CNU has been selected for the Secondary Battery Specialization University Support Project organized by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology. The university, evaluated on its talent development capabilities and plans regardless of region and type, will receive 3.5 billion KRW annually for four years, totaling 14 billion KRW, including a 200 million KR...

A research team led by Professor Kim Hyung-woo at CNU has developed a polyurethane material that is easily degradable and highly reprocessable. Professor Kim’s team from the School of Polymer Science and Engineering developed a polyurethane material that can selectively degrade in response to specific stimuli. It can be used for film formation or coating materials like conventional ...

Two new professors in the Department of Chemistry at CNU have been selected for the government's Excellent Young Researcher Program with their respective research projects. Professor Jacopo Tessarolo (left in the photo), appointed in March 2023, received funding for his research, “Molecular Assembly Based on Coordination Bonds Integrating Chromophores and Chirality.” Profe...

CNU's International Navigation Practice Team has set sail for a 30-day voyage aboard the 2,996-ton training vessel, Saedongbaek-ho (captain: Professor Kim Dae-jin). The International Navigation Practice Team consists of 98 members, including students from the Department of Marine System Engineering, the Department of Maritime Police, and the Department of Marine Production Management&...

Students from CNU and three other regional national universities staged a flash mob on Dokdo to assert that Dokdo is Korean territory. The exploration team, consisting of 144 students—36 each from CNU, Kyungpook National University, Jeonbuk National University, and Chungnam National University—successfully landed on Dokdo amid unpredictable local weather conditions on June 27....

CNU is actively working towards the innovation strategy for the Glocal University 30 project by strengthening cooperation with sister universities in Japan and attracting excellent international students. From June 4 -11, CNU participated in the Korean Study Abroad Fair in Osaka hosted by the National Institute for International Education of the Japanese Ministry of Education. They set up...

A research team led by Professor Na Kyung-su at CNU’s Department of Chemistry has successfully developed a technology to produce high-value compounds using greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. The research team optimized experimental conditions for sequential activation reactions—reaction temperature, pressure, gas injection flow rate, and extraction—base...

CNU has secured the top position among national universities in seven categories of the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The seven outstanding SDG Impact Ranking categories include ▲ No Poverty ▲ Good Health and Well-Being, ▲ Gender Equality, ▲ Clean Water and Sanitation, ▲ Responsible Consumption and Production, ▲ Climate Action, and ▲ Peace, Justice, and Stro...

Professor Min Jung-joon of CNU's College of Medicine has garnered significant attention for his review article published in an internationally privileged journal, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology is an academic journal published by Nature. It is the world's best academic journal with an impact factor (IF) of 78.8. IF measures the average number of...