Every year, KUSCO’s scholarship program recognizes outstanding Graduate Students who have demonstrated excellent talents in the fields of science and engineering and helps identify and nurture potential leaders of scientific community for closer cooperation between Korea and US in the future. KUSCO operates this program in cooperation with the KSEA.

After reviewing more than 100 applications this year, KUSCO’s final decision for its 2011 Graduate Scholarship was made for these 15 outstanding students as follows:

LastName FirstName Major School
Kim Hyungsin Human Centered Computing Georgia Institute of Technology
Park Sang Min Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology
Song Ye Suk Mechanical Enginnering UCSD, CA
Lee Jeongsu Physics SUNY at Buffalo
Lee Seung Whan Chemical Engineering Case Western Reserve University
Kwon Bum chul Industrial Engineering Purdue University
Choi Jeongdong Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The university of utah
Kwon Albert Medicine Harvard Medical School
Kim Byung-Wook Electrical Engineering/Thermoelectrics University of California, San Diego
Jun Youngbum Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Drexel University
Ahn Hosang Materials Engineering Auburn University
Cho David Physics University of California, Berkeley
Lee Michael Information Science and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) University of Washington
Son Sanghoon Transportation Engineering Old Dominion University
Kim Dae Yu Biomedical Engineering University of California Davis

Each scholarship recipient received a $1,500 award along with travel support.

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