Twenty-one foreign students visited CNU to get a first-hand experience of Korean culture. The participants from Japan, China, and Russia joined the CNU's Summer Program, which was held at Seminar Room II of the International Conference Bldg. from July 20 to July 27. Participants included nine students from Tokyo Gakugei University and Saga University in Japan, nine students from Zhongshan U...

Emeritus professor Cho Myong-won and Professor Lee Hung-soo (Director of the Language Education Center) in the Department of English Education have released the revised and updated edition of the Dictionary of English Language Teaching. The first edition of the dictionary was published in 1991. The 1,237-paged dictionary is published by Pearson Education Korea Ltd. (Price: 49,000 won) This col...

CNU held a briefing session for its Information System Strategy Planning (ISSP) at the Conference Room on the 3rd floor of the University Administration Bldg. at 10 a.m., Wednesday, July 14. For a comprehensive and effective strategy planning of university information systems, CNU asked Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. to provide long-term information system strategy planning (ISSP) for CNU. In an effort...

Prof. Park Yeon-soo (Major of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil, Geosystem & Environmental Engineering) has won the Best Treatise Award of the Korean Society of Steel Construction (KSSC). He was awarded at the 2004 general meeting of the Society. Park’s research article entitled “A Study on the Damage of Concrete Filled Steel Tubular Column Under Repeated Increasing Load” has been recogni...

CNU's seven professors have been selected to receive the 2004 research grants for basic sciences (humanities and social sciences) from Korea Research Foundation. The selected professors will receive 2,151 million won (about US$1.8 million) fro their research projects. CNU researchers accomplished the splendid feat of winning the research grants for their projects on humanities and social scien...

  A CNU venture capital firm, founded by students, has succeeded in developing a biopesticide/fertilizer mixture, 멌hitin Compost�. After an intensive ten-year research, Prof. Kim Kil-yong (Major of Biological and Environmental Chemistry, Department of Applied Bioscience & Biotechnology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences) has succeeded in developing the new biopesticide/fertilizer mixture...

Prof. Park Haeng-soon in the College of Pharmacy has been elected as the 1st President of ‘Women’s Network for Science & Gwangju-Jeonnam,’ launched on June 17. In her inaugural address, she said “The idea for Gwangju-Jeonnam female scientists’ network has been formulated through many years of discussions. This new network will call together every women scientists working in academia, hospitals...

  Prof. Jeon Han-yong in the Faculty of Applied Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, has been enlisted in ‘Marguis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (8th edition, 2004-2005)’and ‘Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare (5th edition, 2004-2005).’ Marquis Who’s Who features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor...

Last year, CNU received a top prize for information protection from the Ministry of Information and Communication. The award was given to the university for its contribution to preparing effective measures against possible Internet-infiltration accidents, including hacking and computer virus spread, and actively fostering professional manpower in the information protection sector. Since 2002, ...