March 21, 2008
Science Institute's New President Sets a Blistering Pace for Reform
At an age when many men are thinking more about drawing on their pensions than working, Nam Pyo Suh has taken on one of the more ambitious jobs in academe: trying to transform South Korea's top science university into the MIT of Asia.
Few would bet against him succeeding. Just 19 months after taking over the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology from his controversial predecessor, Robert B. Laughlin, the 72-year-old former Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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