TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

On October 2, 2021, Tohoku University co-hosted online the University Presidents' Meeting with Heidelberg University in Germany. Tohoku University's President Hideo Ohno co-chaired the conference with Heidelberg University's Rector…

Tohoku University celebrated its 114th anniversary with Homecoming Day festivities on October 23. The event was held online this year due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, and was a good opportunity for alumni abroad to also…

Tohoku University welcomed 22 new international undergraduates to the Future Global Leadership (FGL) programme in an online ceremony on September 29.The students, representing 10 countries, are enrolled in one of the programme's three…

Six Chinese students have been named recipients of the 2021 Tohoku University Professor Fujino Incentive Award. They were given their certificates at a ceremony on September 24 at the former lecture hall of Chinese literary figure Lu…

Tohoku University welcomed 22 new international undergraduates to the Future Global Leadership (FGL) programme in an online ceremony on September 29.The students, representing 10 countries, are enrolled in one of the programme's three…

The HeKKSaGOn Alliance returned to Sendai for the 8th session of the German-Japanese University Presidents' Conference on September 9 and 10.The last time Tohoku University hosted the six-member alliance was in 2015. This time however,…

Tohoku University and University College London (UCL) are contributing matching funds to support research and exchange activities jointly conducted by researchers at both universities beginning next academic year.In order to qualify for…

Tohoku University is launching a new crowdfunding programme called Tomoni, which invites students to submit a plan to realise a dream, tackle a social problem or engage in positive activism to improve their community.The Tomoni (which…

The picturesque town of Kisakata, located within Nikaho City and 70 kilometers south of Akita City, lies along Japan's northwestern coast and faces out to the Sea of Japan.Here, on July 10, 1804, disaster struck. An estimated 7.1…

Twenty-five young researchers and entrepreneurs from 16 countries took part in this year's Falling Walls Lab Sendai, which was hosted online by Tohoku University on August 31.Saeka Uchino, a Ph.D student at Tohoku University's Graduate…