Club and the New Industry Management Academy, Professor Lee received the grand prize in the
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.06.04 00:32
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Professor Jinah Park of the School of Computing received the Prime Minister’s Citation Ribbon on April 21. The prize was awarded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Korea Communications Commission. The award ceremony took place in the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul during the 2017 Science and ICT Day Celebration. The event was hosted by the Korea Federation of ICT O
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.06.04 00:30
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Professor Jae Kyoung Kim of the Department of Mathematical Sciences has won one of the Young Investigator Grants of the 2017 Human Frontier Science Program (HSFP). Professor Kim won the HSFP grant, sometimes referred to as “Noble Prize Grants”, alongside his international collaborators Professor Robbert Havekes from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, Professor Sara Aton fr
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.05.08 15:52
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While it is a normal convention to displace objects through mechanical systems, such as wheels or legs, a team led by Professor Daniel Saakes of the Department of Industrial Design has designed a strategy that harnesses vibrations to effectively allow an object to move by itself. They named their strategy “Ratchair”, due to the pieces of furniture moving analogously to a rotating ratch
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.05.08 15:49
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Along with other researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Professor Young Seok Ju of the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering published an article in the scientific journal Nature regarding findings about cell mutations in the earliest stages of human life. Titled “Somatic Mutations Reveal Asymmetric Cellular Dynamics in the Early Human Embryo”, the article was
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.05.08 15:41
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Lemony Snicket’s famous children’s novel series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, is the perfect description for 2016: the year of Brexit, the year Donald Trump got elected president, the year of Choi Soon-sil gate, and the year Harambe died for our sins. And it seems the British are not done with adding their part to this pile of, to be polite, feces.With what seemed to b
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:47
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For this month’s installment, by suggestion of a fellow reporter here in the Herald, I shall cover three bizarre stories related to crime and justice.Straight Out of TVOn November 24, two inmates successfully broke out of the Santa Clara County jail in San Jose, California. As if from an episode of Prison Break, four inmates (including the two that escaped) procured tools with which they cut
Aspects of Society
Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:39
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Another professor has been added to the growing list of KAIST faculty members to win the Sangnam Business Research Award. Professor Minhi Hahn of the School of Management Engineering at the College of Business was presented as the 22nd winner in the history of the award on February 23 in Seoul. As the most prestigious recognition bestowed by the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration (
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:32
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The respected science and technology think-tank, the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), inaugurated a new branch to its organization, the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST), on February 24. Among the 73 scientists chosen, 13 KAIST faculty were selected as inaugural members of Y-KAST.Internationally recognized and having hosted more than 30 Nobel Laureates among i
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:30
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In a joint effort, the research teams of Professor Byeong-Soo Bae of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor Doh Chang Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering were able to develop a quantum dot film enclosed by the compound siloxane. Remarkably, even at high temperatures and humidity, the film demonstrates stable emission intensity.Quantum dots (QDs
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:25
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On July 22 of this year, WikiLeaks, the controversial international publisher of leaked classified and secretive information, released emails and documents sent from and received by Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta. In some of the emails, Podesta and Neera Tanden, one of Clinton’s closest advisers, express their concerns and criticisms regarding the candidate. In one of them, Ta
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 23:42
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November 8 marked the start of what some people are calling “the apocalypse”. In more formal terms, Donald J. Trump is President-Elect of the United States of America. It seems that half of the American population are calling the results a miracle, while the other half are in such disbelief they have already started to protest in the streets. One thing both parties can agree on is the
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.27 23:37
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In black-bordered white numbers, the footage shows the day and time it was taken. “2016-09-20 15:51:30,” the digits spell out. Officers hide behind a white pickup truck, alternating between taking cover and pointing their handguns at a car next to the truck. The car door opens as a man wearing a white baseball cap comes out of the car and, arms lowered, takes a few steps backwards. Wit
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 17:02
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As I nestled into my chair — controller in hand — ready for a session of FIFA, I couldn’t help but think about the rumors that floated around school that day. “Chino, did you hear about the toque de queda?”, my friends would ask. Allegedly, the mayor received a letter from the 18th Street gang in which they stated that they would put in place a “toque de queda&r
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.25 16:56
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Cells in our bodies are constantly subjected to mechanical forces, which alternately compress and expand them. Unlike the effects of hormones and drugs on cells, the impact of these manipulations are shrouded in mystery. However, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a tool which could change that. Through their collaboration with biolog
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.16 23:48
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Putang ina were the two Tagalog words that Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, used in a statement addressed to US President Barack Obama. The phrase, which roughly translates to “son of a whore”, came at the end of a nationally broadcasted speech in which Duterte firmly warned the United States from questioning the surge of extrajudicial killings since his appointment to of
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.16 23:45
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Just as the guitar of the credit theme started to strum in full power, I abruptly silenced it with a click over the pause button. Like it happened at the end of each of the last few episodes, I could not immediately start the next episode, as is Netflix binge-watching tradition. First, I had to cool down the blood boiling under my skin. The series I was watching: “Making a Murderer”. State and Med
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.16 23:41
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During the course add/drop period, I have a designated, almost sacred, browser window which is always open. The window has two tabs and two tabs only: the Academic System website and KAIST’s “Online Timeplanner with Lectures”, which is more commonly known as OTL. The window is the digital knife I use to uncap the humanities courses that yield the most ggul (Korean for honey, slan
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.16 23:38