Newsletter No. 2

Call for Nominations for new Secretary and Treasurer

FUTI seeks nominations of candidates to serve as Secretary or Treasurer for the Board of Directors. At present, Mr. Yasuhide ...

The New Office and Mailing Address of FUTI

On September 16th the FUTI Board made a resolution that the office of Friends of UTokyo, Inc. shall move to ...

Annual Board Meeting

FUTI’s Annual Board Meeting was held on September 16, 2011 at the Nippon Club in mid-Manhattan. It was attended by ...

FUTI Announces Travel Grants for Graduate Students and Postdocs Involved in the IPMU-BCTP Collaboration

Photo: Prof. Hitoshi Murayama, Director,  IPMU at the University of Tokyo and Professor, University of California, Berkeley FUTI has awarded ...

Reports from the Participants of IARU’s Global Summer Program

FUTI granted “International Leadership Awards” to eight students who participated in the International Alliance for Research Universities (IARU) Global Summer ...

Invited Article: Activities of “Kagakusha Network” (“Scientist Network”) and a Guidepost to Study at U.S. Graduate Schools.

By Tomonori Yamamoto and Taiji Oashi (Translated by Hisashi Kobayashi and edited by Brian L. Mark) In December 2009, a ...

Fundraising Results and Financial Statements of July 2010 through June 2011

At the Board meeting of August 30th, Prof. Hisashi Kobayashi, FUTI President and Interim Treasurer, reported on the fundraising result ...

Revamping of the FUTI Website Completed

The overhaul of the FUTI website is now complete. The design and implementation have been done by Ms. Amy Vaida ...

Dr. Masaaki Yamada appointed Director of University Relations

On August 30th, the FUTI Board elected Dr. Masaaki Yamada, a Distinguished Laboratory Research Fellow at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...