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Daejeon, Republic of Korea — November 2025 — KAIST has joined forces with the World Bank to launch a new initiative aimed at advancing youth employment and social protection systems through digital innovation in East Africa. The project, titled “Enhancing Youth Employment Policies through Digital Technologies,” will be implemented in Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania over the next three years. The initiative is jointly led by Professor Kyung Ryul Park of the KAIST Graduate S

KAIST announced on the 19th that its Institute for Mind and Brain Sciences and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science will be hosting a special lecture by world-renowned cultural evolution scholar, Professor Joseph Henrich of Harvard University. The free lecture will take place on the 22nd at the Conference Room on the 1st floor of the Meta-Convergence Hall at the KAIST main campus, with support from the Gikwan Foundation. The event is open to the public. Professor Henrich, a professor

<Professor Jae-Woong Jeong from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering> The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea have announced that Professor Jae-Woong Jeong from KAIST Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been selected as the September recipient of the "Scientist of the Month" award. The "Scientist of the Month" award recognizes researchers who have made a significant contribution to the development of science an

Professor Mikyoung Lim from KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences gave a plenary talk on "Research on Inverse Problems based on Geometric Function Theory" at AIP 2025 (12th Applied Inverse Problems Conference). AIP is one of the leading international conferences in applied mathematics, organized biennially by the Inverse Problems International Association (IPIA). This year's conference was held from July 28 to August 1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and consisted of plenary talks, over 40 mi

<(From left)Professor Jimin Park, Ph.D candidate Myeongeun Lee, Ph.D cadidate Jaewoong Lee,Professor Jihan Kim> Cells use various signaling molecules to regulate the nervous, immune, and vascular systems. Among these, nitric oxide (NO) and ammonia (NH₃) play important roles, but their chemical instability and gaseous nature make them difficult to generate or control externally. A KAIST research team has developed a platform that generates specific signaling molecules in situ from a si