A contest of dishes to relieve hangovers, called ‘I Am a Chef’, was held in front of the Jigok Community Center on May 12, from 2 P.M. to 4 P.M. This event was planned as part of the festival for Postechians, many of whom often suffer from the overdrinking of alcohol. Eight teams participated in this contest, with each team making special and creative dishes from very different recipes. For Postechians, The Postech Times will reveal the recipe of the winner of this contest, the Soft Tofu Jjigae of the School of Cooks.First, boil water with tuna in a pot. Second, fry kimchi and put it into the

The 4th Annual Debate Competition sponsored by the President and supervised by the Leadership Center was held from May 12 to13 at the Hogil Kim Memorial Hall. This contest was held to improve Postechians‘ communication and leadership skills, as well as spirit of teamwork. This event consisted of two sections, ‘Debate School’ and ‘Debate Contest.’ Debate School was held on May. 6, helping beginners in debating to know what is a debate and how to debate. This year, the selected debate topic ‘Should Korea’s plan for additional nuclear plants be repealed or not.’Sixteen teams participated in this

The 7th POSTECH President’s Cup English Skit Contest was held by the POSTECH Language Education Center on May. 13 from 4 P.M. to 6 P.M. in the PIRL Auditorium. There were three participating teams, DICE, Freshmen, and Dislocation, and a total of 13 people. Each team showed their skit for 20 minutes on stage to the audience. The first prize was given to the team Dislocation, consisting of graduate students from the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT), who participated in this contest last year and won. This time, the members prepared a sequel to follow last year’s skit. They acted o

The Board of Directors of POSTECH has appointed Prof. Yongmin Kim of University of Washington as the 6th President of POSTECH. Upon the termination of the current President Sunggi Baik’s term, he will assume the positions for four years, starting on Sep. 1, 2011 to Aug. 31, 2015. He has a very impressive resume; a joint professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, and adjunct with Radiology and Computer Science & Engineering to just name his current position at Univ. of Washington.Aside from his multi-professorship, the Board of Directors of POSTECH chose him for sharing the common

The Pohang Institute of Intelligent Robotics (PIRO) revealed its achievements for the last six years to the public at the 6th Open Laboratory, held from Apr. 26 to 27.Six government-supported research institutes in Robot Technology, including PIRO, have held the Open Laboratory from last year to activate communication, technical sharing among industries and institutes, and finally commercialization robots.In the event, PIRO introduced not only robotic components and products developed in the last years, but also original ones. Especially robots, such as WINDORO, a window cleaning robot which i

On Apr. 7, President Sunggi Baik visited Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for the agreement of a new partnership. With the agreement, mainly two cooperative programs will be established. One, HKUST will be added to the list of the students exchange program from the spring of 2011. Then, the students will be provided with a wider choice from another cultural background added. Also, the students will be benefited with the well-known HKUST business program.Two, POSTECH and HKUST will embark on the joint Ph.D. programs. As a requirement, the candidates to the program will have co-adv

In sci-fi movies like Minority Report, technologies such as bendable or transparent computer screens are prevalent. These ‘dream’ technologies are not just part of science fiction anymore; using the ‘dream material’ graphene, they will soon become available in the near future. Professor Kilwon Cho (CE), Prof. KwangSoo Kim (Chem) of POSTECH, and Prof. Byung Hee Hong (Chem) of SungKyunKwan University (SKKU) have successfully manufactured organic thin-film transistors on a plastic board through a joint research. This has a wide range of applications because it is foldable, transparent, and could

On Apr. 19, Harold J. Raveche, a former president of Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) had a lecture on the topic of ‘Academic Entrepreneurship & Innovation.’SIT was introduced in The Business Week as a school which provides one of the strongest entrepreneurial backgrounds, producing more entrepreneurs than do Stanford or MIT. Dr. Ravache said that students in Stevens graduate with the ability to grow and launch companies.During the lecture, he suggested students to break the boundary between research and marketplace. Also, he told students to understand the psychology of the venture capit

Dr. Cheolsoo Ahn, the chairman of AhnLab, Inc. and chair professor at KAIST, was invited to deliver a special lecture titled “What is Entrepreneurship?” at the POSCO International Center on Apr. 26.He individually researched computer vaccine programs while at Seoul National University Hospital, and founded a computer security company after resigning as a professor of SNU. Dr. Ahn emphasized the mistranslation the words, ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘entrepreneurship.’ While, in Korean, both words are translated as, ‘CEO’ and ‘the spirit which CEOs are supposed to have,’ Dr. Ahn argued that everyone can

The 8th Annual Presidential Marathon held on Apr. 30 at the POSTECH sports field, with 452 participants.Ryan Daves (ME, Master’s candidate) and Song Hye-jin (MSE, ‘09) placed in the top positions in the POSTECH student categories. Also, in the senior part, Song Jun-chil (Pohang Marathon Club) won the title consecutively for three years.This competition has aimed to make a strong link between POSTECH people and local residents and to enhance a healthy life for POSTECH communities. Originally, the competition was scheduled to start at 8:00 A.M., but it actually started at 9:30 A.M. because of a

A great event was held in POSTECH to reinforce Postechians’ health and level of immunity through midterm exam period and the change of seasons. It was conducted from Apr. 15 to Apr. 22 from the infirmary, with health aid providing free multiple vitamins which are good for relieving fatigue. Due to a positive response of the event, POSTECH is planning to keep holding the event four times a year during the change of seasons. In addition, having designated a ‘Day for Prevention of Adult Diseases’, POSTECH offers urine, blood pressure, blood-sugar and cholesterol level tests every month for free i

The 4th POSTECH Science Cafe (PSC) was held in the Administration Bldg. on Apr. 22. Starting with a lecture by Professor Jeomshik Hwang of the POSTECH Ocean Science and Technology Institute (POSTI) named “Is Global Warming Real or a Hoax?” a discussion and a lunch followed.In the lecture, general issues and background knowledge from different viewpoints surrounding global warming were introduced with two conflicting opinions for the reason of global warming, and data for those ideas were deeply investigated.Hosted by the POSTECH Academy Council, the POSTECH Science Cafe has been a forum within

POSTECH is collaborating with POSCO in culturing core corporate engineers through a newly designed curriculum, POSTECH Systems Engineering (PSE). Launched on Apr. 22 in the POSCO International Center, PSE course aims to train members of POSCO into competent engineers who are able to delineate basic designs and fulfill their duties as leaders.Although it is a top steel-producing company in the world, POSCO strives to overcome its limitations of being dependent on major cutting-edge facilities and technology from abroad, with the help of this program. PSE was also considered necessary prior to a

A ‘π style’ interdisciplinary approach between humanities and science made its first step in POSTECH.On May 1, POSTECH launched its Humanities, Imagination and Technology Institute (HiT), which supports interdisciplinary research cooperation connecting Humanities, Sociology, and Scientific Technology. HiT conducts researches on several stressed topics, such as Science and Technology Studies, studies on images, media, and communications, and Cognitive Science.The Division of Humanities and Social Sciences now covers not only collaborated research across disciplines on various subjects but commu

An international forum for promoting the International Science & Business Belt (ISBB) was held at the POSCO International Center on Mar. 30. Many experts, distinguished guests, and students came together to learn about successful cases of such belts in the world, and discussed plans to fruitfully attract the ISBB to the Gyeongbuk, Ulsan, and Daegu region. This event began with a congratulatory addresses from prominent figures including President Sunggi Baik and regional officials from Gyeongbuk, Ulsan, Daegu, and Pohang. It was then followed by the presentation from Professor Jae Young Lee of

On Mar. 24, the Times Higher Education (THE) posted an introductory article describing POSTECH as one of the most well-founded and potent higher educational institutions in Korea and Asia. The article touches on various topics ranging from the founding of POSTECH as a small-elite school resembling Caltech to the process and key to the giant leap it has had for the last 25 years.The factors that THE was interested in were very diverse and in-depth, one of which was the globalization plan. In discussion, THE especially focused on the bilingual campus policy. It expressed the belief that the poli

In the POSCO International Center on Mar. 25, POSTECH and SK Innovation signed an industry-university agreement for a program that is designed to nurture talented Asian scientists, financially supported by SK Innovation.With the activation of the agreement, POSTECH will admit and nurture talented scientists from Asian countries such as China, India or Vietnam. SK Innovation, in turn, will offer support for tuition, research and others expenses. After graduation, the selected students will join SK Innovation.The program will contribute to the globalization of the campus for POSTECH and the recr

Among nearly 250 faculty members of POSTECH, how many of them can be ranked among the best academic leaders of Korea? The Dong-A Ilbo, one of the three major newspapers of Korea, selected 100 people from five fields of interest who are expected to honor Korea after ten years. Among 20 dreaming pioneers were three POSTECH professors and one visiting professor, Prof. Kimoon Kim (CHEM), Prof. Seunghwan Kim (PHYS), Prof. Hyungju Park (MATH) and visiting Prof. Donhee Ham from Harvard University.One of the POSTECH Fellows, Prof. Kimoon Kim is a worldwide authority on supermolecular chemistry. Once n

On Mar. 25, invited speaker Robert Huber offered a lecture in the POSCO International Center, hosted by the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL).Robert Huber won the Nobel Prize with his achievement of describing the structure of the protein complex which is essential for photosynthesis. The lecture was also on the study of proteins. The theme of the lecture was ‘Intracellular Proteolysis: Mechanisms, Structures, and Application.’ Much of Huber’s research is in relation with nuclear science. Specifically, his 1985 research disambiguating the three-dimensional structure of a type of protein comp

Professor Yoon Hee Jeong of the Department of Physics received the ‘the 2011 Netzsch-KSTP Award,’given by Netzsch Korea Co. Ltd and the Korean Society of Thermophysical Properties (KSTP). The award was presented in the annual conference of KSTP at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on Apr. 8. He conducted a lecture titled ‘Relaxation phenomena in matter’.Prof. Jeong has been developing various methods of calorimetry and applied them to solid-state materials for last several years, while he was striving to concentrate on his studies of thermophysical properties. He also rece