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Feb 09, 2012 Muslim Students Find a Sacred Place in the SNU Student Dormitory As the silent darkness of a winter night approached Gwanak Mountain, seven students gathered in front of the SNU Student Dormitory, Gwanaksa (Building No.920). They were all foreign Muslim students studying at SNU.

Feb 03, 2012 Meet the Female Campus Police Beginning not long ago you may have seen new faces hand signaling the road in front of the administration building while on your scooter or walking to and from the shuttle bus.

Feb 03, 2012 Colorectal Cancer Treatment Developed Using Nanoparticles With reports from the World Health Organization that Korean men rank #1 in Asia for the occurrence of colorectal cancer, Korean researchers have discovered a treatment that kills colorectal cancer cells with nanotechnology using minute particles that have the thickness of merely a ten-thousandth of a hair.

Feb 03, 2012 Choose Your Own Majors Students of SNU's College of Liberal Studies (CLS) are allowed to choose any major among all 82 departments in undergraduate programs.

Jan 15, 2012 An SNU Professor’s View on Investor-State Dispute (ISD) Professor SHIN Hi Taek spoke on the subject of investor-state dispute (ISD) settlement mechanisms, the currently controversial political issue surrounding the free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US at HanKyung Millennium Forum.

Jan 06, 2012 A Korean Journal Joins Nature Publishing Group A scientific journal published by a Korean association will become an open-access online journal and be offered through the website of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) as of 2013.

Jan 05, 2012 An SNU Professor's Integration of Engineering and Art Joseph Beuys, the famous German modern artist, said that anyone could be an artist. Marcel Duchamp displayed a toilet bowl and called it 'art'. These are manifestations of modern art that enlarge its boundaries without limit.

Jan 05, 2012 Stars Can Die Twice It has traditionally been thought that a star dies either by exploding as a supernova to become a neutron star, or by becoming a white dwarf.

Jan 05, 2012 SNU Institutes of Convergence Technology Enjoys Enhanced Popularity The competition rates for the winter internships at the Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology (AICT, http://aict.snu.ac.kr) have risen substantially over the past year.

Dec 21, 2011 Student Council Presidential Elections Nullified Due to Low Voter Turnout SNU students will spend the next term without a university student council president because of low voter turnout in the recent election.

Dec 12, 2011 Campus Warming Day - SNU Style 'PePeRo Day' The SNU Student Ambassadors (SSA) held a special event to celebrate this day; only, peperos were not a part of it. Under the theme "Campus Warming Day," they set up a booth in front of Jaha Pond, selling garraetteok (a stick-shaped type of rice cake which resembles the number 1) and hot beverages.

Dec 12, 2011 What is the Origin of Cosmic Dust? -- SNU's Young Astronomer Has Provided an Answer For years, astronomers have been trying to trace the origin of cosmic dust, which was seen as the "seed" of all living things in the cosmos.