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KAIST successfully hosted the 2023 KAIST Tech Fair in New York at the New York University’s Kimmel Center on September 22. This event aimed to propagate the KAIST startup ecosystem worldwide and validate the technological prowess of startup companies for attracting investments and securing global cl
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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One of the significant economic problems worldwide is the increasing concentration of wealth. The KAIST Herald interviewed Professor Hyung Seok Kim, who has recently provided a novel approach to resolving the fundamental problem of unequal distribution of wealth in his paper “The Macroeconomics of S
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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KAIST earned a back-to-back win by emerging victorious in the 20th KAIST-POSTECH Science War (KAPO War) held from September 22 to 23, conquering six of the seven events. KAPO War allows cultural exchange between students from the two universities — not only among the competing representatives, but a
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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On September 18, the KAIST Safety Team began enforcing a campus-wide intensive traffic safety campaign, primarily targeted toward electric scooter users. Students were informed of the campaign through pamphlets distributed at the entrance of the Creative Learning Building (E11) and an email sent by
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Aow Si Li, Sara Junior Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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Professor Hak-Sung Kim from the Department of Biological Sciences has been awarded the esteemed 2023 Enzyme Engineering Award. This recognition is conferred every two years by the International Enzyme Engineering Conference. The award ceremony, with a lecture by the distinguished awardee, happened a
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Balsam Al-Hadithi Junior Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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Professor Sung-pil Park, the Dean of the KAIST Graduate School of Future Strategy, was honored with a commendation award from the Prime Minister of South Korea for his outstanding contributions to strengthening intellectual property (IP) competitiveness in South Korea on September 6. This recognitio
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Balsam Al-Hadithi Junior Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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In 2018, the Kenyan government entered a joint effort with KAIST to establish the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kenya-AIST). After five years have passed, the fulfillment of their vision nears as Kenya-AIST is set to open in Konza Technopolis, dubbed Africa’s “Silicon Savannah”
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2023.10.13 21:19
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A special exhibition named La Vocation de Lumière (“The Calling of Light”) is being held at the Kim En Joong Hall on the fourth floor of the Academic Cultural Center (ACC). The exhibit began on September 18 and will remain for members of the KAIST community and the public until December 29.The exhib
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Benedict Fabia Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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The KAIST Art and Music Festival (KAMF) 2023 was held at the Academic Cultural Complex (ACC) lawn on September 1 and 2. With the concept “KAMF: [ ]”, the KAMF organizing committee wanted the students themselves to provide meaning to the event.The success of this year’s KAMF could be seen from its sc
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.09.28 21:05
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Professor Sang Ouk Kim from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been selected as one of the Meeting Chairs of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for the 2025 Spring Meeting. Professor Kim has earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST.
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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School of Electrical Engineering Endowed Chair Professor Yung Yi, who dedicated 15 years of his valuable service to KAIST and his students, passed away on August 27. He graduated from Seoul National University with a BS and MS degree in computer science and engineering, and from University of Texas
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ChaeYeon Ryu Assistant Editor
2023.09.25 16:42
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In an effort to inspire physically challenged students to become the next generation’s leading scientists, KAIST hosted the “2023 KAIST Science Camp for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes” in collaboration with the Korean Society of Type 1 Diabetes last July 20 and 21. 32 young minds ranging from primary sc
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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KAIST opened a special exhibition of donated works by Hee-Young Yoo, a Korean master of color field abstraction and the current president of the National Academy of Arts, on September 4 at the Auditorium (E15). The exhibition featuring 14 of Yoo’s artworks is open to the public for free until August
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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The Ministry of Science and ICT's National Research Council of Science and Technology (NST) has notified 25 affiliated research institutions of significant budget reductions for the upcoming fiscal year, raising concerns within South Korea's science and technology research community. The proposed bu
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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From September 4 to 7, the KAIST Job Fair was held on the second floor of the Lyu Keun-Chul Sports Complex (N3) and the fifth floor of the Academic Cultural Complex (ACC). It was held in partnership with Careertalk, a company that connects its users to over 250 companies globally. Several of Korea’s
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2023.09.25 16:42
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KAIST formally launched the Graduate School of Semiconductor Technology in its inauguration ceremony on August 30. In anticipation of the ever-increasing importance of the semiconductor industry, the Graduate School of Semiconductor Technology was established to train global talent capable of becomi
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2023.09.25 16:42
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A team led by Professor Se-Bum Paik from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has employed AlexNET, a brain-inspired AI model, to understand the emergence of number sense in young animals even without training. Many animals have an intuitive sense for the arithmetic relationship between tw
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Alazar Teka Gemechu Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:42
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Professor Yeong-seok Ju from the Graduate School of Medical Science has made groundbreaking research regarding the function and impact of “Junk DNA” on human aging and cancer development. The research was featured in Nature Communications under the title “Widespread somatic L1 retrotransposition in
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Suyoun Lee Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:06
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A collaborative research team from KAIST led by Professor Jung Kyoon Choi from the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering and PentaMedix, a company striving to develop precision medical solutions for cancer therapy, introduced an innovative AI model named DeepNeo. This model is designed to use deep
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Suyoun Lee Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:06
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On May 25, the KAIST Education Innovation Day was held in the Chung Kunmo Conference Hall on the fifth floor of the Academic Cultural Complex (E9). The event was designed to acknowledge professors who employed unique and innovative teaching methods and share their efforts with the KAIST community, f
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:06