Kim Nam-chun, Dean of the College of Bio-Resources Sciences, Receives Presidential Award
Kim Nam-chun, Dean of Bio-Resources Sciences (professor of the Department of Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture) received the President’s Award for Nature Conservation Contributor at the nature conservation charter declaration ceremony held in Namsangol Korean Village on Nov. 9. Dean Kim received the award for his outstanding research on environment restoration technology and his efforts to build systems for natural life restoration.
Dean Kim currently serves as chairman of the Korea Society of Environmental Restoration Technology, chairman of the Natural Environment Department of the National Environment Regulatory Reform T/F of the Ministry of the Environment, committee member of environmental effect evaluation/prior environmental auditing for the Han River Basin Environmental Office, and planning/auditing member of the Korea Environment Corporation.
Professor Kim In-ho Receives the 13th Grand Prize for Korean Pig Raising
Promoting various industry-university collaboration activities relating to LINK projects
Kim In-ho, a professor of the Department of Animal Resource Science won the 13th Grand Prize for Korean Pig Raising in the 31st National Pig Raising Seminar held in the Training Institute for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries on Oct. 17.
This award, sponsored by the Korean Pig Industry Research Society, was targeted for manufacturers and researchers who contributed to domestic pig raising industry development, and this award is known as the biggest award in the pig raising field.
Professor Kim has appeared in 3 ‘Who’s Who’ directories, acknowledged for his past research work in the pig raising field, and recently he received the Research Technology Grand Prize for his research on stockbreeding and feeds from Cargill Agri Purina culture foundation, the world’s largest agricultural corporation.
Also, Professor Kim has executed 83 research assignments outside of the school over the past 3 years and obtained about 2.6 billion won of research funding, and he also has posted about 80 thesis papers in academic journals of SCI level over the last 3 years, including the Journal of Animal Science - the most prestigious international academic journal in the stockbreeding field around the world.
Lately, he is undergoing work on Research for Industry-University Joint Technology Development and Technological Businesses with 67 million won of research funding supported by our university’s LINK Project (industry-university collaboration). Also, as part of the LINK Project, he has built cooperation systems with 10 domestic organizations like Daejeon Chungnam Pig Raising Nonghyup, Woosung Feed, etc., and he is continuing with a number of previous industry-university collaboration projects.
Professor Jung Hoon-dong Receives Red Dot Design Award
Rewarded for his artwork, ‘EARTH,’ that emphasizes that we should listen to the sound of the Earth
‘EARTH’, an artwork of Professor Jung Hoon-dong (Department of Visual Communication Design) was selected as a prize winning work in the Red Dot Awards, one of the 3 major design awards of the world.
Professor Jung won the prize out of a total 6,823 pieces of communication design submissions with his artwork, ‘EARTH,’ which portrays the message that we should listen to the sound of the Earth.
Red Dot Design Awards, which has been held in Germany since 1955, is one of the 3 major design awards along with iF Design award (Germany) and IDEA Design Award (US).
This year’s Red Dot Award Ceremony was held in Konzern House of Berlin, Germany on Oct. 24.
▶ ‘EARTH’ by Professor Jung Hoon-dong