SHIN Hye-jin, a post doctoral researcher at SNU College of Education surveyed 4,400 parents to analyze the relations between children's educational achievements and mothers' ability to get timely information. There have been a common belief that a parent’s access to education-related information will determine the pres...

SNU Institute for Peace and Unification Studies held an academic symposium with the subject of “Seeking Unification and Thinking of Peace,” celebrating the fifth anniversary of the institute, on April 29. The Symposium, which was held in the Press Center in Jung-gu Seoul, proceeded in two sessions, in which “Unificatio...

LEE Sang-Mook, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, established a new joint major, “Computational Science” particularly designed for physically handicapped students. Computational Science is a study in which natural phenomena is computed using simulations. Professor Lee disabled himself a few years ago&n...

SNU Bundang Hospital is now equipped with an operation system that can save the lives of patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI). AMI is a disease which blocks one or more of the coronary arteries, most likely leading to a heart attack. In a case of AMI, the patient must have the arteries opened within 12 ...

Professor SUH Yoon Hyun at the College of Medicine and Professor KIM Sung Jun at the College of Engineering have succeeded in raising two times more stem cell by using electricity only. They developed special electric chips which significantly saved the time and cost to rai...

CHEON Jung Hee, SNU Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, received the Best Thesis Award from the Korean Mathematical Society (KMS) .

SNU Dental Hospital cured the patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome due to snoring by inserting a unique equipment inside of their mouths. The hospital explains the cause of snoring are from having too narrow airways. Snoring, which causes chronic fatigue, loss of concentration, and headaches, can be...

Professor LEE Byeong Gi at the Department of Electrical Engineering was awarded the Information Communications Grand Award from the information and communications society.- Reported in Maeil Business News

Professor HAN Moo Young at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering published a book titled"Rainwater and You". Han, who has been conducting a research on rainwater usage for the last decade, emphasized that rainwater could be good a fortune if it is properly utilized. - Repor...

Professor KIM YonSu at the SNU Sports Medicine Research team developed"Smart Rehabilitation Fitness Equipment" using air pressure. He made the first example in the world in which air pressure technology was used for sports facilities.Kim collaborated witha business company Dong Sung Industry. - Reported ...

Doosan Yonkang Foundation donated 100 million KRW to the SNU Hospital to encourage cancer research. The donation will be used for research projects such as improving the"cancer patient's quality of life and nutritional state after surgery". - Reported in HanKook Ilbo

Professor PARK Young Joon, Director of SNU Nano Systems Institute created a nano-bio sensor chips connected to nano-materials. The biosensors are used to gauge the state or the density of certain organic compound by detecting electric change in an organism. Professor Park said that"these newly created chips would make ...