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Hosting the College Experience Program “Fly to Your Dreams with Ewha”

Hosting the College Experience Program “Fly to Your Dreams with Ewha” The Office of Admissions hosted the online event “Fly to Your Dreams with Ewha” on December 20 (Mon.), in which successful candidates of early admissions for 2022 entry were given the opportunity to experience college life in advance. The participants of the 2022 Fly to Your Dreams with Ewha program were recruited from among all soon-to-be Ewhaians who were initially accepted via early admissions tracks this year, with 320 prospective college students in attendance on the day. In her welcome speech, Dean Donghee Shin from the Office of Admissions greeted prospective college students who will become members of Ewha, saying “Ewha Womans University has always stood at the forefront of each era and now seeks to establish a new vision of ‘A Creative and Innovative Platform Leading to a Sustainable Society’ to nurture talented female professionals with creative convergence capabilities through the establishment of majors related to cutting-edge technologies and the development of future-oriented education programs.” She also pledged, “Based on Ewha’s spirit of service and sharing, in combination with the knowhow accumulated by fostering talented individuals, Ewha will actively support your future and dreams.” In the following “Preview of College Lectures” event prepared under the special theme of AI and the Metaverse, Prof. Hyung-Gon Park (Electronic Engineering) of the ELTEC College of Engineering gave a lecture titled “In the ‘With AI’ era: What Should I Do, and How?” and Prof. Hye Won Han (Content Convergence) of the College of Science and Industry Convergence gave a lecture titled “Digital Storytelling in the Metaverse Era.” The last session of the program, “Ewha’s Story Told by Ewha Members,” featured each of Ewha’s 13 colleges in order for prospective students to personally communicate with Ewha members. Fly to Your Dreams with Ewha, which marks its 11th anniversary this year, receives a warm reception each year from soon-to-be Ewhaians, as it provides successful admissions candidates with an opportunity to experience college life before entering the school and receive useful advice by meeting professors and senior students.
- No.621
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- Date2021.12.24
- Views7763
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Professor Andreas Heinrich Wins Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award

Professor Andreas Heinrich Wins Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award Andreas Heinrich, director of the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) will deliver the Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Award Lecture on December 17, 2021 at the Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. This award has been given since 2016 to world renown scientists who are leading their field. Heinrich will give a lecture on quantum spins on surfaces at the institute and receive the award. Heinrich is a pioneer of the quantum nanoscience field, which is at the intersection of quantum science and nanoscience. In November of this year, Heinrich along with leading researchers in the field published a review paper entitled ‘Quantum-Coherent Nanoscience’ in Nature Nanotechnology presenting the definition of the field. Heinrich’s research is focused on this quantum properties of individual atoms and molecules on surfaces. His first major scientific breakthrough was single spin spectroscopy on surfaces using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). He additionally invented the ESR-STM technique while a scientist at IBM by combining the atomic-scale spatial resolution of STM with the much higher energy resolution of electron spin resonance (ESR) to achieve an extraordinary advance in atom-level resolution. At QNS there are now a growing number of ESR-enabled STMs making it a sought after research destination. QNS is engineering the quantum future with the leading researchers from around to world. The Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry is also known as the Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute. This institute is the only one within the Max Plank Society which combines the three classical disciplines of biology, physics and chemistry. Heinrich said “I am pleased and honored to receive the award for scientists who contributed in interdisciplinary research”. Heinrich also received the Heinrich Rohrer Medal on December 2021, awarded by the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science.
- No.619
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- Date2021.12.22
- Views11563
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Student Service Holds “Cheerful Ewha Sarang” Event

Student Service Holds “Cheerful Ewha Sarang” Event “Cheerful Ewha Sarang,” a special event to encourage Ewha students, took place on Tuesday, December 14 at reading rooms of the University Library and the Ewha Campus Complex (ECC). The Ewha Student Services team held the two events of “Fulfilling Ewha Sarang” to serve snacks to students as they prepare for their midterm exams and “Cheerful Ewha Sarang” to provide them with cookies for their final exams. In this semester, cookie boxes were delivered to 870 seats in the reading rooms of the ECC and the University Library. The cookie boxes contained cookies from WeCanCookies, a social enterprise helping the disabled to participate in society. The cookie boxes have become a regular favorite among Ewha students, as they are made of organic fair-trade ingredients and raise awareness toward value-conscious consumption in amazing to their outstanding taste and quality. Ewha’s social media post to promote the snack events was positively received by students, gaining around 3,000 likes and 80 comments. In addition, President Kim Eun Mee encouraged Ewha students who did their best despite the difficult situation of COVID-19 in a card message that read, “As we approach the end of 2021, I wish you all a healthy and joyful end to the year, as well as a blessed Christmas and a happy new year full of hope.”
- No.617
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- Date2021.12.16
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Ewha and the Institute for Basic Science Launch Academia-research Collaboration Course

Ewha and the Institute for Basic Science Launch Academia-research Collaboration Course Ewha established an academia-research collaboration course with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) for the first time among domestic universities and will recruit students for master’s and doctoral courses from spring semester 2022 onward. The academia-research collaboration course is aimed at fostering advanced technical specialists with a differentiated edge over conventional master’s or doctoral degree-holders through collaboration between research institutes conducting various research and universities in charge of talent development in related fields. The students enrolled in the academia-research collaboration course will take basic subjects at Ewha, participate in research projects and conduct research for their thesis at research institutes, and grow into advanced technical specialists equipped with both the theoretical and practical skills to lead the development of advanced technologies in industries. Since the launch of master’s and doctoral programs for academia-research collaboration in 1994, Ewha has established its status as a research-oriented university through academic exchanges and research collaboration with leading institutions including the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the National Cancer Center, the National Forensic Service, and the National Institute of Ecology. As of the 2021 academic year, various departments such as the Department of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Department of Food Science and Engineering, Department of Pharmacy, and Department of Nutritional Science and Food Management are operating academia-research collaboration courses in partnership with leading research institutes. Ewha has implemented various projects to solidify its status as a research-oriented university with world-class research capabilities under the vision of “A Creative and Innovative Platform Leading to a Sustainable Society,” and the newly-established academia-research collaboration course with the IBS is expected to facilitate the generation of innovative research results in science and technology and nurturing women professionals. The IBS is a research institute established in 2011 for world-class basic science research and encompasses 30 research centers in the field of mathematics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, and convergence. Ewha launched the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience in 2017 under the leadership of Professor Andreas Heinrich from the Department of Physics and has since conducted world-class quantum nanoscience research. In addition, Visiting Chair-Professor Han In-sik took office as director of the IBS Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies (CENS) and has contributed to expanding the horizon of basic science research based on the network with the IBS. The establishment of the Ewha-IBS academia-research collaboration course, which will serve as a new model for the creation of a creative research ecosystem, was led by faculty members from the Department of Science Education and the Department of Physics, and CENS researchers. Concurrent with the launch, doctoral students from the Graduate School of Physics are expected to enroll in the course and continue their studies and research. Visiting Chair-Professor Han In-sik from the Department of Science Education remarked, “The Ewha-IBS academia-research collaboration course has now taken its first step with the participation of the Department of Science Education and the Department of Physics, and we expect the course to be expanded to other departments in the future to support active collaboration with the IBS in fields of basic science research.” Meanwhile, in commemoration of the launch of the Ewha-IBS academia-research collaboration course, the “2021 CENS Workshop” was co-hosted by the Department of Physics and the CENS at the Science Building from Wednesday, November 24 to Friday, November 26. At the workshop’s opening ceremony, Ewha faculty members and the IBS CENS researchers gave presentations on various topics.
- No.615
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- Date2021.12.13
- Views12316
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Hosting the “2021 HOKMA Day” Online

Hosting the “2021 HOKMA Day” Online The HOKMA College of General Education hosted the “2021 HOKMA Day” on December 2 (Thu.). The HOKMA College of General Education has been hosting “HOKMA Day” for affiliated students who are about to join a department/major after a year-long career exploration period. This year’s event, livestreamed through Zoom, was participated by senior students who entered Ewha through the HOKMA College, along with 140 students from the incoming class of 2021. The event was held under the theme of “For Those Who Are Leaving HOKMA” and began with opening remarks delivered by Dean Sung-Kyung Yoo and Associate Dean Baehyun Min of the HOKMA College and advisor faculties, who sent greetings to students in the incoming class of 2021. The second part of the event consisted of a talk show featuring senior students of the HOKMA College. The student talk show hosts presented various events including a balance game, a quiz to name campus locations, and a Q&A session titled “Show Us HOKMA” in which senior students at the HOKMA College provided information on the college based on frequently-asked questions. Senior students ensured that the event provided a pleasant venue for communication, by encouraging active participation from junior students by using the hand-raising function on Zoom, a fun quiz, and a contest to pick out the most enthusiastic participant. The event then progressed to a networking event for each college by using the breakout rooms function on Zoom, followed by a prize drawing for participants. Kim So-yeon (HOKMA College of General Education, incoming class of 2021), who chose to major in Life Science, expressed her impressions of the event, saying “I haven’t had many opportunities to meet my classmates and senior students due to COVID-19, so it was nice to get the chance to meet them through this Zoom event.” She also gave some advice for new students who will enter the HOKMA College in March this year, adding “I hope you will all actively take part in in-person events when they return, and enjoy your college life to the fullest during the year you’ll spend at the HOKMA College while attending various classes.” Ewha became the first among major universities to implement the Integrated Selection System for each field in 2018. The selected candidates of the Integrated Selection System can freely explore majors that they are interested in, by attending classes and programs in various majors as an affiliated student of the HOKMA College over a period of a year before finally selecting their major from seven available colleges. In addition, the system provides benefits such as four-year full tuition scholarships given to the top 50 percent of successful candidates from the initial admissions process, eligibility to enter the new E-house dormitory, and freedom to choose a major without limitations on selecting between arts and sciences or the major quota upon advancing to their sophomore year. The HOKMA College of General Education also provides various forms of support for optimized career planning by holding various events such as the career exploration program “HOKMA Students Mind Tour,” “HOKMA Forum,” “HOKMA DAY,” “Major Fair,” and “Presentation on Majors,” and encourages students to grow into talented individuals with creative convergence skills.
- No.613
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- Date2021.12.07
- Views6986
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2021 Ewha Family Christmas Service and Ewha’s Houses of Christmas Lighting Ceremony Held

2021 Ewha Family Christmas Service and Ewha’s Houses of Christmas Lighting Ceremony Held The 2021 Ewha Family Christmas Service was held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, December 2, co-hosted by the Chaplain’s Office and the Ewha Alumnae Association. Ewha students, current and retired faculty members and staff, and alumnae gathered together to honor and celebrate the meaning of Christmas in advance at the Ewha Family Christmas Service, which has been held on the first Thursday of December every year since 1996. This year, the service was held online and livestreamed on the Alumnae Association’s YouTube account (https://youtu.be/aQxhLVLajDQ?t=2253) for contact-free participation due to the risk of spreading COVID-19. The service opened with the hymn “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus,” a reading of the “Ewha Christmas Prayer,” and a scripture reading (Matthew 2:1-3, 9-11). Under the title of “A Certain Invitation,” Rev. Ahn Sun-hee preached, “I pray for a Christmas filled with peace for all of you in the Ewha family, as we gather to answer the invitation from baby Jesus, the king of peace who erases boundaries and tears down barriers.” The service was followed by a special performance titled “Carol Festival” by students majoring in Korean Music and a special fundraising event for Ewha alumnae missionaries. The offering collected from the Ewha Family Christmas Service has traditionally been used to fund Ewha alumnae missionaries on mission trips all over the world. This year, the service showed a video presenting the activities of Ewha alumnae missionaries who are overseas practicing Christian love, sharing and serving as the founding spirit of Ewha, followed by a prayer by Seong Hye-ok, the missionary outreach manager of the Alumnae Association. The offering collected this year will be used for delivering Christmas gifts to alumnae missionaries and sharing joy. President Eun Mee Kim also greeted the Ewha family by remarking, “I hope that you will all enjoy peace as we wait for the light and holy hour that will soon come to us and think of our Lord Jesus, who came to the lowest places in our time to bring gospel and peace to the world.” The service finished with a performance titled “Sleighing” (conductor: Professor Park Shin-hwa) by the College of Music Choir and the hymn “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem” by the Staff Choir. Meanwhile, the Chaplain’s Office installed the “Ewha’s Houses of Christmas—Nativity Scene” in various locations on campus and held lighting ceremonies to share the love and comfort of baby Jesus. Ewha’s Houses of Christmas are on-campus installations designed to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus, who came as light into a dark world, and to share the light of warm love with visitors at Ewha. Since the first installation at the Ewha Campus Complex in 2018, they have spread to various locations and lit up the campus, such as the ELTEC College of Engineering, the College of Medicine Magok Campus, and especially Ewha’s dormitories this year. The Ewha’s Houses of Christmas lighting ceremonies were held respectively at the Ewha Campus Complex Square and outside the Engineering Building on Tuesday, November 30, in front of the E-House on Thursday, December 2, and at the College of Medicine Magok Campus on Wednesday, December 8.
- No.611
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- Date2021.12.03
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Seegene Medical Foundation Donates Research Scholarship to Ewha Womans University and Ewha Medical Center

Seegene Medical Foundation Donates Research Scholarship to Ewha Womans University and Ewha Medical Center Ewha received the Ewha Medical Research Fund and the Seegene Medical Scholarship amounting to 300 million KRW from the Seegene Medical Foundation, a medical institute specializing in diagnostic examination. The foundation also donated 300 million KRW to the Ewha Medical Center for the construction of a new education center. The Seegene Medical Foundation is a medical institute specializing in diagnostic examinations, which has been hailed as a top contributor to the “K-Quarantine” model since outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic by handling a third of all COVID-19 diagnostic tests in South Korea. The donation was made based on the cordial and longstanding partnership between Ewha and the foundation out of their shared commitment toward preparing for the “With Corona” policy and contributing to the health of humanity through innovative R&D. At the donation ceremony held at Aryeong-dang on Wednesday, November 24, the Seegene Medical Foundation signed an agreement to donate the “Ewha Medical Research Fund” amounting to 100 million KRW and the “Seegene Medical Scholarship” amounting to 200 million KRW. The donation will help the College of Medicine to fulfil its role as part of the Ewha Leading-Edge Medi·Healthcare Cluster (ELEC) along with the Sinchon Campus, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital and Seoul Hospital, and serve as a foundation for research exchanges to facilitate the convergence intermediary research and personalized medicine that are required by the times. It will also be used to nurture students as outstanding future convergence specialists who are equipped with computer-linked medicine capabilities and knowledge of the humanities to adapt to the future medical environment in the hyperintelligent and hyperconnected AI era. The Seegene Medical Foundation will also donate 300 million KRW to the Ewha Medical Center for the establishment of “HuBIG (Human Bio Information Group) Education Center” at Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital and contribute to facilitating research there. The HuBIG Education Center is aimed at providing virtual learning courses to medical professionals through cadavers for exploring the human interior. Such platform building for future medicine is expected to significantly contribute to R&D and talent development. The foundation has also previously donated 100 million KRW for the reconstruction of the Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital Animal Laboratory in 2020. Meanwhile, in addition to the donation, the foundation added a warm message promising to actively participate in and support Ewha’s project to ensure a safe campus in the era of “living with COVID-19.”
- No.609
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- Date2021.11.29
- Views7778
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Research Team Led by Professor Choi Hye-Won Gains Attention with Humanities-based AI Research

Research Team Led by Professor Choi Hye-Won Gains Attention with Humanities-based AI Research Improving AI speech recognition performance by collecting non-native speech data of Korean from speakers of 65 languages Expecting the humanities-based AI research to further contribute to the globalization of the Korean Wave The “Language and Artificial Intelligence” research team led by Professor Choi Hye-Won from the Division of English Language and Literature has conducted a non-native Korean speech data project for The Open AI Dataset Project (AI-Hub) for 2021, which was supervised by the Ministry of Science and ICT and supported by the National Information Society Agency. The project is being implemented as part of the government’s “Digital New Deal” policy and regarded as the core project of the “Data Dam,” aimed at promoting Korea’s leap forward as an AI powerhouse and the intelligent innovation as measures to facilitate innovation across the state and society, while supporting the construction and development of AI learning data for the purpose of job creation. The research team received 200 million KRW from the government funding of 1.9 billion KRW assigned to the consortium formed with five other domestic institutions, to carry out planning, designing and collecting non-native Korean speech data, and analyzing pronunciation errors in them until the end of 2021. The project aimed to enhance AI recognition of Korean speech by building non-native Korean speech data for AI learning. AI voice recognition technology is widely used in our daily lives as it is embedded in smartphones, AI speakers, navigation systems, and automatic translators. However, in reality, minority speakers such as the elderly, dialect users, and foreigners who entail atypical and distinct phonetic characteristics are typically excluded from the main subjects of AI voice recognition. As the model performance of recent AI that utilizes deep learning technologies is determined by the volume of data, it is difficult to reflect quantitatively minor languages. Recognizing this issue, the research team at Ewha attempted to supplement the limited volume of low-resource data, namely Korean speech by foreigners, using a data collection technique based on error analysis annotation. To this end, a data construction strategy was formulated based on the comparative study of speakers’ native phonetic and phonological systems, and Korean speech data was collected from speakers of 65 languages from 80 countries, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai. Currently, 2.5 million foreigners, forming five percent of the population, reside in South Korea, speaking Korean. The recent global popularity of the Korean Wave, manifested by cultural assets such as Parasite, Squid Game, and BTS, has drastically increased the interest toward the Korean language. Amidst the exponential increase in the number of foreigners learning Korean in and out of Korea, the study by Professor Choi’s team is meaningful as it is expected to help meet the growing demand for Korean language education. Going forward, the study results are expected to contribute to research on improving the recognition rate of and developing a model for foreigners’ Korean speech, and help multicultural families, foreign workers, and foreign tourists to use various AI voice support services with greater ease. The findings are also expected to be put into meaningful use with countless possibilities for various learning tools, including the development of learning apps for efficient learning of the Korean language to assist the rapidly-growing number of Korean learners.
- No.607
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- Date2021.11.26
- Views12416
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Alumna Kim Jun-hee Donates 5.18 Billion KRW for Ewha’s Growth

Alumna Kim Jun-hee Donates 5.18 Billion KRW for Ewha’s Growth Ewha alumna Kim Jun-hee (graduating class of 1960, Department of English Language and Literature) donated 5.18 billion KRW for Ewha’s continued growth. Kim made the large-scale donation without hesitation to fulfill her longtime resolution of contributing to society by giving her best to her chosen field and returning what she was given back to society. Ewha held a donation agreement ceremony on Monday, May 17 to express its gratitude to alumna Kim Jun-hee for making such a meaningful decision for the development of her alma mater. As soon as all procedures concerning the donation are completed, Ewha plans to create the “Kim Jun-hee Development Fund” (tentatively named) and use it for the school’s development. Born in North Korea, Kim defected to South Korea during the retreat of January 4, 1951 during the Korean War and entered Ewha amidst the tumultuous events of the times. Kim expressed her immense gratitude for the opportunity to study at Ewha and enjoy many benefits, support and higher education, which were not available to women who were socially underprivileged at a time when higher education was exclusively enjoyed by men. Kim expressed, “After graduating Ewha, I realized that Ewha’s name served as a powerful guarantor while I made my way through society. This donation is a token of my appreciation for the numerous benefits that I enjoyed as an Ewha graduate.” Wishing for Ewha’s development, she also remarked, “I feel proud and rewarded to be able to contribute to the development of Ewha. I hope that many more will participate in and support efforts to further develop Ewha.” In return, President Kim Eun Mee thanked her by saying, “We appreciate Ms. Kim’s decision, which will greatly support Ewha’s development, and we will endeavor to uphold her profound will and use the donation as she intended.” She also expressed her resolution by commenting, “Based on the donation from our alumna Kim Jun-hee, we hope that Ewha will stand tall as a world-class university in marking its 135th anniversary and reinvent itself as new Ewha that leads our time and society, ultimately carrying on the glory of our predecessors.” Ewha has established “Ewha Vision 2030+,” a development plan aimed at becoming a world-class university in response to trends in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and furthermore leading the times and society. Ewha will implement the “Frontier 10–10 Project” to intensively cultivate 10 leading research fields and 10 future-oriented challenging fields with international competitiveness, and establish Korea’s first College of Artificial Intelligence as part of an educational innovation platform designed to build initiative in response to digital transformation, as well as the Ewha Leading-Edge Medi·Healthcare Cluster (ELEC) that links the Ewha Sinchon Campus, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital and Seoul Hospital. Kim’s donation is expected to serve as a significant driving force at a critical moment when Ewha is preparing to take a new leap forward, leveraging the opportunities revealed by a new era.
- No.605
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- Date2021.11.24
- Views10027
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Ewha Advances Two Ranks in 2021 Annual JoongAng Ilbo University Rankings

Ewha Advances Two Ranks in 2021 Annual JoongAng Ilbo University Rankings Ewha advanced two ranks to the sixth place in the comprehensive evaluation of the Annual JoongAng Ilbo University Rankings, which has finally resumed after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation was conducted on 44 universities with at least four of the following major tracks: the humanities, social science, engineering, natural science, medicine, and art and sports. Its findings showed that schools that have actively made investments despite the difficult times developed higher competitiveness, suggesting that change and innovation will become main drivers behind the future of universities. With the unprecedented global event of the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020, Ewha has focused on creating a safe environment on its campus by taking proactive responses including visitor access control, remote classes, and improving the education environment through enhanced contact-free education infrastructure and better IT conditions such as launching an online learning space, building self-learning studios, and upgrading classrooms with cutting-edge technologies. In addition, members of the Ewha community both within and outside of the school, including faculty, alumnae, and donors, raised a fund of 400 million KRW to alleviate the hardships facing students due to COVID-19. Such efforts led to outstanding achievements for Ewha, such as taking the first place among Korean universities for two consecutive years in the gender equality category of the “THE World University Rankings” and the second place among Korean private universities in the 2020 National Customer Satisfaction Index (NCSI) Survey as well as rising in the 2021 Annual JoongAng Ilbo University Rankings. Ewha was ranked sixth in the category of “faculty research,” first in “citation count per paper of humanities and social science in Korea,” sixth in “research fund from the university per professor,” third in the category of “drop-out rates” with higher rankings meaning lower rates, fourth place in the same category for foreign students, fifth in “pure employment rate”, and ninth in the “retained employment rates,” signifying Ewha’s high achievements across various indicators. Particularly, both this year’s comprehensive and major-track evaluations confirmed Ewha’s outstanding education and research in the humanities and social science. In the category of faculty research under the comprehensive evaluation, Ewha ranked first in “the citation count per humanities and social science paper” in Korea, fifth in the humanities and sixth in social science on major-track evaluations. Based on such outstanding achievements, Ewha will begin fully implementing projects to realize the five objectives of “Ewha Vision 2030+,” such as launching the Frontier 10-10 Project to advance as a research-oriented university, establishing the Headquarters for R&D General Planning, developing the new Ewha-style education model, and establishing special graduate schools in cutting-edge academic fields under the vision of “A Creative and Innovative Platform Leading to a Sustainable Society.”
- No.603
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- Date2021.11.17
- Views9037

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