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On April 5, the SNU Career Development Center hosted “Working in Korea,” a coaching session for SNU international students hoping to find work in Korea after their graduation. |
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On May 10, the SNU Academy of University Administration announced that it has published English Reference Guide for University Administrators, a guide to assist Korean university staff in better operating in a global context. |
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On March 1, Professor Kim Hodong of the Department of Asian History and Professor Song Hokeun of the Department of Sociology were appointed as distinguished professors. These prestigious appointments were made in light of their outstanding academic achievements and contributions to Korean society. |
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On May 7, the Department of Economics announced it will be hiring its first female Korean professor, who will be appointed as early as Fall 2018. The department limited applicants to women for its recent faculty position opening in order to redress gender imbalance within the faculty. Currently, all 35 professors in the department are men. |
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Eugenie Choe, undergraduate student of the SNU College of Medicine, was named first author of an article in Schizophrenia Research, a leading international journal in the field of neuropsychiatry. |
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For the first time in SNU history, the student body will have a say in the school’s presidential election, which will be held this year on May 10. |
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On April 27, the International Faculty Association (IFA) held an open discussion forum with the five SNU presidential candidates. The subject of the forum was the “Internationalization of SNU” and all members of the SNU community were invited to participate. |
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SNU announced on April 18th that the Department of Economics is to launch a Korean counterpart of the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER). |
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On April 23, a research team at SNU led by Professor Lee Changhee of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. student Lee Hyun Ho published the results of their research regarding the lifespan of Perovskite solar cells. |
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On April 19, a team of SNU students won a silver medal at the World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held in Peking University in Beijing, China. |