Category: 2012

YSS Report

by Masato Tsuji — INTRODUCTION At the Yale Summer Session, I took two courses: Brain Science and Electrical Engineering. This was almost the first time to stay abroad for me, needless to say study abroad. Students were from all over the world: USA, UK, Denmark, China, Congo, Turkey, Indonesia and so on. Each class was…
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UTRIP Testimonial

by Olivia Waring — This past summer, I had the great fortune to spend six weeks in the laboratory of Professor Takeaki Ozawa as part of the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program. I arrived at an auspicious point in the group’s research trajectory, and was given the opportunity to participate in its first three-color…
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CCB summer school at CSHL

by Kengo Watanabe — This summer, I attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) course program: Computational Cell Biology (CCB). Through this intensive course, I could obtain the systematic basic knowledge of CCB and realize current trends in this field. In addition, now that I learned and actually experienced practical computational simulation techniques, I can…
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Report on the ELI summer session

by Akitaka Yamada — As a Summer Session student, I participated in the English for Postgraduate Students Course in 2012, designed to help the graduate students refine their pronunciation, presentation and writing skills and widen their eyesight to American culture. In pronunciation class, we had two tasks: in the first three weeks, the teacher theoretically…
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Report on summer program at Yale – IARU GSP “Topics in International Economics”

by Sari Yamashita — I have taken 6-weeks global summer program (GSP) held by IARU at Yale University this summer, starting from July 2nd to August 10th. My prime goal through this program was to reach certain level of English so as to be able to discuss the global issue today, by studying and having…
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Sustainable Cities Summer Program at UC Berkeley

by ZHANG Beibei — I am an international student from China. Thanks to FUTI for giving me this great chance, I spent a wonderful summer in University of California, Berkeley! This is my first time visiting the U.S., also the second foreign country I visited in my life. The program I participated in is called…
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UTokyo IARU GSP 2012: Report

by Wenyu Zhang — I still remember the first of July, the day when I arrived at Japan’s Narita International Airport. Despite having done a ton of research beforehand on how to get to the hotel from the airport, I still felt that little anxiousness of being in a foreign place and of tackling the…
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