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2012
05/16 Employment A Tenure Track Associate Professor Position at Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University (Closing date:July 27, 2012)
05/10 Press Release "No children on the Children's Day after 1,000 years due to birthrate declining" - Child Population Web Clock showing birthrate declining in real-time-
05/09 Press Release Discovery of biofunctional polycyclic ether molecules
05/09 Press Release Development of 800°C class forging materials for coal-fired power plants -Expectation for considerable energy-saving and CO2 reduction-
05/09 Press Release Prof. Hideo Ohno received the "IEEE David Sarnoff Award 2012"
05/01 Press Release Launching at Palawan Island and Biliran Island for implementation of the project by Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development
05/01 News Recipients of the Spring 2012 Decoration
05/01 News Professor Masayuki Yamamoto and Professor Shigenao Maruyama at Tohoku University have received the Spring 2012 Medal with Purple Ribbon
04/27 Press Release Nanometer-size crystallization drastically improves conductivity of polymer film -A path toward high-performance flexible printed circuits and rare-metal free transparent electrode materials-
04/27 Press Release A huge tsunami worsens diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure more seriously than the earthquake alone
04/26 Achivement and Award Dr. Masato Sagawa received 2012 (28th) Japan Prize
04/23 News Video clips of Tohoku University Entrance Ceremony
04/20 Press Release Visualization of the relation between the atom motion "rattling" in the cage structure and thermal conductivity -A new path toward the development of power generation materials utilizing atom motion-
04/19 Achivement and Award 2012 The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
04/19 Press Release The development in the mass production of amorphous alloy nanowires -New insight into nanotechnology-
04/18 Press Release Small-sized wireless pump to pave the way to the fully embedded ventricular assist device (artificial heart)
04/12 Achivement and Award Professor Yoshiharu Iwabuchi received the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Promotion 2012
04/10 Events The 2012 WPI-AIMR Summer School of Materials Science (ASSM 2012) (July 23-29)
04/10 News Video clips of Tohoku University Graduation Ceremony
04/09 Achivement and Award President's Disaster Contribution Award
04/06 Achivement and Award 2012 President's Education Award
04/06 Press Release Discovery of giant Rashba effect at the semiconductor-metal interface -A significant progress for next-generation energy-saving devices-
04/04 Press Release Establishment of Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization - Disaster restoration by launching an advanced medical system based on biobank construction-
04/02 News In vivo imaging of the amyloid accumulation in the myocardium
03/30 Press Release Was the child allowance system in Japan actually effective?
03/22 Press Release Elucidation of brainstem function of children with gastrointestinal symptoms
03/22 News Campus Bus Service during 1st Semester,2012
03/16 Achivement and Award Professor Hideo Ohno received the JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award
03/14 Achivement and Award Professor Emeritus Mitsuo Kira received 2012 Frederic Stanley Kipping Award
03/11 News Message from the President -A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake-
03/09 Press Release Genes on the X chromosome work twice as much as those on the autosomes -Application for identification of genes cause chromosomal disorders-
03/09 Press Release Development of 5 terabit per square inch HDD element technology
03/07 Press Release Boreal trees in Scandinavia have survived since the ice age
03/07 Achivement and Award Specially Appointed Professor Akira Endo was selected as a National Inventors Hall of Fame 2012 Inductee
03/07 Press Release Can light be perceived on the skin!? -Supersense of ChR2 transgenic rats-
03/07 Press Release Production of anti-aging and long-life mice -Application for anti-aging therapies-
03/07 Press Release A mechanism of nerve cell production from stem cells of the embryonic brain -Cyclin D2 is inherited by one of the two daughter cells and maintains it undifferentiated-
03/02 Press Release The development of Parkinson's disease dementia is predictable by olfaction tests -Severe hyposmia is a prodromal symptom of dementia associated with Parkinson's disease-
02/28 Press Release A new cortical area for response control was discovered: primate medial prefrontal cortex dynamically participates in volitional control of action when the task requires selection of response tactics
02/24 News UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova visits Tohoku University
02/23 Press Release Electrical detection of spin geometric phase -Progress toward spin phase control-
02/14 Achivement and Award 2011 Sendai City Sports Award
02/13 Press Release Respiratory Cilia Revealed
02/10 Press Release Induction of cells forming enamel on teeth from iPS cells -Expectation for application to tooth regeneration-
02/02 Press Release Professor Kengo Kinoshita receiving the 8th JSPS Prize
01/30 Press Release Discovery of the retrograde melanosome transport complex in melanocytes - Expected molecular target for preventing gray hairs? -
01/27 Achivement and Award Dr. Masato Sagawa was chosen to receive 2012 Japan Prize
01/26 Events "The 2012 WPI-AIMR Annual Workshop" will be held on February 20 through 23 in Sendai.
01/18 Press Release Spin/charge currents conversion in silicon using relativistic effects -The significant progress for development of next-generation super energy-saving devices-
01/18 Events Joint Symposium on Human Security in Disasters:Tohoku University & United Nations University (UNU-EHS) (February 1)
01/16 Events The Fifth International Symposium and the Fourth Student Organizing International Mini-Conference on Information Electronics Systems (February 22-24, 2012)
01/10 Achivement and Award Professor Eimei Sato receives the 61st Kahoku Culture Award