Newsletter No. 8

Alumni in Japan and Illinois Make the Fourth Annual Campaign Successful

The annual fundraising campaign in FY 2012/13 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013) concluded successfully, although it did not match the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2013 UTRIP Reception Held

On July 11, 2013 a reception was held for the students who participated in the 2013 University of Tokyo Research ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Fumiko Tamura Appointed "Advisor to Treasurer"

On June 15, 2013, the Board elected Dr. Fumiko Tamura as a new member of the Advisory Committee (AC) with ...

Dr. Shigenori Matsushita joins the Award Committee

At the Board of Directors’ Annual Meeting of September 21, 2013, Dr. Masaaki Yamada, Director of University Relations, who chairs ...

Mr. Seiei Ono, FUTI Advisory Committee Member, Returns to Japan

Mr. Seiei  Ono, a member of the FUTI Advisory Committee since April 2011, who was President and CEO of Mitsubishi ...

Mr. Sung Kie Paik, a New York Ichokai Member, Dies

Mr. Sung Kie Paik (白成基), a CPA, a UTokyo alumnus (1983) and a resident of Union City, New Jersey died ...

Blog Article: ”Science of Vowels” by Shigenori Matsushita

Editor’s Note: Why do most of us, the Japanese, speak “Katakana English,” despite that we have been studying English since ...

Book Review, “Mathematicians Who Lost Their Faces: Essays in Idleness on Mathematics,” by Shoshichi Kobayashi

For over 170 years, the portrait shown left has been displayed as the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) in all ...