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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
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The committee for educational curriculum announced on November 28 that the fifth 2014 educational curriculum was to put in effect immediately. This was the fifth time the committee decided to change to the curriculum – a change that is expected to last until the end of this semester. The undergraduate departments that are undergoing changes in their syllabus are the Department of Chemistry,
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:10
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Students studying at Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) schools in Korea, including KAIST, will now be able to enlist in courses at other partner universities. Administration leaders from the STEM schools including KAIST, GIST(Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), DIST(Daegu Institute of Science and Technology), UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:10
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On November 25, KAIST held the Smilegate Membership (SGM) Program launching ceremony at the Educational Support Building (W8). Around 30 people, including the KAIST students selected for the SGM program, Dong Ki Yang, CEO of Smilegate Entertainment, and Joongmyeon Bae, Dean of the Office of University – Industry Cooperation (OUIC), attended the ceremony.Founded in 2002, Smilegate is a Korean
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:09
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Professor Yeon Sik Jung from the KAIST Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his research team have developed a high-resolution nanotransfer printing technology. With the newly developed technology, a long document such as the Tripitaka Koreana (Palman Daejanggyeong), whose pages would cover an entire football field, can be printed on a single piece of A4 paper. The research was publ
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:09
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Professor Hak-Sung Kim and Yiseul Ryu, a Ph.D. student, both from the KAIST Department of Biological Sciences have developed a new method of constructing magnetic nanoparticle clusters (NPCs) using DNA-binding zinc finger (ZnF) proteins. The research was published on the online edition of Angewandte Chemie International Edition.NPCs are clusters of nanoparticles such as magnetic nanoparticles, gol
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:08
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At the 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), which will be held at San Francisco from February 22 to 26, 2015, KAIST will present 13 papers – the most papers out of all the participating institutes and companies. Samsung Electronics comes second with nine papers, while Intel and Interuniversity Microelectronics Cen
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:07
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KAIST president Sung Mo Kang has been appointed as the Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Electronics. He will serve the position for two years until September 2016.Founded in 1971, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international institution established to improve the world’s general well-being through active cooperation between private and public organiz
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:07
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On November 26, KAIST announced that a non-profit project team called GoGeeks would run the “Surprise Bus” program starting from December 12. “Surprise Bus” is a surprise voluntary service bus program that does not inform the volunteer passengers of the destination and the kind of volunteering service they will be engaged in.The program benchmarked the “Do Good Bus” program in the U.S., which keep
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:06
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A mop developed by a group of KAIST students has won 1st place prize for the People’s Choice Award during the Student Innovation Contest, which was one of the programs of the 27th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST).The contestants have to incorporate state-of-the-art hardware provided by the organizers into interaction devices. F
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:06
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On November 28, Department of Environmental Science Professor Ki Taek Lee of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) announced that with using fossil fuels, anthropogenic nitrogen caused by human activity in industries is being rapidly spread over the Pacific Ocean. The research team, from its results of nitrate concentration detailed investigation, found out that with the developmen
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:03
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Although plastics are versatile, lightweight and economically viable material with invaluable industrial applications, they are unable to transfer heat efficiently. In response to plastic’s such weakness, Material Science and Engineering Professors Kevin Pipe and Jinsang Kim from the University of Michigan have amalgamated short strands of polyacryloyl piperidine (PAP) with polymer chains of polya
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 04:02