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June 29, 2018
Before my eyes there appeared an astonishing sight that was reminiscent of the Taisho Pond in Japan's popular mountain valley town of Kamikochi. Dead trees jut out of the water, their thin tips pointing toward the blue sky. This is at the f...
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...
The Nagoya University Museum's new special exhibition, "Crab Collection '18: Functional variation of crab chelae," is full of playfulness -- from its name inspired by Paris Fashion Week (called "Paris Collection" in Japan), to the "Crab Ele...
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...
April 23, 2018
Nagoya University's human development goal is to foster "courageous intellectuals." President Seiichi Matsuo used the term to fire up students in his commencement and matriculation addresses this spring. It can be heard in various settings ...
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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