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Nov 19, 2008 "Would You Like To Talk About It?" Last year SNU Mental Health Center reviewed its counseling and mental health services in the effort to increase accessibility for students.

Nov 19, 2008 More Than Just Understanding - Living With Foreigners Since Seoul National University endeavors after campus internationalization, around 2,200 students are now studying at SNU, many of them sharing rooms with other foreign friends in the dormitory or an apartment. It is not just about liking a different culture, it’s more about living in one.

Nov 19, 2008 Capitalizing on SNU's World-class State-of-the-art Technology An international conference held on November 17 shed light on the prospect of turning research activities into lucrative businesses, and the establishment of a technology holding company at the state-owned Seoul National University.

Nov 14, 2008 A Swedish Professor Teaching Korean Economy Does it take a Korean to teach Korean economy? Professor Heshmati, who teaches economics of technology and industrial policy at SNU College of Engineering at SNU, would surely disagree.

Nov 14, 2008 Windows Into the ‘School of Liberal Arts’ SNU Office of Admissions announced that it will newly establish a ‘School of Liberal Arts’ and will accept students starting in 2009. The Office has answered some of the most frequently asked questions about the new school.

Nov 10, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner Paul Crutzen Appointed as SNU Professor Paul J. Crutzen, a renowned scholar of Atmospheric Chemistry and Nobel Prize winner of 1995, will become a member of SNU coming March.

Oct 28, 2008 Benefactor Who Left Fortune to Wife's Home Country In January last year, the Seoul National University Foundation received a faxed copy of a will left by Eduard Stadelmann, a resident of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Oct 28, 2008 V. Narry Kim`s RNA Research Made Another Discovery SNU has identified a protein that represses genetic regulators linked to the development of cancer, adding detail to the complex picture of how tumors arise and grow.

Oct 24, 2008 Blind Ambition SNU graduate Choi Young was the first visually impaired person to pass the second round of the Korean government bar exam since it was instituted in 1947.

Oct 24, 2008 SNU Held Benefit Concert Seoul National University held a benefit concert to raise donations for the first time. More than 10 billion won (7.1 million dollars) was collected at the one-night event, in which music school alumni vocalists and conductor performed.

Oct 17, 2008 [Interview with new faculty member]Professor Olivia Milburn: At Home in the World Imagine a childhood spent in eight different countries, one of them in a home off of the breathtaking Golden Horn of Istanbul.

Oct 14, 2008 SNU Ranks 16th Worldwide for Bringing up CEOs The newly-published 2008 Professional Ranking of World Universities from Ecole des Mines de Paris ranks the reputations of over top 300 universities worldwide, using criterias such as the number of CEO-position alumni in the world’s 500 leading companies (as rated by Fortune 500 in 2007).