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The GCSi was jointly developed by UTokyo’s Center for Global Commons (CGC), Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and Yale University. The index comprehensively assesses, compares, and visualizes impact of each country’s…

HyeJeong Kim’s “journey in seismology,” as she calls it, was sparked by her interest in the field following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and grounded in her fascination with earth science as a high school student in South Korea.…

Researchers used platinum and aluminum compounds to create a catalyst which enables certain chemical reactions to occur more efficiently than ever before. The catalyst could significantly reduce energy usage in various industrial and…

A small, light-activated molecule recently tested in mice represents a new approach to eliminating clumps of amyloid protein found in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients. If perfected in humans, the technique could be used as an…

The first workshop of the International Laboratory for Astrophysics, Neutrinos and Cosmology Experiments, “ILANCE”, which has been established in Kashiwa Campus by CNRS/IN2P3 (French National Centre for Scientific Research / French…

The University of Tokyo AY 2021 Spring undergraduate matriculation ceremony was held at the Nippon Budokan on the morning of Monday, April 12th.The ceremony was held only with new students, in order to minimize risk of infection of the…

The University of Tokyo AY 2021 Spring graduate matriculation ceremony was held at the Nippon Budokan on the afternoon of Monday, April 12th.The ceremony was held only with new students, in order to minimize risk of infection of the novel…

In 2020, due to the pandemic, activities at UTokyo drastically changed in ways we had never expected. In this issue of Tansei, we record various efforts made at UTokyo over the past six months to offer a chance to think about the…

The present-day coastal area in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, as seen from the rooftop of the Futaba Business Incubation and Community Center on Nov. 21, 2020. A sea wall built along the shore and construction vehicles at work can be…

Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly herculean genius of multilinguals, researchers…