Author: futi

Mr. Kazutaka Yamaji Speaks in New York

On September 26, Friends of UTokyo Inc. (FUTI) hosted, jointly with the NY Icho-kai and Satsuki-kai America, a lecture meeting by Mr. Kazutaka Yamaji, Director General of Development Division, UTokyo, who visited New York to participate in FUTI‘s Annual Board of Directors Meeting (see a related article). The lecture meeting was held at a conference…
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"Prepare for Spreading Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever," Explains Dr. Kuwama on TV

On October 9th, 2014, FOTI Director and Treasurer, Dr. Yuichiro Kuwama, who is Medical Director at the Japanese Medical Practice Division of Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Associate Professor of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, was interviewed in a morning show “FCI Morning Eye” of Fujisankei Communications International, Inc. (FCI Fujisankei…
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Project Narrative Summer Institute at OSU

by Sayaka Fujita University of Tokyo — I was really fortunate to have been given the opportunity to attend Project Narrative Summer Institute hosted by Ohio State University. It was an intensive course to learn narrative theory. Though it started and was deepened mainly in literature, narratology has recently attracted more attention in various areas,…
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Summer session at the University of California, Berkeley

by Yuka Kakinuma — Thanks to the FUTI award, I got a great opportunity to study in the University of California, Berkeley from May 27th to July 2nd. UC Berkeley was the second school I attended in the United States. Right before moving to UC Berkeley, I was studying in Harvard University as a one-year…
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Summer Session: Summer English Language Studies at UC Berkeley

by Yosuke Tanigawa — Affiliation: undergraduate student (junior), Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, School of Science, The University of Tokyo Summer Session: Summer English Language Studies at UC Berkeley My name is Yosuke TANIGAWA, a junior student of Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, School of Science, the University of Tokyo. I am studying…
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Yale Summer Session

by Xiaoxue Zang — This summer I have attended Yale Summer Session B, and spent one month at Yale. The first day I arrived at Yale, I was deeply attracted to its classical, modest and western architecture and also the whole academic atmosphere. Yale has successfully created an environment for students to study literally everywhere.…
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UTRIP Internship with Professor Hiroaki Aihara Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo

by Thong Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Class of 2015 — Carved in my mind is the moment I received the acceptance email from UTRIP along with the FUTI scholarship award, which blew away the anxiety about midterm exams coming in late-March. Excitement piled up day after day for the long journey to discover…
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Media and Global Protest Movements

by Tetsu Miyazawa — I participated in “Media and Global Protest Movements”, one of the Global Summer Programs (GSP) of International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), at University of California, Berkeley from July 8th to August 15th. Students who took part in this course were coming from all over the world, such as England, Denmark,…
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Exoplanet Lab

by Taweewat Somboonpanyakul — During the summer of 2014, I had a chance to participate in University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP) with the financial support from Friends of UTokyo, Inc. UTRIP is an undergraduate summer research internship program with top professors for those who want to pursuing Ph.D. degree in science in the…
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The purpose of a dream

by Shigeru Chiba — I have a dream. I have a dream of becoming a leading doctor in the world who works for a lot of patients beyond national borders. This summer, I attended Summer English Language Courses in University of California, Berkeley, and I believe this was the first step forward realizing my dream.…
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