Category: Other Programs

What made my experience at Harvard amazing?

by Maria Matsumoto — With great support from Friends of UTokyo, I spent this summer studying business management in Harvard Summer School. People at Harvard love learning. Since people have strong desire to learn new things in common, the academic atmosphere there is inspiring. People always respect others, listen to others’ opinion actively, and try…
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Medical Exchange and Discovery at Stanford University

by Keita Morikawa — The three weeks at Stanford was full of hands-on experiences and first-hand exposure to US healthcare. In this report, I would like to summarize my studies there, but before that I would like to express my sincerest gratitude for giving me this opportunity. Without FUTI Summer Scholarship, this would not have…
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Sustainable financing and investment at Harvard University

by Takenori Shimamura — Introduction Sustainability can be achieved only when social, economic, and environmental aspects are considered at the same time. At first, when I heard the word of sustainability, I usually imagined that this was a concept related to environmental and energy aspects. The typical example is fossil fuel, as many of you…
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Work Hard, Play Hard – in the Summer Program of Stanford University

by Taiga Tsubota — I clearly remember the first day when I came to Stanford University. On the shuttle to the campus, I was too nervous to sit still. Who will be my roommates? Can I keep up with the class? What if I drop off? I was always caring about these kinds of concerns,…
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American Foreign Policy at Harvard Summer School

by Mayu Yamamoto — This summer I studied at Harvard Summer School in virtue of the generous support of FUTI. This was my first experience of studying in the US, and therefore found this experience to be one of the biggest challenges of my life, especially because I took the class of American foreign policy,…
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ICPSR in Michigan

By Fumiya Uchikoshi — Throughout this summer, I participated in ICPSR summer program in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) is an association among universities in the world which plays a role in archiving various kinds of political and social survey data and providing tools and opportunities for researchers to…
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Friends of UTokyo Summary Report

By Eshima Shusei — About the Program Program: the University of Michigan Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Course: Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Field Experiments Instructor: Professor Donald P. Green Report I attended ICPSR course “Field Experiments” taught by Professor Donald Green. In the lectures, we started with the basic of causal inference framework…
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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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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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ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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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