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Contributions made to the development of Korean hospice palliative care YU Medical Center Hospice Palliative Care Committee Chairman [October 14, 2014] Medical School Professor Lee Gyeong-hee (53, Internal Medicine, photo) won the Minister of Health & Welfare Award for his contributions to the establishment and development of Korean hospice palliative care. On the 8th, the Ministry of Health & Welfare (Minister Moon Hyeong-pyo) held the '2nd Hospice Palliative Care Ceremony' in commemoration of the 'World Hospice Palliative Care Week' held annually in the second week of October. At this ceremony held at the Seoul Ferrum Tower Ferrum Hall, eight people received the Minister's award for contributions to hospice palliative care. At this award ceremony, Professor Lee received the Minister's Award for his contributions to the establishment and development of hospices in Korea by championing the opening of the 'palliative care ward' within the hospital while serving as the chairperson of the YU Medical Center Hospice Palliative Care Committee. Professor Lee lowered the pain and symptoms of terminally ill patients such as end-stage cancer, as well as comprehensive evaluation on physical, psycho-social, and spiritual fields and hospice holistic treatment to contribute in enhancing the quality of life for not only the patient but also their families. Professor Lee graduated from the YU College of Medicine (graduated in 1986) and conducted research at the 'MD Anderson Cancer Center' at the University of Texas, the top cancer hospital in America, and was awarded the best poster paper award of the World Gastric Cancer Society (2007), International Peace Price of the American Culture Association medical sector (2010), and the Dr. Paul Poster Paper Award from the Hospice Palliative Medical Society (2013). In April of this year, he was awarded the 'International Fellowship Peace Prize' for his contributions in prominent academic journals related to international medicine from IBC (IBC, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England), one of the three major biographical journals.
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Ministry of Education's 'Regional Leading University Fostering Project' funds 10 billion won to 10 regional consortiums Regional leading universities such as YU to lead regional specialized industries Department of Samaeul Studies and International Development and School of Mechanical Engineering selected as 'excellent departments' [October 28, 2014] YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) became the only private university to be selected as a regional consortium leading university for the 'regional leading university fostering project' being pursued by the Ministry of Education. On the 28th, the Ministry of Education announced that they selected 10 regional leading university consortiums for the 'regional leading university fostering project' that supports joint growth with provincial universities, and that they will fund a total of 10 billion won. Leading universities of the consortiums selected were Kangwon National University (Gangwon region), YU and Kyungpook National University (Daegu-Gyeongbuk region), Gyeongsang National University, Pusan National University (Busan-Ulsan region), Jeju National University (Jeju region), Chungnam National University and Chungbuk National University (Chungcheong region), and Chonnam National University and Chonbuk National University (Honam region). YU is the only private university among them. The ten schools selected as regional leading universities will organize consortiums with nearby universities for five years until 2018 and act as a center that brings together regional universities through cooperation such as school credit exchange programs. This year's total budget is 10 billion won and approximately 1 billion won will be funded for each consortium. 15 billion won has been appropriated for next year's budget so the funding is expected to increase. As the Daegu-Gyeongbuk consortium leading university joined by Kyungil University, Daegu Haany University and Andong National University, YU is planning to strengthen its global competitiveness of its higher education by attracting more international students and enhancing its capacities based on its college cluster. Meanwhile, YU had two departments selected as 'excellent regional specialization departments' also called 'master departments'. In the internationalization sector of national support project types, the Regional and Welfare Administration Department (Changed name in 2015 to 'International Development Cooperation Department') and in the engineering sector of the regional strategy project types, the School of Mechanical Engineering were selected as 'master departments'. In order to foster regional college departments with high competitiveness equal to colleges in the Seoul area, the Ministry of Education began pursuing the 'excellent regional specialization departments' and selected a total of 60 departments, 15 each from four regions, such as the Daegu-Gyeongbuk-Gangwon areas, Southeast area, Chungcheon area, and the Honam-Jeju area. Master departments are selected from departments participating in the top 30% specialization project team selected in the regional university specialization project (CK-I), and they will receive an additional 100-200 million won in national funding. The budget for the entire project is 10 billion won.
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In recognition of his contributions to enhancing architectural technology levels and development of the architecture industry by publishing exceptional papers [October 14, 2014] School of Architecture Professor Kang Joo-won (51, major in architecture, photo) received the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Award. At the '2014 Architecture Day' n the 6th at the Baekbeom Kim Gu Memorial Hall Conventional Hall, Professor Kang received the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Award for his contributions in enhancing the architectural technology level of Korea through domestic and foreign construction projects, as well as publications of outstanding studies. The Architecture Day is an event held to praise the contribution of architects for the creation and development of Korea's unique architectural culture, and aims at creating harmony and unity of architects to enhance their sense of responsibility as experts. This year, it was hosted by the Federation of Institute Korean Architects (FIKA) and sponsored by the Presidential Commission on Architecture Policy, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Professor Kang published 19 SCI-grade papers and applied for four patents in the past five years. Furthermore, he has published 81 domestic theses and presented 46 theses in domestic and foreign academic conferences, while staying highly active in researching the architectural structure sector. In addition, Professor Kang carried out projects for various national institutes such as the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement and the National Research Foundation to contribute to the enhancement of architecture structure related research and technology levels. He also co-authored many architecture structure related book such as 'KBC 2009 Steel Structure Design' and 'Cable Structure Design Standard and Commentary', thus contributing to maintaining design standards for domestic architectural structures. Moreover, he is contributing to the development of the architectural industry through various activities in architecture-related societies such as the Architectural Institute of Korea, Korean Association for Spatial Structures, Korean Society of Steel Construction, and the Korean Structural Maintenance Institute.
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A team of Department of Statistics wins 'Bronze Medal' at the SAS Mining Championship. The 3 members show off their talents as data scientists at a big data analysis contest. [October 10, 2014] “Leave big data analysis to us!” YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) students showed off their talents as data scientists at a big data analysis contest. A team of students from the Department of Statistics won the bronze at the '12th SAS Mining Championship'. They are seniors Kin Sung-hyun (24), Bae Eun-ji (22) and Jung Min-jeong (22). The 'SAS Mining Championship' is a data analysis and idea contest for college and graduate school students to foster data scientists who will lead the coming age of big data hosted by SAS Korea (CEO Cho Sung-sik), a business analysis software and service company, and it is the most prominent competition for college students with goals of becoming analysis experts. This contest, which was co-hosted by SAS Korea and the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (Director Sohn Myeong-se, 'HIRA'), was joined by 750 college students in 250 teams around the country. Applications started in May and after first evaluations that assessed the accuracy of the analysis model and the second evaluation on presentations to assess the utilization, the YU Department of Statistics team won third place on the 30th of last month and received a 1 million won prize and plaque. They will receive priority when selecting the SAS Korea internship and they will also receive additional bonus when consideration for hiring new employees. The theme of this contest was 'development of prediction model for areas to open hospitals' by analyzing the risk and predicting future sales of regions that desired opening of hospitals and clinics. The objective of this contest was to provide information to predict the risk of newly opening clinics from having to close down in the region and the predicted sales in the future for convalescent institutes in specific regions. Participants collected data provided by HIRA and other public information needed for prediction analysis to deduce analysis results. In this contest, the fact that other modeling was deduced according to variables from outside data acted as an important variable. Participants selected and reflected information that they judged to have value to their team among the public data disclosed by Statistics Korea, National Health Insurance Service, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. In result, the teams submitted different modeling results. The YU team mainly used information related to convalescent hospitals provided by HIRA and regional demographic information of national statistic portals provided by Statistics Korea to develop their prediction model. Kim Sung-hyun who led the team said, "From the basic convalescent hospital information of HIRA, we analyzed the distance between hospitals using latitude and longitude to extract data from competitors and analyzed the number of residents, age, housing type, and number of insured persons per region according to Statistics Korea and analyzed accurate predicted sales and risk of closing." Kim said, "I am attracted to the big data analysis that predicts the future and establishes strategies by extracting useful information from data," and added his aspirations to become a big data expert by stating, "After graduating I would like to find a job related to big data analysis to gain more expertise."
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The two institutes pledge cooperation to foster young trade personnel in Daegu and Gyeongbuk area. They expect to help raise university graduate employment rate and soothe manpower shortage of the regional small and medium businesses. [October 8, 2014] YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) and KITA (Korea International Trade Association, Chairman Han Deok-su) signed an MOU promising exchange and cooperation between the two institutes to promote employment of college students and to resolve issues with manpower shortage in the trade industry by fostering young trade personnel in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas. At the YU President's reception office at 11:30 a.m. on the 8th, the two institutes agreed on ▲jointly pursuing a curriculum to raise the perception of college students on small and medium businesses and to resolve mismatching, ▲joint development of curriculum for business-customized employment support, ▲jointly pursuing college internship projects for local small and medium businesses, ▲jointly pursuing various support projects to promote employment in the trade industry, and ▲to cooperate by utilizing the capacities possessed by each institute to share trade-related employment information and to share their human resources pools. At the MOU signing ceremony, President Noh Seok-kyun, College of Business & Economics Dean Kwon Young-cheol, Student Capacity Development Office Director Kim Young-tak, and Region-specialized Young Trade Expert Fostering Project Team Director Kim Seung-cheol were present from YU, while KITA Executive Director Kim Moo-han and Daegu-Gyeongbuk Regional Director Lee Dong-bok were also in attendance. Executive Director Kim Moo-han said, "YU works closer to associations than any other university in Korea such as carrying out the Global Trade Expert Program together with KITA," and added, "In order to foster trade personnel, in addition to theoretical education, systematic industry-academic cooperation with the industry is important. With this agreement, we will make a successful model for global trade expert fostering education together with YU." With this MOU, YU is planning to come up with various programs such as corporate field tours to raise the perception of small and medium companies, college student trade camps, and college internship programs for regional small and medium companies. YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, "Industry-academic cooperation with overseas export companies is essential to foster trade experts with practical abilities," and added, "With this MOU, it is expected that students will strengthen their employment capacities and small and medium companies will have the opportunity to procure outstanding human resources." In particular, Executive Director Kim Moo-han who visited YU to sign the MOU is a YU alumnus (English and English Literature class of 77) held a special lecture for his juniors at YU under the theme 'Changes of the Global Trade Environment and Our Response Strategy' at Room 209 of the College of Business & Economics for one hour from 2 p.m.
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Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Seok Jul-gi receives IEEE IAS '2014 Society Level Prize Paper' Possible to produce high fuel-efficiency and efficient products by applying electric automobile, air conditioners, and high-speed driving sectors Pursing application in industrial products by cooperating with domestic conglomerates since 2013 [October 5, 2014] Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Seok Jul-gi (45) won the '2014 Society Level Prize Paper: Transaction Second Place Prize Award' from the Industry Application Society (IAS) under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE IAS was established in 1965 for the theories and practical application of design, control, installation, safety and reliability of electric energy application systems and devices. It is the world's largest academic organization pertaining to electric energy application composed of four department and 30 sub-departments. The award that Professor Seok received is the most prominent award given by reviewing all papers in all academic sectors dealt with by IAS. IAS reviews papers published in academic conferences in each sub-department and publishes them in internationally renowned academic journals such as Transactions on Industry Applications (Journal Citation Report, JCR, top 16%) over six times in year by IEEE. IAS selects three outstanding papers from over 300 papers published every year to award them. As a corresponding author, Professor Seok published the research results on 'torque and magnetic flux control of broadband activated buried permanent magnet synchronous motor that operates in fields with limited voltage and electric current' in the January 2013 issue of 'Transactions on Industry Applications'. This study, which was jointly performed by the labs of Professor Seok and Professor Robert D. Lorenz of the University of Washington, was on the control of efficient utilization of 'buried permanent magnet synchronous motor' that is widely used in the industry including recent environment-friendly electric automobiles and household appliances such as air conditioners. In research until now, it was impossible to use the maximum usable voltage of electric motor driving devices in broadband driving sectors due to internal control collision issues. In order to overcome such issues, Professor Seok solved the internal collision issue of control devices by designing electric motor modeling and integrated control devices in the discrete-time domain using the idea that electric motors are modeled and control devices are designed in the continuous-time domain in other studies. Through this, it was confirmed in this study that just by changing the software without additional parts in the broadband speed sector, it can be possible to use max voltage and enhance usage rate by approximately 11%. Professor Seok said, "In the case of electric automobiles, because motors are driven by batteries with limited capacities, using the battery power at maximum efficiency is essential for extending fuel efficiency and driving distance," and added, "The research results published last year can be directly applied in not only electric automobiles that require low-loss driving, but also household appliances such as air conditioners, as well as high-speed drive operation product fields. Moreover, it was possible to produce high fuel-efficiency and highly efficient products just by changing the software without adding parts." Professor Seok, who conducted follow-up research to raise the technical perfection and developed simple control methods registered domestic patents and applied for international patents, said, "We presented improved research results at the Energy Conversion Congress and Expo in the IEE energy conversion sector held in Pittsburgh USA on September 16." He added, "The research results presented here is now in the stage of applying to industrial products together with Korean conglomerates, and its application will be expanded to high speed drive fields in which efficiency is important, as well as high power density household appliances." Professor Seok earned his bachelor's, master's, and PhD in electric engineering at Seoul National University and is currently working as a professor at YU since March 2001. Professor Seok, whose main field of study is power conversion and electric motor controller, became the first Korean to be appointed as the chairman of the paper award committee of the IEEE Industrial Driver Committee Journal and Society where he served for two years, and has been serving as an IEEE senior member, which has a lifelong tenure, from 2008. Meanwhile, Professor Seok is scheduled to receive this award at the '49th IAS Annual Meeting' that will be held in Vancouver, Canada on October 9.
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Began 'Automobile Conversion Parts Creative Human Resources Fostering Project Team' supervised by the School of Mechanical Engineering Eight YU project teams selected for college specialization projects attracting the highest in national funding at 35 billion won for 5 years [October 1, 2014] YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) opened the specialized project team and will begin pursuing in earnest the 'University for Creative Korean Project for Fostering Provincial Universities and University Specialization' (hereinafter called College Specialization Project). At 11:30 a.m. on the 1st, YU held the 'Automobile Conversion Parts Creative Human Resources Fostering Project Team (Director Song Dong-joo)' opening and sign-hanging ceremonies at the Mechanicals Hall Room 104. At the opening ceremony were in attendance YU President Noh Seok-kyun, Director Song Dong-joo, College of Engineering Dean Jung Hyeon-yeol, School of Mechanical Engineering Dean Koh Tae-jo, Department of Information and Communication Engineering Dean Nam Seung-yeobg, and other professors involved in the specialization project. The 'Automobile Conversion Parts Creative Human Resources Fostering Project Team' is a specialization project pursued as a regional strategic project made up of a consortium by YU and Kyungpook National University. It is expected to create synergy effects by maximizing the strengths of the top local private university and top national university of YU and Kyungpook National University. The project team will be overseen by the YU School of Mechanical Engineering and will be participated by the YU Department of Information and Communication Engineering, and Kyungpook National University Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Energy Engineering. At the opening ceremony, YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, "The automobile conversion parts industry, a specialization project being pursued by YU, is one of the representative regional strategic projects' and added, "We will do our best in fostering human resources, who will be the key resources to create industrial value of the regional strategic project, as an education and research institute to maximize the achievements of the college specialization project." Meanwhile, in the 'college specialization project' carried out for the first time this year, YU will receive a total of 35 billion won in the next five years with its eight project teams, which is the highest in the nation. The Automobile Conversion Parts Creative Human Resources Fostering Project Team will be receiving national funding in addition to the Global Co-prosperity Human Resources Fostering Project Team, Cultural Convergence Design Ecosystem Establishment Project Team, Multi-cultural Age Korean Language and Literature Human Resources Project Team, Medical and Precision Chemical Specialization Project Team, Parts and Materials Creative Human Resources Fostering Project Team, IT/Energy/BT Industry Customized Creative Chemical Engineering Fostering Project Team, and the DREAM Software Human Resource Project Team.
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Presentation of recent research results at the '3rd International Congress on Lipid Metabolism & Atherosclerosis' oral presentation session Investigated mechanism of inflammation suppression effects of high density lipoprotein [September 30, 2014] <Researcher Kim Sung-min (left) who won the best presentation award at the 3rd International Congress on Lipid Metabolism & Atherosclerosis Researcher Kim Sung-min (26) of the YU BK21 Plus Blood Serum Bio Medical Project Team (Director Cho Gyeong-hyeon, Professor at the School of Biotechnology) won the 'Best Presentation Award' at the '3rd ICLA (International Congress on Lipid Metabolism & Atherosclerosis)'. This academic conference, which is celebrating its third year, is an international academic conference on lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis. Every year, domestic and foreign scholars are invited to introduce and present the latest research results in basic, nutrition, epidemiology and clinical studies, while providing the opportunity to discuss the subjects to greatly contribute to the development of Korea's lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis sectors. This event was held at the Seoul Grand Hilton Hotel Convention Center on the 12th and 13th where over 400 lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis experts from over 20 countries attended to display and present approximately 100 theses. In the oral presentation session that Kim participated in, 12 teams from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Malaysia participated to present the latest research results. Kim was awarded for his presentation on 'Investigation of inflammation suppression effect mechanisms of high density lipids (HDL)'. Kim confirmed that the mechanism in which anti-inflammation occurs from blood serum HDL that are beneficial to the human body became mediums through specific cell receptors. He also found that harmful HDL transformed due to saccharification promoted inflammations and worsened diabetes and atherosclerosis. Kim said, "These research results can be used to treat heat diseases, Alzheimer's and diabetes by applying in bio drug development that treats blood diseases, and can also contribute in studies on mechanisms that occur in diseases related to old age." He added, "In addition to blood serum lipoprotein studies to treat heart and blood diseases, I will also concentrate on research to improve the functions of proteins that can be used as treatment like HDL." Meanwhile, Kim, who graduated from the YU School of Biotechnology has been continuously conducting research on treatment for atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia since he was a junior. In particular, in December 2010 prior to his graduation, he was selected as a scholarship student for the National Research Foundation's 'national scholarship program for exceptional students' and also won a science and engineering national scholarship student research reward. Meanwhile, he completed his combined master's and PhD program majoring in animal and medical bioengineering at the YU Graduate School of Biotechnology and is currently working at the YU BK21 Plus Blood Serum Bio Medical Project Team.
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Participated by Ministry of Education, Korea Foundation for the Promotion of Private (& Public) School, Gyeongbuk-do, Gyeongsan, and Five Universities in Gyeongsan including YU Global exchange hub to accommodate 240 international students and the International Student Support Center [September 18, 2014] The 'Global Exchange Center', a residential and combined support facility for international students studying in Korea will be built for the first time in Korea at YU (President Noh Seok-kyun). YU Held the opening ceremony of the 'Gyeongbuk Global Exchange Center' (hereinafter called Center) at 3 p.m. on the 17th. This center, which was built south (112 Gyeyang-dong) of the YU Gyeongsan Campus Hyangto Living Area and a total of 9.8 billion won was invested with 2.5 billion from national funding and 500 million from provincial funding (Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsan). The center has a total are of 5,169㎡, standing five stories tall with one underground floor. It includes a dormitory that can facilitate 240 students, and various facilities to support international students such as conference halls, global lounge, seminar room, international student support center, and fitness centers. At the opening ceremony, Korea Foundation for the Promotion of Private (& Public) School President Lee Won-hee, Gyeongsangbuk-do Vice-governor Lee In-seon, Gyeongsan Mayor Choi Young-jo, Gyeongsan Council Chairman Lee Cheon-soo, Ministry of Education International Cooperation Bureau Kang Young-soo, Gyeongbuk Global Exchange Center Chief Park Tae-gyeong and other directors and officers for the center, as well as YU President Noh Seok-kyun and Scholarship Director Kim Jin-sam, Kyungil University President Jung Hyun-tae, Daegu Haany University President Byeon Chang-hoon, Catholic University of Daegu Nam Jong-hoon, and other personnel from universities in the Gyeongsan area, as well as Sayeeda Tasneem (27) who is studying at the YU Korean Language Center from Sri Lanka attended as the representative from international students. In his congratulatory address, YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, "I am very happy that the first global exchange center is opened at YU," and added, "I hope that the Gyeongbuk Global Exchange Center, which was constructed together by the Ministry of Education, local government, and colleges in the region including YU, will become a hub for internationalization of the local community and colleges." Operation of the center will be overseen by the special purpose corporation 'Gyeongbuk Global Exchange Center Company' established in March of 2012. For this, the Korea Foundation for the Promotion of Private (& Public) School and the Yeungnam School Foundation invested 50% each of 20 million won the capital of SPC, and the operation rights will be returned to Yeungnam School Foundation after being operated by the SPC for 20 years. There are a total of 1,514 (based on school statistics of 2014) international students at the five universities participating in the Gyeongbuk Global Exchange Center including YU and about 6%, or 1,036 are studying at YU. The center will operate adaptation programs for life in Korea, as well as domestic and international student exchange programs to help improve the residential conditions of foreign students in the region, and help them establish themselves here. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education is planning to actively pursue international student dormitory construction projects for the stable residences of international students. Starting with the 'Gyeongbuk Global Exchange Center', the second international student dormitory will be built at Wonkwang University by building the 'Iksan Global Exchange Center' that can accommodate 200 students.
