Swept various awards at Korea's top academic conferences
Both undergraduates and graduates concentrating on research
Published in SCI journals from undergraduate school and has become a traditional department with 'excellent research power'
[November 15, 2016]
<Department of Chemistry (undergraduate/graduate) students who have won various awards at Korea's top chemistry-related conferences>
(clockwise from bottom-right, Lee Young-hwan, Doh Jung-yeon, Kim Sung-il, Lee Jae-hyung)
YU Department of Chemistry students won various awards at Korea's top academic conferences in the chemistry sector, thus being recognized for their research capacities. The research power of YU Department of Chemistry is being highlighted for both undergraduate and graduate school students.
Lim Young-hwan (26), who is currently in his master's degree program at the YU Graduate School of Chemistry recently won the 'Daerim Grduate School Paper Award' recently at the '2016 KICHE (Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers) Fall Academic Conference'. KICHE is Korea's top chemical engineering society with over 5,000 members. Mr. Kim won the grand prize with his research on 'performance evaluation of zinc-nickel flow cells'.
Doh Jeong-yeon (25) also in a master's degree program recently won the 'Young Researcher Award' at the '2016 KICHE Fall Academic Conference' held recently at the Jeju Convention Center. The 'Young Researcher Award' is an award given to young and promising female science and technology professionals by the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and the Center for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology to encourage the passion of female science technicians and continued R&D. This is the second award winner from YU since Kang So-ra (2nd term in master's degree program at the time) who won the award in 2014. Doh also won the best paper presentation award at an academic conference hosted by KICHE earlier this year and won various awards in major chemistry-related academic conferences, thus being recognized for her capacities as a promising young scientist.
Undergraduate students have also been keeping up the pace. Kim Sung-il (25) and Lee Jae-hyung (24), who are both seniors in the Department of Chemistry, both won the 'outstanding paper presentation award' at the '2016 KICHE Fall Academic Conference', showing off the research capacities of undergraduate students. Lee Jae-hyung published his research results on developing catalyst materials earlier this year in the SCI journal Materials Letters (impact factor (IF) 2.437) in the applied physics sector.
They are all part of the YU Department of Chemistry mineral nano-new material class (Advisor Kang Mi-sook). They all agreed on the reason for their recognition in research capacities by Korea's top academic organization saying that it was the "result of continuously engaging in research with graduate school students." Students of the research center have been putting out excellent research results such as publishing papers in SCI journals every year even from their undergraduate studies. Furthermore, YU students were also awarded for four straight years from 2013 the 'Graduate School Catalyst Research Award' that is given to graduate school students with excellent research achievements every year by KICHE.
Doh Jeong-yeon, who will be graduating from her master's degree program in February, said, "The tradition of our department will continue and be awarded at various conferences as our advisors and students are still working hard on research."
