Author: futi

IARU Global Summer Program at Yale University

Yasuaki Inada (UT Faculty of Law, junior) — I took a course called “Sustainability and Institutions” offered by Yale University. It has been a prolific course in many aspects, including both in-class discussion and interactions outside class. According to the concept of IARU GSP, students had various cultural and academic backgrounds and the friendship we…
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Nanoscience & Sustainable Urban Management; Summer 2013 FUTI Report

Jessica Wong UC Berkeley — This summer, I studied at the University of Tokyo in the IARU (International Alliance of Research Universities) Global Summer Program. I participated in both the Sustainable Urban Management program and the Nanoscience program. Both programs were taught by distinguished professors and researchers in their respective fields, and was extremely well…
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University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP)

(FUTI Report by Jacob Schmelz) — This past summer, I participated in the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP) with funding from Friends of UTokyo, Inc.  UTRIP is a six-­‐week research  experience  that  allowed  me  to  work  on  an  original  project  under  a University of Tokyo professor. I was hosted by Professor Kazuo Makishima…
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Summer Program Report

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Summer [IN]STITUTE: [IN]LAND Genki Takahashi The University of Tokyo — It was a tough decision for a Japanese senior science university student, me, to choose to study abroad during his last summer vacation. We have a graduation thesis to write and an entrance exam for Japanese graduate programs to…
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Summer Session at UC Berkeley 2013

Enkhtuvshin Turbold — I accomplished one of my dream in this summer which was studying in United States. In fact, it is not first time studying abroad for me, I have been studying in Japan for over 6 years and always wanted to experience unfamiliar environment with strange peoples in somewhere US. There is no…
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UTRIP — The University of Tokyo Research Internship Program

Elton Ho — This is a tale about a young man, Elton Ho, whom I occasionally refer to as “me”, and his intellectual and cultural journeys with Aihara lab in the University of Tokyo. This is a quest in which this young man explores the frontiers of high energy physics through constant failure and repeated…
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FUTI Report

Chung-an Max Wu — This summer, I participated in the University of Tokyo Summer Internship Program (UTSIP). For 4 weeks, I had the opportunity to live in Japan and conduct research in the lab of Prof. Takuya Ueda, in the Department of Medical Genome Sciences. Prof. Ueda’s lab specializes in the emerging field of synthetic…
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UTRIP report

Aniruddha Bapat — This summer I had the good fortune of spending six weeks in Japan as a UTRIP fellow. In the days leading up to UTRIP, I had read in detail about the science at UTokyo, and had grown slowly more excited about the prospect of being part of the physics community at a…
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Unforgettable Experience at TODAI

Ichigo Ichie (one time, one meeting) Alana Ogata — I was in a biochemistry class when I received an email from Professor Yamanouchi informing me I had been accepted to the UTRIP program. I had to restrain from screaming on the spot. My dream during my college career was to study abroad in Japan, but…
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Alumni in Japan and Illinois Make the Fourth Annual Campaign Successful

The annual fundraising campaign in FY 2012/13 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013) concluded successfully, although it did not match the huge success of last year. It showed a 5% decline largely due to the lower interest rates, affecting the dividends from Shintech Inc’s Trust Fund. Donations from individuals kept the same high level as last…
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