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- SKKU Ranks 200th In U.S. News & World Report's 2018 Global University Rankings
- Harvard University received the highest score in the U.S. News & World Report's "2018 Global University Rankings." As American universities swept the top rankings, American public universities became more prominent. According to the U.S. News & World Report, an American media outlet that specializes in college rankings, Harvard University ranked 1st in their global university evaluation, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley. Among the top 10 universities (with 3 schools sharing 10th place), there are 10 American universities and 2 universities in the UK, including Oxford University (5th place) and Cambridge University (7th place). The strength of American universities is already known, but notably, 6 American public universities, including UC Berkeley and the University of Washington (10th place), ranked among the top 20 schools. The evaluation was conducted on 1250 famous universities in 74 countries. By country, there were 221 American universities, 136 Chinese universities, 76 Japanese universities, 73 British universities, and 58 German universities. American universities also placed 1st in most of the 22 major field rankings. China's Tsinghua University (64th place overall) ranked 1st in the field of computer science and engineering, showing rapid development in Chinese higher education. In Asia, the National University of Singapore ranked 43rd, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore ranked 55th, the University of Tokyo in Japan ranked 57th, and Peking University in China ranked 65th. In Korea, Seoul National University ranked 123rd, KAIST ranked 198th, Sungkyunkwan University ranked 200th, and Korea University ranked 274th. The U.S News & World Report says, "Rankings are determined based on Clarivate Analytics' science and technology analysis service, universities' global research reputation, publications and conference performance, etc."
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- 작성일 2017-10-29
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- College of Liberal Arts presents "Superb Undergraduate Students"
- College of Liberal Arts presents "Superb Undergraduate Students" to 53 undergraduate students. Among the students in College of Liberal Arts, these students obtain the highest score on their GPA. Only 10% of the students(4 Semester enrolled) can be selected. The students obtain certificate by dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Moreover, their nameplate will be hung in the Toegye Hall of Humanities. "Superb Undergraduate Students" is awarded every year.
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- 작성일 2017-10-29
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- College of Liberal Arts attended SKKU Graduate School Fair
- College of Liberal Arts attended SKKU Graduate School Fair(9th Sep, 2017). SKKU Graduate School fair was held at ChoByungDoo Int'l Conference Hall, 600th Anniversary building. All department belonging to College of Liberal Arts attended this fair. (Korean Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, French Language and Literature, History, Chinese Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, Library and Information Science, Philosophy, Korean Literature in Classical Chinese, Russian Language and Literature, and Comparative Culture(Interdisciplinary)) more than 100 students can obtain information about the life of the gruduate school students, admissions process, and scholarship.
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- 작성일 2017-09-30
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- Student Union of College of Liberal Arts conducted a College festival "Super Moon"
- Student Union of College of Liberal Arts conducted a College festival "Super Moon" on 19th, 20th day of September. This festival was held in 31308, 3th floor in Toegye hall of Humanities. In this festival, there were various programs as follows: 1. Athletic competiotion 2. Punch machine 3. Book review and recommendation 4. Grilled chiken skewers, beers, and radio 5. Fortune cookie game 6. Cooking competition 7. Cocktail booth Thanks to participation of the students and students union, this festival was succesfully finished.
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- 작성일 2017-09-30
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- SKKU Ranks 111th in the THE World University Rankings, Rising from 137th Last Year
- Sungkyunkwan University ranked 111th in the THE (Times Higher Education) World Rankings this year, rising from 137th last year. SKKU also rose to 3rd place in the ranking of domestic universities in Korea. SKKU scored 54.1 points in teaching (rising from 53.7 points last year), 55.1 points in research (50.6 points last year), 69.5 points in article citations (66.5 points last year), 93.7 points in industry income (88.9 points last year), and 44.7 points in international outlook (39.6 points last year), showing a steady upward trend in the overall evaluation index. Kyu Sang CHUNG, the President of Sungkyunkwan University, said, “For the past several years, SKKU has been devoted to creating synergy through the mutual growth of education and research by supporting integrated research and recruiting world-class scholars as professors to introduce a global-standard education system. We will spare no effort to become a world-class university.” SKKU is implementing creative convergence education, such as multidisciplinary approaches and specialized academic-industrial cooperative education, that will lead the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In particular, SKKU is expanding academic-industrial courses of study, such as convergent foundation projects, fusion capstone design, and integrated team field training in order to connect students’ creative business ideas to enterprises. Also, in cooperation with small businesses, SKKU created excellent results by releasing about 20 commercialized products and submitting more than 30 patent proposals every year.
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- 작성일 2017-09-30
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- Successful Completion of the 2017 Summer Farewell Party for Graduating International Students
- The Sungkyunkwan University International Affairs Division (Vice President: Ja Choon KOO) held the 2017 summer graduation ceremony and a farewell party for graduating international students on Friday, August 25th at 6:00pm on the 5th floor of the International Hall. A total of 237 international students, including 147 undergraduate students, 55 Master’s students, and 37 Ph.D students, were awarded their diplomas at the 2017 summer graduation ceremony. 120 graduating students and their families attended the farewell party, where they spent a meaningful time congratulating each other on their hard work and graduation and sharing their warm connection with each other. Vice President Ja Choon KOO congratulated the graduating students by saying, “Today, all of you have received your diplomas after crossing the Pacific Ocean and studying hard during all this time. Now you will return to your home countries, but we are one family under the large roof of Sungkyunkwan University. We at Sungkyunkwan University will celebrate and support your first steps toward a new beginning in our society.” The graduating student representatives, Ph.D student Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi, and Master’s student Gerke Sabrina Desiree, each gave a valedictory speech. Gerke Sabrina Desiree stated the graduating students’ feelings by saying, “Although we faced barriers such as language problems while attending classes, after many sleepless nights we were able to overcome them and stand in this honorable position today. Let’s become brilliant global leaders in every nation of the world.”
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- 작성일 2017-08-30
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- Sungkyunkwan University “Valkyrie” Team won the grand prize in “University Investment Research Report Competition”
- Sungkyunkwan University “Valkyrie” Team won the grand prize in “University Investment Research Report Competition” hosted by Researcharum Corporation. Sungkyunkwan University “Valkyrie” Team is 4 member group including Jang Daeik(Chinese Language and Literature 11). The research report mentioned the relation between stock price of E-Tech. architecture and development of new regeneration energy.
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- 작성일 2017-08-07
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- Taller People Are Thinner, a Study by Prof. Beom Jun KIM
- If the human body is stretched in three directions of width, length and height, the weight of a human body is proportional to the cube of its height. However, this is not valid in reality, and the body-mass index (BMI) is often calculated from the weight divided by the square of the height. From such definition of the BMI, Prof. Beom Jun KIM has shown that the waist circumference of a human is not proportional to the height, but proportional to the square root of the height. In other words, if the body-mass index is the same, the taller person is thinner. “This is the reason why many fashion models are tall,” Prof. KIM says. By analyzing the data of the length and weight of a variety of fishes, whales, and quadrupedal land mammals, Prof. KIM has shown that weight is proportional to the square of the height only for humans. In the case of other animals, the weight is proportional to the cube of the height. He presumed the reason why the calculation of the body-mass index of a human differs from that of other animals is that humans are bipedal, standing and walking upright. From this, he predicted that in the case of infants who cannot walk yet, their weight should be proportional to the cube of their height, but children older than about one year old should have a weight proportional to the square of their height. This prediction was tested for data from Sweden, Korea, and the World Health Organization, and was confirmed to be correct. If we consider the human body as the form of a simple cylinder and apply the condition that the torque by gravity and the torque by muscle must be in balance, we can show that the weight of a human should be proportional to the square of the height using Newtonian mechanics of physics. Prof. KIM also said that if we measure the size of the pelvis and the height from human fossil records, we will be able to deduce the time when mankind started to walk upright. Figure 1. Graphs of the relationship between the height (H) and the weight (M) of pale chub fish, whales and land mammals. All three graphs show that the animals’ weight is proportional to the cube (p = 3) of the height. For land animals, the height (H) can be measured in two ways: shoulder height and head-to-tail length. Both ways to measure the height meet the relationship (M is proportional to the cube of H). Figure 2. Graphs of the relationship between the height (H) and the weight (M) of children from Sweden and Korea. In this figure, the purple dots represent infants younger than one year old, and the orange dots represent children older than one year old. At one year of age, the time when a child begins to walk, the relationship between the height and weight is changed. Before one year, the weight is close to the cube of the height as with the other animals in Figure 1 above, but after one year, weight is close to the square of the height. Figure 3. A simple model of a human body. By applying the equilibrium condition of the torque by gravity (Fg) and the torque by muscle (Fm), we can show that the weight of a human being should be proportional to the square of the height. Figure 4. According to the body-mass index calculation method, the waist circumference of a human being is proportional to the square root of the height. The figure shows how body somatotype is changed according to the height if the body-mass index is the same. The taller the person is, the thinner it becomes. In the figure, when the height doubles, the waist circumference is about 1.4 times (or the square root of 2) smaller. Figure 5. Unlike a human body, when the length of a fish doubles, the height of the torso also doubles. In other words, it is difficult to know the actual fish size only from fish pictures without comparisons because both big fish and small fish look the same. This is because the weight (or volume) of the fish is proportional to the cube of its length.
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- 작성일 2017-07-31
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- Prof. Chung Hyun Bak(History) is appointed the Minister of gender equality and family
- Prof. Chung Hyun Bak(History) is appointed the Minister of gender equality and family. Prof. Chung, 64 year-old, studied history at Seoul National University and earned her Ph.D. in modern German history at Ruhr University Bochum. She is the professor in Sungkyunkwan Univ., a co-head of the Korea Women's Association United, and the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, and chief of the Korean History Education Society.
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- 작성일 2017-07-31
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- 407 SKKU Students Participating in Farm Village Volunteer Work
- 407 students of SKKU are participating in rural community volunteer work from June 23rd (Fri) to June 30th (Fri) at over 26 villages. Even though the weather is extremely hot, students are helping to harvest potatoes, plant beans, work in vineyards and more. President Kyu Sang CHUNG and 10 academic board members visited 2 villages to encourage students. “I am very glad that many students are participating in this volunteer work. I hope that students’ volunteer assistance will help farm villages where they need more hands, especially in this farming season,” said President CHUNG.
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- 작성일 2017-07-11
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