The Simsan Kim Chang-sook Research Society awarded the Simsan Prize to Sohn Suk-hee, the President of News at JTBC, on November 3rd, in the International Hall at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU).The Simsan Prize is an award that was established in 1986 to commemorate Kim Chang-sook, who was an indepen
More and more undergraduates are choosing double majors as job seeking becomes more difficult. Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) is running a system of interdisciplinary programs, but many Kingos are not aware of it. Therefore, the Sungkyun Times (SKT) now introduces and analyzes interdisciplinary prog
Park Nam-gyu, a professor of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), has been nominated for the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This exciting news comes from the highly reliable information analysis service firm Clarivate Analytics which forecasts a list of Nobel Prize winners every y
A research team led by Professor Park Seok-Hee from the Department of Biological Sciences, cooperating with the Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology (AICT) and Gangnam Severance Hospital, discovered a new mechanism of metastasis of cancer including triplenegative breast cancer (TNBC) for th
Ko Jin-Young, an undergraduate student at the Department of Sport Science, won the championship at the Jeju Samdasoo Masters, the 19th game of the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) 2017 Tour, on August 13.As the game began on August 11, Ko finished the first round, hitting five unde
Professor Park Il-Heung’s research team has produced a Silicon Charged Detector (SCD) which was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on August 15. The SCD will be installed in the outer-module of the ISS and conduct the space mission for at least three yea
femtoskku.blogspot.kr/Professor Ahn Tae-kyu A research team led by Professor Ahn Tae-kyu, researcher Seo Gap-suk of the Department of Energy Science at SKKU, and two other experts from other institutions succeeded in developing a new technology which can analyze the defects of perovskite solar
Nowadays, as people consider fashion as a way of self-public relations, fashion has become a good means for people to express themselves. Even though people commonly think of foreign brands when thinking of fashion, there is a Korean designer who stands in the middle of the global fashion industry.
Dr. Kim Joo-won and Dr. Jung Sang-hyun of the Department of Construction and Environmental Engineering were selected for the 2017 Presidential PostDoctoral Project along with Dr. Lee Sangah of the Department of Medicine. The ‘Presidential PostDoctoral Fellowship’ is a project established by the Mini
SKKU’s Embedded Software Research Laboratory (ESLAB) has been acknowledged as an exceptional software laboratory and selected for the Ministry of Science’s Software Star-Lab program. The SW StarLab program is a government project started in 2015 that selects university software laboratories and supp
Won Hong-hee, professor of Fusion Medicine at SKKU, participated in an international team of researchers from the Human Knockout Project and announced the results of a largescale genetic survey in Pakistan. The Human Knockout Project is genetic research that aims to discover the genetic functions of
Professor Song Choong-Eui’s chemical research team succeeded in converting toxic material into profitable medicine ingredients through artificial enzymes. This development was made possible by taking reference from a chemical reaction that happens in the human body. Glyoxal, the toxic compound conce