Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), led by President Yang O-bong, has partnered with Imsil County (County Governor Han Deuk-su) to cultivate specialized professionals who will lead the regional agro–life industry through field-tailored education.
 
JBNU on October 13 at 3:00 p.m. signed an agreement with Imsil County on the (tentative name) Establishment and Operation of the Department of Agro–Life Convergence. The agreement laid the groundwork for cooperation to build an education system that reflects local industry demand and to train specialized personnel.
 
This agreement was pursued to link the university's educational capabilities with the region's industrial base, systematically develop the talent needed in the agro–life field, and support the sustained growth of the local industry.
 
Under the agreement, both parties will pursue the establishment and operation of the Department of Agro–Life Convergence, a retraining-focused contract department, aiming to

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) welcomed the Jo-guk Innovation Party Jeonbuk Provincial Chapter's proposal to secure a budget and take joint action for JBNU's additional selection in the ‘Make 10 Seoul National Universities’ project. The university urged the government and political circles to promptly proceed with follow-up selections and provide substantial financial support.
 
On October 13, the Jo-guk Innovation Party Jeonbuk Provincial Chapter and National Assembly member Kang Kyung-sook said at a press conference they would work to secure the budget needed for JBNU's additional selection next year, and proposed cross-party joint action to lawmakers from the Jeonbuk region.
 
Earlier, on the 7th, Rep. Kang requested expanded support during the National Assembly Education Committee's parliamentary audit, citing disparities among regional flagship national universities and the need for balanced development across regions. Minister of Education Choi Kyo-jin replied,

Jeonbuk Wildlife Rescue and Management Center (Center Director Professor Han Jae-ik) is organizing a "Wildlife Veterinarian Experience" program on October 24 (Sat) to raise awareness of the importance of wildlife protection and to allow participants to directly experience the work of wildlife veterinarians. The center is recruiting participants for the program.
 
The center, operated by the JBNU College of Veterinary Medicine, prepared the program with support from the Ministry of Climate, Jeollabuk Special Self-Governing Province, and the National University Promotion Project. The program is open to elementary school students, and a total of 15 participants will be admitted.
 
The program is designed to help participants understand the process from rescue to treatment and rehabilitation and eventual return to the wild, and to provide hands-on experience with the various tasks performed by wildlife veterinarians. Participants will gain experience with wildlife treatment proce

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition(Department Chair, Professor Anna Han) is operating a major- and career-linked special lecture program to help students respond proactively to the rapidly changing food·and healthcare industry environment and to strengthen practical competitiveness.
 
The Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition will hold a total of seven major-based career lectures from October 12 to November. This program was made possible through the National University Promotion Project and support for the clinical nutrition graduate program, and is focused on helping students connect their major knowledge to actual industries, job roles, and career choices.
 
October 12 marked the first major lecture, in which Professor Yoon‑Sang Choi from the College of Life Sciences at Konkuk University participated and delivered a lecture titled "Insect Foods: Alternative Protein Technological Innovation and IP".
 
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Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Climate Tech Research Center(Director: Professor Ki‑Tae Baek) has been selected for the Ministry of Education's ‘2026 Scientific Research Support for STEM Fields: Glocal Lab(Glocal Lab)’ and will establish a climate-tech research hub linked to Jeonbuk's industrial base.
 
The Glocal Lab is a program to strengthen the research capabilities of university-affiliated research centers and to develop them into research hubs that lead regional basic research and innovation.
 
With this selection, the center has secured project funding totaling KRW 14.9 billion, including KRW 13.5 billion in government funding over nine years. It plans to expand its existing research strengths in soil·groundwater·environmental fields into climate·energy·agriculture and livestock·resource circulation·artificial intelligence (AI), and to establish a research system that spans basic research through field demonstration and industrial diffusion.
 

Professor Ji‑Hun Lim of Jeonbuk National University (JBNU)(Department of Semiconductor Science and Technology) has analyzed the performance and cost‑effectiveness of thermophotovoltaic cells, which can produce higher power per unit area than conventional solar cells, and proposed criteria for selecting semiconductor materials suitable for waste‑heat recovery and thermal energy storage, along with a system design roadmap.
 
These research results were published in the international journal in the field of energy conversion ‘Energy Conversion and Management’ (IF=11.8, top 1.9%), in a paper titled ‘Optimizing III-V thermophotovoltaic bandgaps for cost-effective thermal energy conversion’.
 
Thermophotovoltaic cells (Thermophotovoltaic cell, TPV) are a technology that directly converts radiation emitted from high‑temperature heat sources into electricity using semiconductor devices. They can utilize industrial waste heat, the heat of high‑temperature reactor

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) College of Arts (Dean Lee Mi-bae) conducted a joint firefighting drill with the Geumam 119 Safety Center of the Jeonju Deokjin Fire Station at College of Arts Building 3 on October 7 to enhance fire response capabilities and create a safe educational environment. 
About 50 faculty, staff and students participated in the exercise, which was organized to practice step-by-step response procedures—such as rapid incident reporting, evacuation and initial fire suppression—and to assess the cooperation system with firefighting agencies.
The drill simulated a fire incident in College of Arts Building 3. Participants practiced procedures for each situation, including notifying others of the fire, calling 119, evacuating to a safe location, and removing important documents and items. The campus fire brigade guided evacuations according to their duties and conducted initial suppression training using fire extinguishers and indoor fire hydrants.
In parti

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) College of Social Science (Dean Joo Sang-hyun) held the '2026 Second-Half Social Science Major Exploration Fair' on October 7, 2026, at the parking area around the College of Social Science main building to help students choose majors and plan careers that match their aptitudes and interests. 
The fair was organized to help students gain a broader understanding of various majors and to reduce confusion during the major selection process following the broadening of admission units.
Seven academic units — the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, Divsion of Public Science, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Department of Psychology, Department of Social Welfare, Department of Sociology, and Department of Public Administration — participated and operated consultation booths for each major.
At each booth, professors, teaching assistants, and departmental student councils introduced curricula, major characteristics, post-gradu

Shin Dong-won, Director of the Research Institute for Korean Science and Civilization and Professor Emeritus, Department of Science Studies, received the Inchon Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences division, presented by the Inchon Memorial Foundation and The Dong-A Ilbo. The award ceremony was held on the 8th at The Westin Chosun Hotel in Jung‑gu, Seoul.
 
This year's Inchon Award, marking its 40th edition, recognizes individuals with outstanding achievements across four categories—Education; Media and Culture; Humanities and Social Sciences; and Science and Technology. Each category was subjected to a rigorous three-month review by four distinguished external experts. Each category carries a prize of KRW 100 million, a certificate, and a medal.
 
Director Shin is a leading scholar who has systematically organized the achievements of traditional Korean science and medical history and reexamined them within the broader currents of global scientific civilization. In

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Business Incubator(Director Kuk Kyung-su) supports promising regional startups in developing overseas sales channels and strengthening brand competitiveness, thereby underpinning their entry into global markets. It focuses on converting consultations with overseas buyers into export collaborations and follow-up support to expand the growth base of regional companies.
 
These efforts are part of the program operated by the JBNU Business Incubator together with the Jeonbuk Bio-Convergence Industry Promotion Institute, ECO Convergence Textile Research Institute, and Jeonbuk Science College called the ‘2026 Specialized Capacity BI Support Project’’ and its ‘24th World Korean Business Convention Participation Support Project’. The initiative aims to discover and nurture companies with outstanding startup items and innovative capabilities in the region and to support their entry into domestic and international markets.
 
Participatin

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Professor Kim Seong-heon·Professor Jin Kyunghwan(Department of Physics) research team, through collaborative research with Professor Jin-wook Lee's team at Seoul National University, developed a technique that uses electron-beam irradiation to precisely control the work function of perovskite thin films, a next-generation semiconductor material, at the micrometer scale.
 
This research outcome was published under the title ‘Electron-Beam Enables Spatially Resolved Defect-Mediated Work Function Modulation in FAPbI3 Perovskite Thin Films’ in the latest issue of the international journal 『Advanced Science』 (JCR top 9.4%, Impact Factor 14.1) .
 
FAPbI3 perovskites are materials that attract attention in various optoelectronic device fields such as next-generation solar cells, photodetectors, and LEDs due to their excellent optical and electrical properties. In particular, to realize highly integrated and high-precision devices, it i

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition undergraduate student Shim Gyu‑hyung, Kim Jun‑hee(Food Service and Culinary Science Laboratory, under the supervision of Professor Noh Jeong‑ok) recently won the Grand Prize at the 18th Buan Gomso Salted Seafood &King Prawn Festival–held ‘Gom-Shellin Gourmet Meal Kit National Cooking Competition’.
 
The undergraduates attracted attention with a menu featuring Buan’s representative foods, Gomso salted seafood and king prawns.
 
In particular, their cooking method and food styling—which reduced the fishy taste of a pasta sauce made with anchovy jeotgal and king prawns and enhanced a clean savory flavor—received high praise from the judges.
 
Undergraduate student Kim Jun‑hee said “Under Professor Noh Jeong‑ok’s guidance, I have been participating in product development using local agricultural and marine products, and I am pleased to have received such a me

The JBNU G-Lamp Project Group and the Chonnam National University G-Lamp Project Group signed a memorandum of understanding on the 7th to establish a cooperative framework for strengthening basic science research capabilities and joint development in the materials and energy fields.
 
At the signing ceremony, JBNU G-Lamp Project Group Director Lee Jeong-hwan (Department of Biological Sciences) and Chonnam National University G-Lamp Project Group Director Park Dae-hee, along with project group staff from both universities, attended and expressed their commitment to cooperation.
 
This agreement was initiated to expand collaborative research and personnel exchanges based on the research capacities and expertise of the two project groups, and to link research infrastructure and project management experience. It aims to establish a sustained inter-university cooperation system to jointly support the generation of research outcomes and the training of specialized personnel.
 

The JBNU research team has developed a nanofiber composite material that achieves comparable electromagnetic shielding performance to existing commercial materials while reducing thickness to about one-third. The material is being highlighted as a next-generation shielding solution capable of responding to device miniaturization and semiconductor high integration.
 
At JBNU's Interventional Mechano-Biotechnology Convergence Research Center (Director Kwak Hyo-seong), doctoral candidate Oh Jin and Dr. Kang Gyeong-in of the Biomaterials & Mechano-Biology Laboratory electrospun a thermosetting epoxy resin to fabricate a metal-platable nanofiber membrane and verified its electromagnetic shielding performance.
 
As electronic devices become smaller and semiconductor transistors become more highly integrated, the importance of shielding materials that protect devices from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is increasing.
 
However, existing polymer-based shielding materials are

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) graduate Dr. Jin Sang-hyun has been appointed as an assistant professor in the Major in Semiconductor Physics, Division of Basic Science, Glocal College of Advanced Science and Technology, Changwon National University.
 
Dr. Jin graduated from the Department of Physics at JBNU in 2017 and obtained a Master of Science degree from the same graduate school in 2019. He later received his Ph.D. in Science from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 2022.
 
After obtaining his doctorate, he continued his research as a postdoctoral researcher and has led major government-funded research projects, including the 'Sejong Science Fellowship', which provided research funding of ₩500 million over five years.
 
In particular, he distinguished himself in the nanotechnology and semiconductor fields by elucidating the optical properties of metal halide perovskites and metal–organic chalcogenides, and by researching thin-film deposition processes.
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