From left: GIST President Lim Ki-chul, Cheol-Woong Jung, Head of the ADC Research Center at LigaChem Biosciences, and Choi Eun-mo, Chairman of the GIST Development Foundation. Photo courtesy of GIST
■ The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) introduced on February 2 that Cheol-Woong Jung, Head of the ADC Research Center at LigaChem Biosciences, donated 100 million received. Jung, an alumnus of GIST’s Department of Life Sciences, designated 50 million received every to the Department of Life Sciences and the Department of Chemistry. In 2016, Jung additionally donated 11 million received with fellow alumni to commemorate GIST’s twenty third anniversary. “I hope this small contribution helps create an environment where junior researchers can focus on more challenging research without fear of failure,” Jung stated.
■ KAIST introduced that it has opened two extra ‘Intergenerational Collaboration Labs’ this 12 months, holding an unveiling ceremony on the afternoon of February 2. The Intergenerational Collaboration Lab is KAIST’s distinctive analysis system the place professors nearing retirement go on their amassed analysis achievements and experience to junior professors by way of collaboration. With these additions since its introduction in 2018, a complete of 12 Intergenerational Collaboration Labs are actually in operation. The newly opened labs are the ‘Ion Beam and Plasma Engineering Intergenerational Collaboration Lab’ led by Professor Wonho Choe of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, and the ‘Carbon-Neutral Power and Propulsion Intergenerational Collaboration Lab’ led by Professor Choongsik Bae of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
■ A crew led by Professor Hyun-Wook Lee of the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering on the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) introduced on February 2 that it has improved the power efficiency of iron-chromium redox flow batteries, that are gaining consideration for Energy Storage Systems (ESS), by coating the electrode floor with bismuth (Bi). This elevated the response pace by more than 10 instances and suppressed aspect reactions. The analysis findings had been revealed within the worldwide educational journal ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry A’ on January 13 (native time). The precept is that bismuth acts as a ‘selective response mediator,’ accelerating the oxidation-reduction response of chromium whereas suppressing the hydrogen evolution response. A battery with the bismuth coating maintained a mean power efficiency of 75.22% over more than 500 charge-discharge cycles.
■ POSTECH introduced on February 2 that the twenty first ‘Ilju Mathematics School,’ co-hosted by its Institute of Mathematics and the June Huh Center for Mathematical Challenges on the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, was held from January 26 to 30. This annual occasion, sponsored by the Ilju Foundation since 2009, goals to contribute to the worldwide improvement of arithmetic by way of open discussions and information change amongst undergraduate college students, graduate college students, postdoctoral researchers, and professors. It was co-chaired by Yoon-Sung Choi, President of the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (and Professor Emeritus at POSTECH’s Department of Mathematics), who has led analysis on industrial arithmetic challenges, and Professors Nam-Gyu Kang and Woo-Young Lee of the June Huh Center for Mathematical Challenges, who lead analysis in pure arithmetic. Keynote audio system included Thomas Schlumprecht, a mathematician within the subject of practical evaluation from Texas A&M University. In addition, world-renowned mathematicians from international locations equivalent to Ukraine, China, and the Czech Republic participated, delivering lectures on the most recent analysis developments and key points in practical evaluation.
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