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CBNU Collaborates with US National Institute
Chonbuk National University signed an MOU with the Spokane Research Laboratory under the American National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH-SRL) recently. NIOSH is a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The two organizations will conduct joint international research for the development and commercialization of source technologies related to energy resource development and mine safety until December 2022, through research cooperation, exchanges of res..
2018-04-26
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CBNU Improves Breeding Swine More Effectively
Reproduction traits such as litter size, the number of animals born from the same parents at the same time, has very low accuracy when selecting breeders by their parents’ breeding value in case that the breeders are not mature enough to have their own reproduction records. Until now, pig breeders in South Korea have selected candidate pigs used for the next generation based on the breeding value estimated by the parents' family tree, but the efficiency of this method was as low as 8%. T..
2018-03-22
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Scholars Discuss Preparation for New Industrial Revolution
Chonbuk National University recently held a special forum to discuss the ways to prepare for the ‘fourth industrial revolution.’ “It is urgent to accumulate meaningful data and to establish an information system for various data collected to utilize it as public property," Professor Hyemin Roh (Dept. of Software Engineering) said at the forum. "We need to build a well-structured system, as the amount of time to accumulate experiences will decidedly make it or break it." "It is necessar..
2018-03-22
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CBNU Studies Small and Medium Sized Watercraft
Chonbuk National University (CBNU) will establish the Quality Enhancement Center for Small and Medium-sized Watercraft in its Saemangeum Frontier Campus in Gunsan, in order to conduct tests and research on marine vessels, and foster companies in related fields. To this end, the University has concluded an agreement with the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute (KOMERI). Under the agreement, CBNU will provide about 9,000 square meters of reclaimed land in the Saemangeum area, Gunsan. ..
2018-03-22
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High Pass Rates of National Licensing Exams
Chonbuk National University announced that 100% of the 39 dentistry students have passed the national licensing exam this year. CBNU is the only national university that is able to boast of a 100% passing rate of the exam for the past five consecutive years, since 2014. To support students, the CBNU School of Dentistry has provided various educational programs and a high-quality operation system, accredited by the Korean Institute of Dental Education and Evaluation for four years since 20..
2018-03-22
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Cost-saving Nanoparticle for LCD TV
Dr. Dae Yoon Kim (Polymer and Nano Science and Technology) has been attracting attention from the world academy by developing nanoparticles that can dramatically reduce the cost of manufacturing liquid crystal display televisions. The research was introduced in Small (IF = 8.643, TOP = 7.091%), one of the eminent academic journals in the field of materials science in January as a cover story, where it received great attention. Dr. Kim has developed nanoparticles that can automatically con..
2018-01-30
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Next-Generation Blood Viscosity Tester
Professor Dong Hwan Lee (Mechanical Design Engineering) has started to commercialize the next-generation clinical blood viscosity tester, which can be used for medical examination, diagnoses, treatment, and prognosis. This tester will contribute greatly to improving the condition of patients suffering from hyperviscosity syndrome, as well as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and peripheral vascular diseases caused by an excessively high viscosity of blood. Professor Lee’s technique was re..
2018-01-30
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Professors Cooperate with Small & Medium Industry
Chonbuk National University recently annouced that Professors Tae Sung Bae (Dentistry) and Jae Joon Lee (Civil Engineering) won the Minister Prize of SMEs and Startups, for their services to technical development of small enterprises and industrial development. Professor Bae, along with Haas Co., Ltd., has developed a high-tempered glass liner to replace damaged teeth with zirconia ceramics. As a result, he developed a spray-type adhesive (liner) that prevents the veneer coating from crak..
2018-01-30
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Ultra-high Efficient Energy Storage for Future Vehicle
Professors Joong Hee Lee and Nam Hoon Kim (Advanced Materials Institute of BIN Convergence Technology) have developed an ultra-high efficiency solid supercapacitor manufacturing technology that can be used in future smart cars and have attracted attention from world academia. This research, supported by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, was published in the latest online edition of Advanced Energy Materials (IF = 16.721), one of the world's top academic journals in the field ..
2018-01-30
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