[Short News] Recent News and Events at UNIST

《Editor’s Note: UNIST has attracted considerable public attention recently, as its name was mentioned in both media and academic events. Here is a brief summary of recent news and events at UNIST.》

■ Professor Seungbae Park to Deliver Special Lecture on ‘How to Publish Research Paper in SCI Journals‘!

Professor Seungbae Park in the School of Liberal Arts delivered a special lecture for the members of the Korean Society for the Philosophy of Science on May 6, 2022. The lecture was held online via ZOOM on the topic of ‘How to Publish Research Paper in SCI Journals.’

During the lecture, Professor Park shared the secret of publishing research papers in SCI journals over the past decade. This includes, how to connect sentences, organize paragraphs, and  connect paragraphs, sentences or ideas within sentences, so that the contents of your paper are readily comprehensible to the average reader. He also explained how to effectively respond to the comments made by the panels of judges.

The lecture included the following contents that could improve your English writing and speaking skills. In the field of English writing, the works by Professor Moti Mizrahi, Professor Kyle Stanford, and Professor Brad Wray were mentioned. In the case of English speaking, a lecture by Dr. Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), was introduced as a work of reference.

■ UNIST Student Honored at the 2022 KSIEC Spring Meeting!

JinWoo Park (rightmost) has been honored with the ‘COXMAX Outstanding Research Award’ at the 2022 KSIEC Spring Meeting on May 13, 2022. | Image Credit: JinWoo Park

JinWoo Park in the Combined MS/PhD program within the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST has been honored with the ‘COSMAX Outstanding Research Award’ at this year’s Spring Meeting of Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC), which took place from May 11 to 13, 2022.

COSMAX Outstanding Research Award is given by the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC) to student members whose recent research have made an outstanding contribution to his or her academic discipline.

Mr. Park started his research in 2016 when he was an undergraduate under the guidance of Professor Dong Woog Lee in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST. Over the course of seven years, he has been working on the study of chemo-physical processes at the interface of dissimilar materials and phases of matter. During this time, the Surface Force Apparatus (SFA) is mainly used and this allows for very precise measurement of interaction forces, such as friction and adhesion, with relevant interfaces and solution environments. For your information, there only exists three SFAs in Korea. Besides, it is also not easy to learn how to measure force distance profiles .

■ Ikman Kwon from UNIST Research Management Team Newly Debuted as Citizen Reporter for Ulsan MBC!

A news report by Ikman Kwon, a member of UNIST Research Management Team, was broadcast live on Ulsan MBC, a local news station in Ulsan on May 18, 2022. Introduced via the section of “Neighborhood News by Local Citizens,” the article reported on the transportation patterns and problems of people with disabilities in the Ulsan region.

Mr. Kwon  made a debut as a citizen reporter through the Ulsan Viewers Media Center. Earlier this year, he completed a journalism training course for citizen reporters, organized by the Ulsan Viewers Media Center, and thus obtained this opportunity to deliver local news by the end of this year.