The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has announced the FY2013 Science and Technology Commendations. Personnel from NagoyaUniversity were selected for six Science and Technology Prizes and seven Young Scientist Prizes.
These prizes are awarded to those achieving significant results in research, development, and contributions to greater public understanding of scientific and technology, with the objectives of raising the level of interest in scientific technology, and contributing to the improvement of the scientific technology in Japan.
Prizes are presented for Science and Technology (Development, Research, Promotion of Science and Technology, Technology, and Public Understanding), The Young Scientist, Creativity, and Nurturing Creativity in Schools.
The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, April 16th at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Science and Technology Prize
1) Field: Development
Name: Takashi Ishikawa
Affiliation/Title: Professor, Graduate School of Engineering
Achievement: Development of world-class advanced composite materials
2) Field: Research
- Name: Yoshikazu Takeda
Affiliation/Title: Emeritus Professor, Designated Professor
Achievement: Research on low-energy electron microscopes for super-bright, high-spin polarization (joint prize, received with Professor Takanori Koshikawa of OsakaElectro-CommunicationsUniversity)
- Name: Kazuyuki Tatsumi
Affiliation/Title: Designated Professor, Research Center for Material Science
Achievement: Research on the active sites of metalloreductase clusters
- Name: Tomohide Niimi
Affiliation/Title: Professor, Graduate School of Engineering
Achievement: Research on high Knudsen number flow
3) Field: Public Understanding
- Name: Susumu Kokubun
Affiliation/Title: Emeritus Professor
Achievement: Improved public understanding of polar sciences through a nationwide network with lecture activities (joint prize, received with Emeritus Professor Sadao Kawaguchi of the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Emeritus Professor Okitsugu Watanabe of NIPR, Researcher Koji Matsubara of the Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, and Emeritus Professor/Designated Professor Hiroshi Kanda of NIPR)
- Name: Noritsugu Umehara
Affiliation/Title: Professor, GraduateSchool of Engineering
Achievement: Improved high school students’ understanding of scientific technology and engineering through manufacturing experience (joint prize, received with Mr. Ichiro Kawaguchi, teacher at Aichi Kenritsu Ichinomiya High School)
- Name: Shinko Senda
Affiliation/Title: Specialist at Technical Center
Achievement: Improved high school students’ understanding of scientific technology and engineering through manufacturing experience (joint prize, received with Mr. Ichiro Kawaguchi, teacher at Aichi Kenritsu Ichinomiya High School)
- Name: Tsutomu Fukumori
Affiliation/Title: Senior Technical Specialist at Technical Center
Achievement: Improved high school students’ understanding of scientific technology and engineering through manufacturing experience (joint prize, received with Mr. Ichiro Kawaguchi, teacher at Aichi Kenritsu Ichinomiya High School)
- Name: Kazue Kaneko
Affiliation/Title: Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Engineering
Achievement: Improved high school students’ understanding of scientific technology and engineering through manufacturing experience (joint prize, received with Mr. Ichiro Kawaguchi, teacher at Aichi Kenritsu Ichinomiya High School)
Young Scientist Prize
1) Name: Muhammet Uyanik
Affiliation/Title: Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Engineering
Achievement: Research on developing oxidation reactions using design-type iodine catalysts
2) Name: Atsushi Enomoto
Affiliation/Title: Associate Professor at Graduate School of Medicine
Achievement: Research on post-natal vascularization and the molecular structure of neuropoiesis
3) Name: Yoshiko Saito
Affiliation/Title: Assistant Professor at Center for the Studies in Higher Education
Achievement: Research on personnel linking scientific technology and knowledge with society, and the process from developing such personnel to implementation
4) Name: Mutsumi Tashiro
Affiliation/Title: Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Engineering
Achievement: Research on major long-term settlement of soft ground: Simple methods for determination and predictions
5) Name: Manabu Hatano
Affiliation/Title: Associate Professor at Graduate School of Engineering.
Achievement: Research on precise methods for organic synthesis using high-function, concerted, acid-based catalysts
6) Name: Ippei Maruyama
Affiliation/Title: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Achievement: Research on volume changes caused by water in cement materials
7) Name: Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Affiliation/Title: Associate Professor, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory
Achievement: Research on the structures of radiation-belt electron accelerators as basic elements of space weather
Researchers
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UMEHARA NoritsuguGraduate School of Engineering, Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, 1 -
UYANIK MuhammetGraduate School of Engineering, Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, 1 -
ENOMOTO AtsushiGraduate School of Medicine, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cance, Division -
TASHIRO MutsumiGraduate School of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4
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MIYOSHI YoshizumiInstitute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Center for Integrated Data Science
