SNU Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology announced its plan to open the ‘Winter Olympics Legacy Related Anti-aging Business Cluster’ at the SNU Pyeongchang Campus. The anti-aging business is a complex business which deals with the development and supply of medical and non-medical products and services to delay...

SNU's industry-university cooperation revenues from March 2013 to February 2014 were recorded as amounting to 622.2 billion Korean won, the largest amount among all Korean universities. Yonsei University and Korea University earned 372.6 billion KRW and 226.8 KRW, respectively. Industry-university cooperation revenue c...

Professor LEE Changhee is receiving the Merck Award Professor Lee Changhee (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) was awarded the Merck Award on August 28 at the International Meeting on Information Display 2014. The Merck Award was established in 2004 -- which marked the 100th year of Merck's liquid cryst...

Professor HAN Mooyoung SNU changed 24 of its toilets in Building No.35 on August 15 in an attempt to lessen water usage on campus. Professor HAN Mooyoung (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), who is famous for his rooftop garden projects, took charge. Previously installed toilets used 13 liters of water ...

It is estimated that as many as 5.6 trillion of toxic used-cigarettes are deposited into the environment worldwide every year. SNU Professor YI Jonghyeop (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) developed a simple way to convert the used-cigarette butts into an energy storage material. Scientists around the world...

Professor YOUN Kwangchul is performing at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival Professor YOUN Kwangchul (Department of Vocal Music) performed the roles of Daland in The Flying Dutchman and Hermann in Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival on 25 and 26 July, 2014. The Bayreuth Festival is the most well-known festival of the German...

Recipients of the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for 2014 Professor CHUN Byung-Gon (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) received the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for 2014 on July 14. The Fellowship is a prestigious award given to young professors who have shown outstanding research results i...

Researcher RYOO Jeongmin Professor AHN Kwangseog and researcher RYOO Jeongmin (Dept. of Biological Sciences) have discovered an enzyme which breaks down HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, and presented a possibility for a new type of AIDS vaccine. This team found that ‘SAMHD-1’ protein, which consists of 626 amino acids...

Professor KIM Kee Hoon Professor KIM Kee Hoon (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has developed a magnet which can change poles without the help of a magnetic field. Magnetic materials, which are a key component in hard disks, record information usually by changing poles using magnetic fields. This caused many proble...

Professor CHO Kyu Jin Professor CHO Kyu Jin (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) became the first Korean to be awarded the RAS Early Career Award (Academic) by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The RAS stated that Professor Cho was awarded for"fundamental contributions to soft robotics and biol...

Certificate award ceremony for SNU Leading Creative Researchers of 2014 SNU announced this year’s selection of Leading Creative Researchers as Professors WHANG Yoon-Jae (Dept. of Economics), NOH Tae Won (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) and PARK Jongil (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences). Since 2012 the University has sele...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo’s research was published as the cover article of Genome Research Professor KIM Jin-Soo (Department of Chemistry) has developed a new method of using RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) to modify human genes. RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) use enzymes to cut certain parts of DNA in ord...