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June 13, 2018
On the southern edge of Nagoya University's Higashiyama Campus, facing the Yamate Green Road, is a building surrounded by trees that doesn't look like part of the university. This is the Nagoya University Gender Research Library, which open...
March 27, 2018
Prof. Michiko Kusunoki of the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, who retired at the end of March, was Nagoya University's only female professor of engineering. Once told by her own university teacher that she was "not si...
October 18, 2017
The Nobel Committee has announced all the 2017 Nobel Prize winners, and this year, for the second year in a row, no women were found among the winners. In the press conference held after the announcement of the Prize in Economic Sciences, t...
July 18, 2017
The Graduate School of Science at Nagoya University boasts two female academics who reached professorship in their mid-30's. Even in the entire country, I don't think there are many female professors as young as them; after all, it is rare ...
July 3, 2017
Speaking of Meidai, the Nobel Prize might typically come to mind, but my Tokyo acquaintances countered with "Asia comes to mind", and even "women comes to mind." The latter response chiefly came from women. And University President Seiichi ...
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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