Establishing a bridgehead to increase exchanges with Australian 'G8' University of Adelaide, Monash University
[Feb 4, 2010]
Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) will reinforce student exchange and cooperation with the Australian University of Adelaide.
Lee, Hyo-soo, who is visiting Australia from the 1st to expand overseas exchange, visited the University of Adelaide and promised to promote student exchange and cooperation between the two universities. (photo)
The University of Adelaide (president James McWha, photo, left) is a prestigious school that has 5 of its graduates who won the Nobel Prize. It also has a world-class research lab in the RFID (electronic tags) sector.
It is a sister school with Yeungnam University that has conducted academic exchange from October 2004, and also has a student exchange program since 2006. Yeungnam University expects that this visit will further promote academic exchange and student/professor exchange between the two universities, while establishing a bridgehead for expanding exchange with other universities of Australia.
Lee is also pursuing establishing sister relationships with Monash University and the University of Melbourne during this visit.
Monash University (photo below) is a prestigious school that is ranked in the top 50 world universities, and its MBA program is ranked 1st in Australia and 2nd in Asia. The Personal Development MBA program is ranked second in the world. Furthermore, its biomedicine sector is ranked 37th in the world, and its engineering & information technology sector is also ranked in the top 20 of the world.
The University of Melbourne is also a globally renowned school being ranked 36th in the 2009 world university evaluation. Recently, it has focused investments in bio-engineering. It is scheduled to come up with funds amounting to 100 million dollars to purchase high-tech materials for the bio-engineering field, and it also recruits Peter Doherty (immunology) and Bill Hess (microbiology, immunology), who are world famous professors in the biomedicine sector.
The University of Melbourne is aiming to become a world-class university in the bio-engineering sector with the help of such faculty. It has also began world-class research on the fusion sector recently. Of course, it is receiving research funding by the government. Yeungnam University is also pursuing the 'Global Frontier 10-3-10' strategy to become the top 10 in the world for 3 areas within 10 years, through the research on fusion technologies, and thus it is expected that cooperation across the Pacific between the two universities will result in great synergy effects.
Meanwhile, Lee's visit to Australia is expected to spearhead academic and human exchange between Yeungnam University and the Australian 'G8' (Group 8) universities.
The Australian G8 universities refer to the University of Adelaide, Monash University, University of Melbourne, Australia National University, Sydney University, University of Western Australia, University of Queensland, and New South Wales University, which are the 8 universities leading advanced education in Australia. These universities are ranked in the top 100 in the world, and are rising and major universities of the world.
