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- SKKU receives an ‘S grade’ for Research Fund Administration System
- SKKU’s Research & Business Foundation received the highest grade of ‘S’ in 2016 for their research fund administrative system, monitored by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. Out of 176 universities who applied for the evaluation, only 2 universities received the ‘S grade’ including SKKU. The research fund administrative system is conducted in order to increase research administrative capabilities, transparency, and effectiveness of universities in Korea and non-profit organizations. By being presented with an ‘S grade’, SKKU will receive an incentive of 2% indirect cost, detailed adjustment exemption on national R&D research funds, and application qualification given as an integrated institution for student expenses. Also after receiving a certificate from the minister of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the related promotional work, SKKU is expected to be recognized as the best institution for the research fund administrative system. Ji Beom YOO, the Vice-President of SKKU and the chair of SKKU’s Research & Business Foundation said, “This result is from our efforts to improve policies for supporting researchers and providing an environment where researchers can focus on their studies.” Meanwhile, the award ceremony conducted by the minister of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning was held on Dec 28th (Wed).
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- 작성일 2016-12-30
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- Seoul City has Chosen 13 University Streets as Target Areas for Creating Campus Towns
- Seoul City selected 13 university streets as target areas for creating a campus town and decided to provide financial support up to 3 billion won in such fields as start-up and building community. There will be two types of business models in the Campus Town Project; unit business and comprehensive business. For those universities who were selected for the unit business type, they will plan and operate necessary projects like start up consulting, environment improvement, and more, under the financial support of Seoul City. Through 2 months of evaluation, Seoul City chose; Kyung Hee University, KwangWoon University, Dongguk University, Dongyang Mirae University, Seoul National University, Seoul Women’s College of Nursing, Sungkonghoe University, Sungkyunkwan University, Sookmyung Women’s University, Induk University, KC University, Hansung University, and Hongik University as its first target areas. Meanwhile, Seoul City will develop the comprehensive business type from 2018 for 17 university streets including Sogang University, University of Seoul, Sungshin University, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
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- 작성일 2016-12-30
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- The 20th Sungkyun Family Award was held on Dec 16th
- SKKU held ‘The 20th Sungkyun Family Award Ceremony’ on Dec 16th at tehe 600th Anniversary Hall. Founded in 1997, the Sungkyun Family Award is the prize given to professors, students, and staff who have shown great dedication to SKKU’s development. Up until the current award ceremony, 237 people have received this award.
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- 작성일 2016-12-30
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- 5 Students of SKKU passed The 2016 Public Administration Exam (Technician)
- According to the Ministry of Personnel Management, 5 students of SKKU have passed at 2016 Public Administration Exam (Technician) as listed below: Su Woong KIM (Civil, Architectural and Environmental System Engineering, ’04) Min Joong CHOI (Architecture, ’09) Sang Hoon SHIN (Chemical Engineering, ’10) Ga Ram KIM (Computer Engineering, ’13) Ji Woong CHOI (Mechanical Engineering, 03) Advising professor, Doo Sam SONG KIM of The Built Environment Department said “The class of Public Administration is providing much support through a preparation class called Woon Yong Jae, in order to cultivate core elites who can lead the development of the country by making policies regarding technology. Every year we see an increase of passing students through various programs such as scholarship, special lecture, etc. If you are interested in public administration, this class will be useful.”
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- 작성일 2016-12-26
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- KT – SKKU signed MOU for construction of Smart Innovative Campus
- KT Corporation and SKKU signed MOU on Dec 15th, for construction of Smart Innovative Campus. By this agreement, students of SKKU will receive various convenient services from Giga network infra, which can support to overcome difficulties due to physical distance between Seoul and Suwon campus. Also, Desktop Virtual Device Interface (VDI) of SKKU which is interlocked with Cloud Infra of KT Corporation is expected to increase information security by separating areas into work and personnel matters. Furthermore, KT Corporation and SKKU together will develop and operate various services in such areas of; giga network, internet protocol telephone network, cloud, etc. “Giga network that KT Corporation provides will help to decrease the severance of the two campuses due to physical distance, and it will support our convergence research and education to be more innovative", the president Kyu Sang CHUNG said.
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- 작성일 2016-12-26
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- Students of SKKU won at ‘CFA Institute Research Challenge 2016’
- The SKKU student team (advising professor: Young Han KIM): Kyung Won MOON (Global Business, ‘12), Hwa In KIM (Russian Language and Literature, ‘13), Jin Geun PARK (Business Administration, ‘12), Jung Jin LEE (Business Administration, ‘12), Tae Hee LEE (Business Administration, ‘11), won at the ‘CFR Institute Research Challenge 2016’ which was organized to select representatives of Korea for Asia competition. 5 teams were selected to participate in the final competition from the intense preliminary round with many universities in Korea, and 2 of SKKU teams competed in good faith. This event is known as a great networking opportunity for students, because many analysts and fund managers with CFA were participated as evaluation panels. The winning team will participate on the Asia competition in Bangkok during May as representatives of Korea, and will compete with teams from various countries such as Singapore and Philippines.
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- 작성일 2016-12-26
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- Scholarship Donation Ceremony of the Department of Korea Language and Literature
- Soon Seung KWON and Pil Yong PARK of the alumnus association of the Department of Korea Language and Literature (Chair: Hee Il KO) visited SKKU on Dec 12th (Mon) to make scholarship endowment of 72 million won, which was collected from many alumni of the Department of Korea Language and Literature with the wish on development of the department. “I am deeply grateful to the alumnus of Korea Language and Literature department for the dedication and generosity they have shown to SKKU” President Chung said. “This donation made of alumnus’s love will support our students’ goals and dreams for years to come.” Soon Seung KWON, the chairman of the preparatory committee of 70th anniversary mentioned, “This donation was raised from many alumni. I hope students can gain the self-confidence to continue working on their dreams from the support of alumnus.” At the ceremony, many representatives participated to show their great appreciation including: the President of SKKU Kyu Sang CHUNG, Vice-President In Sub MA, Dean of the Department of Korea Language and Literature Ho Duk HWANG, and staffs from the Office of Giving Development.
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- 작성일 2016-12-26
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- The 8th Central Asia Sungkyun Writing Contest successfully held
- “When I was a child, I promised myself not to live like my parents. Now, my goal is to have a life similar to my parents who have devoted themselves for the family. Things I wanted to be differed became a common dream.” This is the writing of Tyo Yelena (20) who are attending senior year at Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages at ‘The 8th Sungkyun Korean Writing Contest in Central Asia’. Under the subject of the writing contest ‘Difference’, she wrote about change of her minds towards their parents’ views of life. “I blamed my parents who couldn’t afford things like pretty dresses, computer, and cell phone as like other friends have. After I grew up, I am no more envy other people.” said Yelena. What made turning her mind was her father who worked many things to overcome poverty but fell by heart disease. Yelena flashed back the situation as “It was heart breaking to see that my dad went back to work straight after recovery, without having time to rest” and she finished her writing by saying “I will study hard and make a happy family.” At ‘The 8th Sungkyun Korean Writing Contest in Central Asia’ hosted by Sungkyunkwan University, around 36 students from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan participated, and Yelena received the gold prize. Even though she received the gold prize, she hesitated to call their parents because she worried her father who has a weak heart. The advising professor of Yelena said “Yelena is a thoughtful student who worries about the health and the future of her parents. I would like to thank her parents who have raised her to a bright and heartwarming person.” Yelena first learned Korean after falling in love with Korean dramas and music as well as global companies like Samsung and LG. “I want to work for expanding exchanges between Korea and Kazakhstan from studying international relationships or business administration at SKKU graduate school” said Yelena at the award ceremony. The silver prize went to Usmanova Zamira (21) from Kazakh National University. In her writing, she claims that “Happiness comes from direction, not place. Happiness and misfortune are depending on how you think about it. People can live more happily if they admit the each person has different direction.” Meanwhile, Beishenbekova Aizhan (18) of Kyrgyz-Korean College wrote “Even a person was born in the same country or has same name with others, they are different people. My name is Aizhan which is very common name but I am the only one person in the world” and she received the bronze prize. There was a special prize awardee as well. Mukhametkan Saltanat of Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages wrote about difference between generations. He said “There are some emotional difficulties to understand each other because my parents had lived in the generation of socialism but my generation is democracy. Even though we have differences, my parents said our generation has big blessings where we can earn from making efforts.” SKKU holds Sungkyun Korean Writing Contest every year in various areas like China, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and East Europe with the aim to expand Korean culture and cultivate students who can take parts on exchanges of Korea and the other countries. Hong Duk KIM, SKKU alumni and CEO of Ierae CS supports the event financially every year while Shinhan Card and Shinhan Finance gave supports as well. SKKU provide full scholarship for graduate programs to awardees of the event. Aidarova Aigerim who had the gold prize at ‘The 4th Sungkyun Korean Writing Contest in Central Asia’ received her degree at SKKU Graduate School of Political Science and Diplomacy and now working as a diplomat for Kazakhstani government. Ho Jong JANG, a professor at Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages, mentioned “Sungkyun Korean Writing Contest is the biggest Korean competition in Central Asia. This event also provides opportunity to meet students and Korean corporations which helps companies’ overseas business. "Students are improving Korean with detailed expressions. Some students attended the event receive love calls from Korean companies entering into local business” said Professor Seok-kyu LEE, head of international affairs at Sungkyunkwan University.
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- 작성일 2016-12-19
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- SKKU placed 3rd in 'Korean Comprehensive University' by QS World University Rankings
- SKKU has shown improvement in many recent university ranking assessments. SKKU placed 12th in 2016 THE Asia University Rankings by Times Higher Education, while ranking 3rd among Korean comprehensive universities by QS World University Rankings. US News & World Report chose SKKU as the 2nd best university for Global University Rankings and Reuter put SKKU in 2nd place for their World’s Most Innovative Universities Rankings. “These outstanding evaluation results come from continuous initiatives in order to make improvements in name value, publication of international research papers, and internalization” said President Kyu Sang CHUNG. 출처 : http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/12/07/2016120701842.html
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- 작성일 2016-12-12
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- Evidence-based intervention to improve quality of life of women with breast cancer
- - Finding mechanism of cancer treatment induced altered appearance - Providing evidence-based supportive care and education for intervene altered appearance - Improving self-esteem and enhancing quality of life in women with breast cancer Between 75% and 92% of breast cancer patients receive standard adjuvant chemotherapy, including doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil, or taxotere (docetaxel). These drugs target rapidly dividing cells and affect all proliferating cells, causing multiple cutaneous side effects such as alopecia, erythema, pruritus, and desquamation. Indeed, dermatologic reactions are the most common side effect reported by cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. A multidisciplinary research team including members of Cancer Education Center, medical oncologists, surgical oncologist, dermatologists at Samsung Medical Center and Clinical Epidemiology and Behavior Science Lab at SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University (Principle Investigator - Juhee Cho, Project manager - Danbee Kang, graduate student at SAIHST) has studied cancer treatment induced altered appearance and its impact on distress and psychosocial well-being since 2008. The team found that more than half of the breast cancer patients experienced higher distress due to altered appearance, during cancer treatment, and this distress was strongly associated with negative body image, overall health status, and psychosocial well-being. However, while, significant progress has been made during the past two decades in treating many of the side effects associated with cancer chemotherapy, including emesis, hematopoietic cytopenias, xerostomia, infection, pain, and thrombosis. As a consequence, the team conducted a cohort study to evaluate objective changes in skin composition and associated patient-reported symptoms among breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Objective parameters included quantitative evaluations of changes in water content, sebum content, transepidermal water loss (TEWL), melanin and hair condition. Patient-reported outcomes included dryness, dullness, blemishes, wrinkles loss of elasticity and alopecia due to chemotherapy. They found water content (-6.5%), sebum (-75.5%), and TEWL (-22.4%) significantly decreased during chemotherapy compared to pre-chemotherapy levels. These parameters were lowest at 1 month after completion of chemotherapy and recovered thereafter but did not return to baseline levels after 6 months of follow-up. Most of patients reported dryness (57.9%) and dullness (49.1%) after chemotherapy and patient-reported dryness was significantly associated with decreased sebum content. Additionally, hair diameter at 6th month after chemotherapy had not recovered to baseline level. Furthermore, 36 out of 60 participants (or 60%) whom we were able to contact at 24th month after the study initiation, complained from permanent chemotherapy induced hair issues. Permanent chemotherapy-induced alopecia, defined as absent or incomplete hair regrowth at ≥6 months post-chemotherapy, was reported around 30%. Like chemotherapy induced alopecia (CIA), permanent CIA also lacks recognition and has been underserved regardless of patients’ needs. Professor Cho received the Faculty Research Fund, Sungkyunkwan University in 2013 for this study. Ms.Danbee Kang received the best presenter award at Global Breast Cancer Conference 2013 and Albert M. Kligman Travel Fellowship awards from Society of Investigative Dermatology 2014. The results of their studies were published in Psycho-Oncology and Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in 2015 which were top-tier journals in the area. The research team now conducting two clinical trials collaborating with AMOREPACIFIC, Seoul Kore and Legacy Healthcare, Lausanne, Switzland for improving skin condition and permanent alopecia due to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients respectively. Professor Cho proudly says “This is the best example that multiple interest groups work together to find unmet needs of patients and try to bring evidence-based care with well-conducted studies. We are doing this not only for science but also for people. It is possible because of good-will of the team.”
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- 작성일 2016-11-22
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