Category: Recipient Reports

Sustainable Society Design Center

by Carter Powers Hello! I’m Carter Powers, an American and a 3rd-year undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame located in South Bend, Indiana USA where I study Environmental Engineering with a supplemental major in Asian Studies and a minor in Energy Studies. This summer of 2024, I conducted research as an intern in the…
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Bito Lab in the UTokyo School of Medicine

by Jingren Carl Gu This Summer, under FUTI’s generous support, I spent 7 weeks at the Bito Lab in the UTokyo School of Medicine. I took part in an ongoing project by Dr. Hajime Fujii to design a genetically encoded calcium indicator (GECI). A GECI is a calcium sensitive fluorescent protein that scientists introduce into…
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UTSIP Oshima-Akizuki lab

by Hana Chrenka This summer, I participated in UTSIP Kashiwa, a 7-week international research internship program at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. I worked in the Oshima-Akizuki lab in the Department of Environmental Systems, and worked under the supervision of Akizuki-sensei and Shotaro Seki, my tutor. During my time there, I…
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Yale Political Science

by Anna Yorozuya I would like to express my gratitude to the ITO FOUNDATION U.S.A. and Friends of UTokyo, Inc. for financially supporting my graduate studies. I started my Ph.D. program in political science in August 2022, after graduating from the University of Tokyo in March. Without the generous financial support by the ITO FOUNDATION…
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Harvard Summer School Report

by Miu Yamazaki 【Basic Information of the two courses that I took】 A:Politics and Governance in the Global South Course Description: This course introduces students to politics and the political economy of development in low- income countries. What are the main political and governance challenges low-income countries face and what are the best prospects for…
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UTSIP Mayumi Laboratory

by Lucien Tsai After successfully completing the UTSIP Kashiwa for the summer of 2023, I look back to the experiences that I have gained inside and outside of the research environment. The experiences from my participation in UTSIP further developed myself as a person and a researcher. During the program, I worked at the Mayumi…
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Columbia University’s School of Social Work

by Akari Takahashi My first year at Columbia’s School of Social Work has come to a close. First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Hsun Kwei & Aiko Takizawa Chou and Friends of UTokyo, Inc. for your continuous support in making this dream of mine come to life. In this…
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Exchange program at the University of California, San Diego

by Tamon Suehiro >What this is My final report about the exchange program at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). >Who I am I am a senior at UTokyo, majoring in aerospace engineering and specializing in electric propulsion called Hall Thruster. Despite my major, I have an interest in mathematical physics. >Academic…
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International Research Center for Neurointelligence, Takeuchi Lab

by Kyle Stevenson My time at the University of Tokyo this summer was one of the most fulfilling experiences I have ever had. Everyone at the lab I was working in was very welcoming and I felt right at home. On my last day the members of my lab even had a going-away party for…
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SIPA, the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

by Momoko Nakayama Dear Supporters of the Ito Foundation USA – Friends of U Tokyo Scholarship, “Maybe you should wear pants instead of skirts if you’re going to be out late.” When I was younger, my mother would habitually give me this advice as I was heading out the door. Understanding her concern, I used…
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