On April 31, Dongsan medical center of Keimyung University was awarded ‘The 2010 Korea grand prize in global medical treatment marketing'. iMBC, Donga.com, The Daily Sports, the Korea Tourist Service and the China·Korea Medicine and Medical Treatment Exchange Association sponsored the award.This grand prize is designed to promote hospitals that attract foreign patients. The organizers examined many hospitals through expert investigations, online investigations and monitoring hospital systems for three months, and Dongsan medical center was selected. As a result of winning the grand prize, Dong
On April 14, Dr. Yang Jae-wook from Kansas University gave a special lecture in the main conference room of the administration building.When Keimyung University developed its college of pharmacy, they planned this special lecture. The theme of the special lecture was 'the current clinical pharmacology education in the U.S. and the ideal clinical strategy of clinical pharmacology education'. In the lecture, Dr. Yang said that Keimyung University is more able to develop an efficient educational system for the college of pharmacy than other pharmaceutical colleges.
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 April 9, a workshop for International Faculty Members was held in a KCTL (Keimyung Center for Teaching and Learning) seminar room on the third floor in the new Bauer hall. It was started with a greeting address by Jo Young-gae, a research professor, and the subject of the workshop was 'KMU computer systems for teaching and administration'.In the workshop, they explained KMU computer systems, sectionalized the Keimyung University homepage, Intranet, Web-mail, Web-disk, T&L Support system and the KMU Library system for International Faculty Members.The speaker was David Lyons (dept. English L
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
Keimyung University President Synn declared that the ‘Conducting Academy’ will open in the College of Music and Performing Arts under the guidance of the National Symphony Orchestra conductor, Kwak Sung. The academy provides a unique, high level opportunity for talented conductors to work and improve their conducting ability. The academy is open to anyone majoring in music and possessing some prior conducting experience. It will provide 16 classes (32hrs) every week. Kwak Sung, an honorary professor of KMU, will give a lecture on conducting techniques, orchestral conducting, reading music note
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