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May 1, 2018
Doctorates are normally thought of as researchers. But then, doctorates take on various roles aside from doing research. This struck me again while visiting to the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM). I had previously written a...
February 26, 2018
At Nagoya University, the word transformative tends to evoke the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), which is part of Japan's World Premier International Research Center (WPI) Initiative. But there's another "transformative" h...
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...
January 17, 2018
The last fall, news that American scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for capturing the gravitational waves for the first time was received with much excitement on these shores too. One of the names the US scientists cited as...
November 28, 2017
The announcement of research at Nagoya University resulting in the discovery of a huge void inside a pyramid became big international news and garnered much attention recently. If you look behind this discovery you will find the story about...
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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