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- “Increasing metabolism to cure obesity” by Prof. Kye Won Park, Sungkyunkwan University
- “Increasing metabolism to cure obesity” by Prof. Kye Won Park, Sungkyunkwan University -Finding new protein to cure obesity and metabolic diseases On May 17th, Sungkyunkwan University announced that the research paper on “PRDM4 induction by the small molecule butein promotes white adipocyte browning”, written by Professor Park, Kye Won and graduate student Song, No Joon, has been published on the Nature Chemical Biology, on May 9th. The research team explained that this research could suggest a new way to cure obesity and metabolic diseases. They verified that Butein(substance from lacquer tree) converts white adipocyte to brown adipocyte, through cell model. Also, they found a new protein called PRDM4, which converts white adipocyte to brown adipocyte. This PDRM4 is notable to suggest new way to develop energy metabolism cures. The research mentioned that obese cure for now causes loss in appetite, absorption, and increase in metabolism. Loss in appetite has brain stability issue, while loss in absorption has hygiene or social problems.
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- 작성일 2016-06-07
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- Invention of Semiconductor Operating at 90 below Zero
- A new semiconductor working at 90 below zero has just been invented by a Korean research group. National Research Foundation of Korea announced that the co-research group conducted by Prof. Jin hong Park at SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY, and Prof. Yong hun Kim at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, had captured the moment when charge passed through the empty space of a two-dimensional semiconductor, sponsored by Ministry of Science of Korea. The analysis of the movement of charge is regarded as essential for the research and improvement of a semiconductor. However, the movement of charge has not yet been studied and neither has the improvement of an element. The co-research group scrutinized the materials called ‘Graphene’ and WSe2 in a semiconductor, which resulted in inventing the new moving theory of electronic element in a two-dimensional semiconductor. The research showed a Tunneling Mechanism in the element of the semiconductor produced by the research group, which is different from the previous study. The current two-dimensional semiconductor normally decreases as temperature lowers. On the other hand, the element of the semiconductor made by the research team is not influenced by temperature: the operating current rises and the leakage current declines surprisingly at 90 below zero. This phenomenon resulted from the movement of the element passing through WSe2, quoted by the co-research team. Current on/off ratio (Ratio of current flowing in element of a semiconductor) is also seen as high; this is the indicator showing the superb element of a semiconductor. WSe2, which the team invented, indicates a higher current on/off ratio than that usual up to 10 million times (at 90 below zero). This is a thousand times higher than a similar semiconductor made from silicon. As a result, it is easier to control the current flowing in an element because of this study. Prof. Park says, “This accomplishment will be able to be adopted into research associated with switching elements and electrical circuits and then applying it to the production of a mobile phone, television and so on”
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- 작성일 2016-06-03
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- Academics Talk about Future Alternative Energy Technology Pevrovskite Solar Cells
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The Sungkyun International Solar Forum (SISF) takes place for three days from 25th to 27th. ▶ The 5th SIFF takes place ▶ 30 World-class academics from 12 countries ▶ Over 300 participate every year, and corporates register ▶ Discuss updated research about Pevrovskite Solar Cells □ Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) is holding the 5th Sungkyun International Solar Forum (SISF), with the theme ‘Next Generation Pevrovskite Solar Cells Material and Element as Future Alternative Energy’, from the 25th (Wed) to the 27th (Fri) of May in Cho Byeong Doo Hall in 600th Anniversary Hall. □ SISF, which started in 2011, is recognized as one of the best international forums that takes place in Korea. International researchers and scientists gather every year to share research results and have discussions. □ Korea is leading Pevrovskite Solar Cells technology. The head of the committee, Professor Park, Nam Gyu (SKKU) has first developed solid Pevrovskite Solar Cells and pioneered the field. A committee member, Professor Jung, Hyun Suk developed blending Pevrovskite Solar Cells and recycle technology. Pevrovskite Solar Cells are currently one of the most groundbreaking technologies and the professor was mentioned as possible Nobel Prize winner. □ A number of world-famous academics will be attending this forum. There will be 28 academics from 12 countries including Professor Michael Gratzel, the Millennium Prize winner from EPFL, Switzerland (Head of SKKU SAINT), Professor Ted Sargent, an authority on quantum dot optoelectric devices from University of Toronto, Canada, Professor David Cahen of photoelectrochemical cells from Israel Weizmann Institute of Science, Professor Alex Jen of organic photonics and electronics from University of Washington, USA, Professor Andrew Rappe, an authority on Pevrovskite optical device from University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Choi, Man Soo, an authority on multiscale energy from Seoul National University will participate as guest speakers. Participants will discuss next generation solar cells focusing on Pevrovskite Solar Cells. □ SKKU President Chung, Kyu Sang said, “I am glad that SKKU is leading research on new materials and devices that could accelerate commercialization of solar cells and boost national research competitiveness. I hope the forum to be a place for international academics like Professor Gratzel to exchange profound opinions regarding recent research.”
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- 작성일 2016-05-31
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- 2,000 Rice Soup with Honor for Elders
- “Every year, people in Yullchon District throw a party for elderly people with food they prepared from their hearts. This may qualify for the Guinness World Book of Records.” A party for 2,000 elders living in Yullchon District has held on May 21st at Sungkyunkwan University’s gym. Most of the parties hosted by Community Service Centers have buffets. However, people in Yullchon serve their elders with food prepared themselves. The main menu of this year was ox head rice soup. Preparation for this meal proceeded 3 prior to the event with the boiling of 16 ox heads in front of the Community Service Center. A community representative said “Yullchon District has a large number of elderly people compared to other districts. To show them respect, every year we throw a party with food prepared ourselves.” This party started with a performance by a Nanta team. Next, a choir consisting of parents and students from Yuljeon Elementary School sang. After the perfromances, there was a ‘Filial Conduct’ award ceremony. This year, Kim, Chunwhan won the prize for supporting his mother who is suffering from cancer. After one more song from the community service representatives, they had lunch. The party closed with signing contest for elders. Kim, Jeongdong, who supervised this party, said “Thanks to the kind volunteers from our district who helped, we were able to successfully throw this party.” Another representative said, “I will strive to continue and develop this party and make this our tradition which will promote harmony in our community.”
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- 작성일 2016-05-31
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- Prof. Han, Jeungwhan from Sungkyunkwan University Presented Milestone for Developing Diet Pills
- Prof. Han, Jeungwhan from Sungkyunkwan University’s (SKKU) Dept. of Medicine and Dr. Lee, Sangha had their research paper placed on the cover of the May issue of ‘Molecular Cell’, a renowned journal in the cell biology field. This research paper describes how the intercellular signaling messenger, S96K1, which is activated from energy stimulation, induces obesity. The research result implies that obesity can be treated through finding the connection between signaling pathways and transformational epigenetics. Prof. Han said “When it comes to developing diet pills, it is quite important to reveal the division mechanism of a fat cell. This research presents a new clue for developing obesity pills.”
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- 작성일 2016-05-25
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- SKKU Undergraduate Student’s ‘Cell Survival’ Study Published in World-class Academic Journal
- SKKU announced that a research paper by lead author, Mr. Koo, Young Won (24, 4th year) from the Biomechatronics Department, and corresponding author, Professor Kim, Geun Hyung, has been published in Biofabrication (Impact Factor: 4.3, JCR Biomaterials Journal among the top 10 percent), an academic journal in the biometric system manufacturing field issued by the British Institute of Physics on May 18th. The title of the research paper is 'New Strategy for Enhancing In Situ Cell Viability of Cell-printing Process via Piezoelectric Transducer-assisted Three-dimensional Printing’. It uses a piezoelectric transducer that changes an alternating current signal into micro vibrations in order to overcome the shortcomings of existing cell-printing and improve cell viability. Mr. Koo, who is studying at Professor Kim’s lab, had another research paper about a different subject published at the academic journal issued by The Royal Society last May. He had two SCI papers published during his undergraduate years as a lead author including another paper published this May. Professor Kim explained, “This paper is about Biomechanical engineering technology that maximizes the cell viability of three-dimensional cell printing technology, which is the main interest of recent human tissue regeneration. It’s drawing attention from the academic world since the results have the potential to make a massive contribution to the human tissue regeneration field.”
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- 작성일 2016-05-25
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- Korean Mathematical Society’s Spring Meeting 2016 on NCS
- The Department of Mathematics hosted the Korean Mathematical Society’s Spring Meeting 2016 on the Natural Sciences Campus from April 22 for 3 days in collaboration with the Korean Mathematical Society. The Meeting was also sponsored by the Korean Institute for Advanced Studies, National Institute for Mathematical Studies, Institute for Nonlinear Ergodic Theory headed and Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project Group of the Department of Mathematics. The programs comprise a series of organized academic sessions for each specific field of mathematical science, including algebra, analysis, geometry, topology, and cryptography, etc. Two public and plenary lectures were also presented to audiences by Professor Michael Summerfield Jolly of the Department of Mathematics, Indiana University and Professor LEE Woo Young of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. More than 300 mathematicians and researchers were invited to join for scientific engagement and sharing knowledge.
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- 작성일 2016-05-18
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- Radboud University Marie Curie Students’ Association for Physics’ Visit to College of Science
- The College of Science and the Department of Physics invited the Marie Curie Students’ Association for Physics and Astronomy, a student scientific study and research group of Radboud University Nijmegen, to the Natural Sciences Campus On May 6, 2016. They were given chances to get to know about Sungkyunkwan University and natural science disciplines, particularly physics and astrophysics, throughout the programs co-organized by the College of Science and the Department of Physics. The one-day tailored program was begun by the Global Student Network Help and Information Club, or GSN HI-Club, with one-hour presentation about South Korea and SKKU and campus walk tour for about an hour. During their visit, a group of physics students were also invited build friendship with the students who are studying similar academic disciplines by exchanging ideas about common field of interest in physics studies during lunch and coffee breaks. In the afternoon, Professor RHEE Joo Yull and CHOI Wooseok delivered special lectures to nineteen future Dutch physicists from Holland. They were also brought to experimental physics laboratories by our physics students to see how our physics research is done.
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- 작성일 2016-05-10
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- Nurturing Creative Convergence Talent to Reach Top 10 Rank in Asia
- Nurturing Creative Convergence Talent to Reach Top 10 Rank in Asia SKKU’s “New Challenge Project” from the Leader of Convergence Education Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) is carrying out its “New Challenge Project” which is based on convergence education, global alliances, academic-industrial cooperation, and management innovation in order to lead global issues and create positive changes in society. The name “New Challenge Project” suggests the specific plans of action for SKKU’s Vision 2020, the purpose of which is entering into the top 10 ranked universities in Asia and the top 50 ranked universities in the world. A main attribute of the plan is multilateral convergence education that includes software (SW) lectures, convergence between majors, reinforcement of academic-industrial cooperation, and promotion of engagement between foreign universities. SKKU has leading innovative software education for training SW professionals and convergence specialists with global competitiveness to keep pace with the rapid growth of SW education nowadays. Following Sungkyunkwan University’s selection as the SW Core University in 2015 all freshmen are taking basic SW courses. Furthermore, SKKU established the Sungkyunkwan Software Education iNstitute (SSEN) to teach SW to non-software and computer engineering majors. Through SSEN, SKKU will change academic SW programs, which up till now have been developer-oriented, to general education. Sungkyunkwan University is planning to create SW college by combining the Department of Software and the Department of Computer Engineering. SKKU will conduct a special entrance process for 60 students with SW talents and offer them 4 years of full scholarships from 2018. “The primary goal of SW education is cultivating thinking skills, not simply training developers. Students can learn logic, and acquire analytical and thinking skills in the process of analyzing problems by utilizing computer principles and making algorithms”, said Prof. Jae Hyoun Kim of SKKU’s Department of Computer Engineering. Another convergence education program Sungkyunkwan University has is the “C-School Project” by SKKU’s University Education Innovation Center. Students from every year team up as one group to solve problems based on integrated thinking beyond flat, major-oriented studying. The curriculum contains activities such as visiting new growing companies with global prospects, and the global camp with the leading universities in the fields of SW and Informatics. “The convergence education of the C-School is a creative way of educating that breaks the walls between majors and helps students achieve their dreams through genuine convergence. We will offer the program to students from all of the departments in the school”, said Sang Hoon Bae, Chief of the University Education Innovation Center. SKKU is establishing an academic-industrial foundation by expanding and reorganizing the research institutes in the school and building an academic-industrial cooperation system based on strong research abilities. In addition, the Sungkyun Advanced Institute of Nano Technology and Sungkyun Interfaculty Collaboration Center were recently established for convergence education between departments and promoting research. For this purpose, many research and education teams such as Future Nano Science Education and ICT Convergence Facility Administrative Education are receiving funding that reaches nearly 6,840,000 USD. Also, the Faculty of Engineering is running a business team for nurturing specialists that have a deep understanding and practical abilities in materials. To strengthen academic-industrial engagement, SKKU has recruited former executives who worked at companies as professors exclusively appointed for industry-university cooperation. The assessment of professors was also changed from quantitative evaluation to a differentiated assessment method such as technology transfer and job creation. As a result, Sungkyunkwan University has attained 329.4 billion won in research funding which has increased significantly since 2010 when it was at 219.9 billion won. SKKU’s international SCI thesis performance has also doubled from 2,782 in the year 2010 to 4,865 in 2015. The university was ranked number one in Korea in terms of SCI publications with an average of 0.8 per professor. The amount of paper citations per international thesis was 8.53 and there were 317 paper citations in the top 1% of theses which means that they were not only quantitatively high but also showed high qualitative results. To foster talented students who possess professionalism and practicality, the Sungkyunkwan Graduate School is also reinforcing industry-university links. SKKU recently opened a Grand ICT Research Center in Pangyo Techno Valley where 80,000 venture entrepreneurs are gathered. The Grand ICT Research Center will be running consortiums in various research areas such as intelligent ICT convergence and convergence SW development with the university as well as enterprises by operating the Pangyo SW Graduate school of Convergence. Through this, Sungkyunkwan University is creating a hub to handle the development of new technologies, transfer of technology, and creation of patents which are all directly connected to business ventures. With this effort, SKKU has earned high acclaim as an ‘outstanding’ institution, which is the highest ranking among the 85 universities in the Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation (LINC) evaluation last year. The income generated by technological transfer was 2.5 billion won in 2010 which increased up to 3.7 billion won last year. Sungkyunkwan University is also reinforcing the links between overseas universities to foster global creative leaders in the era of internationalization. The university has expanded the joint research between the EU’s prestigious universities and America’s best public universities while at the same time developing a network with Australia’s research-centered universities. This year, SKKU is holding a joint forum with the University of Minnesota in the fields of Nanotechnology and Physics, the SKKU-PKU Forum with Beijing University, and another forum with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Sungkyunkwan University has signed exchange agreements with 921 universities in 76 countries, providing multiple double degree systems and exchange scholarship programs. There are currently 1,400 students studying overseas and 2,400 foreign students studying at SKKU. Also, more than 100 students each year are receiving dual degrees from prestigious overseas universities such as MIT, Indiana University, Fudan University, Beijing University, and Birmingham University. Sungkyunkwan University students are enjoying the opportunity to live all over the world and develop their global mindsets and language skills through international programs. SKKU’s 7+1 Supreme Studies Program provides the students with the chance to study in leading UK and US universities such as Kings College London, Indiana University, the University of Minnesota, Perdue University, and Edinburgh University. Students can take advantage of using the 7+1 Regional Expert Program and gain regional expertise by studying in countries that are not widely known in the second and third world such as Eastern Europe, Central and South America, and Africa. SKKU also has active academic exchange and research cooperation with overseas universities. A university staff member said, “We are currently running exchanges in the engineering academic field with the world’s most prestigious schools such as MIT and Beijing University. We are also conducting research by inviting technology centers such as the world’s best chemical company, BASF’s, Asia and Pacific R&D Center and the fourth ranked petrochemical company in the world, SABIC’s, Electrical, Electronic, and Lighting Technology Center.” The results of Sungkyunkwan University’s innovation and effort can be checked in several objective indexes. The number of students per full-time professor and the percentage of full-time professors are each 21.3 and 101.14%, which is the highest among the main private universities in Korea. Furthermore, the university has achieved a 231.2% total educational restitution rate which exceeded the nation’s average of 116.6%. SKKU had ranked 1st in employment rate among the 4-year universities of Korea with a rate of 68.3% in 2015. As for the global assessments of Sungkyunkwan University, it has ranked 16th in Asia and 148th in world according to the Times Higher Education’s (THE) university rankings and 17th in Asia and 118th in the world according to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) university rankings. SKKU has also been selected as “the most noticed university around the world since 2009” along with MIT, Stanford University, Munich University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich according to QS in 2014.
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- 작성일 2016-05-10
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- Successful launch of Korean led space telescope
- The Soyuz rocket successfully launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia, on the morning of April 28th. One of the satellites the rocket was transporting loaded the space telescope, which is designed for observing gamma-ray bursts. The telescope was developed by a joint-research team consisting of five countries, led by Sungkyunkwan University’s, Professor of Physics, Il Hung Park. Prof. Park explained; “It is almost the first time we produced satisfactory results in the field of space through international joint research. I will study the space flash including gamma-ray bursts during the next three years, whereafter I will share my findings with the public".
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- 작성일 2016-05-04
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