Dong-A University Students Woo Jihyun and Park Minsu Win 'Outstanding Poster Presentation Award' at Korean Society of Apiculture

Achievements of the Research Credit System in the Department of Applied Biological Engineering

To Be Published as Co-First Author in the Journal of Apiculture in Korea

Dong-A University (President Lee Haewoo) announced on the 29th that Woo Jihyun and Park Minsu, fourth-year students from the Department of Applied Biotechnology, received the "Outstanding Poster Presentation Award" from the Korean Society of Apiculture for their research credit project on "Climate Change and Bumblebees."

Woo Jihyun and Park Minsu participated in the Rural Development Administration-supported climate change response project at the Insect Biotechnology Laboratory (Professors Jin Byungrae and Lee Gwangsik, Research Professors Kim Boyeon and Yoon Hyeongju), where they completed a research credit project on climate change and bumblebees.

As a result of this research, they received the "Outstanding Poster Presentation Award" at the 40th Summer Academic Conference of the Korean Society of Apiculture in 2024.

The "Research Credit Program" operated by Dong-A University is a system designed to foster undergraduate students' expertise, creativity, challenge, and communication skills. It is an elective course that allows undergraduates to participate directly in research projects of their choice under the guidance of a supervising professor, enabling them to design their future careers.

Woo Jihyun and Park Minsu personally carried out all processes, including experiments, data analysis, research paper writing, and poster preparation for the presentation.

Their co-first-authored research paper, "A Study on Worker Bee Oviposition and Mating of Male Bees Produced by Worker Bees in Bumblebee Colonies Lacking a Queen," is scheduled to be published in the Journal of Apiculture, the official journal of the Korean Society of Apiculture.

Woo Jihyun and Park Minsu stated, "We are proud to have received much praise for participating in an academic conference as undergraduates, asking questions at special lectures and research presentations, submitting a research paper to the journal, presenting a poster, and receiving an outstanding award, which is a rare achievement. Through the research credit program, we were able to nurture our dreams and gain valuable experience. In the future, we hope to continue researching bumblebees, which play an important role as pollinators not only in agriculture but also in ecosystems, and their relationship with climate change."

Woo Jihyun and Park Minsu, students of the Department of Applied Biological Engineering at Dong-A University, are delighted to receive the Excellent Poster Presentation Award from the Korean Apicultural Society.

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