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Jul 19, 2011 Eco-Friendly Transportation Makes for a Green Campus Until last year, all of SNU’s shuttle buses were yellow. Recently, a blue shuttle bus started running, which confused some students. The blue one runs the same route as the old yellow ones, so there is no need to hesitate to get on. The only difference is that the blue bus is an electric vehicle recently purchased as an effort to reduce CO2 emissions on campus.

Jul 15, 2011 Ever Heard of the SNU Career Development Center? The Career Development Center provides employment support services for SNU students and graduates through capacity building programs such as career counseling sessions, one-on-one employment consulting sessions, and resume clinics.

Jul 15, 2011 First Recipient of Kim Jae Ik Scholarship to Be a Pakistani Student H. E. Shaukat Ali Mukadam, the Pakistani ambassador to the Republic of Korea, visited SNU President OH Yeon Cheon on April 11 to discuss the cooperation of the two countries in the field of education.

Jul 12, 2011 [Faculty Essay] Forget Numbers, Embrace Youth Everything we do today seems to be quantified; quantified by numbers and rankings: from your frequent flyer status to your customer loyalty standing, we live in a world of statistics and data analysis. Even our social existence is quantified by the number of friends we have on the relevant social networks and evaluated into a social scoring number: 10-cool, 1 loser.

Jul 08, 2011 SNU on a Mission to Break the Chain of Poverty Nowadays, many teenagers hire expensive private tutors because they don’t want to be left behind and they wish to eventually gain admission to prestigious universities. In this increasingly competitive society, what will happen to the students who can’t afford private tutors?

Jul 08, 2011 Computer Related S.O.S.? IT Service Center to the Rescue! As a foreign professor or student at SNU, you have access to a wide range of IT facilities and programs. However, you may find it difficult to use them. One might get stuck while trying to install a computer or while trying to use the ETL program. If so, with just one quick call the IT Service Center will help you solve your problems.

Jul 08, 2011 Ja Ha Yeon to Lose the Smell At Last! SNU’s well-known pond Ja Ha Yeon is a perfect place for couples and friends to have a conversation while enjoying the fresh breeze and the beautiful view. If there was one drawback, it would be the smell coming from the pond. Finally, SNU has decided to do something about the stench.

Jul 06, 2011 SNU-Peking University to Expand Student Exchange Program KIM met LI Yang Song, assistant president and head of the Office of International Relations of PKU, and discussed the practical measures to be taken for the implementation of the new joint degree program between the two universities.

Jul 06, 2011 SNU Alumnus Appointed as Professor at University of Lancaster Ms. CHOI Sun Hwa will be taking her flight to Britain as soon as she finishes her doctoral degree in accounting at SNU this semester.

Jul 05, 2011 A New Culture with Each New Language Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Greek, Malay-Indonesian, Swahili (spoken in eastern parts of Africa)... As unfamiliar as each may sound, all are second languages offered at SNU as regular courses. SNU currently offers students courses on 16 different languages, including the ones mentioned above.

Jul 05, 2011 Cause of Male Infertility Identified After conducting microsurgical varicocelectomy on patients with clinical varicocele, the Male Infertility Team of the Department of Urology at SNU Hospital (headed by Professors KIM Soo Woong and PAICK Jae-Seung) announced on May 17 that they have discovered such treatment to significantly improve the concentration and motility of semen.

Jul 05, 2011 Up and Down University Rankings During the last few years, various organizations worldwide have announced university rankings according to different criteria. Depending on which organization compiled the list, SNU was evaluated as world class or outside the top 100.