Hanmaeum Education Corps (HEC) of KAIST held its 4th “Hanmaeum Dream Tree Program” at KAIST on November 2. The event invited students and parents of multicultural families to provide an opportunity for higher learning and to celebrate the accomplishments of mothers who have gone above and beyond to

Research teams led by Professor Eui-Cheol Shin from the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering and Professor Byung Soh Min from the Yonsei University College of Medicine collaborated to discover a key mechanism by which cancer cells work to inhibit the immune system. The researchers fore

A research team working under Professor Won Do Heo from the Department of Biological Sciences has developed a method to optically activate intracellular antibodies. Daseuli Yu is the first author of the research paper, which is currently in press for Nature Methods, a world-renowned journal which pu

Professor Greg Suh, from the Department of Biological Sciences, and Yangkyun Oh PhD, from New York University, have collaborated to discover the neuron in the brain that directly regulates blood glucose levels and modeled its functions using Drosophila (fruit flies).The result provided by this resea

On November 12, the seminar titled “Different Viewpoint for Innovation – Design Thinking” was held by Professor Youngjoong Chang for the Center for Science-based Entrepreneurship in the Creative Learning Building (E11). As a designer and educator of design thinking, Professor Chang presents this way

On November 15, the Graduate School of Science, Technology, and Policy (STP) held a seminar consisting of presentations covering how to better support international students studying STEM subjects in Korea. Speakers from various affiliations were invited to describe and discuss the existing issues a

K-FLEX, developed by the company EasyEndo Surgical and Professor Dong Soo Kwon from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was selected as one of the top ten machine technologies of the year. The selection was led by The Korean Federation of Mechanical Engineering Societies and commends the effor

The joint research team of Professor Hee-Tak Kim, from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Shin-Kun Ryi, PhD, from the Korea Institute of Energy Research Advanced Materials and Devices Laboratory, has announced a new production method for vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs

The KAIST Undergraduate Association (UA) Emergency Response Committee has released the results of a survey regarding student complaints on unauthorized visitors for the fall semester. The survey collected responses from a total of 45 students to shed light on student opinion on the problems caused b

A research team led by Seung Jae Lee of the Department of Biological Sciences has recently discovered the role of Mediator 15 (MDT-15 or MED 15) and oleic acid, organic materials essential to proteostasis, in the longevity of certain organisms.Biological mechanisms are easily influenced by the tempe

In light of increasing concerns regarding attendance to predatory conferences, KAIST will be improving its online business trip application system to prevent participation in such events. The change is applicable to any members of KAIST requesting domestic or international business trips from Octobe

Quantum dots (QDs) with high emission efficiency have been developed by the research groups of Professor Yeon Sik Jeong and Professor Duk Young Jeon from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor Min Seok Jang from the School of Electrical Engineering. Geon Yeong Kim, Shinho

On October 7, the Center for Contemplative Science successfully finished the second part of step three of its contemplative science education program, “Step by Step” in Korean, provided by the director of the center, Wan-Doo Kim. The English version is scheduled to run on October 10 and 17. This pro

KAIST graduate, Woo Kim, has held her first private art exhibition “The Deongeori” in KAIST Vision Hall. The exhibition showcases acrylic paintings of deongeori that represents the world the artist observes. On October 8, the “Artist Talk” with Kim was held in the Main Library (E9), where the artist

Professor Sung Yong Kim, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and KAIST Institute for Artificial Intelligence, has recently led a conference regarding a ten-year plan in the field of global marine observation. As the first Korean on the management committee, Professor Kim played an integral

A team of five students from KAIST and Inha University has won the first prize in the INFORMS O. R. & Analytics Student Team Competition (ORATC), held by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), one of the most prestigious institutes in industrial engineering and

Professor Jung Inkyung, from the Department of Biological Sciences, and Professor Bing Ren, from the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, collaborated on a project that has successfully decoded three-dimensional genomic maps of human tissue. The research team analyzed genomic maps for 27 different r

On October 10, the lecture “Time for Self-Compassion” was held in the KAIST Center for High-Performance Integrated Systems Building (N26) by Professor Kyung-Uk Lee from the Catholic University of Korea. The lecture was part of the program of the “Contemplative Science Lecture Series” hosted by the C

On August 26, KAIST held a ceremony for the establishment of Korea’s first Graduate School of Convergence Security. Being part of the 14 universities that participated in the “Competitive Security Project for Convergence Security in Regional Strategy Industry” — which began in March and ended in May

This August, two more research groups have been designated as KAIST cross-generation collaborative research labs. Professor Sun Chang Kim’s Biodesign Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences and Professor Yong-Hee Lee’s Nano Photonics Laboratory in the Department of Physics ha