Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) received a KRW 10 million development fund donation from Park Hyung-geun, CEO of Samsung Co., to support students' academic pursuits and healthy diets.
 
The Jeonbuk National University Development Foundation presented a plaque of appreciation to Mr. Park on September 18 in the President's Office at University Headquarters, with President Yang Oh-bong and other senior university officials in attendance.
 
Mr. Park, who operates Samsung Co., a distributor of hygiene products, disposable containers, food ingredients, and general merchandise in the Jeonbuk region, first became connected to the university while studying Japanese at the JBNU Language Institute.
 
He said he was grateful to have met good teachers and fellow students at the Language Institute and to have been able to focus on his studies thanks to the excellent educational facilities.
 
In particular, his experience of enjoying healthy and tasty meals at the university di

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) master's student Ko Ju-young (Division of Biomedical Engineering; supervisor Professor Kim Jeong-ja), who is taking on the challenge of developing an assistive device for dental care for patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder, has been selected for the National Research Foundation of Korea’s Support Program for the Next Generation of Scholars, laying the foundation for full-scale research.
 
Ko was recently selected for a new project under the National Research Foundation of Korea’s '2026 Master's Student Research Encouragement Grant Program.' Accordingly, she will receive research funding of 12 million won over the next 12 months to conduct the related research.
 
The program is designed to strengthen the research capabilities of the next generation of scholars in science and engineering and to support graduate students' independent research activities. It selects and funds Research Projects that demonstrate creativity and a spirit of c

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Child Studies operated a cultural arts education program using visual arts to help primary caregivers of infants and toddlers reconnect with the "self" they had temporarily set aside during caregiving, and received strong positive responses. The project "Sensory Recovery Project for Parents — Nevertheless, We," which included Professor Jeong Yujin and Instructor Hwang Mijin from the Department of Child Studies as collaborative researchers, completed all educational sessions on the 20th. The program was praised for enabling participants to express their emotions and needs and to reflect on their caregiving time in their own words.
 
The program was organized as part of the 2026 Community-Based Cultural Arts Education Support Project "Gagahoho," hosted by the Jeonju Cultural Foundation. Fifteen primary caregivers in Jeonju raising children aged 0–36 months participated in two cohorts. Each cohort was run as a four-session program.

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) President Yang Oh-bong attended the 80th anniversary ceremony of Jilin University in China from the 15th to the 17th and met with President Zhang Xi (張希) and university presidents from around the world to broadly discuss ways to expand international exchange and cooperation.
 
Jilin University is directly under the Ministry of Education of China, with approximately 75,000 enrolled students and about 6,000 full-time faculty. It is one of China’s representative comprehensive universities. The university has strengths in science and engineering fields such as chemistry, physics, biology, and materials science, and is one of JBNU’s major friendly partner universities in China.
 
JBNU and Jilin University have steadily cooperated in academic and personnel exchanges since signing a comprehensive exchange agreement and a detailed exchange agreement including personnel exchanges in November 2008. In particular, at the Korea–China Universit

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) drew approximately 5,000 participants to a large-scale job fair for local university students and young job seekers, creating an on-site employment support venue in cooperation with the region and the university.
 
JBNU Division of Career Support held the '2026 JBNU Job Fair' on the 16th at the Jinsudang area. The fair was organized with the Jeonju Employment Welfare Plus Center and featured strong participation from 'Glocal University 30' project partner universities, including Gunsan University, Woosuk University, Wonkwang University, and Jeonju University, making it an event aimed at revitalizing employment across the region.
 
JBNU students, alumni, and local young job seekers who visited the venue checked job descriptions, required competencies, and recruitment procedures at company recruitment consultation booths and received one-on-one counseling. Company recruitment presentations provided an opportunity to learn about the latest hiri

JBNU is launching a recruitment-linked Industry–University Collaboration program with major domestic defense companies. The program covers company-demand-based, customized education, selection of industry–university scholarship recipients, internships and field training, and recruitment.
 
JBNU's Department of Advanced Defense Industry announced that it held a "Workshop on Operating the Defense Industry Customized Talent Development and Recruitment-Linked Collaboration Program" on the 17th at the Jeonju Shilla Stay Hotel. Attendees included JBNU officials and representatives of the defense companies and related organizations that signed a memorandum of understanding in June.
 
The workshop was organized to translate the June 26 MOU on the "Defense Industry Customized Talent Development and Recruitment-Linked Collaboration Program" into concrete educational and hiring outcomes. The agreement involves 15 defense companies and related organizations, including Hyundai Rotem,

Jang Si-hyeon, a Master's student in the Dept.of Carbon Composites Convergence Materials Engineering at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), developed a sunscreen material technology that transmits visible light while selectively blocking ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
 
This research was published under the title ‘Hollow Polystyrene Nanoparticles Inducing Nanocavities in Newtonian Fluids for Selective Visible Transparency and Ultraviolet Blocking’ in the latest issue of the international journal ACS Applied Polymer Materials.
 
Conventional sunscreens are broadly classified into organic and inorganic UV filters. Organic filters use organic compounds that absorb ultraviolet radiation, but issues such as durability and heat generation during use have been raised.
 
In contrast, inorganic filters such as zinc oxide (ZnO) or titanium dioxide (TiO₂) can effectively block UV radiation, but they also scatter visible light, resulting in a whitening (white cast) effect where

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Graduate School, Division of Electronics and Information Engineering master's student Geun-hoe Lee (Advisor: Yong-chae Jung) proposed a next-generation RF coupler design technique that secures wide bandwidth and high design freedom with a reduced number of components, and won the Excellent Paper Award at the '2026 Korean Electromagnetics Society Summer Conference'.
 
The Korean Electromagnetics Society Summer Conference is a leading domestic academic event for sharing the latest technologies and research outcomes in the field of electromagnetics. This year's conference, under the theme 'Eyes on the Quantum, a Door to Space: Electromagnetic Technologies', broadly covered electromagnetic technologies and research trends in 5G-Advanced and 6G wireless communications as well as space, satellite, defense, medical, and industrial fields.
 
At the conference, Geun-hoe Lee gave an oral presentation titled 'Branch-Line Hybrid Coupler Based on Arbitra

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Industry-University Cooperation, which operates the Jeonju Deokjin-gu Center for Child and Social Welfare Meal Management Support (Center Director Noh Jeong‑ok, Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, JBNU), successfully completed the experiential education program ‘Veggies Grow! Tasty Yum!’ to promote proper eating habits and prevent picky eating among local children.
 
The program, conducted in three stages from April to September this year, took place at the Jeonju Deokjin-gu Children’s Dietary Experience Center, the JBNU Natural History Museum, and registered local institutions. A total of 185 infants and young children from 10 local institutions (five facilities for ages 1–2 and five for ages 3–5) participated, receiving a strong response.
 
This program focused on mushrooms, a representative ingredient that children tend to avoid. Based on the Food Bridge theory, it was designed as a step-by-step experien

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST; President Oh Sang-rok) established the Dept. of JBNU-KIST Industry-Academia Convergence Research (Head: Professor Seung-hee Lee) based on the university–institute joint professorship system first introduced at a national university. The department has partnered with PNH Tech Co., Ltd. (CEO Hyun Seo-yong), an SME in the field of organic electronic materials, to begin full-scale implementation of an industry-linked educational program.
 
The Dept. of JBNU-KIST Industry-Academia Convergence Research and PNH Tech Co., Ltd. announced on the 17th that they recently signed a memorandum of understanding to operate the 'Jeonbuk-Style Waterloo Co-operative Education (Co-op) Program' and the 'Academic–Industry–Research Linkage Track.'
 
The agreement focuses on establishing a practical industry–university collaboration model that connects graduate students' disciplinary competencies with

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) research team led by Professor Kwang-wook Park of the Electronic Materials Engineering Program presented an image-based screening method that uses photographs taken with a smartphone to quickly check the degradation state of two-dimensional layered semiconductor hafnium disulfide (HfS2) thin films prior to detailed analysis.
 
HfS2 is a layered semiconductor in the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) family with strong potential for electronic and optoelectronic device applications. However, it is sensitive to oxygen and moisture in air and suffers from rapid oxidation. Under high humidity, its characteristic color fades within days and the Raman signal decreases significantly, indicating large changes in its intrinsic physical and chemical properties.
 
This study is a follow-up to the team’s previously published work on ambient degradation of HfS2 thin films (DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2025.109471). In the prior study, JBNU PhD candidate Joo-

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) College of Nursing (Dean Professor Kim Hye-young) has begun training specialized personnel, together with Jeollabuk Special Self-Governing Province, to lead integrated care in local communities.
 
The College of Nursing, as part of the JBNU RISE Project Group, conducted a three-day "Integrated Care Response Capacity-Building Training for Health and Nursing Personnel" from September 14 to 16.
 
The program aims to connect the university's expertise and educational infrastructure in nursing and public health with local care sites, strengthen the practical capabilities of dedicated integrated care personnel in the field, and establish a care system that promotes residents' health and quality of life.
 
About 60 licensed nurses who are public servants responsible for integrated care at long-term care home medical centers, home-visit nursing services, public health clinics, and similar sites participated in the training.
 
The training

Yoo Dong-min, a PhD candidate in the Molecular Engineering Laboratory supervised by Professor Jeong Gwang-woon (Department of Polymer -Nano Science &Technology, College of Engineering; Department of Nano Convergence Engineering, Graduate School) at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), has been selected for the '2026 Next-Generation Researchers Support Program in STEM Fields' supported by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea.
 
The Next-Generation Researchers Support Program is a talent development program established by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea to support doctoral students in STEM fields pursuing challenging and original research. Selected researchers receive a research stipend for two years and will carry out independent research projects.
 
Through this program, PhD candidate Yoo Dong-min will conduct research under the theme "Development and Applications of Next-Generation Smart Photonic Cryst

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Housing and Residential Environment (Chair Professor Bae Chi-hye) has completed space-improvement construction at two senior housing units serving housing-vulnerable groups in the local community and will hold a move-in ceremony on September 18.
 
JBNU's Department of Housing and Residential Environment, through the "Space Improvement Demonstration Project" carried out as part of the National University Development Project, identifies spaces that require housing-environment improvements due to aging and facility defects. Faculty and students directly participate in the entire process, from on-site investigation and design to material selection and construction. In particular, the project focused on reducing fall risks and improving mobility and daily-life safety by carefully reflecting residents' physical characteristics, lifestyles, and the structural conditions of each house.
 
Since 2023, JBNU's Department of Housing and Res

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) University Museum (Director Park Yong-jin) has organized a special exhibition to open the museum's collection of calligraphy and paintings to the public. The exhibition, the 2026 Special Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting Collections "Reading the World Through Paintings," is on view in the museum's first-floor Special Exhibition Hall until February 26, 2026.
 
This exhibition was prepared to examine how people of the past understood the world through paintings and expressed their ideals and hopes in life, using the museum's calligraphy and painting holdings. It highlights calligraphy and paintings not merely as objects for aesthetic appreciation but as historical materials that convey contemporary thought, culture, and daily life.
 
The exhibition is organized into three sections: "Learning About the World," "Painting Ideals," and "Painting Hopes." The first section introduces how people learned knowledge and the order of the world throu