2022

It started with a childhood memory. Or maybe it was a dream. MIT Senior Lecturer Ken Urban couldn’t get the image of a face in a window out of his head. Eventually he developed the vision into a rough idea for a plot. Last year, he…

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that the Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs (SECEP) in Virginia entered into a resolution agreement regarding the use of restraint and seclusion and…

Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and ANA Group (ANA) conducted a field test for the WALK-MATE* walking support robot on October 12 at Koyasan, Wakayama Prefecture. WALK-MATE has been developed by the Miyake Laboratory of the…

Bachelor's program students who completed their Liberal Arts Final Report in their third year of study in academic year 2021 and were selected as best thesis winners presented their work and experiences at an event held on Ookayama Campus…

Seawater is known to contain a significant concentration of boric acid, which can be toxic and deadly to living systems. As such, fish living in marine habitats need to be able to excrete boric acid in order to maintain a healthy boron…

A new immunosensor based on Quenchbody technology shows great potential as a fast, inexpensive, and convenient tool to detect SARS-CoV-2. Developed by scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Tokyo Medical and Dental…

Five students have received the 2022 Tokyo Tech Award for Student Leadership. Awarded annually since 2002 to students in the second, third, or fourth year of their bachelor's program, the award aims to encourage highly motivated students…

A group of students from the laboratory of Professor Kotaro Inoue and Assistant Professor Yosuke Kimura at Tokyo Tech's School of Engineering have won second place in the Bloomberg ESG Investment Contest 2022, a contest for bachelor and…

Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and the University of Cambridge jointly held a "WORKSHOP ON SUMMER EXCHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM (SERP)" on November 25. There were more than 100 registrations by faculty and students from both…

The elemental composition of the Earth comes from its fiery past, through accretion of various solar system objects. New samples collected by the Hayabusa2 space mission provide insight into the origins of moderately volatile elements…