UC San Diego, Point Loma Nazarene University Join Hands; Announce 2023 Kyoto Prize Symposium
UC San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University will host the 22nd Kyoto Prize Symposium to celebrate and honor the 37th annual laureates of the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, during a one-of-a-kind series of laureate presentations in advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts and philosophy. The presentations, which are free and open to the public, will be held March 15-17.
Tickets will be sold for the symposium’s March 15 gala and opening ceremony at Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel to help fund the event’s scholarship program (for tickets, contact Marisa Lin at 858-733-0323). The gala will culminate in the presentation of the 2023-2024 Kyoto Prize scholarships, valued at up to US$10,000 or MXN100,000 each, to six outstanding high school seniors from San Diego and Baja-area schools.
The Kyoto Prize is an international award of Japanese origin, presented to those who have made significant contributions to “the development of science and civilization” and “the enrichment of the human spirit.” The late Dr. Kazuo Inamori established the nonprofit Inamori Foundation in 1984 based on his life philosophy, and founded the Kyoto Prize as its primary activity. Since the inception of San Diego’s Kyoto Prize Symposium in 2002, local events have brought more than $4.3 million in educational funding and college scholarships to the San Diego region.
San Diego is honored to be the symposium’s host city to these renowned laureates, who have made influential contributions to their respective fields. Every year, attendees benefit from the laureates’ inspiring lectures and presentations—both at the symposium’s live events and via online video streaming. Inamori, who founded Kyocera Corporation in 1959, established San Diego-based Kyocera International, Inc. just 10 years later as his first subsidiary company outside of Japan. Today, the Kyocera Group includes nearly 300 companies and more than 80,000 employees worldwide.