For POSTECH students, the upcoming winter break marks more than the end of fall semester. In January 2013, thirty Postechians will be travelling to Ethiopia, Africa to volunteer for three weeks.Undergraduate Student Affairs will start the overseas volunteer program, sponsored by Woori Bank, to help students grow into great talents contributing to the nation and humanity with the core values of honor, commitment to society, and leadership. The project will be run for approximately three weeks in January 2013 in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Africa. Students will teach children at l

Professor Inhwan Hwang (LIFE), Prof. Kim, Hyoung Seop (MSE), and Prof. Park, Jong Moon (CE) were selected as fellows of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). Prof. Hwnag was chosen as the fellow of natural science area for his outstanding research results in movement process of protein in cell and its role on plant development. Prof. Kim became a fellow in the engineering area for his excellence in interpretation of mechanical behavior of metallic material. Prof. Park has show brilliant results on research of biomass and bioenergy. He was selected as the fellow of the engineerin

A club is a group of people who meet regularly with same profession or share the same interests. In POSTECH, there are about 50 clubs, focused on things ranging from music to study. At the end of October, the article about plan for employment club became a talking point, as what the qualification of becoming club is. Feeling sorry about study groups about employment that have come and go, although employment information at POSTECH is insufficient, some students of department IME planned this club. However, the controversy over whether a group purposing employment can become a club has arisen.

As effective methods of education have been emerging, integrated education across areas of study, called horizontal integrated education (HIE), is becoming a common concept to people. HIE may be familiar to POSTECH students, since POSTECH encourages students to learn humanities, arts and other subjects besides one’s major, to help students develop broad knowledge. However nowadays, along with HIE, a new concept called vertical integrated education (VIE) is being raised. Though concept of VIE is unfamiliar to Koreans, it is a well-known method in many western countries. As HIE is defined as int

As effective methods of education have been emerging, integrated education across areas of study, called horizontal integrated education (HIE), is becoming a common concept to people. HIE may be familiar to POSTECH students, since POSTECH encourages students to learn humanities, arts and other subjects besides one’s major, to help students develop broad knowledge. However nowadays, along with HIE, a new concept called vertical integrated education (VIE) is being raised. Though concept of VIE is unfamiliar to Koreans, it is a well-known method in many western countries. As HIE is defined as int

As fall comes, efforts of POSTECH members come to fruition with winning prizes from various conferences. Professor Kim, Ki-Seok (PHYS) won “Rising Scientists and Engineers Award” from Gyeongsangbuk-Do and Prof. SeiKwang Hahn (MSE) was elected as “The Men of Advancing Scientific Technical Merit” and has continuously won the prizes from conferences.Xu, Kai (MSE Ph.D. candidate) won “Excellence Paper Award” from Korean Nuclear Society, and Byeongjin So (MSE M.S. Ph.D. integrated course) won “Best Poster Award” from the 13th International Conference on the Physics of Non-Crystalline Solids.In addi

Wonyeol Lee (CSE 10, advisor Professor Hwanjo Yu) won the Student Travel Award from 2012 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) by his paper, “CT-IC: Continuously activated and Time-restricted Independent Cascade Model for Viral Marketing.” ICDM is a conference at which papers on field of data mining are presented. The Student Travel Award was started to encourage students to submit papers to the conference. The subject of Lee’s paper is influence maximization problem. When any social network and the number of selected people are provided, selecting a certain number of people that

Professor Kyeongcheol Yang (Math) was elected as the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information The- ory, published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Elec- tronics Engineers), the biggest academic society in the field of electrical and electronics engineering. It is the first time that a researcher in a domestic organization has been elected as associate editor.The Journal is dedicated to the study of the mathematics of communications and information theory. It is the most prestigious journal in the whole field of electrical and electronics engineering, and had the highest ranking

Professor Kang Kwanhyeong of the Department of Mechanical Engineering died at Pohang Stroke and Spine Hospital on Oct.1 at the age of 44. The cause was brain tumor. Prof. Kang was among the first matriculating class (1987) of POSTECH, and had earned M.S. and Ph.D. at POSTECH before becoming a professor of mechanical engineering in 2005. Prof. Kang presented his research, which received a lot of attention from academia, while undergoing cancer treatment and surgery since 2006, when his malignant brain tumor was found. This February, he developed the world’s first technology that can diagnose di

As dementia is increasing with population aging, POSTECH Ergonomic Design Technology Lab (Professor Heecheon You) and the Department of Neurology of Samsung Medical Center (Advisor Prof. Na Duk-ryul), Seedtech, and Humanopia developed a music-game, “Smart Harmony,” to prevent dementia. Smart Harmony will be displayed to public in a contest hosted by Gangnam-Gu Center for Dementia on Oct. 19.Smart Harmony is a music game console that requires users to concentrate on a timing bar, moving through flow of music, and shake an electrical stick for ensemble. It can enhance health of brain by activati

The Department of Creative IT Excellence Engineering (CITE) was established in 2011 as part of the project “IT Consilience Creative Program” by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and funded by the government and enterprises. In its first semester, CITE accepted 20 undergraduate students and 18 graduate students. The concept of CITE revolves around education that students choose for themselves; the object is to create new value, which others have not imagined, through convergence without any boundary between disciplines. Since CITE is established by government project, the support per student in

Dormitory building 20 and Nakwon apartment building 6 are going to be renovated during summer vacation and from August to December. The number of freshmen has exceeded 646 people, which is the maximum number that can be housed in the freshmen and sophomore dorms, due to the establishment of CITE(Creative IT Excellence Eng- ineering). As it is decided that about 36 more students are to be admitted next year, it is now necessary to make more rooms for the incoming class. Housing renovation is planned to renovate the rooms in dorm 20 to be the same as those in dorm 21.Currently, only 42 rooms, in

The 18th University Racquetball Championship(URC), hosted by POSTECH and arranged by IMPACT, racquet ball club of POSTECH, was held for two days, from May 26 to May 27, at POSTECH Gym- nasium racquet ball court. In URC, which possesses both the longest history and the largest participation than other racquetball championships, 80 students from nine universities, including Seoul National University and Korea University, strived for first place. The championship consisted of three classes and a female division, all progressed in tournament competitions. In class A, Jeon Seungjun(Korea University

POSTECH participated in “Thanks Sharing Mo- vement” wh- ich is promot ed by the city of Pohang in the attempt to make it a hap- pier city. On May 7, the mayor of Pohang visited POSTECH, and he donated 3,000 thank-you notes that can be written five thankful things day after day, to President Yongmin Kim. Followed by the mayor’s visit, President Kim visited Nam-gu Health center and encouraged people to participate in the Thanks Sharing Movement, on May 8. Based on one motto, “Gratitude is the start of happiness”, the aim is to settle corporate culture of consideration, communication, and affirma

A video lecture was held on May 11, in the Cyber lab Room 502 of Tae-Joon Park Digital Library to initiate advanced enterprise of fusion research and education. This lecture was hosted by and delivered at Pusan National University, and domestic and foreign institutions including POSTECH participated in the lecture in real-time, remotely. Cyber lab is a cyber environment for research and education, supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. It allows domestic and foreign universities’ laboratories to share high quality education in real-time remotely. Dongnam Institution of

What was the planning intention of this festival? What is the meaning of “WARP”, the motto of this festival?I felt a little hesitant in applying for the chairman of the festival. Because of this, the prep committee was formed late, and could not begin advertising early on. When the preparatory committee was formed, we first thought about how to make the committee more exciting and memorable. Unlike previous festivals, this year’s preparatory committee focused mainly on its assistance role, such as expanding support for festival booths. Secondly, we wanted to put together various contents. The

The research team of Professor Hyung Joon Cha (CE), Prof. Dong-Woo Cho (ME), and Prof. Rhie, Jong Won (The Catholic University of Korea) succeeded in developing functional three-dimensional scaffolds that enhance regeneration of bone tissue. Using mussel adhesive proteins, it is safe for the human body. It is also proven to be remarkable in adhesion and coating. This research was published in the Apr. 2 online version of Acta Biomaterialia, a renowned academic journal in the field of body materials.The research team affixed the stem cell on the surface of the polymer using the mussel-extracted

Since the beginning of April, the Department of Mathematics has been hosting Professor Don Bernard Zagier, one of the four directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and a professor at the College de France. He finished high school at age 13 and completed his B.A. and M.A. at MIT in just three years. Zagier then received his Ph.D. at 20 and became a professor at age 24. He specializes in number theory, and he is also known for discovering an elementary proof of Fermat’s theorem on sums of two squares. He has given several lectures for a wide spectrum of audiences, from high school s

he second fruit tree planting event was hosted by the 26th Dorm Union to endorse a “Green Campus” on POSTECH, commem- orating Arbor Day. The event was held in front of The Resicential College (RC) on Apr. 5. The trees were planted on the hill in front of RC, where sunshine is plentiful and trees tend to grow well. The event is expected to balance out the carbon dioxide discharge, increase awareness of the need for a green campus, and inculcate a sense of ownership by installing a nameplate for each tree. Compared to the six trees out of the 21 trees donated from the student body last year, 17

A piano recital, hosted by three students, June-Eok Leem (PHYS M.S. Ph.D. integrated course), Sangjin Lee (PHYS 06), and Min-woo Choi (GIFT Ph.D candidate) was held on Mar. 27, in the auditorium of PIRL (POSTECH Information Research Laboratories). Organized by the performers, the recital consisted of eight classical tunes composed by famous composers including F. Chopin, F. Schubert, and F. Liszt. After the recital, they gave their thoughts together, “It was really impressive that many people, especially several foreigners, came out to watch this recital, beyond our expectation. We have a stro