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13 research teams selected, 30.7 billion KRW in national funding for 7 years, Largest among private universities outside of the capital region Fostering research professionals through graduate student research scholarships and new researcher support Selected since stage 1 in 1999 thus being selected for all 4 stages of the BK21 project [August 7, 2020] A total of 13 research teams of YU (President Sur Gil-soo) was pre-selected for fourth stage of BK21 (Brain Korea21) hosted by the Ministry of Education. It is the highest number among private universities outside of the capital region. With the selection for this project, YU will receive approximately 30.7 billion KRW in the project expense from September 2020 for about seven years, making it possible to foster researchers through support such as graduate student research scholarships, new researcher wages, etc. YU projects selected were ▲the Global East Asia Innovative Personnel Fostering Education Research Team (Director Soohn Seung-hee) ▲YU Future Automobile Innovation Fostering Project Team (Director Park Sang-shin) ▲Glocal Heritage Design Youth Human Resource Fostering Project Team (Director Hong Chang-gi) ▲four research teams including the IT Energy Materials Process Future Chemical Human Resources Fostering Project Team (Director Lee Moon-yong) ▲Ultra-connected Response Optical Nano-based Future Expert Fostering Team (Team Leader Kwak Jin-seok) ▲Optical/Electric Chemical-based Energy Material Human Resource Fostering Team (Team Leader Kang Mi-sook) ▲Future-oriented Electric Energy Convergence Control Teachnology Project Team (Team Leader Park Joo-hyeon ▲Reliable SW System Convergence Team Using Big Data Analysis (Team Leader Hwang Do-sam) ▲Mobility Industry-based Materials and Parts Future Human Resources Fostering Education Research Team (Team Leader Kim Hye-gyeong) ▲4th Industrial Revolution-based Regional Specialized Future Management Fostering Project Team (Team Leader Lee Gyeong-tak) ▲‘Pro Bono’ Regional Education Innovation Human Resource Fostering Team (Team Leader Heo Joon) ▲Cultural Asset Curating Team for Regional Regeneration (Team Leader Lee Chang-eon ▲Global New Drug Development Customized Future Human Resource Fostering Project Team (Team Leader Kim Jong-oh). YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “Having the most research teams and groups among private universities outside of the capital area for the stage 4 BK21 project is the recognition of YU’s research capacities in various academic fields,” and added, “The university, graduate school and industry-academic cooperation team will provide full support to foster researchers that can contribute to the society and country.” The BK21 Project being pursued by the Ministry of Education and National Research Foundation is a large government-funded project implemented since 1999 with the goal of fostering master’s and doctorate’s degree professionals. YU was selected for all four stages of this project. In stage 4 of this project, a total of 695 research organizations and 364 research teams from 93 universities all across the nation applied, and among them, 386 research organizations and 176 research teams from 68 universities were pre-selected. Final selection will be made in September after accepting objections on conducting on-site inspections for each university.
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Local industry-academic-research consortiums such as YU selected for the MOTIE ‘Energy Human Resources Fostering’ project Fostering experts for all cycles of the hydrogen industry [August 4, 2020] The YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team and Daesung Energy entered a work MOU for exchange and cooperation in the energy human resources fostering project at the Daesung Energy headquarters located in Jung-gu, Daegu on the 4th. The local industry-academic-research consortium that includes the YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team was finally selected for the ‘Gyeongbuk Hydrogen Industry Convergence Human Resources Support Project’ in the 2020 Energy Human Resources Fostering’ contest project hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy in early June. This MOU was pursued for the joint development and synergy effect between the YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team, which is the supervising institute of the consortium, and Daesung Energy that is expanding its business to become a leader in the local hydrogen industry through mutual cooperation. Through this MOU, the two institutes have agreed to cooperate closely in ▲fostering experts in new hydrogen industries ▲exchange energy personnel fostering projects ▲participate in joint education and lectures ▲construct an industry-academic cooperation system and conduct industry-academic cooperative research by organizing an association, etc. Daesung Energy CEO Woo Jung-bon said, “As the transition to the hydrogen economy is accelerating, fostering experts has become crucial,” and added, “I hope that this MOU will serve as a primer for the development of the hydrogen industry by strengthening mutual cooperative systems and we expect various synergy effects to be created.” Park Jin-ho, the general supervisor of this hydrogen industry personnel fostering project team said, “We plan to foster outstanding personnel by offering R&DB-based projects and track curriculum for each objective in order to incubate experts for the entire cycle of the hydrogen industry.”
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Total reduction of 4.5 billion KRW... Financial resources to be covered by cutting down on various project budgets and withdrawing from reserves 10% of tuition paid in the first semester of 2020 to be deducted in advance for the second semester tuition [August 6, 2020] YU (President Sur Gil-soo) decided to return 10% of tuition back to the students. Those subject to the reduction are students who enrolled for the first semester of 2020. The refund will be for 10% of the actual paid amount per student for the first semester tuition, and it will be returned by deducting from the tuition for the second semester. Those scheduled to graduate in 2020 will receive the amount to the individual bank accounts before graduation. The tuition discount is worth a total of about 4.5 billion KRW. To appropriate for the tuition discount, YU plans to cut down on various project budgets, draw from its reserves, and utilize scholarships, etc. YU also paid out a special scholarship totaling 2 billion KRW by paying 100,000 KRW each to its approximately 20,000 students back in May. <From fourth on left - YU President Sur Gil-soo, Student Council President Park Jong-joo> YU Student Council President Park Jong-joo said, “All of the students had a hard first semester due to the unprecedented situation of COVID-19. During the past semester, the Student Council worked hard to represent the voices of the students.” He added, “We were able to bring about positive results as everyone at the university worked together despite the difficult situation. The Student Council will take the lead to help students study in a better environment.” YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “I am well aware that students are facing financial and psychological difficulties as the COVID-19 situation prolongs.” It is a tough time for the university as well, but we decided to cut tuition for next semester to overcome COVID-19 together with the students. YU will do its best to provide administrative and financial support so that students can focus on their studies.” Meanwhile, YU is constructing an educational and research environment infrastructure to ensure the rights to study for students, while also striving to provide administrative students amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the regular curriculum, we have constructed an infrastructure to allow various extracurricular programs such as employment support programs to be conducted in real-time online. Library book delivery services implemented in the first semester and psychological quarantine consulting to beat COVID blues were also received well by students.
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In the 2020 Leiden Ranking, proved world-class research capacities and took first place for six straight years Received good scores in various academic sectors such as 13th overall in Korea and 9th in life & earth sciences Excluded qualitative elements such as university reputation and focused on achievements and quality of research [July 17, 2020] 2020 Leiden Ranking in Mathematics & Computer Science 2020 Overall Leiden Ranking Korea ranking University Korea ranking University 1 YU 1 UNIST 2 UNIST 2 POSTECH 3 Sejong University 3 Sejong University 4 Kyunghee University 4 KAIST 5 POSTECH 5 Ulsan University 6 KAIST 6 Seoul National University 7 Ewha Womans University 7 Hanyang University 8 Korea University 8 Korea University 9 Ajou University 9 Sungkyunkwan University 10 Dongguk University 10 GIST 11 Chung-Ang University 11 Yonsei University 12 Seoul National University 12 Ewha Womans University 13 Sungkyunkwan University 13 YU 14 GIST 14 Kyunghee University 15 Kyungpook National University 15 Dongguk University 16 Ulsan University 16 Ajou University 17 Catholic University 17 UST 18 Dankook University 18 Jeonbuk National University 19 Yonsei University 19 Chonnam National University 20 Sogang University 20 Kyungpook National University <2020 Leiden Ranking of universities in Korea> YU (President Sur Gil-soo) was once again proven to have world-class research capacities. YU took first place (78th in the world) in the Mathematics & Computer Science sector in the ‘2020 Leiden Ranking’. YU has been exhibiting dominating research capacities by taking first place six years in a row in the 2020 Leiden Ranking for mathematics and computer science. YU also placed 13th in the overall ranking. YU ranked 9th in Life & Earth Sciences and 24th in Physical Sciences & Engineering in the nation, thus being recognized for its extraordinary research capacities over various academic fields. YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “Yu’s research capacities have been receiving good assessments in global university rankings. We are uncontested in math and computer science, ranking first in the nation, and we also receive good evaluations in various other academic fields.” He added, “YU will spare no support to pursue world-class research capacities.” The Leiden Ranking is a world university ranking by Leiden University of the Netherlands that evaluates the research capacities of university research capacities based on the qualitative levels of research papers. It excludes subjective qualitative evaluation elements such as university reputation, and ranks universities based on the number of theses and frequency of citation, and therefore, it is judged to be an important indicator for assessing the research outcomes of universities and the quality of the research. This year, it evaluated a total of 1,76 universities around the world that published a minimum of 800 studies over a period of four years from 2015 to 2018. 44 Korean universities were included in this. Leiden Ranking awards the overall ranking and a total of five sectors such as Mathematics & Computer Science, Biomedical & Health Sciences, Life & Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Social sciences & Humanities.
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Received 610 million KRW in additional funding for selection in project to construct research equipment and to promote joint research Selected for ‘Core Research Support Center’ establishment support project last year receiving up to 3.6 billion KRW over 6 years Expected to improve university research capacities and have synergy effects in fostering professional researchers [July 6, 2020] YU (President Sur Gil-soo) was selected for the ‘2020 Basic Science Research Capacity Improvement Project’ supported by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation. The ‘Basic Science Research Capacity Improvement Project’ is a project that supports the construction of research equipment needed for growth and advancement in order to improve the university’s R&D capacities and to build an efficient research ecosystem. It is a support project overseen by the Ministry of Education with the goal of promoting joint research centering on core research support centers specialized by research fields. Universities are selected and supported in the three fields of ▲establishing a core research center ▲constructing research equipment ▲promoting joint research. This year, YU was selected for the Research Equipment Construction Support Project (Principal Researcher Professor of Pharmacy Nam Joo-won) and the Joint Research Promotion Support Project (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Cho Dae-won). YU plans to construct the ‘High Resolution Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer’ with government funding of 310 million KRW for the research equipment construction support project. This new research equipment will be able to analyze various natural substances and medical substances, and also analyze very small quantities and highly difficult substances such as dioxin, which is very toxic. It will be used for qualitative and quantitative analysis, identification and verification of compounds encompassing all sectors including environment, food safety, clinical study, forensic toxicology, pharmaceutics, and chemicals. It is expected that with the construction of this research equipment, the YU Natural Materials Medical Substance Core Research Support Center will be reinforced with qualitative analysis functions, therefore becoming a general analysis center that can perform structural, ingredient and content analysis. In addition, a total of 300 million KRW will be received for the Joint Research Promotion Support Project from this year until February 2023 and will be used for research activity costs and material costs. Last year, the YU ‘Natural Material Medical Substance Core Research Center (Center Director Nam Joo-won)’ was selected for the basic science research capacity improvement project, and it is pursuing the project with national funding of about 3.6 billion KRW (600 million KRW annually) for up to six years (3+3 years). YU Industry-Academic Research Office Director Park Yong-wan said, “We were selected last year for the Core Research Support Center establishment project and additionally selected for the resaerch equipment construction and joint research promotion support project this year. We are thus expected to be able to create synergy in pursuing basic science research capacity improvement projects.” He added, “The university will provide full support to not only improve the qualitative levels of research, but also to foster research experts.”
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The YU Alumni Professors Association “gathered the will of alumni professors to help students who are also our juniors” Operating a scholarship fund for students... Donated 160 million KRW in scholarships Continued donations to scholarships for students by professors and employees [July 7, 2020] The YU Cheonma Professors Association (Chairman Baek Eung-yul) handed over 30 million KRW in scholarships for students. The Cheonma Professors Association is an association comprised of professors who are alumni of YU and there are currently 243 members. The Cheonma Professors Association has been operating a separate scholarship fund for students. They handed over 160 million KRW in scholarships to students so far and they decided to donate an additional 30 million KRW. At 2 p.m. On July 6, YU Cheonma Professors Association Chairman Baek Eung-yul and Vice-chairman Moon Yong-sun met with YU President Sur Gil-soo asking to use the scholarship funds for students. YU plans to use his scholarship fund for students in the second semester of 2020. YU Cheonma Professors Association Chairman Baek Eung-yul (School of Materials Science and Engineering professor) said, “As COVID-19 continues to spread, we know that students are facing many difficulties in their studies. YU alumni professors chipped in to help, however trivial, students who are also our juniors, with their studies.” He added, “I hope that you remember that you always have professors and alumni seniors who are quietly rooting for you and hope that you can navigate through such hardships.” Professors have been continuously donating to scholarship funds for students this year. On July 1, the YU Female Professors Association also donated 20 million KRW for scholarships. YU plans to use this scholarship to provide support for students having difficulties with their studies due COVID-19. YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “Both students and professors are facing difficult times due to COVID-19. Recently, professors and employees have been voluntarily giving money to be used for student scholarships.” He added, “I am very thankful as the president of the university as I have to manage the university amidst a situation with many financial difficulties for the school. I am confident that if professors, employees, students, and even alumni all unite, we will be able to wisely overcome COVID-19.”
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Fostered about 10,000 business administration professionals with master’s degree course, advanced management program, professional management program, etc. Pre-ceremony such as the Graduate School of Business Administration development seminar, unveiling of the 50th year anniversary monument and tree planting ceremony [June 25, 2020] <The YU Graduate School of Business Administration held the 50th year anniversary ceremony (June 20, 2020)> The YU Graduate School of Business Administration (Dean Ahn Seung-cheol) held the 50th year anniversary ceremony. This ceremony was held at 4 p.m. on June 20 at the YU Daegu Campus (Daemyeong-dong, Daegu) Business Administration Hall auditorium. YU President Sur Gil-soo, School of Business Dean Lee Gang-il, YU Medical Center Director Kim Sung-ho, YU General Alumni Association Chairman Jung Tae-il, Master’s Degree General Alumni Association Chairman Yoon Jung-rok, AMP General Alumni Association Chairman Jang Se-cheol, as well as Daegu Superintendent of Education Kang Eun-hee, Nam-gu Office Chief Cho Jae-gu and other internal and outside figures and alumni association executives attended to congratulate the 50th anniversary of the YU Graduate School of Business Administration. Dean Ahn Seung-cheol said, “The YU Graduate School of Business Administration was opened in March of 1970 and it is the first in the region and is one of the schools with the longest history and tradition in Korea. Talented people who graduated from the YU Graduate School of Business Administration are active not only in the region, but in various areas all around the nation.” He added, “I am convinced that this 50th anniversary ceremony will be the touchstone for the next 50 years and 100 years. The YU Graduate School of Business Administration will continue to fulfill its role as a cradle for future business administration education and incubator for business professionals.” <50th year anniversary of the YU Graduate School of Business Administration sculpture ‘Ungbi - Patriotism - 2020’> Prior to the ceremony, a pre-ceremony event was held such as the Graduate School of Business Administration development seminar, unveiling of the 50th year anniversary monument, and tree planting ceremony. Academic and industry experts participated in the Graduate School of Business Administration development seminar that was held from 1 p.m. to hold presentations and discussions. This was held with the goal of innovating business administration education that will lead the future in the 4th industrial revolution and to search for business administration education plans of a new paradigm. <Commemorative tree planting> The 50th year anniversary sculpture unveiling ceremony and tree planting event were held at the garden of the Business Administration Hall at 3 p.m. The sculpture that was installed was produced with funds gathered by the graduate school’s Master’s Degree General Alumni Association and Advanced Management Program General Alumni Association alumni. The title is <Ungbi - Patriotism - 2020> (granite, 3,500x1,800xh2,850mm) and it is a work by YU alumni sculptor Lee Byung-joon. It is based on five volumes of books and it formatively expresses the aspirations for purity, love, happiness, hope and wishes. Also, the YU Graduate School of Business Administration 50 Year History Book was published to commemorate the 50-year anniversary. This book summarizes records remaining at the university and various materials stored by professors and alumni, containing the 50 years of the YU Graduate School of Business Administration. Meanwhile, the YU Graduate School of Business Administration was opened in March 1970 and graduated a total of 9.982 business professionals including 2,652 in master’s degree courses, 6,123 in the advanced management program 167 in the management research course, 112 in labor and management courses, 87 in female business administration course, 559 in the professional management program, and 309 in the golf advanced management program.
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22 meter long ‘Tunnel Fountain’ at the front gate of the campus... Walk through the water spouts to cool down LED lights at night color the water spouts attracting people looking for things to see and places to rest Alumnus Choi Hyeok-young (Civil Engineering class of ‘63 donated 100 million KRW for installation costs saying, “I hope it can be a place of rest for students and the community’ The ‘108 fountain nozzles’ hope to wash away the concerns and anguish of visitors to the school [June 19, 2020] <YU Cheonma Tunnel Fountain> The ‘Cheonma Tunnel Fountain’ that gushes out streams of water to cool down the sweltering heat of ‘Daefrica (Daegu + Africa)’ was installed at YU (President Sur Gil-soo). YU installed the ‘Cheonma Tunnel Fountain’ at Cheonmajimun, which is the main gate of the Gyeongsan Campus, from December of last year to March of this year, and recently conducted test operations. The completion ceremony was held at 5 p.m. On June 19 prior to the regular operation for the summer season. The ‘Cheonma Tunnel Fountain’ is a tunnel-type fountain where people can walk into the fountain. It stands 3 meters tall, 6 meters wide, and 22 meters long, and there are a total of 108 fountain nozzles. The 108 fountain nozzles represent the meaning of washing away concerns and anguishes of people visiting the school through this fountain. A steel walkway was installed on top of the water and below the fountain tunnel allowing visitors to walk through the refreshing spouts of water to cool off in the summer. LED lights were installed on the nozzles to embroider the campus with lighted water gushes at night. The YU campus is frequently visited by members of the community thanks to its reputation of being a beautiful campus with the mirror pond, cherry blossoms and love road along Cheonma-daero in front of the main building of YU, and the path to the folk village. The YU Cheonma Tunnel Fountain will offer extravagant attractions and a place for rest from the entrance to the campus, and it is thus expected to attract even more students and community members. This fountain cost 100 million KRW and it was paid in full by YU Department of Civil Engineering class of ‘63 alumnus and president of the Choi Hyeok-young Scholarship Foundation Choi Hyuk-yeong (77) (right on above photo). This is not the first time that Mr. Choi gave a huge gift to his alma mater. In 2018, he paid for the entire cost for installing ‘Big Time’, the large clock on the upper exterior of the Central Library, which is a landmark of YU standing 80m high. Mr. Choi said, “I hope this can be a place of rest that students and community members can take a moment to rest at while visiting YU. I will continue to support the development of YU and my juniors at YU whenever I have the chance.” <Cheonma Tunnel Fountain (Night)> Mr. Choi is also generously supporting students. He founded the Choi Hyeok-young to continuously give scholarships to not only his juniors at his alma mater, but to high school and college students nationwide. Mr. Choi not only offers scholarships to students, but also acts as a mentor who communicates with students through letters. He valued each and every one of the letters sent by students who received scholarships and published a book titled ‘Dialog of Love’ and he published a total of three books starting with ‘Dialog of Love I’ in 2015.
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