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February 9, 2018
We hear about the merging of disciplines, but in reality things are not so simple. There is no guarantee of achievements if researchers from different fields are just brought together to be in the same place. The Institute of Transformative...
December 22, 2017
The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings are attracting attention. With the release of the THE 2017-2018 rankings last fall, the University of Tokyo, Japan's top university, dropped from 39th to 46th place and headlines la...
August 21, 2017
On July 31, 2017, at a lecture hall of the University of Malaya in Malaysia's capital of Kuala Lumpur, Professor Toshihide Maskawa gave a talk on "The Journey to a Nobel Prize." He happens to be a Meidai graduate and Nobel laureate for his ...
One day at the end of May, high school students filled the Sakata & Hirata Hall of the School of Science. Among them were about 90 high school students from India, Nepal and Bhutan who had been invited to Japan for Sakura Science, the J...
April 18, 2017
Nagoya University was alive with the smiling faces of fresh graduates late last March, but for one couple, it was a week of especial joy. On Monday, Mothafer Ghasak, the man in the couple, earned his Ph.D. in engineering, and on Thursday, h...
Atsuko TSUJIEarned B.A. in Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 1976. Joined The Asahi Shimbun Company in 1979 as a journalist and wrote many articles in science and technology area for newspaper and magazines...[read more] published by the company including editorial pieces. Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and Reuters Fellow at University of Oxford in 2014. Designated Professor of Nagoya University's Institute of International Education and Exchange since October 2016. [close]
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