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Jul 26, 2007 A Unique Academic Adventure of Excellence Seoul National University’s International Summer Institute offers a unique, unprecedented combination of lectures by world-class intellectuals on its beautiful campus.

Jul 12, 2007 Study & Work Abroad Program for SNU Students SNU provides various international exchange opportunities so that students in and outside of SNU can obtain intercultural competence through integration in various culture.

Jul 11, 2007 Who is Korea Reading? Everyone's talking, but not everyone can be heard. In order for people to actually know what's happening in the ivory tower, for academics to be a part of public opinion, people have to be able to reach your thoughts, and easily, too. So, who's in hold of the loudspeakers that ring out over the nation's corners and alleys?

Jun 26, 2007 Plan in Action for a 'Multi-Campus': Frontier for the Integration of Studies Plans to create a multi-campus to lead the integration of studies and development of high-technology are being crystallized: Bio Information Technology Port at Cheongna, Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology and Greenbio Research Complex are all projects currently underway.

Jun 11, 2007 Students to Get Emotion-Control Program The school's Center for Campus Life and Culture said Thursday that it will launch the eight-week ``emotional control coaching program'' during the summer vacation.

Jun 08, 2007 SNU Engineering Ranked 7th, Natural Sciences 13th in the World Shanghai Jiao Tong University released a new report on the world's top 100 universities in 5 different fields and stated that SNU engineering and natural sciences have ranked 7th and 13th respectively in 'Pub' indicator.

Jun 04, 2007 Universities Decide to Take National History Exam Prestigious universities located in Seoul and its adjacent areas, such as Korea University and Yonsei University, have decided to require applicants to take an exam on national history as a mandatory subject on their college entrance examinations.

May 28, 2007 Internationalization Efforts at SNU Seoul National University is one of the most internationalized universities in Asia. As of May 2007 SNU has signed 478 academic exchange agreements with universities/colleges in 40 different countries around the world.

May 18, 2007 Kaang Discovers New Protein that Enhances Memory Professor Kaang Bong-kuin's team in the Department of Bilological Sciences has discovered a new protein critical in preserving long-term memory and which may help cure Alzheimer's.

May 16, 2007 Grad Students Recieve Best Paper Awards Two SNU students received best paper awards at the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics’ (ASPET’s) Experimental Biology 2007 award ceremony.

Apr 30, 2007 Committee on Research Integrity Cleared Suspicion Around the Cloned Wolves On 26th of March, 2007, Seoul National University held a press conference formally announcing that Lee Byeong-chun, a professor in the Laboratory of Veterinary Theriogenology at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, had published a research paper in the journal Cloning and Stem Cells, detailing that his lab had successfully cloned two wolves of an endangered species using the donor eggs of a dog.

Apr 30, 2007 Prof. Kwon and Ihm Won "2007 Most Outstanding Korean Scientist and Engineer Awards" Kwon Wook-hyeon, professor of electrical engineering, and Ihm Ji-soon, professor of physics, at Seoul National University have been selected as the winners of the 2007 Most Outstanding Korean Scientist and Engineer Awards.