Category: UTRIP

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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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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Nozaki Laboratory of Origin of Eukaryote Biodiversity

by Pramodh Ganapathy — Few people can say they spent their summer throwing a plankton net, but that was just one of many things I learned how to do over my summer at the University of Tokyo as part of the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP). I interned at the Nozaki Laboratory of Origin…
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UI-TEI lab, Biochemistry, UTRIP

by Kevin Hochstrasser — This summer I had the opportunity to travel to Japan through the UTRIP program at Todai. There I participated in frontier research in the Tei Biochemistry Lab. Professor Tei’s lab studies a variety of topics centered on the study of small RNAs through cell culture and computational analysis. My project focused…
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UTRIP

Matthew Kubicki — This summer as a FUTI student in the UTRIP program, I had the pleasure of working in Professor Mikiko Siomi’s new lab in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry department at UTokyo University. Professor Siomi’s lab focuses on piRNA pathways of gene silencing in Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly. Like most researchers in…
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FUTI Report

Krysta Dummit Princeton University — During this past summer I was lucky enough participate in the University of Tokyo’s Research Internship Program (UTRIP) as a member of the Tachibana Laboratory. The Tachibana laboratory is an organic chemistry lab which focuses on a class of marine toxins known as polycyclic ethers. Polycyclic ethers are of special…
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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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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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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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