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“Go Global Study Abroad Fair 2016” Held at the Komaba Campus

“Go Global 2016,” a fair to encourage UTokyo students to study abroad, was held at the Komaba Campus on May 27th (Fri) and 28th (Sat), 2016. The objectives of the Fair are to convey to UTokyo students the importance of studying abroad and experiencing different cultures, and to motivate and help them consider overseas study…
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Six UTokyo Students and Nine U.S. Students Receive FUTI’s 2016 Summer Scholarships

The FUTI Award Selection Committee has selected six UTokyo students and nine U.S. students for this summer’s scholarship program. A list of these students is shown at the end of this article. The number of UTokyo award recipients declined significantly from nine in 2015 to four this year. This may be attributed primarily to the…
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Ten Recipients Selected for the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship

With the Ito Foundation U.S.A. as the financial sponsor, this year marked the first year of the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship program. Because this is a new program for FUTI which supports University of Tokyo students/alumni to study in a U.S. university for one semester or more, we were initially not certain as to whether…
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FUTI Presents Lecture By Distinguished International Tax Expert, Krishen Mehta

‘The Panama Papers’ in Perspective —How Illicit Capital Flows Make Us All Vulnerable’ Date/Time:  Monday, May 16, 2016, 6:30 PM-8:30PM

Princeton University’s Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) program

By Fahd S. Khan University of Tokyo — In the year 2015, I was fortunate enough to be selected for the FUTI Global Leadership Award which provided me with the financial assistance to pursue a study program at Princeton University. The reasons for choosing Princeton in particular, were manifold. Firstly, it represented the very zenith…
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Friends of UTokyo, Inc. 2015 Annual Report

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GSP Nanoscience

by Carolyn Zhang — This past summer I explored the broad spectrum of nanoscience applications alongside a diverse group of fellow students hailing from top research universities around the world. The Global Summer Program (GSP) Nanoscience course at the University of Tokyo and the support of FUTI granted me one of the most memorable summer…
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My First Summer in Japan

by Kenneth Wu — This summer, I was fortunate enough to be chosen as one of the participants for the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP). Saying that I was overjoyed when I received my acceptance notice would be an understatement describing how I felt. The internship would not only provide me with valuable…
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Stanford Summer International Honors Program at Stanford University

by Daichi Tsuna — This summer I attended the Stanford Summer International Honors Program(SSIHP) as the only student from UTokyo. The SSIHP was a two-month program where students from fourteen countries around the world gathered and spent together in the same dorm, as well as taking classes at the Stanford Summer Session. I had lived…
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Expanding My World Through a Microscope

by Maki Tohmon Pomona College Class of 2017 — March 2015: The news about my most phenomenal summer experience came at the worst time possible. The email I received from the International Liaison Office (ILO) at the University of Tokyo (UT), congratulating me on my acceptance to the University of Tokyo Summer Internship Program (UTSIP)…
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