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	KU Invites Four Eminent Scholars as KU University Professors
	관리자		2778		2014.05.02

Konkuk University (KU) is enhancing global competitiveness and its exchange network by inviting great scholars including Nobel Prize winners.
Konkuk University (KU) appoints scholars with the highest eminence as KU University Professors. As of Spring 2014, there are four University Professors who are performing joint research and lecturing at KU: Prof. Roger Kornberg, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2006) and Professor at Stanford University (US); Prof. William F. Miller, founder of MOT (Management of Technology) and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University (US); Prof. Yongmin Cho, a prestigious scholar of theoretical physics and predictor of the Cho-Maison monopole; and Prof. Hans R. Schöler, a world-famous stem cell researcher and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine.
Prof. Kornberg has been a KU University Professor since 2007, visiting Korea three or four times a year for joint research and to advise students' research at the KU Global Lab, which he established with Prof. Lin-Woo Kang's research team (Division of Specialized Studies, College of Bioscience & Biotechnology, KU). The educational effect that Prof. Kornberg brings is immeasurable, as students learn directly from the lectures given by the Nobel Laureate. Prof. Kornberg has also given a commencement speech during the KU Conferment Ceremony in 2013.
Prof. Miller, a pioneer of MOT (Management of Technology) and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, was appointed KU University Professor since 2009. He is also the Honorary Dean of the William F. Miller School of MOT at KU. He is giving special lectures and advising MBA students, who will be the first graduates with MBA in MOT in Korea, as well as undergraduate students in the Dept. of Management of Technology, while developing educational programs and instructing business models.
A world-renowned theoretical physicist, Prof. Cho, has recently succeeded in investigating how the mass of the universe forms, by solving the Yang-Mills existence and the gap problem - one of the Millennium Prize Problems. He is conducting experiments with the Cho-Maison monople at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which has discovered the Higgs boson (or "God particle"), through the MoEDAL (or "the Magnificent Seven"). Prof. Cho is currently promoting research exchange between KU and CERN as well as between KU and the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Moreover, he is cooperating with the nuclear physics and quantum chromodynamics (QCD) research using heavy ion collider that is being currently built in China.
Prof. Schöler, a pioneer of stem cell research who had taught at Heidelberg University (Germany) and the University of Pennsylvania (US), was appointed University Professor in Mar. 2014. He had discovered the Oct4 gene, a vital gene for the reprogramming of stem cells, and investigated its functions and characteristics. He plans to conduct joint research with Prof. Hyung Min Chung and Prof. Dong Wook Han of KU Center for Stem Cell Research and lecture students in KU School of Medicine.
 
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