Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life. There is so much interest in the topic of health, but what exactly is "health"? Institute for Liberal Arts professor Naoyuki Hayashi studies health by looking at two specific relationships: exercise and ocular blood flow, and chewing and nutrition.
In two years, the Summer Olympics will be hosted by Tokyo, where the Ookayama Campus is located. Among the Olympic events, swimming is one of the most popular sports. The crawl is especially popular because it is the fastest of the swimming events. Identifying the most efficient crawl stroke has long been the dream of researchers. Tokyo Tech's Motomu Nakashima Laboratory has played an important role in this research.
Associate Professor Kazuhiko Maeda of the School of Science, Tokyo Tech developed an innovative mixed anion compound photocatalyst, which allows for efficient artificial photosynthesis using visible light. Please watch and share the video.
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of molecular wire doped with organometallic ruthenium to achieve unprecedentedly higher conductance than earlier molecular wires. The origin of high conductance in these wires is fundamentally different from similar molecular devices and suggests a potential strategy for developing highly conducting "doped" molecular wires.
Researchers at Tokyo Tech have honed in on an enzyme belonging to the glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) family as a promising target for increasing biofuel production from the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.
Scientists at Tokyo Tech have addressed one of the major disadvantages of all-solid-state batteries by developing batteries with a low resistance at their electrode/solid electrolyte interface. The fabricated batteries showed excellent electrochemical properties that greatly surpass those of traditional and ubiquitous Li-ion batteries; thereby, demonstrating the promise of all-solid-state battery technology and its potential to revolutionize portable electronics.
Researchers at Tokyo Tech propose an improved mouse model that could revolutionize bone metastasis research. Their method, which involves injecting cancer cells via the so-called caudal artery in the mouse tail, overcomes many limitations of traditional mouse models. The new model could thus open a new chapter in the development of therapeutic strategies for bone metastasis and cancer progression.
Scientists at Tokyo Tech have identified two proteins that allow plants to respond to changes in surrounding light conditions and thereby make photosynthesis more efficient.
ELSI's Dr. Ramses Ramirez reviews the latest advances in the understanding of planetary habitability, synthesizing them into a more comprehensive habitable zone model that can be used to search for life on other planets.
From June 4th to June 8th, the 2018 NASA Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) was held at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In recent years, ELSI has sponsored this conference in some capacity, as ELSI expects that this will foster the development of young Astrobiology researchers around the world.
情報理工学院 情報工学系の濱田貴大さん（修士課程2年）が、8月4日、5日にかけて行われた「遊☆戯☆王」シリーズのeスポーツ世界選手権「遊戯王ワールドチャンピオンシップ2018（Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2018）」のデュエルリンクスの部において、世界チャンピオンとなりました。
尚、本ワークショップとは別に、10月28、29日に、東工大（大岡山）にて、米国Stanford Univ./d.schoolの現役tutors 3名によるワークショップ「d.school comes to Tokyo Tech」も開催します。d.schoolのtutorによるワークショップは、日本の大学では唯一開催されるものです。丸々2日間、ずっと英語のワークショップですが、d.school流のスピーディでリラックスした雰囲気の中で、Creative ConfidenceとUser Centricを、より詳細に体感できます。この1-Dayワークショップで「コツ」を掴んで、d.school comes to Tokyo Tech 2018に臨むのが、理想的です。
d.school comes to Tokyo Tech 2018 - 2-days BOOTCAMP "Design Challenge"
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今年も、10月に、デザイン思考の総本山米国スタンフォード大学d.schoolの現役ファシリテーター3名がフルに2日間かけて行うワークショップ「d.school comes to Tokyo Tech 2018 - Design Challenge」を開催します。d.schoolの講師が行うワークショップは、日本の大学では、このワークショップだけです。デザイン思考は、皆さんのように、「新たな価値」つまり「イノベーション」を日常的に求められる人々にとって、基本となる考え方です。創造力に自信のない人でも画期的なアイデアや提案はだせるというマインドセットと、仲間と協力し、ユーザーの要望を構成する機構を解明し、ロジックを超えた発想を促すスキルセットを、この米国スタンフォード大学d.school流の、スピーディ、フレンドリー、ダイバーシティ環境の2日間のワークショップを通して、体感してくれればと思っています。
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