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On October 15, the opening ceremony for the two new graduate-student dormitories - Nadl Hall and Yeoul Hall - took place in the presence of President Sung Mo Kang and approximately 50 other school personnel.Both dormitories consist of nine floors, from the basement to the eighth floor, and measure to 3,480 square-meters and will accommodate 600 students in total. The north-facing dormitory, Nadl H
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:22
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On October 17, Samsung Heavy Industries and KAIST celebrated their 20th anniversary of university-industry cooperation. The ceremony was held at the KAIST Mechanical Engineering building (N7) conference room with over 30 attendees, including the Dean of KAIST Department of Mechanical Engineering, Choongsik Bae, and Head of the Samsung Heavy Industries Research Institute, Jong-Soo Seo.The cooperati
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:22
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On October 23, the FnC sector of Kolon Industries (Kolon FnC) donated 2 million KRW worth of profits from the flea market held at this year’s festival to the KAIST development foundation. Kolon FnC i.e. the Kolon fashion division is one of the leading companies in Korea specialized in fashion and has led the development of technology and design for more than five decades.In cooperation with
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 20:20
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KAIST has recently been the beneficiary of a 50-million-KRW donation from the parents of two KAIST alumni. These parents, Ki-Hong Oh (husband) and Soon-Yi Kim (wife), run a tangerine farm and a B&B in Seogwipo, Jeju. The family has produced three graduates from the school; the two sons, Hwan-Hee Oh (class of 2005) and Hwan-Yup Oh (class of 2009), received their master’s degrees in Mechan
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.06.03 20:19
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About 60 KAIST professors from different departments have voluntarily established a research center to build a safer and a more secure Korea. The research center, the KAIST Institute for Disaster Studies (KIDS), will focus on researching and developing quality safety technology.The KIDS President Hee-Kyung Park, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, said, “The recent tragic disas
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:17
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On October 24, Chaesub Lee, a research consultant on ICT/Telecommunication technology and their standard developments at the KAIST Institute for IT Convergence was elected Director of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. He received 87 votes out of the 169, exceeding the required poll of 85 votes by two.Lee will be in charge of managing
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:15
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From October 23 to 26, the KAIST System Design Innovation & Application Research Center hosted the 2014 Intelligent SoC (System-on-a-Chip) Robot War Competition at Ilsan Kintex. The main theme of the competition was “Developing the world’s best intelligent robot by integrating semiconductors with robots”.SoCs are non-memory semiconductors that combine memory, central processi
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:12
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On October 29, KAIST and the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) signed an MOU in the field of environmental studies at the Main Administration Building (E14).The IIASA is a scientific research institute, founded in 1972 in Laxenburg, Austria. The institute conducts policy-oriented research – which are independent of and completely unconstrained by political or nation
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:11
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The KAIST undergraduate flight research team, ICARUS, has constructed a human-powered airplane and competed in the 2014 Human Powered Aircraft Competition. The constructed aircraft was on display for three days at the KAIST Creative Learning Building (E11) until October 29.ICARUS, founded in 1996, consists exclusively of undergraduate students who share an interest for aerospace. The team works on
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:10
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On October 15, Dean of McCormick School of Engineering, Julio M. Ottino, gave a distinguished lecture at KAIST, during a two-day discussion on fostering creativity and theory in fluid mixing. The invited speaker spoke at the fourth annual KAIST Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Global Distinguished Lectureship.Professor Ottino is a renowned scholar in the field of chemical chaotic systems and
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Shin Hum Cho Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:08
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On October 14, KAIST signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) for collaboration in education and research. President Sung Mo Kang welcomed a delegation of UCSC officials including Chancellor George Blumenthal, Doctor Michael Isaacson (Director for the Center of Sustainable Energy and Power Systems), Doctor Lise Getoor (Associate Dean for Resea
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:06
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On October 11, the 4th annual Chung Moonsoul Science Journalism Award ceremony was held in KAIST Seoul Dogok campus. The award was presented to Hankyoreh for its debunking of scientifically unfounded rumors circulating the web regarding the Sewol ferry tragedy. The awards in the broadcasting and Internet category were presented to JTBC and Ohmynews, respectively.Every year, the Chung MoonSoul Scie
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 20:00
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KAIST has recently announced that Professor Sang Yup Lee from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been appointed an honorary professor at Wuhan University, China.This appointment is due to Professor Lee’s pioneering research findings and strong leadership in his research field. Wuhan University recognized his innovative achievements in systems metabolic engineering of
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Seung Hyun Suh Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:57
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On October 28, Professor Jong Lam Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) announced that his team succeeded in improving on the light transmittance and electricity conductivity of the conventional electrode by developing a new, transparent prototype that can be applied to flexible organic solar cells. The current cle
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:56
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In an animal study conducted by the Society for Neuroscience, which was published in The Journal of Neuroscience on October 29, researchers provided a test group of adolescent rats with daily doses of alcohol. These rats were found to have displayed significantly lower levels of myelin in their prefrontal cortexes than did other rats that were given sweetened water. The shortage of myelin, a fatty
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:55
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A research team from Ohio State University has invented a solar battery that runs on light and air. Professor Yiying Wu and his team have succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device. The team explains that this new device is constructed from a so-called “mesh solar panel”, which allows air to enter the battery, and special method of transferring electrons b
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:55
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Despite the common understanding that plants need sunlight to grow, a research team from Purdue University has succeeded in growing plants using only red and blue LED light. Farmers have been using high-pressure sodium lamps as a supplement to sunlight in greenhouses. Surprisingly, the seedlings grown under the LED light showed similar or, in some cases, better results than those grown in conventi
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:54
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The University of Exeter and the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) have announced that the bird population across Europe has been substantially decreasing in a new study published in the journal Ecology Letters. In fact, a staggering 421 million individual birds have died over a relatively short period of 3 years, mostly as the tragic result of unsustainable human lifestyle. The
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:54
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Professors Jung Ki Park and Hee Tak Kim of the KAIST Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor Seung Woo Lee of SKKU (Sungkyunkwan University) Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology have developed the world’s first auto-repairing electric circuit that reconnects its short-circuited part when exposed to a laser light.By using an ordinary presentation laser pointer, one c
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:52
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Professor Dong Ki Yoon of the Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology (GSNT) and his research team has developed a very delicate spiral nanostructure using a self-assembly technique.With this newly developed technology, spiral structures, which are considered to be the most difficult to fabricate amongst three-dimensional (3D) structures, can be fabricated on large areas. The structure, made
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:49