The new SPRING GX is scheduled to start in April 2024, following the re-application to JST.
The program will be expanded in scale and content, details of which will be announced in February 2024 or later. Please refer to the information on our website at this stage regarding the recruitment of project students for admission in spring 2024.
April 5, 2024
Megumi Kawai received the Archie Carr Student Award at the 42nd International Sea Turtle Symposium. Congratulations.
March 28, 2024
Kaito Seo received the Student Presentation Award at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan. Congratulations!
March 26, 2024
LI Hanzheng received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Doctoral Course 2023 from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. Congratulations!
March 22, 2024
Yuya Hamanaka won the Novonesis student poster prize at the 20th International Aspergillus Meeting, a pre-meeting of the 32nd Fungal Genetics Conference, for his presentation on 'Growth inhibition between filamentous fungal colonies of the same strainand its regulatory mechanism'. Congratulations!
March 7, 2024
Kai Sakurai received the Student Presentation Award at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research and the Joint Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation Science. Congratulations!
February 29, 2024
Chikako Iwai received the Best Presentation Award for her oral presentation at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences. Congratulations!
February 27, 2024
Yutaro Fukushima received the Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society.
He also received the 'JB Paper Award' for his paper entitled 'Structural and biochemical analyses of the nucleosome containing Komagataella pastoris histones' published in The Jounal of Biochemistry. The paper was awarded the 'JB Paper Award' at the conference. Congratulations!
February 27, 2024
Yutaro Fukushima received the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the 41st Chromosome Workshop and 22nd Nuclear Dynamics Conference. Congratulations!
February 5, 2024
Naruhiko Nimura received the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award at the Evolutionary Computation Symposium 2023. The title of the paper was "Development of Three-Dimensional High-Degree-of Freedom Multiobjective Design Optimisation Method and Its Application to Wingtip Design of Micro Aerial Vehicle". At the same time, he also received the Japanese Society for Evolutionary Computation Presentation Award. Congratulations!
January 16, 2024
Yoshiki Obinata received the SICE International Young Authors Award (SIYA) for his paper presentation at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023). Congratulations!
January 15, 2024
Aristide COLIN awrded Chemical Science Poster Prize at the 18th International Conference on Molecule-Based Magnets (ICMM2023). Congratulations!
December 27, 2023
Ayuka Iwakiri received the Incentive Award from the Tree Health Research Society, Japan for her research. Congratulations!
December 26, 2023
Takeru Yazaki received Honorable Mention Award at 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia(MUM 2023). Congratulations!
December 25, 2023
Akira Matsumoto received the Poster Presentation Award for Excellent Research at the 13th CSJ Chemistry Festa. Congratulations!
December 8, 2023
Mr. Takumi Morishima won the Best Student Presentation Award (1st place) at the 18th Japan International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition organized by SAMPE JAPAN. Congratulations!
November 27, 2023
Mana Yamakawa received the Student Best Poster Presentation Award at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology. Congratulations!
November 24, 2023
The work "遠い海辺のガトルート工場" by Naohiro Shinjo won the Grand Prize at the 33rd Ginkgo Namiki Literary Awards organised by the Alumni Association. Congratulations!
November 21, 2023
Akifumi Mine has been awarded the Student Presentation Award at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan in 2023 in the area 6, for his presentation entitled "Study of the superconducting gap in the Kagome lattice superconductor CsV3Sb5 by low-tempreture and high-resolution laser ARPES ". Congratulations!
October 25, 2023
Takumi Shibata won the Young Geographers Award at the 15th Korea-China-Japan Joint Conference on Geography held in Seoul, Korea from October 20 to 23 for his presentation entitled "International Comparison on Arrangement of Railroad and Bus in Rural Areas: Focusing on the Cases of Japan and South Korea. Congratulations!
October 25, 2023
Juhoe Kim was selected as the Best Student Paper in The 2023 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT-2023) held in Ling Shui, China from October 16 to October 18 with the paper title of "Measurement of Aerodynamic Passive Twisting in Lattice-Structured Propeller Blades via Wind Tunnel Tests". Congratulations!
October 20, 2023
Kengo Sakurai received the Poster Presentation Award at the "Symposium University of Tokyo - ETH Zurich - University of Zurich" held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) on 15 - 17 October 2023. Congratulations!
October 16, 2023
Takuto Yamamoto received the Japan Society of Transportation Economics Award in the Paper Division for his paper, "The Nature of Special Taxation Measures on Unprofitable Bus Routes and Its Problems" (published in Transportation Policy Research, Vol. 25, No. 81). Congratulations!
October 6, 2023
Shunsuke Sakai received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the informatics in Biology, Medicine and Pharmacology 2023 (IIBMP2023). Congratulations!
September 27, 2023
Yuan LIN was awarded the Student Outstanding Presentation Award of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science Section at the Japan Geoscience Union 2023 Annual Meeting. Congratulations!
September 20, 2023
Daisuke YAMAGISHI was awarded Postdoc-Prize for his oral presentation at the 15th International Society of Endocytobiology (ISE) held in Chicago. Congratulations!
August 22, 2023
Zhang Yiwei was awarded the HANGAI PRIZE for Presenting an outstanding paper at The Annual IASS Symposium at Melbourne,July 2023. Congratulations!
August 21, 2023
Shintaro Seki received the Student Presentation Award at the 132nd Humanities and Computing Conference. Congratulations!
July 31, 2023
Yuki Yamauchi received the Award for Excellence in Young Oral Presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting for Developmental Neuroscientists. Congratulations!
June 29, 2023
In the 13th International Nanomedicine Conference held during June 19-21st in Sydney, Chen Pengwen gave an oral presentation entitled “Intratumoral pH-Activated Nanocytokine Boosts Immunotherapy to Eradicate Cold Tumors”. The presentation has been awarded “The Best Oral Presentation” in the conference.Congratulations!
May 26, 2023
Takayoshi Higashi was awarded the Best Student Presentation Award (Oral Presentation Section) at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.Congratulations!
May 12, 2023
Yuuji Moroto received the Best Technical Paper Award at SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. He is the first Japanese to receive this award. Congratulations!
May 12, 2023
Naruhiko Nimura received the Student Outstanding Presentation Award for his presentation at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Nanae Miyazaki received the Ryotaro-chan Foundation Best Presentation Award from the Japanese Society for Biliary Atresia Research for her presentation on the mechanism of fetal bile flow and liver injury using the mouse model of biliary atresia, Sox17+/-. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
YUAN WEILIN participated in KYOTO University Student Global Venture Contest 2022 (Online) with the theme of AI drug discovery and won the "Kyoto Research Park (KRP) Award" (second prize). Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Ryohei Yamada received the Best Poster Award at the 7th Photonics Workshop. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Masahiro Fujiwara received the Young Scientist Incentive Award Winner of the 66th Space Science and Technology Conference for his research on "Orbit Optimization Based on Observability Index for Estimating Gravity Field of Small Objects”. Congratulations!
April 13, 2023
Takuya Nakashima received the Best Presentation Award for his presentation "Proposal of Model-Based Design Methodology for Automatic Vessels and Social Implementation Mechanisms" at the 1DCAE/MBD Symposium 2022. Congratulations!
December 19, 2022
Spring GX Office Partner University Overseas Dispatch Program will be launched.
Partner universities: Stanford University, Arizona State University, University of Manchester, etc.
(Details to be released at a later date)
September 5, 2022
WEN Zhewei received the Certificate of Best Poster Award at the 18th Japan-Korea Symposium on Catalysis! Congratulations!
September 4, 2022
Hiroyuki Kojima has been awarded the 9th Minao Shibata Music Critics Award for Encouragement! Congratulations!
July 5, 2022
Call for applicants of October 2022 enrollment has started!
June 20, 2022
Hanzheng LI (D2, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences) has received the 38th Plasma and Fusion Society of Japan Young Scientist Presentation Award in 2021! Congratulations!
June 17, 2022
YouTube channel has been launched!
June 17, 2022
Application details for prospective doctoral students of October 2022 will be available on our website in early July 2022.
June 17, 2022
The outreach activities of Mr. Kenyo U (D1, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) were introduced in newspapers and on TV (Kyoto Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, KBS Kyoto)!
June 17, 2022
Mr. Shika Cyou's (D3, Department of Frontier Sciences) research was published in press release!
Press Release Press Release
June 17, 2022
Hiroki Takezaki's (D3, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology) research was featured in a newspaper (San-in Chuo Shimpo)!
June 17, 2022
Mr. Ryosuke Nishide's (D2, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) research was published in Physical Review Letters and selected for the cover and Editor's suggestion on 2022/6/2!
Press Release Nikkei Shimbun
June 17, 2022
Mr. Takashi Sakamoto (D1, Graduate School of Engineering) received 日本物理学会学生優秀発表賞 on the 77th Annual Meeting (2022) of JPS! Congratulations!
June 17, 2022
Ms. Mieko Takamura's (D2, Graduate School of Science) research activities were introduced in newspaper (Iwate Nippo)!
June 17, 2022
Mrs. Jianli Guo's (D3, Graduate School of Engineering) research was published in press release, newspaper (Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun) and other medias!
TECH+ EE Times Japan
June 17, 2022
Interview of Mr. Yingting CHEN (D3, Graduate School of Engineering) now available on YouTube!
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". Approx. 1,200 doctoral students from all schools of the University of Tokyo participate in this project.
