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.
April 28, 2026
Shunki Tsumagari has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET) 2026 for his research titled 'Examining the Influence of Co-Creation Perception in Associative Creation with Generative AI on Memory Consolidation’. Congratulations!!
April 20, 2026
Merkur Smajlaj has been named to the ‘Forbes 30 Under 30 2025’ list for the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in recognition of his entrepreneurial and scientific engagement. Congratulations!!
Forbes 30 under 30 Europe in Category Manufacturing and industry
April 17, 2026
A research paper by Yutaro Nirasawa’s research group, entitled ‘Impact of Aggregational Growth Modeling on the Intensification of Extreme Tropical Cyclones through Radiative Feedbacks’, has been published in Atmospheric Science Letters. Congratulations!!
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April 10, 2026
A research paper by Kei Futagawa’s research group, entitled ‘Elucidation of the aragonite nanofiber formation mechanism of LICP contained in the hinge ligament of Pinctada fucata’, has been published in PNAS. Congratulations!!
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April 8, 2026
Yuni Eeh's research paper "Reconstructing professional identity in cross-cultural clinical practice: a Dialogical Autoethnography of a Korean counselor in Japan" has been published in the International Review of Psychiatry (Taylor & Francis). Congratulations!!
March 25, 2026
Sayoko Hanamoto has been awarded the Student Excellence in Presentation Award at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Veterinary Epidemiology for her research. Congratulations!
March 25, 2026
Jun Nomura's research paper "The Role of Maternal Separation Anxiety in Toddler Maltreatment: Differences between Mothers of Sons and Daughters within an Intergenerational Transmission of Abuse Framework" has been published in the Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology. Congratulations!!
March 24, 2026
Chihaya Koyama has been awarded the Student Presentation Award by the Physical Society of Japan. Congratulations!!
March 17, 2026
Yusuke Kihara has been awarded the Young Investigator Award at the 22nd Conference on Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain for his research. Congratulations!
March 17, 2026
Masahiro Takano’s research paper, “Negligible Hydrogen Solubility in FeS under High-Pressure and High-Temperature Conditions: Implications for Hydrogen Storage in Planetary Cores”, has been published in ACS: Earth and Space Chemistry. Congratulations!!
March 13, 2026
WENG Qing has been awarded the 2025 Quantum Beam Science Festival Student Encouragement Prize for her research. Congratulations!!
March 13, 2026
Yifan Liu has been awarded a Travel Award at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society (BPS) for her research entitled ‘Development of charged nanobubble-containing media and their effects on iPSC-derived cell culture’. Congratulations!
March 13, 2026
Yifan Liu’s research paper, “Stable charged nanobubbles with distinct polarities in culture media differentially affect the viability of human iPSC-derived neurons”, has been published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!!
March 11, 2026
Kanako Narita has been awarded Second Prize in the Student Paper Competition at the 2026 URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting (URSI-JRSM 2026). Congratulations!
March 11, 2026
Kohei Yamaguchi has been awarded the Excellent Student Presentation Award (ISAD2025) for his research paper entitled ‘Temporal Changes in Sauropodomorph Foot Morphology and Graviportal Adaptations Under Gigantism Inferred from Trackways’. Congratulations!
March 9, 2026
Shunsuke Murakami’s research paper, “Dynamic Covalent Platform for Chiroptically Tunable Figure-Eight Macrocycles from Preorganised Alkaloidal Scaffolds”, has been published in JACS Au. Congratulations!!
March 8, 2026
Wu Yutong’s research paper has been published in The Journal of Eastern Religions, No. 145. Congratulations!!
March 6, 2026
Atsuhiro Yamaguchi's research paper, “kaleidomap: an artistic map expression collaging multiple maps”, has been published in the International Journal of Cartography. Congratulations!!
March 6, 2026
Marimo Fujioi’s research paper, ‘Nick’s “Childishness” and “Melancholy” in *The Great Gatsby*’, has been published in *Gatsby 100 Years: Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s *The Great Gatsby*** (Sanshusha). Congratulations!!
March 6, 2026
Minami Toyoshima's co-translation with Professor Kenichi Abe of Kateřina Tučková’s novel *The Goddesses of Žítková* has been published by Shinchosha. Congratulations!!
March 4, 2026
Hiroto Murata’s research paper, “Impact of gate dielectric surfaces on carrier transport and injection in inverted-coplanar single-crystal organic transistors”, has been published in Physical Review Applied. Congratulations!!
March 4, 2026
Naoya Katsuhama’s research paper, “Root water uptake and photosynthesis synergistically enhance drought tolerance in interspecific hybrid sugarcane”, has been published in Plant Production Science, 29(1), 77–89. Congratulations!!
March 3, 2026
Yo Kimura has received the Best Presentation Award at the 58th Annual Musculoskeletal Tumor Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association for her research. Congratulations!
March 3, 2026
Sae Mitamura’s research paper, “Thermal Stabilisation of Self-Assembled Monolayers by ALD-Grown Metal Oxide Overlayers”, has been published in ACS Publications. Congratulations!!
March 2, 2026
Sarina Enami's research paper "How acute care nurses facilitate advance care planning for older adults with unplanned hospitalizations: A qualitative study" has been published in Geriatric Nursing (Volume 69). Congratulations!!
March 2, 2026
Yu QIN’s research paper, "From Welfare to Well-Groomed: How Income Conditions Influence Moral Perception of Beauty Consumption", has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics. Congratulations!!
March 2, 2026
Nagi Maeda’s research paper, “Impact of Momentum Relaxation Process on Miniband Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices”, has been published in Physica status solidi (a). 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.
