by Masahiro Nakanishi Brown University Class of 2017 — University of Tokyo had always been my dream school since even before the TV series Dragon Zakura was broadcasted. My interest towards University of Tokyo only augmented as I learned more and more about it from various media. In my freshman year of high school, my…
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by Sayumi Miyano — This summer I had the fortune to attend ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, thanks to the financial support from FUTI scholarship. ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) is one of the most well-known organizations for data archives in social science, the University of Tokyo being…
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by Takato Masuda — I participated in “English for Law” course, one of the English Language Institute (ELI) programs at Yale University, from June 29 to August 7. In that course students came from all over the world: Mexico, Ecuador, Spain, Italy, Turkey, India, South Korea and so on. I took “The U.S. legal system…
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by Indy Liu — I can still vividly remember the nervousness that engulfed me when I woke up on March 31st to find UTRIP’s selection decision in my mailbox and the excitement that surged through when I found out that I was offered a place in the program. This was a dream come true for…
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by Tokuyou Li — Thanks to the huge support from FUTI, I had the great opportunity to participate in a summer session at UCBerkeley, the top public school in the United States. Thank you very much. During the three weeks I spent in the school, I had a lot of fun in both studying and…
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by Qiaochu Li — I have long been curious of the working atmosphere and research environment in Japan, where so many outstanding academic achievements are carried out. So it’s not hard to imagine how excited I was when I received FUTI fellowship that supports my summer research internship in the University of Tokyo. In fact, this…
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by Yuki Haba — The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo & The Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University. With a generous support by FUTI, I spent an unforgettable summer at Columbia University, in New York. I just graduated from University of Tokyo this April, and am going to start…
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by Natsuki Furukawa — This summer, I participated in the Harvard Summer School for 7 weeks. I took two courses; one about cancer, and the other about imaging in biology. In the cancer course, I learned about biological phenomena concerned with cancer, such as cell signaling, apoptosis, metastasis, and angiogenesis. The mechanisms of all these…
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by Yuka Esashi — This summer I worked as an intern in the laboratory of Prof. Kazuki Koketsu in the Earth and Planetary Science Department of the University of Tokyo. The experience was hosted by the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP). I performed exploratory research on the effect of basin amplification of long-period ground…
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by Elbegduuren Erdenee — This past summer I interned at Professor Takeaki Ozawa’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo with the help of the generous scholarship offered by Friends of UTokyo, Inc. For someone who thinks of herself as a scientist-in-training, the experience proved to be immensely valuable in allowing me to form a sense…
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