Herstory of Ewha
Ewha is now ...
127 years ago, Ewha started with
a single student ...
WORLD’S LARGEST women’s university
11 Colleges
15 Graduate Schools
1,560 Faculty and Staff Members
18,445 Undergraduate Students
6,974 Graduate Students
197,285 Alumnae
Ewha, Source of Women Power Elite
EWHA
437
29%
Seoul Nat. U.
454
30%
Korea U.
156
10%
Yonsei U.
138
9%
346
23%
All Other Univ.’s
Joonang Daily (2005. 9)
Capacity of Ewha in S&T
Ewha’s Research Centers in Science and Technology:
Center for Climate/Environment
Change Prediction Research
(ERC)
Center for Intelligent
Nano-Bio Materials
(SRC)
Center for Cell
Signaling & Drug
Discovery Research
(NCRC)
Quantum Metamaterials
Research Center
(SRC)
Advanced
Research
Centers in
S&T
Brain Korea 21 (BK21)
World Class University (WCU)
Tissue Injury Defense
Research Center
(MRC)
Research Center for
Cellular Homeostasis
Center for Cell Signaling &
Drug Discovery Research (NCRC)
Ewha’s Big Three Creative Research
Projects
Big Projects Funded by the Korean Government:
Multidimentional
Organic Materials
799 Million KRW per
year / 9 years
Chemistry
Nanoscience
Life Science
Studies on Vascular
Immune Cell Network
in Vascular Disease
799 Million KRW per
year / 9 years
Dioxygen Activation and Water Oxidation
by Biomimetic Compounds
799 Million KRW per year / 9 years
Ewha’s Big Three Projects receive grants of > 3 billion KRW (~2.8 million USD) per year.
Capacity of Ewha in S & T
KBSI Establishes the Seoul Center at Ewha Campus
Basic research and technical
Development Center
- Established April 5, 2012
- Center will open in December 2013
Located on a 25,000㎡
Site on Ewha campus
25,000㎡
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World-Renowned Faculty of Ewha
Prof. Sue Goo Rhee
Prof. Jin-Ho Choy
The First Scientist Supported by
National Honor Scientist Program
An Eminent Scholar in Signal
Transduction
Leader in Korea’s Nanoscience
Center for Intelligent Nano-Bio
Materials
Executive Vice President for External
Affairs of Ewha
Prof. Jae Chun Choe
Prof. Juyoung Yoon
A Leading Scholar in Animal Behavior
Prof. Kong-Joo Lee
President of the International
Network of Women Engineers and
Scientists
Founded the Center for Cell Signaling
& Drug Discovery Research
Ewha Womans University’s first
Preliminary Distinguished Professor
Prof. In Kyoon Lyoo
Published over 120 papers in Archives
of General Psychiatry and other
journals
Capacity of Ewha in S & T
World-Renowned Faculty of Ewha
Prof. Kwan Mook Kim
Prof. Il Hung Park
Chemical inversion of L-amino
acids to D-amino acids
Leading Scientist in Next
Generation Space Telescope
Bio-Chiral Lab
World Premium Material
Research Center of MEMS Space
Telescope
Prof. Rena Lee
A Leading Scientist in
Medical Engineering and
Medical Physics
Prof. Wonwoo Nam
World-Leading Bioinorganic
Chemist
Center for Biomimetic Systems
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Ewha Academy for Advanced Studies (EAAS)
Jin-Ho Choy,
Korea’s Most
Outstanding
Scientist Award
Winner
George F. Smoot,
Professor of
Physics, UC
Berkeley
The 2006 Nobel
Laureate in
Physics
Jane Goodall,
The world’s
foremost
authority on
chimpanzees
Sue-Goo Rhee,
The first National
Honor Scientist
Francis Fukuyama,
Senior Fellow in
Freeman Spogli
Institute for
International
Studies of Stanford
University
Author of The End
of History and the
Last Man
Distinguished Fellows of EAAS
Robert Grubbs,
Professor of
Chemistry,
California Institute
of Technology
The 2005 Nobel
Laureate in
Chemistry
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Ewha Academy for Advanced Studies (EAAS)
Jae-Chun Choe,
Korea Science
Culture Award
Winner
Jean-Marie
Gustave
Le Clézio,
2008 Nobel
Literature Prize
Winner
Joan S.
Valentine,
Professor of
Chemistry and
biochemistry
at UCLA
Dame Jocelyn
Bell Burnell,
Professor of
Astrophysics
at Oxford
University
Muhammad
Yunus,
Founder of
Grameen Bank,
2006 Nobel
Peace Prize
Winner
Distinguished Fellows of EAAS
Peter Goddard,
Professor at
Institute for
Advanced
Studies
Tu Weming,
Professor of
Philosophy,
Director of
Institute for
Advanced
Humanistic
Studies at Peking
University
Global Network of Ewha
MOU with > 495 Universities from 51 Countries (June,2013)
Island
Ireland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Lithuania
UK
Germany
Belgium
Switzerland
Austria
Paris
Italy
Spain
Russia
Canada
Mongolia
Oregon
Kazakhstan
Beijing
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Sudan
Cambodia
Singapore
Indonesia
Tokyo
Hawaii
Taiwan
Thailand
Philippines
Brunei
Australia
South Africa
Michigan
Iowa
Chicago
California
Mexico
Boston
New York
D.C
Florida
Paraguay
Chile
Current Partnerships with Brazil
Future Partnerships with Brazil