In these days, it is common to see many high school students in student cafeteria. They are from Pohang Jecheol Technology High School. According to POSTECH Food Services, POSTECH is allowing them to eat in the student cafeteria from Dec. 14 – Feb. 4 because the cafeteria of the high school is under renovation during that period.All of the high school students live in dormitory, so they need a big cafeteria that can accommodate them. Actually about 450 students come to POSTECH every meal except weekend and holidays. The middle school next to the high school is also under renovation and other s

POSTECH, SNU, and KAIST made an agreement to cooperate in developing science and technology contents in domestic MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) on Oct. 14 in SNU. Professors from each university announced that they will help each other produce contents of primary subjects for science and technology including physics, chemistry, life science, chemical engineering, and material engineering by next summer. They decided to share the contents with all students who want, even with high school students. Also, they decided to develop the education model based on the K-MOOC contents and share it wi

Postechians are ready to throw away their stress about mideterm exam and homework with strong shouting at the library.

The 4th generation light source XFEL (X-ray Free Electron Laser) at PAL (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory) is under construction until 2016, and PAL held a briefing session about that for POSTECH members on Oct. 23.POSTECH has operated the 3rd gene-ration light source since 1994 and it is the third in the world owning XFEL. The biggest difference between 3rd generation and XFEL is the temporal resolution, which is a picosecond in the 3rd one and a femtosecond in the 4th one. Because of the fast temporal resolution, XFEL is 10 billion times brighter than 3rd one, which is 100 million times brighte

Exchange students are kicking around the jegi, one of the Korean traditional games of Korean Thanksgiving day, Chuseok. The event for exchange students was held on the first floor of C5 on Sep. 24.

Song Wan Hup, the chief director of administrative team of POSTECH Future IT Innovation Laboratory, was listed on the 2016 'Marquis Who’s Who in the World', which is also called the world biography dictionary.He has done 32 research projects related to the development of policy for research and industry-university cooperation, 70 consigned research projects, and a number of research activities for other policies since 1989. He is recognized as professional for industry-university cooperation and the development of policy for research. Because of his achievement and professional attitude in tho

On Sep. 15 in QS, POSTECH was ranked 6th for its ratio of citation of papers per faculty. This is the first that POSTECH has ranked in the TOP 10 in this category since the QS was held.KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology) was ranked first, CALTECH as third, Harvard University as 8th, and MIT as 9th. The citation per faculty is calculated from the database of the latest five years of Scopus. QS World University Rankings has been held by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in England every year since 1994.

There held a job affair on the 1st floor of student union building in the latest two weeks. Students were passionate in counselling about their future.

Professor Hu-Jong Lee (PHYS), Doctor Gil-Ho Lee, who is a postdoc in Harvard, and Park Geon-heong (Ph.D. candidate) succeeded to make electrons reflect negatively, which was announced in Nature Physics on Sep. 14. The negative refraction is the phenomena that if a material is possible to make the light on it reflect negatively, the light will bend in an informal direction so that it does not collide with the material or reflect and go to the opposite site. This theory could be applied to develop invisibility capes and a super lens through which people could see nano-particles.The research team

POSTECH was evaluated to be superior in satisfaction with service offered by university itself in university assessment, supported by Korea JoongAng Daily in 2015. The assessment was done among 37 domestic universities to determine the level of student satisfaction in universities that received a high evaluation in the university assessment of JoongAng Daily in 2014. According to the result of the assessment, POSTECH has the fastest service and the optimized system for students. It says that Postehcians are satisfied with what they receive from school, including counselling service, educationa

From Aug. 25, the mail service system changed to Outlook. Users cannot enter their mail with Povis app anymore, and they have to download Outlook app to access to mail on their mobil phone. It sounds sudden but it was already announced on Povis Bulletin Board. The new mail system starts with an empty mailbox. If users want to access to the former mail, they have to go to "oldmail.postech.ac.kr."Also, users can use "office 365" with "onedrive" through Outlook so that they can share files and work simultaneously with other users online.

On Aug. 27, three press organizations including The Postech Times interviewed President Kim and the answers are followed below.Q. What is the most important to POSTECH? A. It is more important than anything else and I will try my best to employ talented new professors in the near future. In addition, POSTECH will open everything to students including administration policy. This is ethical and the best way to communicate with students, which is core of education in college.I want to say the opinion of each student is critical to the development of the college. Some problems have resulted from l

Summer is already upcame. For your health, please clean the filter of FCUs and air conditioners and then enjoy the cool, healthy breeze.

On April 23, Dohyeon Kim, chairman of the National Science & Technology Council from 2011 to 2013, was selected as the 7th president of POSTECH. He starts his four-year term on September 1.The appointment of the 7th president proceeded unanimously in the POSTECH Board of Trustees. The 7th President Dohyeon Kim’s suggested vision was deemed appropriate in that he will make POSTECH a respectable university, and he intricately understands the role POSTECH plays in the domestic science field.The board also commented, "The 7th President Dohyeon Kim is well fit to lead POSTECH reasonably. He support

POSTECH and Naver made a business agreement on Apr. 22. The agreement was about jointly operating a training program for talented individuals in the engineering and computer science fields. According to this agreement, POSTECH and Naver should operate a Young Faculty Fellowship for research performed by young professors. The goal is to inspire graduates to do challenging and creative researches and provide scholarships for superior students so they can concentrate on their study or research.In addition to supporting training, POSTECH and Naver are planning to reinforce the education of student

On Apr. 16, POSTECH and Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital signed the MOU (memorandum of understanding) for cooperative research and academic exchange.According to the MOU, POSTECH and SNU hospital will cooperate in medical research, development of technology transfer program and education of researchers throughout the exchange between the two institutions. Also, they plan to found a management committee to further develop the cooperation.POSTECH has announced many achievements related to the development of a drug delivery matrix, diagnosis instruments, and medical adhesives. The univers

Sidewalk pavement was set to protect pedestrians along the route behind auditorium. It is expected to gurantee the safe route for Postechians but also prevent them from trampling grass.

Maybe you have met diverse people who have different positions, duties, or authorities after entering university. When you were high school students, the kinds of people you met were limited to teachers and friends, who spent time the same way as you did. Their lives were similar to yours, and your life was uniform and simply centered around studying or other activities to prepare for university admission.However, the uniform life was broken after you graduated high school. A university is a small society from which you can learn how to manage trouble between people or between organizations, h

Love Blossom Party was held in the Student Union Atlas Hall at 9 P.M. on Apr. 3, supported by DICE residents. They planned the party to make singles, who easily feel lonely among blooming flowers compared to couples, enjoy the nice weather and vibes of the season. The party consisted of a couple matching games, which was the big subject of the party, and drinks with music. Every Postechian who had a ticket was welcome to join the party, which had a white clothing concept. Drinks, including Tequila, Screwdriver, Gin and Tonic, Jagerbomb, and beer with sausages and churros were sold for 1,000-3,

Inter-department soccer competition was held throughout March ended on Apr. 6. There were many fierce matches and Department of Mathmatics won the final against Department of Mechanical Engineering.