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Feb 23, 2011 Making a Meaningful Graduation Ceremony The upcoming 65th SNU Graduation Ceremony, which is to be held on February 25 and during which almost 5000 bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees will be conferred, will be a different picture.

Feb 23, 2011 New Official Addresses for the SNU Campuses The Gwanak campus will officially receive its new address 'Gwanak-ro' and the Yeongeon campus 'Daehak-ro' starting next year.

Feb 18, 2011 Prof. HYEON Joined World Top 100 Chemists HYEON Taeghwan, SNU Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering, has joined the world's top 100 chemists. Thomson Reuters published a table of "Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010" which listed 100 scientists who achieved the highest citation impact scores for chemistry papers.

Jan 24, 2011 SNU Students Show Their Cyber Power Recently, as more students are starting to make use of the website SNUlife.com, it has gradually emerged into a hub for SNU students' social movements.

Jan 10, 2011 SNU Wins Case on Expulsion Regulations A student expelled due to an accumulation of four academic probation periods sued the president of SNU demanding the cancellation of his expulsion and readmission this month.

Jan 05, 2011 Diverse Students, Diverse Talents From November 15-19, the SNU Dormitory Gwanaksa hosted its first International Students’ Week for all international and Korean students at SNU.

Jan 05, 2011 A Campus Couple Donates Two Billion to Alma Mater LEE Soon-Ja, Sookmyung Women’s University honorary professor in the Department of Library and Information Sciences, who lost her husband KIM Jae-Ik in the 1983 Aung San terrorist bombing (also known as the Rangoon Bombing) in Burma, has donated two billion KRW to her and her husband’s alma mater SNU.

Jan 03, 2011 SNU Freezes Tuition Rates SNU Refrains from Raising Its Tuition Fees Three Years in a Row - At the beginning of 2010, several major universities raised their tuition fees by as much as 4.8 percent compared to the previous year.

Jan 03, 2011 Best Investment to SNU Students Seoul National University Ranks #1 in Highest Investment in Its Students. The statistics on how much educational spending each university in Korea is directing towards their students has recently been released. The student investment of each institution was calculated irrelevant to their tuition fees.

Dec 31, 2010 SNU Doctors Visit Yeonpyeong-do Refugees Professor LEE Suk-Ha (College of Agriculturre and Life Sciences) successfully sequenced DNA of a Korean wild bean and published the result on PNAS.

Dec 29, 2010 'Doosan Humanities Building' to be Constructed The son of the founder of Doosan donates 5 billion won to SNU to re-construct the building his father donated.

Dec 06, 2010 Good Old Days at Dongsung-dong Campus The appearance of the modern day SNU campus is the result of numerous changes. A graduate of 1970, Professor Kook Joe Shin of the Department of Chemistry, SNU, reminisces old romantic memories of the Dongsung-dong campus.