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Jul 27, 2011 A Legendary Journalist Donated to the College of Agriculture and Life Recently SNU made two scholarships from donations of two distinguished alumni, Lee Chang Hwa, a legendary journalist, and Chae Ho Seok, an engineer and CEO.

Jul 27, 2011 Use EndNote, and Experience Writing Papers Becoming a Whole Lot Easier The Central Library of SNU is now providing the software EndNote, the program that helps researchers to efficiently manage bibliographies when writing papers, as well as a program that teaches students how to use the software. And the teaching program is receiving very positive reviews from students.

Jul 27, 2011 Gwanak-sa: A Dormitory with Culture The SNU student dormitory, Gwanaksa, has been evolving into something more than a residential complex - it is now also serving as a cultural gathering space for both students and the local community.

Jul 27, 2011 SNU Ranked Among Top 10 in Materials Science Research Thomson Reuters published its Global Research Report: Materials Science and Technology on July 1, which contains a careful review of data collected over a period of ten years -- from early 2001 to the beginning of 2011.

Jul 27, 2011 Eat, Copy, Love! SNU Cooperative is also planning to install K-CASH card readers in the cafeterias and incorporate K-CASH into the meal ticket sale system. Students will no longer have to wait in long lines to buy meal tickets. They’ll be able to buy their meal directly without using a meal ticket.

Jul 27, 2011 First Publication from a Korean University in the Harvard Business Review Professor SONG Jaeyong and Professor LEE Kyungmook of the College of Business at SNU recently became the first professors from a Korean university to publish a paper in the Harvard Business Review.

Jul 25, 2011 Working to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions SNU will continue to discuss specific reduction targets in September and submit a specific plan for reducing emissions in December. Come 2012, a full-fledged implementation of the reduction plan will begin.

Jul 25, 2011 Student Demonstrations of 2011 University student protests have marked every watershed event in modern Korean history. After the late nineties, student demonstrations gradually cooled down. Now, student demonstrations are putting on a new face.

Jul 19, 2011 Eco-Friendly Transportation Makes for a Green Campus Until last year, all of SNU’s shuttle buses were yellow. Recently, a blue shuttle bus started running, which confused some students. The blue one runs the same route as the old yellow ones, so there is no need to hesitate to get on. The only difference is that the blue bus is an electric vehicle recently purchased as an effort to reduce CO2 emissions on campus.

Jul 15, 2011 Ever Heard of the SNU Career Development Center? The Career Development Center provides employment support services for SNU students and graduates through capacity building programs such as career counseling sessions, one-on-one employment consulting sessions, and resume clinics.

Jul 15, 2011 First Recipient of Kim Jae Ik Scholarship to Be a Pakistani Student H. E. Shaukat Ali Mukadam, the Pakistani ambassador to the Republic of Korea, visited SNU President OH Yeon Cheon on April 11 to discuss the cooperation of the two countries in the field of education.

Jul 12, 2011 [Faculty Essay] Forget Numbers, Embrace Youth Everything we do today seems to be quantified; quantified by numbers and rankings: from your frequent flyer status to your customer loyalty standing, we live in a world of statistics and data analysis. Even our social existence is quantified by the number of friends we have on the relevant social networks and evaluated into a social scoring number: 10-cool, 1 loser.