News Index 2009 (Admissions )

Published March

• iCeMS and UCLA's CNSI Sign Agreement on Collaborative Research, Academic Exchanges
• Student Lounge 'KI-ZU-NA' Monthly Event: April
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" March Event 'International exchange through YOGA!'
• Professor Konishi has been reelected as the next Director of the Institute of Sustainability Sciene
• The Oxford - Kyoto University Collaboration Forum
• Professor Yoden has been appointed as the first Director of the Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research
• President Matsumoto Attends the 5th Kyoto University Southeast Asia Forum
• 6th Kyoto University Southeast Asia Forum and Alumni Party Held in Bangkok
• 5th University Administrators Workshop (UAW) Held
• Associate Professor Shigeta has been elected as the next Director of the Center for African Area Studies
• Debriefing Session Held by Asst. Prof. Yoshihiro Yamahata of Dept. of Primary Care & Emergency Medicine
• 2009 NISTEP Award Granted to Prof. Kazunari Shibata of Graduate School of Science (Dir. of Kwasan and Hida Observatories of Graduate School of Science, and Unit Chairman of USSS)
• KU Graduate School of Management Ties Up with Business Schools of Kobe and Keio Universities
• Dean of Graduate School of Engineering Pays Courtesy Visit to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Malaysia
• Kyoto University Emerging Technologies Symposium 2010 Held
• KURENAI Theses Log 800,000 Accesses for the Year
• KU and Kumamoto City Conclude Cooperation Agreement
• Opening Ceremony of Overseas Base Held at University of Malaya
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-April
• Social gathering for residents of the Uji Annex and Oubaku Annex of the International Houses Annexes held
• The "Bamboo Greenhouse" by Associate Professor Hirohide Kobayashi of the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies receives the Good Design Award
• Conclusion of Academic Exchange Memorandum with Hanoi University of Technology
• Exchange student fair "Study Japan Workshop" was held at the Hanoi University of Technology
• Director Shinya Yamanaka of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application attended the Lasker Award ceremony
• Kyoto University Global COE Program together with the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, the United States, held a workshop for research collaboration and student exchange
• International Exchange Subject "Sustainable Agriculture in China Yunnan" opens
• Professor Uehara has been reelected as the next Dean of the Center for Cultural Heritage Studies
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• Professor Hasebe has been elected as the next Director of the Education Unit for Global Leaders in Advanced Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Professor Tanaka has been elected as the next Director of the Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry
• Professor Komori has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and the Faculty of Engineering
• Former President Oike Portrait Dedication Ceremony held
• Kyoto University Global COE Program tied-up with the Department of Knowledge and Business Engineering, University of Vienna
• Commendation for Contribution to Medical Education, etc.
• The 2009 Inoue Prize for Science and the Inoue Research Aid for Young Scientists Awarded to Nine KU Members
• Student Lounge 'KI-ZU-NA' Monthly Event: March
• Kyoto University Hakubi Project to Foster and Support Young Researchers （For fiscal 2009） Informal decision for researchers hired by the Kyoto University Young Researcher Development Center
• Second International Symposium on Service Innovation Held
• KU Welcoming UTM Vice Chancellor
• The 13th Kyoto University International Symposium Held
• KU Students participating in the COP15 in Copenhagen
• The 2009 Academic Film Competition Award Ceremony and the Award Winning Film　Screening Event held
• "Let's Study Abroad!": Introduction of Overseas Partner Schools by Current and Former Exchange Students (Second Round)
• The Completion Ceremony for the 9th KCJS Program (2009-10 Autumn Course） and the Orientation Sessions for the 10th KCJS Program （2009-10 Spring Course） for Auditing Students held
• Kyoto University Technology Showcase New York 2009 held
• Traffic Safety and Disaster Prevention Training Session for Foreign Students held
• New Concept Models of Kyoto-Car, Kyoto Style Electric Vehicle, unveiled
• AEARU 15th AGM and 25th BOD held at Tohoku University
• Kyoto Team enters iGEM!:　KU Student Team wins Silver Award at 2009 iGEM, International Cell Engineering Competition
• Japan-U.S.-Europe Trilateral Symposium on Intellectual Property (IP) held
• "Let's study abroad! （Special Program） ‒ Briefing Session on St. Gallen Symposium" held
• Graduate School of Management’s Kansai Urban Bank Chair International Symposium held
• The 51st Kyoto University November Festival held
• Noh Play Appreciation Event held

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Published February

• Professor Tanaka has been reelected as the next Director of the Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education
• Professor Kawamoto has been elected as the next Director of the Radioisotope Research Center
• Miyama Venison, Forest Blessing, Making Its Debut at Tasting Event Held in Kyoto
• Fire Drill Conducted at Shugakuin International House
• Computing in the 21st Century Conference Held
• The Bernd T. Matthias Prize Awarded to Yoshiteru Maeno, Professor at the Graduate School of Science
• JSPS-VCC G8 Seminar Held
• Kasetsart University Students Visited Japan under the International Exchange Subject Program
• MANGA Kyoto University Now Available in Foreign Languages
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" February Event 'Let's make Kyoto's most famous souvenir sweet 'YATSUHASHI''
• Professor Sakai has been elected as the next Director of the Environment Preservation Center
• Professor Tsuda has been elected as the next Director of the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere
• Professor Maegawa has been reelected as the next Director of the Research Center for Low Temperature and Materials Sciences
• International Workshop "Asian Bioethics Research Network Meeting Kyoto" held
• Professor Yano has been elected as the next Director of the Institute of Economic Research
• Seminar experience workshop for middle-school students titled "Junior Campus 2009" held
• The 2009 Open Campus at Uji Campus, Kyoto University held
• Social gathering held with KCJS students
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-March
• Kyoto University Delegates attend the International Exhibition for Higher Education in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Professor Matsuoka has been elected as the next Director of the Institute for Virus Research
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event:February
• Delegation from Seoul National University visited Katsura Campus.
• Professor Nakashima has been elected as the next Director of the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies
• JSPS-VCC Coordinators' Meeting held on 20th January 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Professor Idani has been reelected as the next Director of the Wildlife Research Center

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Published January

• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" January Event 'First Calligraphy of the New Year 2010 at 'KI-ZU-NA''
• Commencement for Doctoral Degrees Held
• [Call for Papers] iCeMS Int'l Symposium "Control and Engineering of Self-Organized and Excitable Systems in Biology and Chemistry"
• Professor Tomida has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies and the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies
• Professor Akamatsu has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Letters and the Faculty of Letters
• Kyoto University teams win first and second places in the National Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
• Shooting of NHK drama "Kao" takes place
• Kyoto University Day held at Zhejiang University
• Professor Emeritus Yorio Hinuma Selected for the Order of Culture
• The 19th Hidekazu Yoshida Prize Awarded to Akeo Okada (Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities)
• Professor Shinichi Yamamuro of the Institute for Research in Humanities and Professor Shimon Sakaguchi of the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences determined as recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
• The Graduate School of Management concludes the Education/Academic Exchange Agreement with the University of Transport and Communications, Hanoi
• Lecture by Dr. Yoichiro Nambu, 2008 Nobel Laureate
• Professor Kobayashi has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Management
• President Hiroshi Matsumoto Attends the 90th Anniversary Ceremony of Nankai University, China
• KU Welcoming Members of Organizations related to Japanese, Chinese and Korean Science and Technology Policies
• Academic Exchange Agreement Concluded between KU WRC and Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
• President Hiroshi Matsumoto Attends 6th Japan-China University Presidents' Conference
• Seminar on Informatics 2009 Held in Bangkok and Hanoi by the Graduate School of Informatics
• Investigative visit by faculty/student interchange group from Korea University of South Korea
• K.U.PROFILE: Visit to China for recruiting field research for Undergraduate International Course Program of Global Engineering
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-February
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• Kyoto University Open Campus 2009 held
• Public symposium titled "Trend of Educational Reforms in Japan and South Korea" held
• Professor Takuda has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Energy Science
• Professor Saji has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Professor Tanaka has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Economics and the Faculty of Economics
• A First for Japan: an Academic Cooperation & Exchange Memorandum concluded with the ASEAN University Network (AUN) at the Office of the Higher Education Commission of the Thailand Ministry of Education
• "2nd iCeMS Crosstalk" Now Available on the Website - Michiyo Koyanagi(Research Associate at iCeMS/CiRA) & Mineko Kengaku (Associate Professor/Principal Investigator at iCeMS)
• Welcome Party for KCJS Students Held
• KU Hakubi Project to Foster and Support Young Researchers
• Cooperation with Tsinghua University, China, for a KU Global COE Program ("Informatics Education and Research Center for a Knowledge-Circulating Society" by the Graduate School of Informatics and the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies)
• Professor Matsuzawa has been reelected as the next Director of the Primates research institute
• Professor Tokitou has been reelected as the next Director of the Institute for Chemical Research
• Participation in Japan Education Fair 2009 (Taiwan) of Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)
• KURENAI Ranked No. 1 in Japan and 24th in the World in the Ranking Web of World Repositories
• Academic Exchange Agreement Concluded between KU PRI and Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
• First in Japan! Number of papers in the Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI) exceeds 40,000
• Professor Iehisa Nezu of the Graduate School of Engineering receives the Yalin Award, the main award of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
• Commencement for Doctoral Degrees Held
• Vietnamese Students Visiting KU
• Thailand Study Tour of "KU Pocket Seminar: Tropical Agriculture and the Environment"
• The world’s first animal testing of boron neutron capture therapy using an accelerator commenced
• The Center for Research in Business Administration of the Graduate School of Management Concluding a Joint Research Cooperation Agreement with Nichinan Town, Tottori Prefecture
• Funeboko Wheels and Axles Entrusted to KU by Gion Festival Funeboko Preservation Group
• The Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star Awarded to Itaru Tomiya, Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities
• KU Selected as a Core School for MEXT Global 30 Project in 2009
• Interacting with KU Alumni in Taiwan
• Kyoto University VBL and Stanford University SCTI co-host the Innovation Dialogue
• Professor Fuyuki Ishikawa of the Graduate School of Biostudies receives the Nissan Science Prize
• International Symposium 2009 co-organized by Tokyo University and Kyoto University held
• "Let’s study abroad!" Experience of Upperclassmen held
• Traffic Safety and Disaster Prevention Training Session for Foreign Students held
• Associate Professor Atsushi Igarashi of the Graduate School of Informatics, receives the first Microsoft Research Japan New Faculty Award (fundamental field of information)
• Akeo Okada (Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities) Selected by the ACA as a Winner of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artist
• "The Power to Develop Science" - Lecture Given by KU Professor Emeritus Toshihide Maskawa in Commemoration of His Winning the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Professor Takashi Araki of the Graduate School of Biostudies receives the Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award
• Beware of Downloading Illegally!
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event:January

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Published December

• Professor Mabuchi has been elected as the next Dean of the School of Government
• 2009 KU Graduate School Entrance Ceremony Held
• 2009 KU Faculty Entrance Ceremony Held
• "My Bottle" Monitoring Experiment to Be Conducted at KU
• 67,298 Bottles Sold in Fiscal 2008 "White Nile," "Blue Nile," and "Ruby Nile" Jointly Developed by Waseda, KU, and Kizakura
• The Medal with Purple Ribbon Awarded to Gunzi Saito (KU Professor Emeritus), Masanori Murakami (KU Professor Emeritus) and Kazuhiro Nagata (Professor at the KU Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences)
• The 2009 Commendation for Science and Technology by the MEXT Bestowed upon 14 KU Researchers
• Orientation Sessions for SCTI 2009 Program April – June, 2009 Held
• Kyoto University Working with Kyoto Brighton Hotel, etc. for Demonstration Research of Short-term Cultivation System
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-January
• Professor Tsujimoto has been elected as the next Dean of the Graduate School of Education
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" December Event 'KIZUNA' s Rice Cake Making Party!
• Freshman Guidance Held
• Kazutoshi Mori (Professor at the Graduate School of Science) and Shinya Yamanaka (Director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences) Win Gairdner International Awards
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• Professor Sugishima has been elected as the next Director of the Asian and African Area Studies
• The Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU): 15th Annual General Meeting and 25th Board of Directors Meeting held at Tohoku University
• Professor Shimizu has been elected as the next Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
• Kyoto University Technology Showcase New York 2009
• Professor Hayashi has been elected as the next Director of the Center for Integrated Area Studies

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Published November

• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event：December
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" November Event "Wood block print experience and leaf viewing at Kiyomizu-dera"
• Information for Applicants selected for the interview in Hakuraku Council
• The 15th　Intercultural Exchange Forum
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-December
• Interview time in Hakuraku conference
• Road Safety and Security Lecture for International Students
• Dashi Event Held at Kasetsart University, Thailand
• Shinya Yamanaka, CiRA Director, Wins Lasker Award
• The 2009 Japan-UK Higher Education Symposium Held
• President Hiroshi Matsumoto Attends 13th APRU Annual Presidents Meeting
• Completion Ceremony for SCTI 2009 Program (April – June, 2009) Held
• The 24th AEARU Board of Directors Meeting Held
• Fourth International Workshop for Far East Asian Young Rheologists Held
• International Bioethics Workshop "Adolescence and Medical Care" Held
• HAKU General Assembly Held
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event：November
• Reunion Party of KU Alumni Association in Bangkok Held
• Joint Orientation Session Held for KCJS Students and KU Auditing Students
• Reporting Session Held regarding U.S. Study Tour of International Exchange Subject: "Disaster Prevention and Environment in the 21st Century – Lessons Learned from Disaster Recovery"

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Published October

• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" October Event "Daimonji Mountain & Ginkaku-ji Temple Hiking"
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-November
• Rules to use the Kyoto University Networks
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event:October
• Important Notice: Kyoto University's Policy regarding New-Type Influenza (Fifth edition)
• Field trip for newly arrived International Students

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Published September

• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" September Event "Let's cook Kansai's specialty-Takoyaki!"
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-October
• Professor Tohru Fushiki has been appointed as the ｆｉｒｓｔ Director of the Young Researcher Development Center.
• Students from Kunming University of Science and Technology, Participate in The Overseas Study Program of International Exchange Course

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Published August

• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event:September
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" August Event 'Sake cellar visiting & Inari Shrine tour'
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-September
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event:August

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Published July

• The 10th APRU Doctoral Students Conference was held
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" July Event 'KI-ZU-NA's "Let's experience Tea Ceremony!"
• Professor Sakaguchi has been reelected as the next Director of the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences
• Primate Archaeology.
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-August
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event: July "Let's experience Tea Ceremony!"
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" June Event 'KI-ZU-NA's 'Kyogen' work shop!
• 【Between July 23rd (thu.) and 31st (Fri.),2009】Temporal Relocation of the International Center,International Service Office, and Foreign Student Division Office

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Published June

• Kyoto University's European Representative Office in London
• Welcome party for New International Students of 2009
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event: July【The event content and schedule have been changed.】
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-July

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Published May

• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event:June
• Important Notice: Kyoto University's Policy regarding New-Type Influenza (fourth edition)
• Kyoto University Museum Academic Film Expo 2009・Academic Film Competition
• Vice-Minister of MEXT, Mr. Hirokazu MATSUNO, visited PRI.
• The Interview "Tetsuro Matsuzawa on the chimpanzee mind"
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-June
• Important Notice: Kyoto University's Policy regarding New-Type Influenza (third edition)
• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" May Event 'Bamboo Shoot Hunting'
• Pandemic influenza
• Important Notice: Kyoto University's Policy regarding New-Type Influenza (second edition)
• Important Notice: Kyoto University's Policy regarding New-Type Influenza

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Published April

• Student Lounge "KI-ZU-NA" April Event 'Hanami 'Potluck' Picnic'
• Road Safety and Security Lecture for International Students
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-May
• Student Lounge‘KI-ZU-NA’Monthly Event: May
• NO DRUGS! "URGENT WARNING"
• Professor Yamamoto has been nominated as the next Director-General of the Institute for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education
• Professor Mori has been nominated as the next Director-General of the Organization for the Promotion of International Relations
• Dr. Keisuke Makino has been re-nominated as the next Director-General of the Kyoto University Office of Society-Academia Collaboration for Innovation
• Kyoto University International Industry-Academia Collaboration Homepage
• Scholarship Sign-up Schedule and Dates of Scholarship Payment-April

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