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KAIST has exported its educational system and curriculum to Chongqing University of Technology, signifying its emergence as a world-renowned institution that stands as a model for other universities.Chongqing University of Technology, formerly known as Chongqing Institute of Technology, is a public university located in Chongqing, China. Established in 1940, the university now has around 26,000 st
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Dong Hwan Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:26
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Professor Chun Taek Rim from KAIST’s Nuclear and Quantum Engineering Department has been presented with the First Prize Papers Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) Transaction on Power Electronics(TPEL). He is the first Korean to receive this honor.The IEEE TPEL is a monthly publication that covers new results in the field of power electronics. Each year, TPEL’s edi
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Hyoyeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:08
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Professor Sang-Min Bae’s team from the Department of Industrial Design here at KAIST received three awards for the 2015 Red Dot Award: Design Concept competition, one of the biggest and most prestigious design awards. They were presented with The Red Dot: Best of the Best, a top prize reserved for the ground-breaking works in their respective categories, for BOXCHOOL, and two The Red Dot awards fo
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Dongwon Cha Editor-in-Chief
2015.11.09 07:06
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On August 11, the first KAIST-MIT-Technion International Symposium on Nanoscience took place at KAIST. The symposium was organized by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Professor Il-Doo Kim from the KAIST Department of Material Science and Engineering. According to Professor Kim, the goal of the symposium was “to provide an interesting forum for scientists and engineers to share their lates
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Ji Min Yoon Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:05
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This summer, KAIST became host to the 2015 Global Entrepreneurial Energy (GEE) Camp. 23 students from KAIST, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), and the University of Waterloo gathered in the Startup KAIST Studio (W8) to learn about tech entrepreneurship from various industry leaders, share ideas, and interact with each other. The s
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:02
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Researchers in an UCSF-led team have developed a technique to create tiny models of human tissue called organoids by turning human cells into cellular LEGO bricks. This technique, named DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC), allows researchers to study complex human tissues without using actual human subjects. To turn the cellular LEGOs into organoids, several sets of cells are laid down in laye
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Hyoyeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:00
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A joint research team composed of professors and graduate students from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Biological Sciences at Seoul University, in collaboration with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, were successfully able to determine the principle behind the jumping movement of a pond skater on water, and implement it
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Dongwon Cha Editor-in-Chief
2015.11.09 06:59
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A research team led by Doctor Atsushi Miyawaki in RIKEN, one of Japan’s leading institutes for scientific research, has been developing ways to make the brain transparent since 2011. Their most recent method, called ScaleS, mixes urea with common sugar alcohol to minimalize tissue damage and to make it compatible with current techniques in high-resolution microscopy. Dr. Miyawaki notes that, “whil
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Young Jae Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 06:58
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Until now, invisibility cloaks were only a fantasy of science fiction. Yet recently, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley developed an invisibility cloak that can conceal an object from visible light using nanotechnology. Although researchers have only managed to conceal an object in a microscopic scale, it is
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Dong Hwan Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 06:57
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The Michael Brown shooting has resulted in nationwide outrage in the U.S., with some people even wondering whether Brown would have died if he had been of a different skin color. On November 25, U.S. President Barack Obama said in response to Ferguson shooting that race-based resentments in America are “not just made up [but] … rooted in realities that have existed in this country for a long time”
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:34
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Around 400 deaths result annually from shootings by the police in the United States (US). However, only a small proportion of police officers are prosecuted. Even after conviction, officers receive minimal charges, and some even rejoin the police force. In order to prosecute a police officer, major legal, institutional and social obstacles have to be overcome.In the US as well as most of the count
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:33
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After the Michael Brown shooting, protests and civil unrest erupted in the city of Ferguson, Missouri. Communal unrest began immediately the day after the incident. A memorial for Michael Brown started off peacefully with an evening candlelight vigil on August 10. However, some crowd members became unorderly during the ceremony. Some began confronting police officers, vandalizing vehicles, and loo
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:31
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p>In light of the recent Ferguson protests, the KAIST Herald has decided to provide an overview of the Ferguson shooting, which spurred the protests, the protests themselves, and their implications regarding racism throughout the United States.On August 9, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager aged 18, was shot dead by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, US. According to reports
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:30
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KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering announced on November 12 that Professor Sang Yup Lee had been appointed as honorary professor of the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. The university had invited Professor Lee for his numerous achievements in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, hoping he could provide environmentally friendly chemical industry practices th
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:14
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Nobel Chemistry Prize Laureate, Professor Dan Shechtman was invited to KAIST on November 7 to give a special lecture on “Demographics, Technological Entrepreneurship and the Future of Korea” at the Terman Hall, Creative Learning Building. Professor Shechtman gave his insight in educating the next generation of entrepreneurs and cases back from his home country Israel.Professor Shechtman launched h
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:14
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From November 13 to 14, KAIST held the 2014 Wearable Computer Competition at the KI Building (E4), marking the 10th anniversary of the competition’s inauguration. The competition promotes the fusion of technology and fashion, prompting its participants to embed information technology (IT) functions into the everyday clothing.Wearable computers are miniature electronic gadgets worn by the bea
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:13
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From November 21 to February 8, 2015m the KAIST Art and Design Committee is hosting the ‘Artificial Intelligence and Evolution of Robots’ exhibition, at the KAIST Institute (KI) building (E4).Over the past few years, the Art and Design committee, led by Myung-Suk Kim, has continued to organize various exhibitions under the theme of merging science and art. The first exhibition, “Eyes to the Sky” (
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:13
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The KAIST Industrial Design Department’s homepage won the Best Webpage Award at the 10th Quacquarelli Symonds – Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (QS-APPLE) conference. The conference, which was hosted by Quacquarelli Symonds, a British company that annually publishes its world university rankings, took place between November 11 and 13 at the Taipei International Conventio
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:12
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On November 27, KAIST President Sung Mo Kang announced that the KAIST Youth Venture Investment Holdings (YVIH) (unofficial translation) had been established earlier that month and was now in full operation. The investment company was set up as a social enterprise that aims to promote startups by providing aspiring entrepreneurs the required seed money for commercialization.It has been pointed out
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 04:12
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On November 1, at the Creative Learning Building (E11), a student leadership organization called the KAIST Leadership Executing Team (KAIST-LET) invited 120 children from various welfare centers all over the Daejeon and Sejong region to participate in “The Golden Bell Challenge”. “The Golden Bell Challenge” is based on the famous Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) quiz show &
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:11