Student Leadership Election Committee (SLEC) held the joint speech session of candidate campaigns for Senior Leadership of Student Union of POSTECH (SU) and Female Student Union (FSU) on Oct. 30. During the session, candidates announced their election promises and had a question period. It was broadcasted live by PBS, and several students attended and gave out questions about candidates’ election promises. Because there was no candidate for Dormitory Union (DU) until the last day for the candidate registration, Oct. 22, the election for representatives of DU will be conducted by DU, not SLEC.

El Niño, a phenomenon where sea surface temperature of the tropic pacific rises, affects precipitation and atmospheric circulation around the globe, causing anomalous climate. The problem with El Niño is that it can only be detected merely six months before its occurrence.Professor Kug Jong-seong from the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering (DESE) at POSTECH and Park Jae-heung, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hawaii, along with the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have announced in Scientific Reports that El Niño and La Niña can be predicted 17 m

Professor Cha Hyung-Joon (CE) and his team developed a system which utilizes a bioengineered mussel adhesive protein (MAP) to deliver drugs for selective parts of treatments and to improve cancer treatments.Generally, as drugs can only be applied to the body as a whole, resulting in many side-effects, thus limiting the treatment process. Accordingly, the development of an effective drug delivery system that allows for a selective delivery has been called for. Existing systems apply drugs directly to tumors, but were without an adhesive function that allowed drugs to hold on in designated areas

The POSTECH Graduate School of Information Technology(GSIT) will be the first to introduce an online short-term master’s courses called the ‘Nano Master’ program out of all Korean universities. The online courses will focus on popular current fields in Korea – specifically blockchain and artificial intelligence.GSIT will offer a few courses of the blockchain and artificial intelligence master’s degree online; if one completes all quizzes, assignments, projects, and exams and acquires a grade of at least 70% from the online course, GSIT will accept the equivalent offline course as ‘completed’.

Police are probing allegations claiming that a famed bakery named Mimi Cookie bought cookies from Costco and sold them as homemade, organic products at higher prices. Mimi Cookie mostly sold its goods through e-commerce and social networks. In addition, it was not a licensed e-commerce business operator. It only registered its offline store in Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do according to the authorities. The cookie scandal is only the tip of the iceberg. False advertising and unlicensed businesses have an effect on Korean consumers. Korean consumers filed 498 complaints regarding online transactio

In 2016, a tragic catastrophe took place at a military base in Ulsan, South Korea; when five kilograms of gunpowder scheduled for disposal, interacted with an unknown ignition source and exploded, harming twenty soldiers. Also, a lot of national defense expenditure is used for the disposing and managing of deteriorated weapons and gunpowder.Park Tai-ho, a professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, and his team have found a way stop the gunpowder from exploding. The team’s research was conducted under a humid surrounding to prevent the gunpowder from exploding. The team identified the rel

Professor Kim Ki-moon (CHEM) has published the world’s first book on, ‘Cucurbiturils: Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Applications’ through World Scientific.Publication of the first text book in the field of Cucurbiturils, is significant in that it presents a benchmark for future study of Cucurbiturils. Prof. Kim is a world authority in the field of Supramolecular Chemistry, and has also contributed to the development of nanotechnology and biotechnologies based upon it. The book discusses the development of research related to the history of Cucurbiturils, interaction with various mole

On Sept. 20, a joint concert was hosted for all, free of admission, at the POSTECH Auditorium by POSTECH and Univ. of Stuttgart Orchestra (AOUS).AOUS was founded more than 50 years ago and has been performing worldwide. Currently, the orchestra is in Asia to visit Asian universities with exchange programs and partnership with Stuttgart. The POSTECH Orchestra has performed along with AOUS. POSTECH Orchestra was established in 2006 with a purpose to cultivate sentiments and develop a unique POSTECH culture with musical elements. It is consisted of many students, professors, employees, researcher

A joint research team consisting of Professor Cho Dong-woo (ME), Kim Dong-sung (ME), Dr. Choi Young-jin (ME), and Professor Park Sung-jea of Korea University of Technology and Education have developed artificial muscles that replicate human muscles substantially more than before. They achieved this by utilizing the extracellular matrix of the muscle cell and deep X-ray lithography technology. The research team developed a cell culture board with smooth wave patterns measuring tens of micrometers using deep X-ray therapy technology. This substrate has a wave pattern like the shape of an actual

Professor Jo Moon-ho (MSE) and his research team have developed an easy and economic ‘laser doping’ technology, which can automatically dope a two-dimensional semiconductor just by using laser light illumination. The research team has also succeeded in writing monolithic integrated circuits on a two-dimensional semiconductor.The two-dimensional atomic-layer semiconductor, a candidate for the next generation of semiconductors, has faced technical challenges since normal doping process could not be applied to the doping process in order to create high-performance circuits. However, thanks to the

The puma was shot to death about four hours after it escaped it enclosure at Daejeon O World through a door left unlocked by staff. Authorities said it was an ‘inevitable’ decision to shoot the animal, as initial attempt to capture it using a nonlethal air gun with a tranquilizer had failed. “The safety of the general public may have been at risk unless they shot the animal,” they added.However, protesters said that it actually did not escape the zoo and did nothing to attack people either. It was not the puma’s fault that the door was left unlocked. She was locked up for eight years and just

“We found about 80,000 tons of buoyant plastic currently in the GPGP.” Micro plastics, tiny fragments of plastic smaller than 5mm in size, make up the majority of items in GPGP (Great Pacific Garbage Patch). This trash vortex is getting bigger, and is now estimated to be fifteen times the size of South Korea. On May 28, the EU decided to phase out a plan to ban the use of the 10 most widely used the disposable plastic products, including straws and coffee sticks, by 2021. Korea’s annual use of plastic for packaging per person is the second largest in the world. The number of vinyl used per per

POSTECH has announced the appointment of Prof. Song Ho-Keun of Social Science at Seoul National University (SNU) as the Dean of POSTECH’s Humanities and Social Science Department (HASS Dept.) and have bestowed upon him an endowed professorship.Prof. Song was appointed as SNU’s first endowed professor in the field of HASS due to his accomplished research achievements regarding polarization and social conflict intensification. Beginning from 1994 as a SNU Prof. of Social Science, he also contributed to the advancement of SNU as the Head of the Social Science Department. Due to his appraised pers

The joint research team of Professor Kwon Se-kyun (GIFT) and Professor Levente Vitos (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) have succeeded in solving the simultaneous increase in strength and ductility in high-entropy alloy through the theory of metal plasticity. This can be applied directly to the study of various existing metal materials as well as the development of stronger and more flexible steel – ultra high strength steel that is three times stronger than aluminum. The team noted the phenomenon of twinning, and succeeded in unraveling the secrets of high-entropy alloy. The alloy is

Prof. Sung H. Han (IME), a world-renowned human engineering authority, has been selected as a scholar member of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), and named an IEA Fellow. The selection is more meaningful considering throughout the 60 year history of IEA, only 120 people have been selected for the scholar membership. The IEA was formed in 1959 and is the world’s leading academic institution attended by scholars from 51 countries around the world. It gives out membership to those who have outstanding academic achievements in the field of ergonomics and who have made international c

Hydrogen has been utilized as clean energy source in numerous areas including hydrogen cars and nickel-hydride batteries. The steam-methane reforming reaction whereby methane from natural gas is used to produce hydrogen in thermal processes is responsible for as much as 90% of hydrogen production around the globe. However, such a reaction has a major drawback: heavy carbon dioxide emission. As a countermeasure, a two-step thermodynamic water dissociation was spotlighted only to be labeled inefficacy because of a high reaction temperature of 1400℃.Assistant professor Jin Hyun-gyu from ME along

High-tech devices that are used in smartphones and wearable devices have complex nanometer-sized patterns. Since the size of electronics shrinks as technology evolves, devices face a difficult challenge in becoming smaller but being able to carry on more advanced functions. Professor Kim Jin-kon (CE) and Kim Sang-hoon (CE, Ph.D. Integrated) research team and Dr. Lee Woo’s research team developed a hybrid mould chemically layered in the field of polydimethylsiloxane with porous alumina that can be applied to the roll-to-roll process. This development was published as a title page paper on the A

President Kim Doh-Yeon and Neuromeka representative Park Jong-hun hold together the certificate of gratitude.On May 8, Park Jong-hun, representative of alumni corporation Neuromeka donated 50 million KRW as a scholarship to Mechanical Engineering graduate students. POSTECH President Kim expressed his gratitude by presenting him with a certificate of gratitude. This money is to be used to support outstanding students who have reported sincere progress in research related to the field of mechanical engineering and robotics.Neuromeka Corporation is a company established by a group of POSTECH alum

On May 10, 2018, the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund (KODIT) has signed a university-industry cooperation agreement with five institutes of science and technology (POSTECH, UNIST, KAIST, DGIST, and GIST) to secure high-quality jobs in the STEM field by industrializing outstanding researches and bankrolling innovative start-up. Through this agreement, KODIT and the five universities will (1) recommend outstanding start-up business inside those universities (2) support those businesses both financially and non-financially (3) mutually cooperate to vitalize start-ups through the means of start-up con

Invisibility cloaks were deemed impossible in real life until the creation of metamaterials. Metamaterials made of metals that have unique optical properties, such as magnetic resonance and have control over negative refractive index, have drawn interest from academia and industry. However, the material is created through the lithography method, which is expensive, time consuming, size-limited.Professor Kim Jin-kon (CE) and Kim Moo-seong (CE, Ph.D. Integrated) have teamed up with Professor Rho Jun-suk (CE/ME) and Mun Jung-ho (CE, Ph.D Integrated), and developed an accordion-like silver structu