Ajou University Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Commemorative Week: "A University Changing the Future"

Participation of World-Renowned Scholars Including David Macmillan

Ajou University has designated the period from the 10th to the 14th of this month as the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Week and will hold events and conferences to celebrate this milestone.

On the 3rd, Ajou University announced that it will hold the "Ajou University 50th Anniversary Commemoration Week" on the 12th to mark its 50th anniversary.

First, on the 10th and 11th, Ajou University will host △ a 50th anniversary eve festival with local residents △ a commemorative report meeting for the publication of the 50-year history of Ajou University △ and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 6G Convergence Colloquium series.

On the 12th, the 50th anniversary ceremony will be held at the Yeonam Hall auditorium. On this day, Ajou University will announce its mid- to long-term university development plan, "Ajou Vision 5.0," and present a blueprint to become a "university that changes the future through value creation and innovation." The development plan includes 24 strategic tasks in areas such as △ education △ research △ industry-academia cooperation △ and global initiatives.

The "Ajou 50th Anniversary International Conference" held on the same day will feature presentations and discussions under the theme "Talking about the Future of Universities," with futurist Thomas Frey and university officials from home and abroad participating. The event will be attended by Vice Minister of Education Jang Sang-yoon, Ajou University President Choi Ki-joo, Acting President of Nanyang Technological University Singapore Ling San, and Kyungpook National University President Hong Won-hwa, among others.

On the 13th, the Energy Materials Symposium will feature David MacMillan, a 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate and professor of chemistry at Princeton University, USA, as a speaker, delivering a lecture titled "The Development of Organocatalysis and the Road to the Nobel Prize."

On the same day, the AI Semiconductor Conference and Mobility Conference will also be held. The AI Semiconductor Conference will feature KAIST President Kang Sung-mo and experts in AI and system semiconductors as speakers. The Mobility Conference will include world-renowned transportation scholars such as Professor S.C. Wong from the University of Hong Kong and Professor Mohamed Abdel-Aty from the University of Central Florida as speakers.

On the 14th, the "Ajou Bio-Health Science Research Fair" will take place. This event invites Ajou University researchers dedicated to practical application based on basic research, as well as speakers from academia and industry, to understand the latest research trends in the bio-health field and share future visions.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Ajou University has prepared various projects under the slogan "We will become the world's A+." The slogan for Ajou University's 50th anniversary reflects confidence in the achievements of the past 50 years and a commitment and aspiration to create a brilliant new history that meets the expectations of students, society, the nation, and the world.

Ajou University President Choi Ki-joo said, "Ajou University has played a leading role in the development of higher education in Korea over the past 50 years through solid growth and bold innovation," adding, "Let us once again unite our strength to turn our potential and imagination into reality and pioneer the next 100 years of Ajou."

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