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Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee's research team from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has created a sophisticated artificial intelligence system to predict potential drug interactions. The DeepDDI2 technology developed by the team was able to analyze interactions between
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Jan Brey Espia Junior Staff Reporter
2023.04.14 02:19
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Upholding its spring season tradition that started in 1995 to support local strawberry farms, KAIST annually holds picnics and strawberry parties as students, professors, and staff all gather at the open spaces on campus. This year, the officially organized strawberry party event was held from March
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.04.14 02:19
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On March 30, The KAIST Graduate Student Association Center for Human Rights (GSA-HRC) announced that it is officially awarding three professors its first KAIST Human Rights Professor Awards. These professors are as follows: Professor Dong-Sup Kim from the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Pro
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.04.14 02:19
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Being able to transport single atoms in a controlled manner is crucial for Rydberg quantum computing. Currently, a highly focused laser beam, commonly called an optical tweezer, is used to capture and transport atoms one by one to place them in the desired position. However, its shortcoming of quant
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Jeonghun Lee Head of News Division
2023.04.14 02:19
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A team of researchers led by Professor Jemin Hwangbo from the Department of Mechanical Engineering successfully developed a four-legged robot that could robustly navigate unsteady and deformable walking environments, such as sandy beach coasts or fluffy bed mattresses. The research was published las
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:03
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On February 28, the front entrance of the Academic Cultural Complex (E9) was populated with futuristic prototypes of vehicles as companies across South Korea showcased their products on the Future Mobility Technology Exchange. The event was a collaboration between the School of Electrical Engineerin
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:03
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In late January, KAIST introduced Pass/No Record (P/NR), a new grading system which would be applied to undergraduate students admitted in 2023 and onward. The P/NR grading system converts letter grades ranging from A+ to D- or Satisfactory (S) in the S/U system to Pass (P), and assigns No Record (N
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Eugene Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:03
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On March 9, the Academic Information Development Team announced a notice regarding the construction of the KAIST Art Museum, tentatively named “Chung Moon Soul Museum” after the chairman of Mirae Corporation who donated 3.2 billion KRW and 41 artwork pieces to KAIST. The construction began on March
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Jeonghun Lee Head of News Division
2023.03.27 00:03
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly gaining the attention of both researchers and the public, more so in recent times due to technology like the ChatGPT which has proven its unlimited potential to be implemented in diverse fields. The KAIST Herald interviewed Donghyeon Han, who conducted this re
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:03
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From March 6 to 8, the 2023 KAIST Job Fair was held offline on the 2nd floor of the Sports Complex (N3). Any KAIST student interested in applying for jobs, especially those expecting to graduate this semester, were invited to obtain recruitment information from various participating companies which
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Suyoun Lee Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:03
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“3D Sketch”, developed by PhD students Joon Hyub Lee and Hanbit Kim, and Professor Seok-Hyung Bae from the Department of Industrial Design, is a novel three-dimensional sketching tool that allows users to immediately animate their sketches. Users are able to rotate the x, y, z axes to draw in 3D. Ma
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Suyoun Lee Staff Reporter
2023.03.27 00:03
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Although hundreds of people die from cancer every day, scientists have been struggling to find a cure for decades due to its heterogeneity and variability. Among the various immunotherapies which employ chemical substances to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer, chimeric antigen receptor (CA
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Jeonghun Lee Head of News Division
2023.03.27 00:03
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On February 24, the International Relations Team (IRT) announced its selection process for the first KAIST-NYU Study Away Program to commence in the coming fall semester. This exchange program, as part of KAIST and New York University’s (NYU) partnership initiative launched in September 2022, gives
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2023.03.26 21:28
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Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are widely used in machine translation, autonomous car driving, facial recognition, and countless other applications. However, due to their complex characteristics such as the high dimensionality of the data and the non-linearity of constituent neurons, it has been v
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Zunnoor Awan Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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On December 15, STadium, a sports competition between undergraduate students of KAIST, GIST, DGIST, UNIST, and POSTECH was held on KAIST Daejeon campus for the first time. This annual event was temporarily ceased due to COVID-19 and was held for the first time in three years. It aims to promote cult
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Suyoun Lee Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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From November 24, the government banned single-use merchandise with a yearlong grace period. By next year, convenience stores and bakeries are banned from providing single-use plastic bags and cafes are no longer allowed to provide paper cups within stores, plastic straws and coffee stir sticks. Wit
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Suyoun Lee Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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KAIST jumped from 14th to 8th in the recently released QS Asia University Rankings 2023 that includes 760 universities, becoming the only Korean university among the Asian top 10. Quacquareli Symonds (QS) is a British company that specializes in analyzing universities across the globe, publishing se
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Zunnoor Awan Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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On November 30, the 34th KAIST Undergraduate Association (UA) General Election Committee announced the result of the general student election. KIND, standing for “KAIST IN Dynamic”, was elected as the new UA, led by President Dongjae Kang from the School of Business and Technology Management and Vic
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Jeonghun Lee Head of News Division
2022.12.08 13:44
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On November 13, the KAIST swimming team KAORI ranked first and second place in men’s and women’s competitions, respectively, in the 29th Korea University Swimming Championships. KAIST saw success over Korea’s best sporting universities such as Korea National Sports University, Yonsei University, Yon
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Jihyun Kim Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44
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KAIST Overseas Networking Exchange (KAIST ONE) is a program that aims to nurture cultural exchange and highlight the international community. Since 2009, KAIST ONE has partnered with the International Scholar and Student Services (ISSS) and KAIST International Students Association (KISA) to organize
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Mira Dhingra Junior Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44