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Ewha Held Its 133th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony

Ewha Held Its 133th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony Ewha’s 133th anniversary commemoration ceremony was held at the Welch-Ryang Auditorium on May 31 with more than 3,000 people celebrating the event. In the president address, President Kim Heisook said that Ewha will try to exalt its status as a research university by supporting initiative convergence tasks, encouraging convergence research, and establishing interdisciplinary graduate studies. She showed her determination by adding, “We make various disciplines blend and communicate with one another, which will cultivate the abilities to integrate, produce up-to-date knowledge of the digital era, and eventually nurture female workforce.” In the ceremony, official commendations were given to 98 long-serviced faculty members. And the 17th Pride of Ewha Awards was presented to Yu Jung-geun (English Language & Literature major, class of ’67), the former president of the Korean Red Cross, and Shin Hei-soo (English Language & Literature major, class of ’72), the standing representative of the Korean Center for United Nations Human Rights Policy. Professor Shin Dong-wan in Statistics of the College of Natural Science and professor Ha Eun-hee in Medicine of the College of Medicine were awarded the Ewha Academic Achievement Awards, which are given to faculty members who contribute to the development of study and the university by obtaining excellent research outcomes.
- No.463
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.06.18
- Views4670
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Opening and Vision Proclamation Ceremony Is Held for Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital and the College of Medicine’s New Campus

Opening and Vision Proclamation Ceremony Is Held for Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital and the College of Medicine’s New Campus Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital held an opening ceremony on May 23 and officially began its medical service. With its opening, Ewha Womans University Medical Center plans to establish a dual hospital system with Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital and carry out truly patient-centered medical practice. Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, located in Magok District, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, is equipped with a capacity of 1,014 patient beds across ten above-ground floors and six below-ground floors after four years of construction begun in 2015. The Hospital is set up for the first time in Korea with the standard general care unit as three-person rooms and all intensive care units as one-person rooms to provide its patients with the best medical environment. It is a great advantage of the Hospital that Balsan Station of Subway Line 5 is connected to its exclusive exit and that Gimpo International Airport and Incheon International Airport is close to it, which provides excellent accessibility to patients both at home and abroad. The mission∙vision proclamation ceremony for the College of Medicine was held at the auditorium located in the 3rd floor of the College of Medicine in Magok District on May 28. Ewha’s College of Medicine has established itself as a pioneer in the Korean women’s medicine by inheriting the tradition of “Boguyeogwan,” the first women’s hospital in Korea, where U.S. female doctor Meta Howard began medical service as the first doctor in 1887. The College of Medicine has inherited this long-standing tradition and history and established a new vision as a future-oriented medical college suiting the demands of the 21st century with the transfer of the Magok campus. The new vision of the College of Medicine “Fostering doctors and medical scientists who lead the future of medicine and sympathize with the world” has its willingness to lead the future of medicine based on courage and a spirit of challenge. Ewha Womans University, the College of Medicine and two Ewha Medical Center-affiliated hospitals plan to extend their role in research as a university hospital and thrive as a hub for global research by establishing “Ewha state-of-the-art convergence healthcare cluster” that organically links the education-research-medical treatment industries all together.
- No.461
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.06.11
- Views7075
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OIA Held “Get Together” Event for International Students

Office of International Affairs Held “Get Together” Event for International Students The Office of International Affairs held the “Get Together” event at the Lee San-bong Hall of the ECC building on May 22 to support mutual exchanges and academic activities for international students on their degree courses. About 130 participants, including international students on degree courses at Ewha and mentors of Ewha Mate and Ewha Academic Assistance System for International Student, or EAASIS, who support new undergraduate students from foreign countries, shared various information about school life and interacted with each other. In addition, the venue was set up with useful in-school program booths, including the Career Development Center, Student Counseling Center, Career Lounge and English Clinic, providing a wide range of information for international students. The Ewha International Student Associations of Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Malaysian also participated in the event with its members promoting its organization. There are approximately 1,630 international students enrolled in Ewha this semester, and the International Student Affairs Team plans to actively operate and support the EAASIA program to help their school affairs.
- No.459
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.06.04
- Views4273
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Ewha Archives Revealed Two Unreleased Photos of Independence Activist Yu Gwan-sun

Ewha Womans University revealed for the first time two unreleased photos of Patriotic Martyr Yu Gwan-sun (1902-1920), an independence activist from Ewha Haktang. During the preparation of the special exhibition titled “The Independence Activists of Ewha” held to commemorate the centennial of the March 1st Independence Movement and the 133rd anniversary of the university's foundation, Ewha Archives discovered two photos of Yu Gwan-sun in Ewha in the Past, the photo albums housed in the Ewha Archives. Ewha in the Past, consisting of 89 photo albums, contains photos of the university from 1886, when Ewha Haktang was founded, to the 1960s. The photos of Yu were found in volumes one and four, which are presumed to be taken when she was in Ewha Haktang's normal (botong) school (1915-1916) and in high school (1918). Yu Gwan-sun transferred to Ewha Haktang around 1915-1916 and graduated from Ewha Haktang's normal school in 1918. She went on to high school in April 1918 and attended there until 1919. On March 1, 1919, when the March 1st Independence Movement broke out, Yu took part in a street demonstration with other students. As the school was ordered to close, she returned to her hometown where she was arrested during the street demonstration in Ahwoonae marketplace. After Yu died for the country from malnutrition and torture on September 28, 1920, A. Jeannette Walter, a teacher at Ewha Haktang (the fifth principal of Ewha Haktang) recovered Yu's body and held a funeral under the surveillance of Japanese police. The special exhibition titled “The Independence Activists of Ewha” will be held until May 16, 2019. This special exhibition features photos and relics donated by bereaved families of six independence activists (Marcella Shin, Dorothy Lee, Aesiduk Hong, Aesiduk Hwang, Shin Uigyeong, and Choi Seonhwa) from Ewha Haktang who sacrificed themselves for the country and the people together with photos of Yu Gwan-sun.
- No.457
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.06.03
- Views4498
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Celadon housed in Ewha Museum was designated as National Treasure No. 326.

Jar with the Inscription “the 4th Year of Sunwha,” Celadon Housed in Ewha Womans University Museum, was Designated as National Treasure No. 326. The Jar with the Inscription “the 4th Year of Sunwha” housed in the Ewha Womans University Museum was designated as National Treasure No. 326. As one of the oldest jar preserved intact with the inscription, the Jar with the Inscription “the 4th Year of Sunwha,” which has been housed in the Museum since 1957, has been known for its unique shape, color, and inscription. This jar is 35.2 centimeters tall with no decorative patterns. Inside the foot at the bottom of the jar, an inscription is engraved, which reads, “In the 12th year of King Seongjong’s reign of Goryeo (the year 993), Choe Gil-hoe, master craftsman (or inspector) in charge of producing ritual vessels in the dynasty, made ritual vessels for the first hall at taemyo (royal ancestral shrine) for King Taejo of Goryeo.” This jar is of great value as chronological records since the inscription contains the information on the celadon’s production such as manufacturing techniques used to make celadon and the makers and the users of ceramics during the early Goryeo period in the late 10th century. This becomes the second National Treasure housed in the Ewha Womans University Museum in addition to the Jar with Grapevine Design in Underglaze Iron, which is National Treasure No.107. The Museum also has collections of the Seoul Tangible Cultural Property and other precious relics.
- No.455
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.05.23
- Views4209
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Introducing G Suit for Education

The Existing Webmail System of Ewhain.net for Ewha Undergraduates and Graduates Converting to Gmail System with Unlimited Email Capacity Smarter Campus Life with Google Cloud Service – Google Drive and Calendar The Office of Information and Communications launches Google’s integrated communications and collaboration solution, named ‘G Suite for Education’, on April 30. ‘G Suite for Education' is an integrated suite of all Google products that can be utilized for educational purposes, whose service supports sharing and collaboration among members on the campus by allowing them to use e-mail, drives, and calendars. Through such a service, Ewha plans to provide online education that goes beyond the limits of time and space of traditional classroom settings and takes the lead in establishing smart campus that supports convenient collaboration among members of Ewha. With the introduction of G Suite, Ewha is able to upgrade e-mail services that are essential for students and provide other new different services. Undergraduate and graduate students can use the existing student email (@ewhain.net) interworking with Gmail, and even after graduation they can use all Google services with their school account. In addition, G Suit can be used in all classrooms on the campus for management of assignment, quizzes and communications by class, as well as various document collaboration and scheduling.
- No.453
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.05.03
- Views4617
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Science and women 133 years

Newly defining world and technology from the viewpoint of women : Science and women 133 years
- No.451
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.04.15
- Views7404
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Ewha Selected as “Software-Centric University”

Ewha opens a new era of women professionals in convergence software Ewha Womans University has finally been named as “Software-centric University of the Year” by the Ministry of Science and ICT. The title is given to universities offering innovative software education to enhance competitiveness of students, companies and the country and to lead in spreading the value of software. Ewha will subsequently provide the 4-year "Training Program for Women in Convergence Software for the Fourth Industrial Revolution" starting 2019. As part of the program, Ewha plans to reinforce software department and provide convergence programs as well as strengthen the link with start-ups. First, it will create an opportunity for students to foster their talent in convergence software by offering individualized courses in subjects such as big data, interactions and blockchain for those majoring in software and basic software education for all students at Ewha. In addition, “Ewha Start-up Lab” will create an opportunity to commercialize software created by students and help them start a business as well as find a job in the related field. It also plans to spread the software training program for women to community. Ewha Womans University has pioneered in women’s education in science and engineering by establishing the first women’s hospital in the country in 1887, the first pharmaceutical sciences department among the universities in Korea in 1945, basic science departments such as physics and chemistry as early as in 1951 and world’s first women’s college of engineering in 1996.
- No.449
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.04.12
- Views6945
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Ewha-Harvard College in Asia Program Conference in Seoul

The 2018-2019 Ewha-Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP), an exchange program between Ewha Womans University and Harvard College, was held in Seoul for nine days from March 17 to 23. HCAP is Havard College’s academic and cultural exchange program designed to foster global leaders who are fully conversant with both the U.S. and Asian countries, and it boasts the largest scale among Harvard’s exchange programs with Asian institutions. Ewha has been its first and only partner in Korea out of the nine Asian universities and participated in it for twelve consecutive years since 2007. The Seoul Conference was held under the theme of “The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Education”, in which twenty Ewha students and eleven Harvard students participated. As part of the program, the students took part in various activities based on the theme of the conference, including visits to the Ewha Institute for Brain Science and a VR café, and discussed and learned about women’s issues, history, cultures and leadership through diverse academic events. Experiencing Korean culture, such as a temple stay and explorations of demilitarized zone (DMZ) and Joint Security Area (JSA) also took place. Ewha has maintained a close relationship with Harvard College as the first and only Korean partner of HCAP, co-operating summer school programs since 2006, and has helped students build networks with young talents all around the world.
- No.447
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.03.30
- Views4308
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Ewha Hosted Conference on ‘March 1st Independence Movement, Women and Ewha’

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the March First Independence Movement, Ewha Womans University held a variety of events that shed new light on the March First Independence Movement and the history of Ewha as part of modern history of Korean women. Korean Women's Institute hosted a conference on "The March First Independence Movement, Women and Ewha" to discuss the independence movement from the perspective of women’s history on March 15 (Fri) at the Lee San-bong Hall of the ECC building. In a welcome remark, the President of Ewha Womans University, Kim Heisook said, "In modern Korean history, women contributed much to our society, but their roles and experiences were marginalized. Therefore, it’s very significant that we are here to discuss from the standpoint of women's history the March First Independence Movement in which women from all walks of life actively participated." Lee Deok Ju, former professor of Methodist Theological University delivered a presentation on the role and significance of Ewha Haktang with the theme “Ewha Haktang and the March First Movement.” Based on extensive historical data, he uncovered and presented nearly 30 teachers, students and graduates of Ewha Haktang who played a part in the independence movement. He said, "The tradition of the nationalist movement of Ewha Haktang resulted from the education that had been offered for 33 years since its foundation in 1886." Yang Hyun Hea, professor of Christian Studies at Ewha delivered a keynote speech titled “The 100th Anniversary of the March First Independence Movement: The Collective Memories of the Korean People in the Era of Unification.” She highlighted the significance of the independence movement of the future saying, "The Korean Independence Movement that brought everyone together regardless of social status, religion, sex and origins remains in the collective memories of the Koreans and will be the repository of knowledge and insight to pave the way for peaceful coexistence and harmony of the two Koreas." Following research presentations and discussions included "The Founding of the Women's University in East Asia by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the American Northern Methodist Church and the College at Ewha Haktang," "A Study on Korean Women's Anti-Japanese Movement During the Japanese Occupation" and "The Current Studies and Tasks of Anti-Japanese Movement Participated by Korean Women Overseas During the Japanese Occupation." Meanwhile University Library had a commemoration exhibition "The Independence Movement and Ewha" on the second-floor lobby, and Ewha Archives showcases "Independence Activists of Ewha" starting May 21 (Tue).
- No.445
- Writer홍보실
- Date2019.03.22
- Views4321

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