On April 10, Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash in Russia. Because he showed special affection for Korea, Keimyung feels sorry for his death. Keimyung is preparing a memorial concert and a temporary memorial in the College of Music and Performing Arts to pay its respects.Keimyung has solidified a special relationship with Poland for 20 years, engaging in exchange student and sisterhood relationship programs with Poland. In addition, President Synn has performed as Polish honorary consul.In 1990, Keimyung Professor Lee Seung-sun became the first Korean student to study
The Graduate School of Policy Studies started the “Keimyung and Yuhan-Kimberly NPO (Non Profit Organization) Leadership Course” to train the next generation of female local community leaders on March 24.This program is for women who have experience in a civic group in the Youngnam area. As part of the Scholarship Program for Female NGO Leaders of the Future, it is supported by the Korea Foundation for Women and Yuhan-Kimberly. The Graduate School of Policy Studies was selected to supervise the organization of this program.Twelve experts and scholars will participate in this program as instruct
On March 18, Keimyung University was selected for the Project to Strengthen University Education by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST). Keimyung will receive funding of 5.123 billion won. In the Daegu and Gyeongbuk area, Kyungpook National University, Yeungnam University, and the Catholic University of Daegu were selected, too.Keimyung has made a great effort to be selected for the project by implementing an employment program to raise students’ employment rate, expanding the number of Truth Scholarships for superior students from 19 to 140, increasing full-time foreign
On March 24, the first round of the Unmanned Vehicle Competition conducted by Hyundai-KIA Motors was held on Keimyung auxiliary athletic field. Ten Keimyung Graduate School of Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation (GSIVT) students participated. In the contest, students transform a car provided by Hyundai-KIA Motors into an unmanned car with a computer system which controls the car. The winning team will be given $90,000, and the second and third teams will be given $45,000 and $27,000 respectively. There are 11 participating teams from KAIST, Seoul National University, Hanyang University, In
KMU students Lee Ho-young (senior, Dept. of Industrial Design), Park Jung-min (senior, Dept. of Industrial Design), Park Young-woo (senior, Dept. of Industrial Design), and Park Sang-yong (senior, Dept. of Industrial Design) won the award in Concept Design at the IF Design Awards 2010 (International Forum Design Awards).Introduced in 1953, the IF Design Awards are one of the world’s top three design awards along with Germany’s Red Dot and the United States’ IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards). This year, 5,500 projects submitted from around the world competed in IF as well as IDEA an
On March 8, the entrance ceremony and orientation for the 2010 KMU-Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) 1+3.5 joint degree program were held in Room 328 of the Center for International Education at 3 p.m.This ceremony had two parts. Part one consisted of the opening address, a welcoming speech, an introducing of faculty, a closing address, and taking a group photo. Part two consisted of introducing the KMU-BLCU program and campus facilities.The KMU-BLCU 1+3.5 program has been running since 2007. Students have to complete a year at Keimyung University. Then, they have to complete an i
Keimyung University and Kyungpook National University have been awarded colleges of pharmacy. Both universities were assigned twenty five personnel. According to MEST (Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology), the personnel will increase to least thirty in 2012. President Synn said, “I am sorry to be assigned few personnel but glad to attract a college of pharmacy that Keimyung has hoped for.”The construction of the College of Pharmacy is expected to start in April this year. The area of the building will be 11,876㎡, and it will form a triangle with the School of Medicine and the Colleg
Dalseo Healthy Family Support Center and Dalseo Multi-Cultural Family Center were chosen as excellent support centers in a recent countrywide survey. These centers, which are operated by Keimyung University, were chosen by the Ministry for Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs.Dalseo Healthy Family Support Center supports the welfare of families, education, and child care. The child care service is the best system, and it has been chosen as a superior institution continuously since 2007. It works with the local government and focuses on maintaining and developing families. Dalseo Multi-Cultural