Ewha Womans University participated in the 2019 US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship (UKC 2019) held in Chicago from August 14 to 17. The US-Korea Conference is an academic conference co-hosted by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, and the Korea-U.S. Science Cooperation Center. The theme of UKC 2019 was “Smart Science, Engineering and Health for Livable Communities” and a total of twelve technical group symposiums were held in the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biomechanical engineering and more.

Ewha President Kim Heisook attended the University Leadership Forum as one of the representatives of the Korean universities and had a discussion with other panels such as Robert Zimmer, the President of the University of Chicago, and Timothy Killeen, the President of the University of Illinois System.

President Kim said, “By providing opportunities and environments for learning, education, and research, free from fossilized gender stereotypes, women's universities should be able to explore into new possibilities no one has ever imagined of,” and added, “I sincerely believe that Ewha Womans University will be a cradle for innovative thoughts and experiments in the years to come.”

Ewha Womans University ran its own information and recruiting booth at the event, promoting the university’s superb science and engineering programs to both Korean and American scientists from the US National Institutes of Health, the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea, the University of California, Los Angeles and Perdue University, and providing counseling sessions regarding research and university-industry cooperation and recruitment.