From August 4 to 10, SNU students participated in SNU’s Institute for Global Social Responsibility (IGSR) Global Volunteers Project in Laos.

It’s okay if you screw up,” goes the slogan of SNU College of Engineering’s Startup Summer Camp, held for the first time this year.

On August 29, SNU held its 70th fall semester graduation ceremony at the Gwanak Campus Gymnasium. The university awarded degrees to 2,428 graduates, with 851 bachelors, 1,000 masters and 577 doctorates.

Professor LEE Ho Young (SNU College of Pharmacy) was recently selected to receive funding from the Research Leader Support Program, a project administered by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.

In the Rio Summer 2016 Olympics, South Korea won a total of nine gold medals, three silver medals, and nine bronze medals.

On August 8, SNU announced plans to open two new graduate schools by March 2018: the Graduate School of Peace and Unification and the Graduate School of Data Science and Innovation.

In vitro diagnostics, a method that detects cancer and other diseases from a small blood sample, has been growing in popularity during the past few years.

With 223 buildings spread over an area of 4,109,000 square metre campus, SNU’s Gwanak campus can be quite a challenge to get around. Even seniors have been known to stare blank-faced when asked for directions to some obscure or remote location.

In developing countries, electricity is scarce and many people are in need of medical treatment, especially vaccinations.

SNU College of Engineering recently announced to construction of the Haedong Idea Library, a new creative space for students interested in start-ups.