Category: Newsletter 2

Call for Nominations for new Secretary and Treasurer

FUTI seeks nominations of candidates to serve as Secretary or Treasurer for the Board of Directors. At present, Mr. Yasuhide Watanabe, NO&T NY, is serving as an interim Secretary, and Prof. Kobayashi, the President, as an interim Treasurer. Job Description: Secretary  Work closely with the President and Treasurer.  He/she needs to be a good communicator.…
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The New Office and Mailing Address of FUTI

On September 16th the FUTI Board made a resolution that the office of Friends of UTokyo, Inc. shall move to 347 West 57th Street, #33B, New York, New York 10019-3171. This address (the home of President Kobayashi) will be registered as FUTI’s new office address for correspondences with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and New…
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Annual Board Meeting

FUTI’s Annual Board Meeting was held on September 16, 2011 at the Nippon Club in mid-Manhattan. It was attended by four Board members (Prof. Hisashi Kobayashi, President & Interim Treasurer; Dr. Masaaki Yamada, newly appointed Director of University Relations; Prof. Koichi Hamada, Director; and Prof. Akihiko Tanaka, Director). The Board made resolutions on the change…
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FUTI Announces Travel Grants for Graduate Students and Postdocs Involved in the IPMU-BCTP Collaboration

Photo: Prof. Hitoshi Murayama, Director,  IPMU at the University of Tokyo and Professor, University of California, Berkeley FUTI has awarded a travel grant of $10,000 to support an exchange of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows between The Institute of the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IMPU) at the University of Tokyo and the Berkeley…
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Reports from the Participants of IARU’s Global Summer Program

FUTI granted “International Leadership Awards” to eight students who participated in the International Alliance for Research Universities (IARU) Global Summer Program (GSP). Four UTokyo students attended the program at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and one Yale and three UC Berkeley undergraduates studied at UTokyo. The GSP provides an exciting learning experience that…
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Invited Article: Activities of “Kagakusha Network” (“Scientist Network”) and a Guidepost to Study at U.S. Graduate Schools.

By Tomonori Yamamoto and Taiji Oashi (Translated by Hisashi Kobayashi and edited by Brian L. Mark) In December 2009, a major Japanese newspaper carried an article reporting on the steep drop in the number of Japanese students who study in the U.S. Since then a number of reports have been written on this marked trend.…
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Fundraising Results and Financial Statements of July 2010 through June 2011

At the Board meeting of August 30th, Prof. Hisashi Kobayashi, FUTI President and Interim Treasurer, reported on the fundraising result of the FY 2010-2011, which ran from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. The total amount of donations was $98,651, out of which $58,461 came from the distributions of Shintech’s Trust Fund, and $40,192…
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Revamping of the FUTI Website Completed

The overhaul of the FUTI website is now complete. The design and implementation have been done by Ms. Amy Vaida of Amy I productions, who also designs FUTI’s eNewsletter. The website consists of three main pages: “About Us,” “Giving,” and “Grants and Awards.” The “About us” page is divided into subpages: “What is FUTI? What…
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Dr. Masaaki Yamada appointed Director of University Relations

On August 30th, the FUTI Board elected Dr. Masaaki Yamada, a Distinguished Laboratory Research Fellow at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), to a newly created position, Director of University Relations. In this capacity, Dr. Yamada will be primarily responsible for planning and coordinating FUTI’s research grant and award programs, by interacting with universities in both…
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