Class of 2017

 

Thirty one BME undergraduate students have been newly admitted for the 2017 school year --The Class of 2017, by admission, was warmly welcomed by the department faculty, staff, and senior students on the Thursday 2/16 orientation event in the N Center. The students were then bussed to a small resort island called Jebudo (pictures above), about one-hour drive west of Suwon, for a student-only welcoming party. Student-only except that several "adults" had to accompany them for supervision. Dr. Lee was one of them, along with Dr. Kim H and administrative staff members, to have a chance to talk with the new students. The impression -- well, they are well-behaved. 

With the newcomers, the undergrad student body size at SKKU BME just about doubled, taking into account many vacancies left by older students serving in the military. With fresh faces soon looking into research opportunities, the labs at the N Center will undoubtedly become more vivid.

CNIR all-hands meeting and newcomers

Several new graduate students to the BME department and CNIR were introduced at a monthly all-hands meeting today. Out of six introduced, three were not-so-new; they did summer internship in 2016 and must have liked the Center enough to come to study here. Seulki was of course one of the returning students. Welcome! Among other things discussed were updates on Siemens Research Agreement and the 7T plan. On both fronts there have been much progress in the past few weeks, and according to Dr. Kim the breakthroughs on the two ends are likely related. It turns out that there is suddenly a very high likelihood that CNIR will have regular research access to "some" 7T scanner in about a year. Such development is likely to significantly benefit future talent hiring.