The new SPRING GX (since April 2024) is a project involving approximately 1,307 doctoral students (including those in 4-year doctoral programs) from across the university.
January 30, 2026
Kota Oishi's research paper "Drawing boundaries between feasible and unfeasible zeolite intergrowths using high-throughput computational screening with synthesis validation" has been published in Nature Materials. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Yuki Nakamoto's research paper "Local policy governance arrangements and COVID-19-related mortality in municipalities in Japan: a cross-sectional ecological study" has been published in Frontiers in Public Health. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Wenbo Huang's research paper "Changes in psychotropic medication prescription patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic among Japanese children, adolescents and young adults: interrupted time-series study using a national claims database" has been published in BJPsych Open. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Mao Kobayashi (Sakashita)'s research paper "Alarm pheromone activates posterior medial amygdala-to-bed nucleus of the stria terminalis projections in male rats" has been published in Neuroscience. Congratulations!
January 30, 2026
Shusuke Ito's research paper ‘Benchmarking Universal Interatomic Potentials on Zeolite’ has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!
January 25, 2026
Nozomi Kakinuma's research paper ‘Dust and Cloud Transport by Traveling Waves in the Martian Atmosphere Studied With Mars Climate Sounder’ has been published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Congratulations!
January 19, 2026
Sun Hanyu's research paper ‘Sharp subthreshold switching in interface-modified organic electrochemical transistors for millivolt-level signal sensing’ has been published in npj Soft Matter. Congratulations!
January 19, 2026
Tetsuji Kato's research paper ‘Energy exchange between electrons and ions driven by ITG–TEM turbulence’ has been selected as a Featured Article in Physics of Plasmas. Congratulations!
January 16, 2026
Yoji Okabe has received the Best Talk Prize for his research entitled "Potential for Photosymbiosis: Algal Survival and Acclimation in Fish Embryos" at the Symposium of the International Society of Endocytobiology 2025. Congratulations!
January 15, 2026
Gaku Kinoshita's research paper “Spatiotemporal Evolution of the 2022 March Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Revealed by Multipoint Observations of Forbush Decreases” has been published in the Astrophysical Journal. Congratulations!
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January 7, 2026
Zhengyu SU's research paper “Ring-opening graft polymerization of poly(p-dioxanone) from α-1,3-glucan for high-strength, thermoplastic, marine biodegradable materials” has been published in Polymer Degradation and Stability. Congratulations!
December 30, 2025
Yosuke Teshirogi received the Student Presentation Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. Congratulations!
December 30, 2025
Yosuke Teshirogi received the Student Outstanding Presentation Award at the 5th Biomolecular Simulation and Modeling Workshop. Congratulations!
December 24, 2025
Taiki Horimoto has been awarded the 23rd Tokugawa Encouragement Prize for his research by the Tokugawa Memorial Foundation. Congratulations!
December 23, 2025
Renan Sasaki’s research paper "Effects of Network Strand Length on the Unique Mechanical Properties of a Homogeneous Star Polymer Network Elastomer" has been published in Macromolecules. Congratulations!
December 22, 2025
Kaito Totsuka received the Gold Award for his poster presentation titled “Field-angle-resolved specific heat of an ultraclean UTe2 single crystal” at The 17th TOYOTA RIKEN International Workshop Ruthenates and Emerging Quantum Materials (REQM2025). Congratulations!
December 21, 2025
Tomoya Akiyama has been awarded the President's Award (Undergraduate/Graduate Student Category / Poster Session) at the 2025 Environmental Information Science Research Presentation Conference. Congratulations!
December 18, 2025
Rina Katsumata received the WIT Student Research Encouragement Award (IEICE Human Communication Group, Well-being Information Technology) by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, for her research entitled ‘Development of an English Reading-aloud System to Support Japanese Children with Dyslexia’. Congratulations!
December 14, 2025
Asuka Ishikawa's research paper has been published in the volume "The Present State of Ancient Literary Studies" (Seikansha, 2025). Congratulations!
December 5, 2025
Chihaya Koyama has been awarded the ACS Publications Outstanding Poster Award at the International Symposium on Solid State Chemistry (ISSSC2025) for his research entitled ‘Elucidation of electron orbital state in spinel-type oxide FeV2O4 with successive phase transition’. Congratulations!
December 4, 2025
Jun Nomura has been awarded the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 10th Anniversary International Conference of the International Academy of Family Psychology for his research entitled ‘The Functional Role of Different Types of Diffuse Parent-Child Boundaries in the Intergenerational Transmission of Abuse: A study of Japanese Mothers Raising Toddlers’. Congratulations!
December 4, 2025
Hayato Etani's research paper ”Selective agonism of GPR34 stimulates microglial uptake and clearance of amyloid β fibrils” has been published in Spring Nature. Congratulations!
December 4, 2025
Yui Takai has been awarded the Student Presentation Award at the 80th Annual Conference (2025) of the Physical Society of Japan for her research entitled "Static friction of liquid marbles". Congratulations!
December 3, 2025
Junhyeok Jeong has been awarded the Student Excellence Presentation Award (oral presentation) (Field 8: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems) at the 2025 Spring Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan for his research entitled ‘Extremely large superconducting gap opening and evidence of BCS-BEC crossover in small Fermi pocket of cuprate superconductors’. Congratulations!
December 2, 2025
Taishi Okegawa's research paper ‘Facilitation of supplementary motor area activity modulates the sense of effort: a theta burst stimulation study’ has been published in Neuroscience Letters. Congratulations!
November 29, 2025
Shunki Tsumagari's research paper "Associative Exemplification Method Using Generative Artificial Intelligence to Support Associative Memory in Method of Loci" has been published in the Transactions of Human Interface Society. Congratulations!
November 28, 2025
Taiga Nakamoto was awarded the Young Encouragement Award at the 19th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Condensed Matter Science. Congratulations!
November 25, 2025
Taiki Inoue was awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the 39th Symposium of the Special Committee on Pesticide Design for his presentation. Congratulations!
November 24, 2025
HA Linh Thuy's research paper “Ultrafine Bubble Priming Promotes Adzuki Bean (Vigna angularis) Germination Under Drought Stress via Modulation of Seed Traits and Reactive Oxygen Species Production” has been published in Seeds. Congratulations!
November 24, 2025
Thuy Linh Ha has been awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award (Oral Presentation Category) at the 260th Annual Meeting of the Crop Science Society of Japan for her research titled ‘Effect of ultrafine bubbles priming on seed germination of Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)’. Congratulations!
November 22, 2025
Yuki Hosomi has been awarded the Student Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (IEEE VPPC 2025) for his research titled ‘Practical Method for Estimating Energy Consumption Model of Electric Vehicles Using Real-World Driving Data’. Congratulations!
November 19, 2025
Utamaru Rentaro's paper ‘From Reduced to Structural: A New Identification Strategy for Production Functions’ has been awarded the Best Paper Prize at the 20th Applied Econometrics Conference. Congratulations!
November 18, 2025
Yuya Hamanaka gave a poster presentation and an oral presentation at the 24th Conference on Fungal Molecular Biology Society of Japan, and was awarded the Corporate Special Prize (Akita Konno Special Prize). Congratulations!
November 17, 2025
Erika Yamashita has been awarded the Poster Prize at ATLAS Week 2025 in Paestum for her research topic: ‘Sensitivity study of stau search with small mass splitting in the leptonic-hadronic decay mode at ATLAS’. Congratulations!
November 14, 2025
Sao Myatmarlar has been awarded the Thesis of the Year Award for 2025 (Infrastructure Cluster) at the ADB-Japan Scholarship Program Conference 2025 for her research theme “Resilience of Microbial Activity in Enhanced Sewer Self-Purification against Salinity Shock and Thermal Shock.” Congratulations!!
November 14, 2025
Rika Nakagawa has been awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Wildlife Medicine for her research. Congratulations!
November 14, 2025
Bai Chen 's research paper, “Potential Use of Pedestrian Streets in Accordance with Urban Functional Context Based on Operational Practices and Spatial Location”, has been published in the Proceedings of the Conference of Japan Society of Traffic Engineers. Congratulations!
November 14, 2025
Bai Chen 's research paper, “Analytical Methods for Identifying Spatial Usage Pattern of Diverse Activities in Residential Street Spaces”, has been published in the Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan. Congratulations!
November 13, 2025
Kouta Nakadai received the Young Investigator Award at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society for his research. Congratulations!
November 12, 2025
Asuka Ishikawa gave a lecture at Aichi Prefectural Meiwa High School Affiliated Junior High School to 100 first-year students who will soon begin inquiry-based learning. Drawing on her own research activities, she spoke about inquiry-based learning and Japanese literature research.
November 11, 2025
Yurino Yamaguchi's research paper has been published in Society and Survey, Issue 35. Congratulations!
November 10, 2025
Genta Osaki received Student Presentation Award of the Physical Society of Japan at the 80th Annual Meeting (2025) for his presentation. Congratulations!
November 6, 2025
Takahiro Migita's research paper "Impact of Tryptophan Positional Isomerism on Physicochemical and Biological Properties: A Case Study Using Gramicidin A Analogs" has been published in the American Chemical Society's JACS Au. Congratulations!
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November 4, 2025
Kouhei Kasai has been awarded the JSAI Annual Conference Award 2025 of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (39th Conference) for his research presentation entitled ‘Time Series Analysis of Early Modern Japanese Literature using Japan Search’. Congratulations!!
November 2, 2025
LO Helix's research paper "Fostering or restricting youth political participation? A longitudinal analysis of high school civics textbooks in Japan" has been published in International Journal of Educational Research. Congratulations!
The "Fostering Advanced Human Resources to Lead Green Transformation (GX)" project proposed by Professor Shin-ichi Ohkoshi (Project officer) has been accepted as a program for Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by Next Generation (SPRING) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) from autumn, 2021. Hereinafter this project is referred to as "SPRING GX". 1,315 doctoral students from all schools of the University of Tokyo participate in this project.
