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  The campus was buzzing with energy, excitement, and new beginnings as the Fall 2026 New Student Welcome Week started. SUNY Korea welcomed 231 new students to campus for Fall 2026 New Student Welcome Week, a multi-day program designed to help incoming students prepare for university life, connect with the SUNY Korea community, and begin their academic journey. The journey began with Placement Exam Day, where students completed required placement examinations in writing and mathematics.  During Activities Day, new students participated in ice-breaking activities, campus tours, special workshops, and activities with Resident Advisors (RAs). The program provided students with opportunities to meet their peers, explore the campus, and begin building connections within the SUNY Korea community. University Day introduced students to key aspects of academic and campus life. Sessions included introductions to university academic policies and procedures, academic integrity, departmental gatherings, and workshops designed to help students prepare for their transition to university.  The program continued with Course Registration Day, during which students received guidance and completed their course registration for the Fall 2026 semester. Students also had the opportunity to meet their department chairs and faculty members. The week concluded with Convocation Day, marking the official welcome of the new students to the SUNY Korea community.  The New Student Welcome Week equips the new students with a foundation for a successful transition into university life while creating opportunities to connect with classmates, faculty, staff, and the broader campus community. Welcome to SUNY Korea, and welcome home.  

Professor Mario Rüttgers of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Korea has contributed as a co-author to a new study published in Nature. The work introduces HydroGym, a computational platform that brings together reinforcement learning and computational fluid dynamics to develop intelligent strategies for controlling fluid flows. One of the study’s key findings is that reinforcement-learning agents can learn flow-control strategies in one computational environment and transfer them to substantially different environments without retraining. The authors demonstrate this capability across different flow configurations, including the transfer from a simple channel flow to a three-dimensional aircraft-wing model. The study points toward a broader challenge for the use of artificial intelligence in the physical sciences: the computational environment itself becomes part of what the AI system experiences and learns. Choices such as geometry, boundary conditions, flow regimes, numerical resolution, observations, and control actions can therefore influence the resulting behavior. By providing shared computational environments for reinforcement-learning research in fluid dynamics, HydroGym offers new opportunities to investigate how AI can learn transferable physical principles and contribute to more general and autonomous approaches to flow control in real-world applications. Professor Rüttgers joined SUNY Korea as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Fall 2026. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Article link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10917-6  

  SUNY Korea held its Fall 2026 Convocation on Thursday, August 27, welcoming 231 new students to the SUNY Korea community. The incoming Class of 2028 for Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and Class of 2030 for Stony Brook University (SBU) are represented by 20 countries around the globe, including South Korea, the United States, France, Mexico, and South Africa.  The Convocation, held at the Incheon Global Campus (IGC) Auditorium, brought together new students, their families, faculty, staff, and members of the SUNY Korea community to celebrate the beginning of a new academic journey. The ceremony marked an important milestone for SUNY Korea: welcoming the largest fall incoming class. Among them was SUNY Korea’s first student from Honduras, bringing the total number of nationalities represented by students who have studied at SUNY Korea since its establishment to 73.  In addition, 53 visiting students from the Stony Brook University campus in New York and a university in Japan will study at SUNY Korea this semester. With new students and visiting students joining the campus from diverse backgrounds and countries, SUNY Korea expects international exchange and engagement across the campus community to become even more vibrant.     Prior to Convocation, incoming students participated in the Fall 2026 New Student Welcome Week, a multi-day orientation program designed to prepare them for university life. Throughout the week, students took placement examinations, participated in campus activities and tours, learned about academic policies and procedures, met with faculty, and completed their course registration. The Convocation served as the culmination of the week and the official welcome of the Fall 2026 incoming class. As the students begin their studies and campus life, they will have opportunities to learn, connect, and grow within SUNY Korea’s diverse and global academic community. With 231 new students joining the campus this fall, SUNY Korea looks forward to supporting the Class of 2028 and Class of 2030 as they embark on the next chapter of their academic journeys. Welcome to SUNY Korea. Welcome home.