The new SPRING GX is being implemented for 1,315 project students from April 2025.
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!
October 30, 2025
Kiminori Sugino's research paper ”Role of ocean circulation in controlling Zn-Si decoupling in the North Pacific” has been published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Congratulations!
October 30, 2025
Wenyuan Shi's research paper "Evolution of lysine and arginine biosynthesis revealed by substrate specificity of lysine biosynthetic enzymes in Thermus thermophilus" has been published in FEBS PRESS. Congratulations!
October 19, 2025
Takuto Ohmura gave an oral presentation titled “Computational Study on the Catalytic Mechanism of Prenyltransferase Fur7 in the Biosynthetic Pathway of Meroterpenoids” at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan (September 24-26) and received the Student Presentation Award. Congratulations!
October 19, 2025
Kei Futagawa's research paper "A Methionine-Rich Repeat Forms a Spiral Conformation That Guides Aragonite Nanofiber Organization in Molluscan Ligaments" has been published in Biomacromolecules. Congratulations!
October 15, 2025
Moe Nanakubo has been awarded the IEEE SMC-JC Young Researcher Award at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2025) for her research entitled "Evaluation of Tractor Operators’ Aptitude for Remote Operation on Driving Courses Designed to Induce Fluctuations in Operator Tension". Congratulations!
October 15, 2025
Ryoma Sonoyama's research paper "Agile Omnidirectional Terahertz Fan Beam Steering in the WR3.4 Band Based on Gimbal-Controlled Annular Aperture Excitation" has been published in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. Congratulations!
October 12, 2025
Keisuke Sugie's research paper "Transitions and thermodynamics on species graphs of chemical reaction networks" has been published in Physical Review E. Congratulations!
October 10, 2025
Kouki Yamamoto presented a poster entitled ‘High-pressure magnetic transition in iron observed via diamond quantum sensing’ at the 29th International Conference on High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT-29) (Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan, September 28-October 3, 2025) and received the High Pressure Research award (Best Student Poster Award). Congratulations!
October 8, 2025
Rei Gibu's research paper "m6A RNA Modification Controls HTLV-1 Tax and Host Gene Expression" has been published in Cell Biomaterials. Congratulations!
October 5, 2025
Hedele Zeng's research paper "Spatiotemporal analysis of pericyte-induced dynamics in nascent angiogenic morphogenesis and heterogeneity using a microvessel-on-a-chip platform" has been published in Cell Biomaterials. 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.
