Herstory of Ewha

Ewha is now ...

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

127 years ago, Ewha started with a single student ...

Ewha, Source of Women Power Elite

Seoul Nat. U. 454 30%

Korea U. 156 10%

EWHA 437 29%

Yonsei U. 138 9%

All Other Univ.’s 346 23%

Joonang Daily (2005. 9)

Capacity of Ewha in S&T

Advanced Research Centers in

S&T

Center for Climate/EnvironmentChange Prediction Research(ERC)

Tissue Injury DefenseResearch Center(MRC)

Research Center for Cellular Homeosta-sis

Quantum MetamaterialsResearch Center

(SRC)

Center for IntelligentNano-Bio Materials

(SRC)

Center for Cell Signaling & Drug Discovery Research (NCRC)

Brain Korea 21 (BK21)World Class University (WCU)

Center for Cell Signaling &Drug Discovery Research (NCRC)

Ewha’s Research Centers in Science and Technology:

Ewha’s Big Three Creative Research Projects

Chemistry Nanoscien

ceLife Sci-

ence

Ewha’s Big Three Projects receive grants of > 3 billion KRW (~2.8 million USD) per year.

Big Projects Funded by the Korean Government:

Multidimentional Organic Materials799 Million KRW per year / 9 years

Dioxygen Activation and Water Ox-idation by Biomimetic Compounds799 Million KRW per year / 9 years

Studies on Vascular Immune Cell Net-work in Vascular Disease799 Million KRW per year / 9 years

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 ㎡

Capacity of Ewha in S & T

World-Renowned Faculty of EwhaProf. Jin-Ho ChoyLeader in Korea’s NanoscienceCenter for Intelligent Nano-Bio Mate-rialsExecutive Vice President for External Affairs of Ewha

Prof. Sue Goo RheeThe First Scientist Supported by Na-tional Honor Scientist ProgramAn Eminent Scholar in Signal Trans-duction

Prof. Jae Chun ChoeA Leading Scholar in Animal Behavior

Prof. In Kyoon LyooPublished over 120 papers in Archives of General Psychiatry and other jour-nals

Prof. Kong-Joo LeePresident of the International Net-work of Women Engineers and Scien-tists Founded the Center for Cell Signaling & Drug Discovery Research

Prof. Juyoung YoonEwha Womans University’s first Pre-liminary Distinguished Professor

Capacity of Ewha in S & T

World-Renowned Faculty of Ewha

Prof. Kwan Mook KimChemical inversion of L-amino acids to D-amino acids

Bio-Chiral LabWorld Premium Material

Prof. Il Hung ParkLeading Scientist in Next Gener-ation Space Telescope

Research Center of MEMS Space Telescope

Prof. Rena LeeA Leading Scientist in Medi-cal Engineering and Medical Physics

Prof. Wonwoo Nam World-Leading Bioinorganic Chemist

Center for Biomimetic Systems

Capacity of Ewha in S & T

Ewha Academy for Advanced Studies (EAAS)

Jin-Ho Choy,Korea’s Most Outstanding Scientist Award Winner

George F. Smoot,Professor of Physics, UC BerkeleyThe 2006 No-bel Laureate in Physics

Jane Goodall,The world’s foremost au-thority on chimpanzees

Sue-Goo Rhee,The first Na-tional Honor Scientist

Francis Fukuyama,Senior Fellow in Freeman Spogli Institute for In-ternational Stud-ies of Stanford UniversityAuthor of The End of History and the Last ManDistinguished Fellows of EAAS

Robert Grubbs,Professor of Chemistry, Cali-fornia Institute of TechnologyThe 2005 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Ewha Academy for Advanced Studies (EAAS)

Capacity of Ewha in S & T

Jae-Chun Choe,Korea Sci-ence Culture Award Win-ner

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio,2008 Nobel Literature Prize Winner

Joan S. Valentine,Professor of Chemistry and bio-chemistry at UCLA

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell,Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University

Muhammad Yunus,Founder of Grameen Bank, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Peter God-dard,Professor at Institute for Advanced Studies

Tu Weming,Professor of Philosophy, Director of In-stitute for Ad-vanced Hu-manistic Stud-ies at Peking University

Distinguished Fellows of EAAS

Global Network of Ewha

Canada

HawaiiCalifornia

BostonNew York

D.CTokyoBeijing

TaiwanShanghai

Hong Kong

Singapore

Australia

ItalySpainParis

Switzer-land

Germany

Norway

UKBelgium

Brunei

Austria

Cambodia

Denmark Finland

Island

Indonesia

Ireland

Mexico

Kazakhstan

LithuaniaMongolia

Paraguay

Philippines

South Africa

Sudan

Sweden

Thailand

Michigan Oregon

Russia

Iowa Chicago

Florida

Chile

MOU with > 495 Universities from 51 Countries (June,2013)

Current Partnerships with Brazil

Future Partnerships with Brazil