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[Soo-il Kim]

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Date: Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Subject: KSEA eNewsLette​r - Scripta Vol. 1, No. e-6, May 2012

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KSEA   INSIDE THIS ISSUE: A Message from 40th Admin. Award ceremony For NMSC,      Scholarship, and YI Grant KSEA Election 2012 Results KSEA 2012 Young Investigator      Grant Winners 2012 KSEA Scholarship Winners NMSC 2012 National Winners YGF 2012 Invitees Revitalization of Wisconsin      Chapter Dayton-Ohio Branch: NMSC 2012 Kick-off Meeting of     Johns Hopkins Univ. YG Chapter APS: KOPANA Spring Seminar Prof. Philip Kim Spoke     at Southern Virginia Chapter The Memoirs of UKC 2011 Get to Know: Dr. Benjamin Lee,      KSEA General Director The Institute for Basic Science      taps 10 scientists as directors   Important Dates -May 1: Early registration begins -May 31: Paper submission due -Jun 5: Acceptance announcement -Jun 11: Final copy submission due -Jun 15: Early registration ends -Jun 16: Regular registration begins For More Info YGTLC 2012 Highlights View YGTLC 2012 Highlights   Contact KSEA: KSEA HQ 1952 Gallows Rd. #300 Vienna, VA 22182 Tel: 703-748-1221 FAX: 703-748-1331 sej...@ksea.org For more Information, please visit KSEA official Website at www.ksea.org For any questions or comments or submission of potential stories for KSEA Scripta, our e-newsletter, please email enews...@ksea.org Publisher: Hosin "David" Lee Publication Directors: Byungkyu "Brian" Park Hyunggun Kim Jaehoon Yu Staff Editor: Euna Yoon Technical Editor: Seung Seok Choi A Message from the KSEA 40th Admin: Headquarter Office Director, IT Director, and Technical Group Director Time flies like an arrow. We successfully finished NMSC (2012) and announced scholarships and grants to young generation of scientists and engineers. We awarded 30 scholarships to undergraduate students and 15 scholarships to graduate students. Young Investigator Grants were given to two excellent researchers. Read the Full Message KSEA Announcements Award Ceremony held on May 12, 2012 There was an award ceremony for KSEA Young Investigator Grant, KUSCO-KSEA Undergraduate Scholarship, and National Winners of NMSC ( National Mathematics & Science Competition) 2012. Venue: Tysons Corner Merriott Hotel, Washington D.C. Read More | Award Ceremony Photos 2012 KSEA Election: Congratulation to All KSEA Officers Newly Elected! KSEA is pleased to announce the results of its 2012 general election. Total Eligible Voters: 4,322 Total Ballots Received: 857 (19.83% of Eligible Voters) Read More | 2012 Election Raffle Winners 2012 KSEA Young Investigator Grant Winners Dr. Jongho Lee (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Cheol-Hwan Park (Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center) have been selected for the 2012 KSEA Young Investigator Grant. Each winner will be awarded $10,000 honorarium and a grant certificate. Read the Announcement 2012 KSEA and KUSCO-KSEA Scholarship Winners The KSEA Scholarship committee finalized 30 Undergraduate Scholarship winners including 2 Essay Scholarship winners and 15 Graduate Scholarship winners. Read the Announcement The Undergraduate Scholarship Award Ceremony, May 12, 2012 National Winners of National Math and Science Competition (NMSC) 2012 NMSC 2012 held in the 35 cities/32 Chapters nationwide on April 21, 2012 with more than 2,500 students' participation. National Winners are invited to the NMSC 2012 Award Ceremony on May 12, 2012. NMSC 2012 National Level Winners and the Award Ceremony 2012 KOFST (Young Generation Forum) YGF Finalists KSEA congratulates final 30 YG memebers who have been invited to the YGF2011. YGF 2012 will be held from July 2 - July 7, 20121 in Seoul, Korea. KOFST hosts the event for young Korean Heritage Scientists and Engineers from all over the world. Read the Announcement KSEA Local Chapter Activities: Johns Hopkins Univ. YG and Wisconsin [Revitalization of Wisconsin Chapter] The KSEA-Wisconsin Chapter has been revived in Madison, the capital city of Wisconsin and home of the Wisconsin Badgers. The students and scholars of Wisconsin gathered with our neighbors from Minnesota to host the 1st KSEA President’s Cup Tennis Tournament on April 14th, 2012. Read the Full Article [Dayton-Ohio Branch: NMSC 2012] As many as 137 students in grades 4-11 took the exam and around 200 parents and siblings waited with anticipation. Some of these participants came from different regions in Ohio and its neighboring states. More than 50 volunteers showed up. Read the Full Article [Kick-off Meeting of KSEA Johns Hopkins University YG Chapter] The KSEA JHU YG Chapter successfully hosted its first event as a legitimate chapter on April 29, 2012 with its kick-off event. It was a rewarding night for all as the undergraduates were able to meet and converse with these successful and leading individuals, and as the board members saw the marked beginning of our KSEA YG chapter. Read the Full Article KSEA Affiliated Professional Societies (APS): KOPANA [2012 KOPANA Spring Seminar] The Korean Pathologists Association of North America (KOPANA) was founded in 1992 and currently consists of more than 200 Korean pathologists in North America. Our 11th Spring Seminar had six lectures in Genitourinary (GU) pathology which emphasized practical diagnostic utility as well as the latest advances and controversies in research. Read the Full Article KSEA Prof. Philip Kim Spoke at Southern Virginia Chapter Prof. Philip Kim of the Columbia University talked about his research at the inaugural technical seminar of Southern Virginia Chapter on March 16, 2012. Prof. Kim started with the two most important achievements in physics in the 20th century, the discoveries of the theory of relativity and quantum physics, then moved on Dirac equation combining both theories, and concluded with his own research on grapheme and their applications. Read the Full Article KSEA The Memoirs of UKC 2011: Lost Sunglasses Awaking by the shrill crying, I felt a strange glance of a blond and blue-eyed baby. The white salt lake could be seen from the window. The Park city for UKC 2011 is a mountainous resort town in Utah. Although I had been got information about KSEA annual meeting, I had been felt a bit awkward to attend because of my different background. However, I had decided to attend UKC 2011, August 10-14, instead for the 2011 IFT in New Orleans. Read the Full Article KSEA Get to Know: Dr. Benjamin Lee, KSEA General Director I received my Ph.D. in electrical engineering (systems) in the area of signal processing from the University of Michigan and currently I am a research scientist at a start-up called INVIA Medical Imaging Solutions in Ann Arbor, MI. As a second generation, I found about KSEA through the recommendation of my father to apply for the KSEA undergraduate scholarship. Since then I had received regular announcements about the Young Generation Forum in Korea (in 2003) and the Young Generation Technical and Leadership Conference (YGTLC) in 2006 and attended both. Since then I had enjoyed my experiences so much I became involved in volunteering for KSEA and plan on continuing to do so for a long time. Read the Full Article   Science and Engineering News : The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) taps 10 scientists as directors The Institute for Basic Science announced top 10 directors who will lead research centers for basic sciences. Most directors are directly and indirectly related to KSEA. Professor Sang-wook Cheong of Rutgers University and Professor Yong-geun Oh of University of Wisconsin - Madison are currently working in the US. Professor Oh is an active KSEA member. In addition, Professor Tae-won Noh of Seoul National University served as a program co-chair of UKC 2011, and Professor V. Narry Kim of Seoul National University was an invited speaker at UKC 2011. Read the Full Article - The Korea Herald (May 8, 2012)   KSEA 2012 © KSEA, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association. All rights Reserved.