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MESSAGE FROM THE 40 TH PRESIDENT Message from the Father of TLC (YG and KS) 40th KSEA President, Hosin “David” Lee It is 2:00 a.m. Tuesday on April 10 in Iowa City, after finishing grading the exams, I am back to work on what I like the most, the KSEA business. I am glad to report that we have successfully organized the first KSTLC in Chicago for the 1 st Generation Korean students in March. After having delivered the first YGTLC for the 2 nd Generation Korean-Americans 8 years ago, it was about time to deliver the second child. I have a feeling that the second child will grow even bigger than the first child because it was born twice as large as the first one. I would like to recognize the dedicated contribution from Dr. Byoung-Do Kim, YG director 1, Dr. Benjamin Lee, general director and Mr. Israel Jung, YG director 2, in guiding 25 organizers including three outstanding co-chairs of Kathy Lee, Rachel Park and Sarah Rhee. Who said the second child is more precious than the first one? I would like to congratulate all students from 4 th to 11 th grades who participated at the 2012 National Math & Science Competition (NMSC) on April 21, co-organized by KUSCO. First, I would like to thank Dr. Kookjoon Ahn, Vice President 1, Dr. Yongho Sohn, executive director, Dr. Wookeun Shin, chair of the chapter presidents committee, chapter presidents and members of participating local chapters, and many more volunteers for the successful planning and execution of the NMSC. This year’s problem sets were prepared by the math and science educators from University of Iowa: Dr. Soonhye Park, Chair, and Dr. Kyong Mi Choi, Co-Chair, and members of the NMSC Committee. We added a new high school physics contest, led by Dr. Jae Yu, Publication Director 3, in collaboration with the Association of Korean Physicists in America (AKPA), one of our 23 affiliated professional societies. This year, all national award recipients and their parents are invited to attend the NMSC award ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on May 12, Saturday, followed by a luncheon with a keynote speech from Dr. Jim Gates, Jr., member of the President Obama’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST) and advisor of KSEA, at Marriott Hotel at Tyson Corner in Washington. We invited the Ambassador Young-jin Choi of Korea and an administrator from University of Pennsylvania to give welcoming remarks. Yes, with your active participation, we broke the record of the participation at the NMSC. We organized the workshop to introduce the Institute of Basic Science (IBS) to young scientists and the advisory committee meeting for Dr. Chang Kyung Kim, Vice Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Korea, and top officials of IBS in Boston in February. In March, we signed the ninth MOU with Advanced Technology Center Association (ATCA) and have already started working with ATCA by connecting our members to their company members for research collaboration. In April, our organization was selected to give a presentation at the heritage community liaison council meeting as the “Spotlight” organization to other council member organizations and top officials of Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). I am proud to say that KSEA was recognized as a role model heritage organization in America. Since signing our first MOU with Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) on July 1, 2011, we continued to work with them throughout the year starting with training of their employees in December, participation and sponsorship of YGTLC and KSTLC, participation of our members in the research proposals to KEIT, and a contract to develop research need statements. It is a win-win situation for both KSEA and KEIT, and, like Rick said in Casablanca, Keit, I think this is only the beginning of a beautiful relationship. I cannot end my remarks without giving you an update on the membership status and budget situation. Yes, we set a new record of over 4,100 members, Yeah! And the all-time high revenue of $2.4 Million, including an unprecedented amount of donation of $37,680 from our own members and still growing! Do the math! We invested nearly $600 per member this year! Ask the question to your American colleagues! Which organization in America invests in its members more than KSEA? KSEA is a drawing board for you and I hope your participation at the UKC, YGTLC, KSTLC, NMSC as well as other KSEA events is a very large dot that you can connect looking back later. As Steve Jobs said, you cannot connect the dots looking forward but you should create as many diverse dots now. KSEA exists to help its members succeed in the main stream of America. To help you find what you look for, KSEA will leave a light on for you. It is 3:40 a.m. in Iowa City and I have just received this email from a member, “Thanks for your great work for KSEA. I was impressed with your talk. Of course, I am impressed with your passion and leadership. I heard KSEA’s great growth under your leadership.” Yeah! This will keep me going and going … 4 KSEA LETTERS Vol. 40 No. 3 April 2012
PRESIDENT OF KSEA VISITS THE NIH PIONEER AT HARVARD PRESIDENT OF KSEA VISITS THE NIH PIONEER AT HARVARD [Kyungjae Myung, KSEA Headquarter Operation Director] Senior Investigator National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH On a beautiful afternoon of February 9 th , after passing through historical brick buildings, I followed President Hosin Lee to the Cambridge Street where scientific department buildings with more modern styles are located. I read two previous interviews with Prof. Philip Kim of Columbia and Prof. John Kim of UCLA and I was excited to be a writer for this third article for Prof. Hongkun Park whom I call “Hyung”. He is not only a world-renowned scholar but also my staunch alumnus of elementary, middle school and college. The first impression I have received walking into Dr. Park’s office was “clean, neat, and organized.” President Lee quickly asked the first question, the same one that he asked to two previous interviewees, what his secrets are to achieve such a great success in his career. Dr. Park was very modest by saying “I do not believe I am successful yet.” However, thanks to our curious President, who kept insisting that it would help other KSEA members especially those in early career, Dr. Park told us that one major reason for his success was due to the people with whom he encountered; his mentors, colleagues, and students/fellows worked in his laboratory. President Lee asked his second question why he chose Stanford for his graduate study. Dr. Park told us, without hesitation, “because I was truly excited about the project that the professor at Stanford University, who became my Ph.D. advisor later, was working on.” He also added that he chooses students/fellows in his laboratory only if they express “the true enthusiasm”. (tip to become his student). He started as assistant professor at Harvard like everyone else but became a full professor with tenure in just four years (Note: Harvard university grants tenure to a full professor only). In President Lee’ opinion, he is the first (maybe second) Korean-American who received tenure at Harvard. When Dr. Park received tenure, he also received a new startup fund from Harvard so that he could use it for starting a new line of research with high-risk and high-impact. Harvard even built a new building section where his 30 students and post-docs are now working with the state-of-art research equipment. So, he initiated a new line of research in the field of nano-bio interfacing and neuroscience, where he believed many important scientific questions would still remain. His high-risk effort to a new direction became very fruitful with many papers published in the most prestigious journals like Nature, Cell, and Nature Nanotechnology. He also won the NIH’s most prestigious award called “NIH Pioneer Award.” Dr. Park then took us out for the most memorable lunch, particularly for President Lee who took the picture of us, at the Harvard Faculty Club. The atmosphere of the restaurant was the authentic Ivy League prestige. On the way to his laboratory after lunch, Dr. Park took us to the statue of the first benefactor of Harvard University, John Harvard. Thanks to the belief that the person who touches the left shoe of the statue becomes lucky to get admission to Harvard, the left toe of the statue was very shiny. Our curious President, of course, touched the shoe with a hope for his son will get an admission to Harvard for his graduate study. Dr. Park then gave us a tour of his laboratory. We were impressed with so many expensive looking research instruments and observed many students and post-doctoral fellows who were working hard. President Lee asked Dr. Park to pose in front of his instrument, but Dr. Park humbly declined it. Our tenacious President tried and started to chase Dr. Park who was running away from him. It was a very funny scene I would never forget. On the way back to the hotel, President Lee kept saying that he felt so proud to witness an increasing number of successful young (to him) Korean-American scientists in the US. KSEA LETTERS Vol. 40 No. 3 April 2012 5
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