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FUTI Global Leadership Scholarship Recipient, Ayu Yoneda, Receives a Future Scientist Award

Ms. Ayu Yoneda, a sixth-year student at the UTokyo School of Medicine and recipient of the FUTI Global Leadership Award won the Future Scientist Award, the highest award in...

FUTI Newsletter No. 19

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Prestigious American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award to Ms. Furusawa, Ito USA-FUTI Award Recipient

Ms. Eri Furusawa was awarded the American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award in May 2018. It is granted to one student each year in the Urban Planning...

The FUTI Board Appoints Dr. Teruo Furui as a New Member

At the Board meeting held on April 16, 2018, the FUTI Board elected Dr. Teruo Fujii, Executive Director and Vice President of the University of Tokyo, as a new...

Former UTokyo President Komiyama Receives the Knowledge Award from the Emirate of Dubai

Former University of Tokyo President Hiroshi Komiyama received the international prize “Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award (Knowledge Award)” of the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)....

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FUTI Global Leadership Scholarship Recipient, Ayu Yoneda, Receives a Future Scientist Award

futiJuly 25, 2018Comments Off

2018-07-25T20:26:52+00:00

Ms. Ayu Yoneda, a sixth-year student at the UTokyo School of Medicine and recipient of the FUTI Global Leadership Award won the Future Scientist Award, the highest award in the student category, for her poster-presentation at the JMSA (Japanese Medical Society of America) NY Life Science Forum 2018. Co-sponsored by the JMSA and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the forum aims at promoting exchanges among Japanese doctors, researchers, and students working in the U.S. and communicating the excitement of life sciences to the general public through presentations of research results. Ms. Yoneda comments on her experience: “I...

FUTI Newsletter No. 19

futi July 16, 2018 Comments Off

2018-07-16T11:19:34+00:00

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Prestigious American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award to Ms. Furusawa, Ito USA-FUTI Award Recipient

futi June 11, 2018 Comments Off

2018-07-16T08:57:52+00:00

Ms. Eri Furusawa was awarded the American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award...

The FUTI Board Appoints Dr. Teruo Furui as a New Member

futi May 21, 2018 Comments Off

2018-07-16T08:57:47+00:00

At the Board meeting held on April 16, 2018, the FUTI Board elected Dr....

Former UTokyo President Komiyama Receives the Knowledge Award from the Emirate of Dubai

futi January 9, 2018 Comments Off

2018-01-09T14:10:55+00:00

Former University of Tokyo President Hiroshi Komiyama received the international prize “Mohammed Bin Rashid...

Recipient Reports

In San Francisco and Los Angeles

futiMay 12, 2018Comments Off

2018-05-12T11:03:33+00:00

by Atsushi Sugimura — I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to the committee and staff members of the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship for their continued support of my research project in the Mark Twain Papers & Project at University of California, Berkeley. In this report I will offer a brief overview of my recent activities in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party In February I attended the British Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter’s classic play The Birthday Party, one of his so-called “comedies of menace,” with my friend and fellow literary scholar...