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CHRISTIANITY

Yonsei UIC Students Tackle Social Issues in Tanzania with Design Thinking

Twenty-five Yonsei students and faculty embarked to Tanzania to participate in the Design Factory Korea Social Impact Boot Camp held at Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology last summer. Themed “Design Thinking for Social Innovation,” the four-day workshop aimed to create an opportunity to become familiarized with the design thinking process to tackle social issues in a practical manner.

CREATIVITY

Taking Small Actions to Initiate Big Social Impact

The international community is currently facing an alarming number of environmental concerns, and a group of Yonsei students has teamed up to tackle issues found in everyday life, beginning right on campus. Student-led team CINDERLIER is committed to doing their part to preserve the environment by collecting and recycling cigarette butts on campus.

CONNECTIVITY

Taking Safety to the Next Level with Smart Robots

A startup led by a Yonsei alumnus is currently taking public safety and security to the next level with its autonomous robots. 'Dogu-gonggan' is developing a robot which patrols around large areas that are difficult for people to access such as disaster areas or crime-prone neighborhoods and collects and transfers the real-time data to a control center.

RESEARCH ARCHIVE

Smectite-to-illite transformation: Microbes could hold key to oil exploration

“Diagenesis” is a process where minerals in a rock alter due to environmental changes, such as when the clay smectite transforms to illite in response to increased pressures and temperatures from burial in the Earth. However, while the smectite-to-illite reaction is known to occur by diagenesis, for over four decades now, researchers have looked for evidence of microbes driving this reaction in the natural environment. An international collaboration of researchers, including Prof Jinwook Kim from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, provides new evidence that the microbially-induced reaction may be possible. The insights from this study are valuable to not only research groups but also the oil and gas industry.

Read more on what the research team found out by analyzing core samples taken from the Nankai Trough in Japan during the International Ocean Discovery Drilling Program.

STUDY IN KOREA AT YONSEI

Humans of Yonsei

“"At the age of 12, it became my dream to study and live in Korea. It was when I came across a K-pop song for the very first time, and my interest in joining the Korean music industry started to develop. By the time I turned 16, I had an opportunity to participate in the one-month Summer Special Program provided by Yonsei University Korean Language Institute (KLI). After spending time at Yonsei, I was determined to come back to Yonsei as a regular student. I was certain that enrolling in Global Leaders College (GLC) would help me pursue my dreams in the Korean music industry.

My favorite class right now is Visual Storytelling, a Culture & Media course. I have always had an old liking for creative art, and the fact that this class serves as an introductory course for what I will be studying in my major is intriguing.”

Name: Fanny Gerlach
Major: Culture & Media
Department: Global Leaders College (GLC)