Open Campus on July 30th & 31st!

Tohoku University’s annual Open Campus event will be held on July 30 and 31 this year. Every year during this event, countless high school students come by tour bus. Some people come from far away especially for this occasion. So our university becomes packed.

Many high school students look forward to seeing futuristic machines and experimental tools on Aobayama Campus, and others anticipate trial lectures on Economy and Law on Kawauchi Campus.

At the medical school on Seiryo Campus, you can experience experiments, and campus tours will let you see various laboratories. Then a 10-minute walk from Seiryo Campus will take you to the Department of Agriculture on Amamiya Campus.

The engineering department is even planning to hold a special forum solely for female high school students. Many student activities will be introduced through concerts and demonstrations.

You may be overwhelmed by the number of high school students, but university students looking for suitable graduate schools are warmly welcomed too. Anyone who is ambitious about learning something is invited to join! 

100-year Aniversary of the first women students

Tohoku University is one of seven former imperial universities (other six are Hokkaido, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and Kyushu), and is proudly famous for being the first Japanese national university to accept female students. This happened in 1913, exactly 100 years ago, so there have been many events on campus to celebrate the hundred-year anniversary. It was truly an unconventional incident at that time. Thereafter, other universities such as the University of Tokyo started to welcome female students within a few years.

The university accepted three students: Ms. Chika Kuroda, Raku Makita and Ume Tange, and their distinguished careers flourished later. Ms. Kuroda became a professor at Ochanomizu University as a physicist. Ms. Tange had a long career contributing to research on vitamins as a Doctor of Agriculture. Ms. Makita became a mathematician, and taught at a teacher’s school for women for a while.

At "book＋cafe BOOOK” on Aobayama Campus, a book fair, from July 8 to August 9, is taking place to commemorate the anniversary. On the corner, various books that are recommended by Tohoku University’s female researchers are displayed. Prof. Mami Tanaka at the School of Engineering chose comic books such as “Space Brothers (宇宙兄弟 in Japanese),” which was adapted as a film during the last year.

Eight out of 22 FGL 1^st year students are female. Whether they will stay in Japan or go back to their home country, we look forward to their future careers. 

One-Day Trip to Kaminoyama and Zao

The best season has come for cherry-picking.This year’s place for that was Kaminoyama in south Yamagata prefecture. This is a hot spring area accessible from Sendai, so FGL students and professors took a day trip there by bus.The place where we went is called “Takahashi Fruits Land”. There were several types of cherries there such as Satonishiki, Benishuhou and Napoleon. All of them were very sweet and delicious, but their textures were all different from each other. Some cherries had a very dark color like purple red. 

University Fair in Kuala Lumpur

Tohoku University participated in the University Fair at Methodist College Kuala Lumpur on June 29^th.