2019 year-end photo opportunities

Year-end parties for the department, IBS-CNIR, and the MRI laboratory provided photo opportunities in the latter half of December. Jun-Ho Kim, in particular, was featured in a university research news for his work on spherical phantoms, which also appeared in an external media.

Meeting with GBME undergraduate students

The medical devices faculty of the GBME department held an undergraduate student Q&A session on Friday Dec 20 in a meeting room at the N Center. About 25 students attended, a majority being freshmen, with strong interest to share questions and concerns about their academic and career matters with peers and the faculty. The session was the first of the kind in the department, and was run smoothly thanks to the very helpful advices, candid answers, and supportive comments from the professors including the department chair Jang-Yeon Park. It is hoped that this meeting would stimulate more dialogues in the future between the students and the faculty of the department, as the department moves forward into its 6th year of foundation in 2020.

KSMRM year-end meeting in Gwangju

A workshop and social gathering took place on December 6-7 in Gwangju, Jeollanam-do, celebrating the year's end among the PhD members of the Korean Society of the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Well-known for the exquisite culinary selections and traditions, the city of Gwangju was very well-received by the participants as an excellent choice for the venue of this event. A special thanks goes to Prof. Il-Woo Park, of Chonnam University, who took care of all the logistics of the two-day meeting. The workshop was held in a conference room inside the Chonnam University Hospital campus, and covered research lectures (Prof. Sung-Hong Park and others), society journal (iMRI) updates (Prof. Jaeseok Park), and discussions on next year's medical device funding from the Korean government (Prof. Yong-Min Chang). About 20 PhDs took part in the event, and had a good time exchanging professional information and personal greetings.