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Aug 21, 2008 At SNU, Cosilience is the Key Topic At Seoul National University, music professors and arts professors will give lectures at the engineering college and medical professors at the social science college, as the university takes a serious leap toward interdisciplinary consilience.

Aug 19, 2008 Tall Women `Live Longer` The research showed that the mortality risk decreased 7 percent for each 5-cm increment in height.

Aug 18, 2008 Professor Jung Discovers Cause for Liver Cancer Spread Professor Guhung Jung has discovered why liver cancer cells spread through the body, opening new possibilities for treatment of the deadly disease.

Aug 14, 2008 Global Minds Come Together at SNU The students agree that SNU's summer program is well structured and academically challenging. Many other summer curriculums at other universities tend to be relaxed and superficial, leaving some students wondering whether the time and money was worth the experience.

Aug 05, 2008 Breast Cancer Expert, Noh Dong-young Professor Noh Dong-young of Seoul National University Hospital performs more than 1,000 breast cancer surgeries yearly.

Aug 05, 2008 Law Professor Named as Candidate for Supreme Court Justice The Supreme Court said, “Chief Justice Lee (Yong-hoon) recommended professor Yang to President Lee yesterday to succeed resigning Justice Kim (Hwang-shik, who has been appointed head of the Board of Audit and Inspection).”

Aug 01, 2008 Summer at SNU We had a chance to talk with five world-renown scholars who were invited to the 2008 International Summer Institute, and while most of them admitted that they were surprised that they were chosen to teach at SNU, all were all inclined to agree that it was an excellent choice to accept the offer.

Jul 30, 2008 Making Ends Meet: More Scholarships for International Students “I really didn’t expect it, since my GPA was quite lower than most of the Korean students. Now, I’m truly grateful for the scholarship, as it reduces the worries of having to pay for my tuition. It’s a big relief to know that now I’ll be able to concentrate more on my studies.”

Jul 28, 2008 The XXII World Congress of Philosophy to be Held at SNU WCP 2008, with its central theme of ‘Rethinking Philosophy Today’, will provide 4 plenary sessions, each with different sub-themes: moral, social and political philosophy; metaphysics and aesthetics; epistemology, philosophy of science and technology; history of philosophy and comparative philosophy.

Jul 22, 2008 UCLA and SNU Reaffirm Alliance The academic exchange agreement between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Seoul National University was renewed on June 23, 2008.

Jul 16, 2008 SNU Student Campaigns Against Two Taboos Some people say there are two taboos in Korea ㅡ military service and religion. You can get assaulted or even killed for arguing about either of these issues. But, Kang We-suck, a 22-year-old law student at Seoul National University is openly talking about both.

Jul 16, 2008 SNU Graduates Take the Lead in Earning American Ph.D.s A new study found that Seoul National University was one of the top sources of students who go on to earn doctorates at American institutions.