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Jul 13, 2009 The Defender of Human Rights, Professor Ahn is Coming Back to School AHN Kyung-Whan, Professor of Law, is coming back to school, vacating his position as the President of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea.

Jul 10, 2009 'Korean Genome Project' SNU has succeeded sequencing the entire gene map of a Korean male. Professor SEO Jeong-Sun, Head of the Genomic Medicine Institute at SNU College of Medicine, has led the research and published the result on journal Nature.

Jul 07, 2009 [Faculty Essay] Prescribing a Remedy for Education A new approach is needed in the ‘war against private education’

Jul 02, 2009 SNU Makes a Global Alumni Association SNU Office of Student Affairs is working toward establishing an alumni association of foreign graduates. The University has collected contact, employment information and other basic details about foreign graduates over the last six months.

Jun 26, 2009 President LEE Jang-Moo and President Junichi Hamada President Junichi Hamada of the University of Tokyo, visited SNU and discussed future plans at Lee’s office.

Jun 25, 2009 Hand in Hand with European Universities President LEE Jang-Moo visited City University London on the 16th of March, and met with Malcolm Gillies, the president of City.

Jun 15, 2009 Female Can Decide For Themselves Females of an Asian species of water strider keep their genitalia hidden to avoid any forceful copulation attempts, and expose them only after males produce a courtship “song” by tapping the water surface, according to Professor Piotr Jablonski's new study.

Jun 15, 2009 Metal Works Exhibition at MoA Seoul National University's Museum of Art (MoA) is holding an exhibition on modern-day metal works. The exhibition, Talking Hands: Spectrum of Contemporary Metal Works has around 200 works, ranging from traditional handmade pieces to jewelry to sculptures, by 89 artists on display.

Jun 11, 2009 [Faculty Essay] Regaining Agricultural Sovereignty Korea’s farming industry must be expanded from a production to a knowledge industry,

Jun 09, 2009 Hydrophobic Lithography The successful use of any new material in electronic applications depends not only on its electrical characteristics but on how easily it can be formed into the patterns needed for building complex device structures.

Jun 09, 2009 Professor NOH Got Control over Insulator-Metal Transitions The study of insulator-metal transitions (IMT) in transition metal oxides, where conductivity changes from an insulator to a metal, is important for understanding phenomena such as superconductivity.

Jun 05, 2009 [Faculty Essay] An Innovative Management System As Peter F. Drucker once said, the 21st century will be characterized by a knowledge-based economy. Under this knowledge-driven economy, the importance of intangible assets; proprietary technology, premium brands, and personalized customer service, will determine companies' competitive edge, while the influence of tangible goods and services, capital and labor - the main forces behind the industrial revolution - will start to wane.