▲ Message of encouragement for Handong University posted on POSTECH campus electronic board As a show of support for Handong University, which suffered heavily from a series of earthquakes last month, POSTECH made a donation of 33 million KRW on Dec. 16; donations that had been gathered by students and staff in-campus. POSTECH posted banners to support Handong University and proceeded with the ‘donation campaign for Handong University’ for ten days, from Dec. 21 to the 30th . In addition, POSTECH allowed free access of the library for Handong University students until their school’s library, w

My dear POSTECH members,2018, the Year of the Earth Dog (Mu-Sul-Nyeon) has arrived. I would like to convey my sincerest of wishes for the realization of all your hopes and dreams in the new year.This past year we have ceaselessly strived towards our newly inaugurated vision of becoming a Value Creating University. To foster talented individuals with a wide breadth of experience, we have had our first fully open admission process where all incoming freshmen were admitted as undeclared majors, and admission quotas were removed from all departments. As industries paid notice with close anticipati

On Dec. 25, free Christmas dinner and concert was held at the second floor of Jigok Community Center. Students, faculty, and researchers of the POSTECH international community participated to celebrate Christmas

Professor Kim Chul-hong (CiTE) won the ‘Lutronic Young Investigator Award’ from the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering. KOSOMBE is a large-scale conference in Korea, which has about 5,600 members since its foundation in 1979. The award is given to the individual who has made outstanding research contributions within ten years after receiving a doctorate. Prof. Kim has achieved several outstanding research achievements including the development of the ultra-high atomic force microscopy, which was awarded for his contribution to the development of medical and biological engineeri

‘Triazenyl radicals’, which were synthesized by Professor Lee Eun-sung (CHEM) and Baek Ji-soo (CHEM, Ph.D. Integrated), was selected as ‘Molecules of the Year’ by The American Chemical Society(ACS) Journal, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN).Triazenyl radicals are known for their difficulty of separation. However, the research team stabilized the radicals in order to synthesize them, finding out that they can be used as an anode activator of a secondary cell. ‘Molecules of the Year’ is chosen amongst newly made molecules that have a unique molecular structure and special properties. Now, triaz

Jeong Se-yeon, Lee Do-young, Choi June-muk, and Tu Van Nguyen, the members of Distributed processing & Network Management Laboratory (DPNM) led by Professor Hong Won-ki won the Open Networking Korea (ONK) 2017 fall Hackathon competition held at a Startup Campus in Pangyo. The topic was Network Analytics, opened by Software Defined Networking & Network Functions Virtualization forum sponsored by SK Telecom. The term ‘Hackathon’ is a compound word of which ‘Hacker’ and ‘Marathon’ are combined. It denotes a project where programmers plan ideas intensively and keep working continuously, similar to

Professor Lim Hyun-suk (CHEM) and Lee Young-ju (CHEM, Ph.D. Candidate)’s research team has developed a material that can suppress the main cause of atopy by regulating abnormal protein interactions. This was a joint research project with Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation and the Institute for Basic Science. Our body activates an immune response when harmful substances enter our body. However, due to environmental or genetic causes, immune response can occur abnormally to substances such as pollen, leading to allergic inflammation disease, including atopy. The treatment for these di

Professor Kim Jin-kon (CE) and Choi Chung-ryong (CE, Ph.D. Integrated) succeeded in producing various nano-patterns on a semiconductor substrate using ultraviolet light. The research team observed self-assembly properties of block copolymers to put diverse, nano-scaled patterns in a semiconductor device. However, it was a complicated procedure and entailed an enormous cost due to the character of a block copolymer, which has only one nanostructure. To overcome this limitation, they used ultraviolet light. Molecular design itself is designed to change when exposed to an ultraviolet light and it

The third Univer+city forum was conducted on Nov. 24. Universities, local governments, and industries from Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju participated in a conference about the innovation for local progress. It was first held last May in Gyeongju, the second conference was in Pohang and the third was held in Ulsan. Participants included POSTECH President Doh-Yeon Kim, Lee Dae-won, the President of Dongguk University Gyeongju campus, Kim Gi-Hyeon Ulsan mayor, and Choi Gil-sun, the President of Hyundai Heavy Industries. A total of 12 institutes participated and graced the forum. During this event,

The 3rd Global Youth Startup Entrepreneurship Forum (GYSIF 2017) was held by the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Startups on Dec. 8 at Yeungnam University Chunma Arts Center, supervised by POSTECH and Yeungnam University Entrepreneurship Center.The forum was held to assist communication for constructing entrepreneurship and alleviate youth unemployment. During the forum, about ten booths were prepared for introducing startup enterprises by alumni and various programs for startups and employment. The participants were able to discuss and learn about startups and counsel for i

▲ Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 occurred on Nov.15, incurring serious damange to infrastructure and buildingsAn earthquake of magnitude 5.4 and its consecutive aftershocks have struck Pohang, near Heunghae-eup from Nov. 15 to the following week. According to the officials, no deaths have been reported since the earthquake rattled the southeastern coastal region. However, the series of earthquakes have brought about 1536 homeless and 57 injured citizens. The country’s second strongest earthquake on record since 1978 also left cracks and damage in walls at 110 elementary schools and 106 middle and

The disenrollment of a student club, which was unprecedented, has been determined. A student sports club has been expelled from the Student Club Union and has lost its recognition as a formal student club. The reason was frequent sexual harassment and inappropriate chats in the club chat-room. The sexual harassment incident came to the surface through the Female Undergraduate Association (FUA)’s Facebook bulletin board. FUA representatively posted accuser’s wall poster on Nov. 10. The wall poster included several screenshots from the chat-room, and it contained severely inappropriate chats. Th

A research team consisting of Professor Rho Jun-suk (ME/CE) has succeeded in fabricating a meta-hologram using silicon’s double magnetic resonance effect. Meta-hologram, a hologram composed of meta-materials, operates in all areas of visible light. Unlike previous holograms, their optical properties can be manipulated theoretically, but using metals as substance, it showed a partial loss in optical properties. The research team designed the platform occurring double magnetic resonance using silicon nanostructures with the one-fourth width of visible light wavelength. As a result, they obtained

Professor Park Chan-gyung (MSE) was awarded the ‘2017 Honorable Domin Prize in Science and Technology’ on Oct. 23. Since appointed as one of the founding Professors of POSTECH in 1986, he is currently the chair-professor of The Material and Science Engineering Department and the president of the National Institute of Nanomaterial Technology. Also, he successively served as the president of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity, the Korean Society of Microscopy, and the Korean Infrastructure Organization for Nanotechnology, solidifying his academic credenetials around the world. Prof.

Professor Kim Won-jong (CHEM) and Park Jung-hong (CHEM, Ph.D. Integrated) have developed a drug delivery system that treats autoimmune disease with hydrogel. Hydrogel could respond to carbon dioxide and selectively remove it around rheumatoid arthritis. This substance consists of a high molecular substance that has low toxicity and no side effects. Through this drug delivery system, it can be utilized for the treatment of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. Professor Kim said “The results of this research was advancements in treating autoimmune disease by developing a hydrogel which

On Nov. 9, POSTECH held the ‘2017 United Symphonies by Conductor Gum Nan-se and The New World Philharmonic along with Pohang citizens.’ The concert was held for two hours, and POSTECH’s auditorium was full of Pohang citizens as well as POSTECH students and staff; approximately 1200 people. Pianist Yoo Yung-wook accompanied the performance with the orchestra, playing Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano concerto No.2 in C minor. The orchestra also played Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Hayden - Symphony No. 94 in G major, Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 in G major, and Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in f m

▲ Kim Cho-yeop (CE, M.S. candidate)Kim Cho-yeop (CE, M.S. candidate) was awarded the grand prize with ‘Loss in the Jurisdiction’ and the runner-up with ‘If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light’ at the 2nd Korean Science Literature Awards. The ‘Loss in the Jurisdiction’ is set in the mind library, where people can engage with a person’s mind vividly through a connector, whenever they want, even though the person has died. ‘If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light’ is set in a space station. Many judges have praised her novels as elegant and beautiful Science Fiction.Kim said "Since I was a teenager,

▲ Alzeheimer's disease lesion cure effectScyllo-inositol, which exists in small amounts inside the human body, was an expected medicine to treat Alzheimer’s disease. It represses the condensation of β-amyloid protein that kills brain cells of Alzheimer patients. However, when administered in high concentrations, scyllo-inositol caused severe toxic nephrosis and failed in clinical demonstrations before the POSTECH research team. Professor Chung Sung-kee (CHEM) and Kim Kyong-Tai (IBB) found a way for medicine transporter to easily pass through the blood-brain-barrier that protects the brain betw

Piezoelectric material can convert external pressure to electricity. If force is applied, the charges are separated into plus and minus charges, and due to the change in charge density, electricity flows. With the appropriate material, electricity can be produced efficiently, by applying it to humans, roads, or windmills to utilize movement and vibration. However, the problems were that the materials needed to create these elements were toxic, jeopardizing researchers’ health and the environment. They are also expensive.Professor Kim Jin-kon (CE), Sandip Maiti (CE, Ph.D), and Professor Khatua

POSTECH kept its position as a natural science and engineering university firmly by being recording first in engineering section and second in natural science section in the Joongang Daily Academy Assessment. POSTECH attracted attention as both natural science and engineering recorded first on ‘professor research’. Specifically, both sections recieved top on ‘technology transfer royalty’, ‘payment of educational expense per tuition’ and ‘discontinuing rate’. POSTECH earned 5.1 billion won KRW as a technology transfer royalty in only a single year (2016), specifically, most of it came from ‘Gen