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Members of the Tokyo Tech Rowing Club have finished first and second in the men's coxed four category of the 45th East Japan Rookie Competition, held on November 19 and 20 at the Toda Boat Course in Saitama Prefecture.The East Japan…

An interdisciplinary group consisting of students from Tokyo Tech and National Taiwan University have won the second E×S Challenge with their proposal for a treatment method for cataracts. The group collected the School of Engineering E×S…

The Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics (TAC-MI) held its 4th International Forum at Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture from December 5 to 7, 2022.TAC-MI's 4th International Forum…

Kenichi Iga, Honorary Professor/Former President of Tokyo Institute of Technology received the 2022 Wiley-IEEE Press Professional Book Award. This award is granted in recognition of excellent technical books published by Wiley-IEEE Press.…

Ultraviolet (UV) light has higher energy photons than visible light and, thus, has more applications. Tokyo Tech researchers have now developed a brilliant innovation—a solid-state material that can stably and efficiently upconvert…

Members of the Aqua Lab from the Society for the Study of Robotics — an official Tokyo Tech student club — have finished third at the 8th Underwater Robotics Competition in Okinawa. The contest was held in Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture…

A recent study has unveiled with unprecedented detail how singlet oxygen molecules diffuse along double strand DNAs, paving the way to more effective nucleic acid-targeting photodynamic therapy (PDT). A research team at Tokyo Tech used a…

The Tokyo Tech International Student Association (TISA) hosted the 2022 Autumn Welcome Party on Ookayama Campus on November 7. The event was organized in collaboration with two other student groups — glober(External site), an…

The Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) has welcomed eleven new graduate-level students as the fifth cohort of December 2022 to its program. A registration ceremony and orientation for the new students were held on December 5 on…

Team Tokyo Tech has won the silver medal at the 2022 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) held in Paris, France from October 26 to 28. The contest was attended by 356 teams from over 40 countries and regions.The…