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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
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To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the alliance between the United States of America and the Republic of Korea, US Ambassador to Korea Philip S. Goldberg delivered a special lecture in the Yang Seungtaik Auditorium of the Academic Cultural Complex (E9) on May 18. In his lecture titled “Youth and t
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Aow Si Li, Sara Junior Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:06
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Nuri, officially named the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II (KSLV-II), was reported to successfully launch and detach loaded satellites into desired orbits at 6:24 p.m. on May 25. This was the third launch of the vehicle, following the first launch on October 12, 2021, resulting in failure but succeedi
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:06
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The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially called Danuri, entered into its lunar mission orbit safely — 124 km above the Moon — on December 27, 2022, making South Korea the seventh country to launch missions to the Moon. Danuri aimed to investigate the lunar geology and demonstrate space
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Jeonghun Lee
2023.06.12 07:06
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On May 22, 13th Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett delivered a lecture at KAIST titled “The Secret Sauce of Startup Nation”. Bennett’s visit follows the free trade agreement signed between Israel and South Korea in 2021. The agreement seeks to connect Israeli startups in the tech industry with
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 07:06
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On May 29, KAIST President Kwang Hyung Lee announced that KAIST has officially received a total amount of 1 billion KRW as a development fund from MVITRO, courtesy of its CEO Young Woo Lee, for the pursuit of joint research at the KAIST-NYU campus. MVITRO is a company known for creating home medical
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 05:07
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Due to continuous advances in hacking technologies and intrusion of privacy, the significance of security and data protection has been raised day by day. The KAIST Herald interviewed Geonhyeong Park, a PhD student from the Department of Chemistry who published a paper titled “Planar Spin Glass with
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.06.12 04:59
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A series of safety and hygiene concerns related to student dormitories have consistently been raised. The most recent issue on April 20, when a student was injured after a glass partition in a shower stall shattered in Heemang Hall (W4-4), brought attention to the severity of the dormitory condition
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Jeonghun Lee Head of News Division
2023.05.21 16:23
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On April 21, a fire broke out behind the Undergraduate Branch Library (N10), which led students in the building to evacuate. The cause of this incident was the explosion of the charger and adapter terminals for one of the electric scooters parked and charging at the back of the building. While the f
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Muhammad Faizan Zahid Junior Staff Reporter
2023.05.21 16:23
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From May 8, KAIST initiated the “1,000-won Meal” project, where students only need to pay 1,000 KRW for breakfast provided at KAIMARU (N11). The lower-priced meal is only available from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. This is in line with recent trends at universities, such as Korea University and Seoul National U
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.05.21 16:23