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The Annual Board and Advisory Committee Meeting Held

FUTI’s Annual Board of Directors meeting was held in the morning of September 21 (Sat) 2013 at the Community Resource Exchange (CRE) Office’s conference room at 42 Broadway, New York, NY 10004. After President Kobayashi’s welcome greeting, Dr. Masako Egawa, Executive Vice President of UTokyo and Director of FUTI reported on recent news and developments…
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Eight More Receive FUTI’s Summer Scholarships for Participating in GSP and Other Summer Programs

The Award Committee awarded the 2013 FUTI Global Leadership Award (FUTI-GLA) to three UTokyo students and three students from U.S. universities, for their participation in the GSP (Global Summer Program). In addition, two UTokyo students were awarded for their enrollment in other summer programs . Together with the 11 awards already reported in Newsletter No.7,…
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UTokyo Students Challenge Summer Sessions at Yale

In mid-July, Dr. Masako Osako, a member of the FUTI Award Committee, visited Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, to meet with four recipients of the 2013 FUTI Global Leadership Award. Sitting in Book Trader Café or Cask Republic (both being popular eating and gathering places for students in New Haven), the students talked to…
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Reception Held to Welcome UTokyo Students on a “Taiken” Program

On August 30, a reception was held for 14 UTokyo students who participated in the 2013 New York Region Taiken (Hands-on Experience) program for UTokyo undergraduates. Twelve students of the program visited UTokyo alumni at four corporations,  a law firm, a hospital, a university, an NGO, and the United Nations to learn firsthand about “work…
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2013 UTRIP Reception Held

On July 11, 2013 a reception was held for the students who participated in the 2013 University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP) , hosted by the Faculty of Science of UTokyo. This year, 28 undergraduate students were selected from all over the world. Among them were six FUTI awardees, who were selected from more…
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GSP Reception Held at UTokyo

A “Welcome and Farewell Party” was held on Friday July 12 at Capo PELLICANO Restaurant in the Medical School Building of the Hongo Campus. The party was attended by 41 GSP (Global Summer Programs) students from abroad, five UTokyo GSP participants, two IARU Sustainability Program exchange students, and three UTokyo students of the UT-IRIS (University…
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450 Students Attend Overseas Study Orientation Program at Komaba

“Go Global 2013,” a fair to encourage UTokyo students to study abroad, was held at the Komaba Campus on June 6th (Thu) and 7th (Fri), 2013. The objectives of the study-abroad fair are to convey to UTokyo students the significance and importance of studying abroad and experiencing different cultures, and to motivate and help them…
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FUTI’s Support of Kavli-IPMU’s Program Continues

Again this year, FUTI has provided a research grant of $10,000 to the research collaboration between Kavli IPMU (Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) at the University of Tokyo and BCTP (Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics) at the University of California, Berkeley. The main goal of the grant is to promote exchanges of…
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FUTI’s Grant to the Columbia-UTokyo Joint Lecture Program Renewed

FUTI has renewed its research grant to the Columbia-UTokyo Joint LectureshipProgram led by Prof. Yasutomo Uemura of Columbia University. In 2011, as an outreach effort at Columbia and UTokyo, the “Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics (F-CMP)” course was initiated based on live and video-recorded lectures for entry-level graduate students. In March 2013, with partial support…
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