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Introduction of the Graduate
Program in FoodScience(GP-FOOD)
Established in October 2024
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Medicine,Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Arts and Letters
International Center for Synchrotron Radiation
Innovation SmartGraduate Program in Food Science
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Arts and Letters
International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart

Population growth
Global warming
Etc.

World population
China

Year 2009
6.8 billion

OthersYear 2050
9.1 billion

IndiaU.S.

United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Population Division

Indonesia
BrazilPakistan
Bangladesh
Nigeria

Food demand
Increased by 60%

Water supply

Decreased by 40%

Aim to foster researchers who have the ability to scientifically design “foods of the future”

Graduate Program in Food Science
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Arts and Letters
International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart[Program learning outcomes]
・Researchers who have the ability to scientifically design “foods of the future” based on their solid backgroundand an academic understanding of “food”
・Researchers capable of independently exploring and investigating food, health, and environment-related issues
・Researchers who, in addition to their solid research expertise, understand diverse values and cultures andpossess outstanding abilities to conduct original research utilizing bioscience and biotechnology-related cuttingedge technologies.
・Researchers capable of contributing to the development of society with a high sense of purpose andresponsibility while considering social and academic needs.
・Researchers who have an international perspective, advanced communication skills, and the ability to lead thepromotion of food science research to a global level.

Graduate Program in Food Science
Program Outline[Outline]

To address problems confronting humanity, such as population growth and climate change in aninterdisciplinary manner, we are developing an academic and research environment to help
overcome world’s food difficulties through our international joint graduate program, “FoodScience.” This program aims to foster emerging talent with a global perspective who will beinvolved in developing the next generation of food science research.

[Purpose]

The Graduate Program in “Food Science” has been launched, based on collaboration consisting of
the fields of agricultural science, medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, arts and letters, andsynchrotron radiation science, which is necessary to conduct transdisciplinary research on “foodscience”. The purpose of this program is to develop the next generation of human resources
capable of academically designing the food of the near future.

[Importance of the area]

In today's world, where problems such as global warming and population growth are piling up on a global level, food production is
now at a turning point. According to the report from the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) issued in July 2023, the starving
population increased by 122 million over the past four years and reached to 735 million in 2023 from 613 million in 2019. On theother hand, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: FAO reported that 1.3 billion tons (about 1/3 of the total)of the food produced in the world (about 4 billion tons per year) was being wasted. The carbon dioxide emissions generated whenwaste food is processed are estimated to account for 8-10% of the total. These problems have a tremendous impact on theagriculture, livestock, and fisheries industries. Therefore, innovation in science and technology related to “food science” is extremely
important to solve them. Especially, it is no exaggeration to say that the most important issue in the field of agricultural science is tobuild an academic foundation to enable a stable supply of food on a permanent basis. To this end, we are convinced that progress ineducation and research from an interdisciplinary perspective is of vital importance.

Graduate Program in Food Science
Program Outline[Diploma Policy]

This program aims to develop human resources with the following abilities by creating an international educationand research environment.
・Creativity to enable a stable supply of food for the future with basic knowledge of the food science field
・Ability to take a multifaceted view from a broad perspective while taking existing frameworks in the field offood science into consideration
・Acquisition of interactive and collaborative skills in the field of food science and the ability to solve practicalproblems
・Ability to disseminate research results and to work on an international level, based on the knowledge gained
from experiences in localized research exchange and from international perspective[Recruitment period]
Every January, and July
* July recruitment is an additional recruitment in case that we do not reach the maximum number of applicants in January recruitment.
Note：July 2024 recruitment is only for students enrolling in October 2024
Target:April term：Recruitment in January (For students in the 2 year of Master’s programs or in the 1 year of Doctoral programs as of April)
October term：Recruitment in July (For students in the 2 year of Master’s programs or in the 1 year of Doctoral programs as of April)[Number to be accepted]
10 students per year
[Target Department]
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Arts and Letters

Graduate Program in Food Science
Program Outline[Educational program collaborating with Overseas Educational Institutions]*The program offers four-year integrated education from the second year of the master's programs to the 3-years or
4-years doctoral programs of the graduate schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmaceutical sciences.
*The program offers basic food science courses (Food Science I “Food and Production/Environment,” Food Science II“Food and Function/Nutrition,” Food Science III “Food and Immunity/Health,” and Food Science IV “Food andPsychology/Economics”) focusing on “environmental changes surrounding humans” and “human psychology” inorder to cultivate creativity to design future food in an academic way.
*Students will acquire cutting-edge analytical techniques in food science by taking “Introduction to Food Science
Skill Improvement Exercise” and “Application of Food Science Skill Improvement Exercise” as food science exercisecourses.
*In order to complete the GP-FOOD program. students are required to complete master's or doctoral programs ateach home graduate school in addition to completing GP-FOOD training courses at overseas educational institutions.
*Master's program students will obtain the oversea program credits by studying at overseas educational institutions,such as overseas universities or research institutions and by giving oral/poster presentations at international
conferences. Doctoral students are required to participate in research activities at overseas educational institutions
for at least 6 months and are required to publish at least one original co-authored paper in English as a result of
joint research with the institutions in order to obtain the oversea program credits.

Graduate Program in Food ScienceProgram Organization
Tohoku University

Multiple Supervisionby 6 graduate schools

CCooperating Departments

Collaboration

Faculty members
in charge

Program Representative
Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee
International Committee Chair
Steering Committee Members

48 teachers in charge
Including 2 full time teachers（Doctoral degree holders）
1 office staff
Administrative office of eachgraduate school- Tohoku Forum for creativity 2024

Representative of program concept applicant ：Prof. Kitazawa Haruki（Dean of Graduate School of Agricultural Science）
Program representative ：Prof. Nochi Tomonori（Graduate School of Agricultural Science）
Program second representative：Prof. Sato Kan（Graduate School of Agricultural Science）
Program second representative：Prof. Shirakawa Hitoshi（Graduate School of Agricultural Science）

University of Washington
NIH(U.S.)

DD Pro.
Chulalongcom University
Chian Mai University

DD Pro.
University of Indonesia
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Uni.

Kaohsiung Medical University
Taipei Medical University
KAIST(Korea)
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Uni.

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sichuan University
University of British Colombia

Chulalongcom University
Padjadgjaran University
SOLEIL(France)
ELETTRA(Italy)

Art&Letter Synchrotron- Innovation Center for Future AgriculturalProduction and Food Industry-Steeringcommittee

CERELA CONICET(Argentine)

Pharmacy- International Education and Research Center
for Food and Agricultural Immunology- Center for Agricultural and Life Sciencesusing Synchrotron Light

Graduate
Program inFood ScienceDentistry

International Center for Synchrotron
Radiation Innovation Smart

Graduate
Program inFood Science

Utrecht University

Medicine

Graduate School of Arts and Letters

Wageningen University

Agriculture

University of Guelph

Graduate School of Medicine

Graduate School of PharmaceuticalSciences

University of California, Davis

Texas A&M

Graduate School of Agricultural Science

Graduate School of Dentistry

Taipei Medical University DD Pro.

Graduate Program in Food Science

Curriculum and credits required to complete this program
Master’s programCurriculum

Food Science Ⅰ：Food and Production/Environment (2credits)

Core courses

Food Science Ⅰ：Food and Production/Environment (2credits)
Food Science Ⅱ：Food and Production/Environment (2credits)
Food Science Ⅲ：Food and Production/Environment (2 credits)

Samecourse

Food Science Ⅳ：Food and Production/Environment (2 credits)

ExcisesMust take at least one course(2 credits) from the four core courses above

Food Science Skill Up Excises Introduction (1 credit)

Doctoral program

Relatedcourse

Must take all four courses(8 credits) above（However, students are not required to repeat core courses
acquired in Master’s program.）

Food Science Skill Up Excises advanced (1 credit)

ThesisOversea program

Must take the course(1redit) above

Food science short-term oversea program(1credit)
Students will visit overseas educational institutions for a shortperiod of time (8 days to 2 weeks) and participate in short-term
student exchange programs, etc. .
Must take the course(1redit) above

Master's thesis（Home graduate school）

Must take the course(1redit) above

Food science special oversea program(8credits)
Students will conduct joint research at an overseas educationalinstitution for at least 6 months, and must publish at least one
original co-authored paper in English as a result of joint researchwith an overseas educational institution.
Must take the course(8 credit) above

Doctoral thesis（Home graduate school）

Must fulfill completion requirements of a home graduateschool
Completion requirement：4 credits（GP-FOOD program）＋ To fulfill completion requirements of a home graduate school

Completion requirement：17 credits（GP-FOOD program）＋ To fulfill completion requirements of a home graduate school

Graduate Program in Food ScienceProgram Outline（QE）

Qualifying Examination
Advance to 3-years Doctoral programfrom Master's program
Advance to 4-years Doctoral program ofMedicine, dentistry, or Pharmaceutical sciencesfrom 6-year undergraduate program
Advance to 4-years Doctoral program ofMedicine, dentistry, or Pharmaceutical sciencesfrom Master's program

MC1

MC2

DC1

DC2

DC3-

First year

Second year

Third year

Fourth year

DC1

DC2

DC3

DC4

Second year

Third year

Fourth year

★QE1

★QE2

5th year undergraduate 6th year undergraduate★QE3--First year

MC1

MC2

★QE1、★QE2
DC1

DC2

DC3

DC4--First year

Second year

Third year

Fourth year--★QE1、★QE2

★QE3

★QE3

QE1：Qualifying Examination when students advance from the first year to the second year of a Master's
program and participate in this program, and qualifying Examination when the 1st year students in the 4years Doctoral programs of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences participate in this program- Presentation in English on Master's thesis research topic- Confirmation of intention to enter a 3-year doctoral program, and interview in English on progress ofresearch- 4-years Doctoral programs of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences:Interview in English regarding basic research skills at the level of a master's degree
and research plans at the overseas partner universities

Graduate Program in Food Science
Program Outline（QE）

QE2：
Qualifying examination at the completion of the Master’s programs and at thecompletion of the first year of the four-year Doctoral programs of the Medicine,
Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences- Must satisfy academic requirements for completion of the Master’s programs ofhome graduate schools- Presentation in English on the doctoral research plan and an interview on theprogress of the program
QE3：
Qualifying examination at the completion of the 3-year Doctoral programs and at thecompletion of the 4-year Doctoral programs of the Medicine, Dentistry, andPharmaceutical Sciences- Must satisfy completion requirements of the Graduate Program in Food Science- Must satisfy completion requirements of a home graduate school- Oral examination about the dissertation content in English by supervisors of ahome graduate school and of a partner institution abroad.
- Evaluation based on the level of achievement (self-assessment) of each item
related to the program learning outcomes set by the Graduate Program in FoodScienceGraduate Program in Food Science

Student Application Guideline（1/4）

2024 October Term Student Application Guideline
Pre-Application Deadline

Friday, July 26, 2024

Application Deadline

Friday, August 2, 2024

Interview

Late August to early September 2024

Result Announcement

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

1. Recruitment

a. 2nd year Master’s programs: approx. 7 students
b. 1st year Doctoral programs of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences (4-yearprograms): approx. 3 students
c. 1st year Doctoral programs (3-year programs): a few students
d. 2nd year Doctoral programs of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences (4year programs): a few students(The academic years above are as of October 2024.)* Applicants in the second year of a 2-year Master’s program who plan to enter the 4-year
Doctoral program of the graduate schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceuticalsciences will be eligible for this program in the first year of their Doctoral program.
For more information, please refer to the application guidelines on the GP-Food website
https://www.agri.tohoku.ac.jp/jp/gp-food/Graduate Program in Food Science

Student Application Guideline（2/4）
2. Qualifications for Application
Table1：
To be eligible to apply for this program, a candidate must sufficiently
understand the purpose of this program, be interested in obtaining adoctoral degree under international joint supervision by partner
universities, have a strong recommendation from an academic supervisor,and meet one of the following criteria:
a. Enrolling in the second year of a 2-year Master’s program of one of thegraduate schools and majors, as presented in Table 1 as of October 2024:
a candidate who entered a 2-year Master’s program during or before
April 2023 or who entered a 2-year Master’s program in October 2023.
b. Enrolling in the first year of a 4-year Doctoral program of one of thegraduate schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical sciences andtheir majors, as presented in Table 1, as of October 2024.

Graduate Schools

AgriculturalScience

Agricultural Bioscience
Agricultural Chemistry

Arts and Letters

Integrated Human Sciences
Japanese Studies
Global Humanities

Medicine

Medical Sciences
Health Sciences
Disability Sciences
Public Sciences

Dentistry

Dentistry

PharmaceuticalSciences

Molecular Pharmaceutical Science
Life and Pharmaceutical Science
Pharmacyc. Enrolling in the first year of a 3-year Doctoral program of one of thegraduate schools and majors presented in Table 1, as of October 2024.
d. Enrolling in the second year of a 4-year Doctoral program of one of thegraduate schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical sciences andtheir majors as presented in Table 1, as of October 2024.

Major

For more information, please refer to the application guidelines on the GP-Food website
https://www.agri.tohoku.ac.jp/jp/gp-food/Graduate Program in Food Science

Student Application Guideline（3/4）

Application Procedure(1) Pre-Application
Please fill in the form below.
https://forms.gle/VUkFHJMUdmi8i7nm7Deadline: Friday, July 26, 2024
(2) Application
In-person drop-off hours:
Deadline: Friday, August 2, 2024
Drop-off Location:
Student Affairs Office(Promotion Office for the Graduate Program in Food Science)
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University(1st floor, Graduate School of Agricultural Science Building, Tohoku University)
468-1 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8572, JAPAN* Office hours: Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. (excluding lunch break, 12:30 -- 1:30 p.m.)
If sending by mail or campus mail:Applications must be received by Friday, August 2, 2024.
Please write “Graduate Program in Food Science application inside” on the envelope in red and send it by mail orcampus mail.
Address: Student Affairs Office, Graduate School of Sciences, Tohoku University(Campus mail: 青-A14)(Regular mail: 468-1 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8572, JAPAN)<Contact Information>

Student Affairs Office (Promotion Office for the Graduate Program in Food Science)
TEL: 022-757-4007

E-mail：agr-kyom@grp.tohoku.ac.jp

For more information, please refer to the application guidelines on the GP-Food website

https://www.agri.tohoku.ac.jp/jp/gp-food/Graduate Program in Food Science

Student Application Guideline（4/4）

4. Application Format

Please gather the following documents and submit them during the application period.
a. Application Form (Form A) * Please paste a photograph of the applicants in portrait layout
b. Statement of Purpose (Form B)
c. Letter of Recommendation by intended host faculty (enclosed in an envelope and tightly sealed)(Form C)d. Academic Transcripts from the last university (or graduate school) from which the applicantgraduated.
Please download Forms A–C (MS Word files) from the Graduate Program in Food Science website:
https://www.agri.tohoku.ac.jp/en/gp-food/

5. Selection Process

Applicants will be chosen based on their applications and interview. Details about the interview will
be sent to applicants separately by email.
Interview period: Late August 2024 to early September 2024
<Financial Support>
a. Students in Master’s programs:
6. Acceptance
supported by RA employment
Results announcement: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
b. Students in 3-year or 4-year
Successful applicants will be notified individually.
Doctoral programs: supported byPioneering Research ProgramFor more information, please refer to the application guidelines on the GP-Food website
https://www.agri.tohoku.ac.jp/jp/gp-food/Graduate Program in Food Science
Recruitment Briefing Session◆ Recruitment Briefing Session <Hybrid: In-person and Zoom><First session>
Date and time: Monday, July 22, 2004, from 16:20 p.m.
Location: Lecture room 1, 2nd floor, Aobayama Commons
Zoom Meeting ID 935 8072 7102
https://zoom.us/j/93580727102<Second session>
Date and time: Wednesday, July 24, 2004, from 16:20 p.m.
Location: Lecture room 1, 2nd floor, Aobayama Commons
Zoom Meeting ID 924 2382 8905
https://zoom.us/j/92423828905

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