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October 2016

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Essential Lecture Series
Activity Report ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 4
Introduction of the New Students ・・・・・・・・・・・ 6
Study Commons & Student's Report ・・・・・・・・・ 7
Information ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 8Interacting with participants of the Summer Program in English 2016 (see p.4)Topic■ New lectures in Academic Year 2016 second semester

Focus on!

Essential Physics Ⅰ

Essential Bioinformatics Ⅰ

Lecturer: Edward Foley, Project Associate Professor
Day & Time: Every Wednesday, 3-4 periods

Lecturer: Sabine Gouraud, Project Associate Professor
Day & Time: Every Wednesday, 5-6 periods

This course will present students with an introductory overview ofcore concepts in classical and modern physics, underlying naturalsystems. Students will learn how to discuss these physical concepts,and to educate fellow students in relevant topics using proper academic
English.

The “Essential Bioinformatics for Global Leaders I” classes has been
conceived for non-biologist as well as biologist students wishing toacquire global leader skills and enrich their scientiﬁc English. This ﬁrst
series of interactive classes, given in friendly English, will provide
the students with the fundamental cellular and molecular biology
knowledge needed to understand bioinformatics. The students do notneed to understand the mathematical details in the ﬁeld.

Essential Chemistry Ⅱ

Essential Engineering and Technology Ⅰ

Essential Lecture SeriesThis program offers a series of lectures given in English, with the objective of instilling in the students the requirements to work as
global leaders. The Essential Lecture Series are open to all graduate schools, thus students who do not belong to Leading Program
have a chance to take these lectures.

■ Aiming to become a global leader : Global Leader Development Course (Liberal Arts)
Essential Culture and Arts for Global Leaders
Lecturer: Midori Nishiura, Visiting Professor
Lecture title: Preparing for the Future Opportunities＜ From student's view ＞“In this class, we learned the essence of Liberal Arts bothin and outside campus. The most impressive story by theteacher was that a variety of knowledge and sense of value
could be learned from Liberal Arts and it could help tolive with people who have various senses smoothly in thesociety.”

Note: I is the fundamental course, and II isapplicational. I is not a prerequisite for II.

Mio Kubota (Physics Course, Division of Advanced Sciences)

Essential Ethics for Global Leaders
Lecturer: Yasushi Ishida, Project Associate Professor, The Global Human Resource
Development Center, Ochanomizu University
Lecture title: Ethical issues in modern technologies＜ From student's view ＞“I learned the concepts of ethical judgement of issues related to modern
science and technology. A wide range of themes in this class made me
realize that ethics is close to me and learning it is very important.”

Lecturer: Gary Richards, Project Associate Professor
Day & Time: Every Thursday, 3-4 periods

Lecturer: Julien Tripette, Project Associate Professor
Day & Time: Every Tuesday, 3-4 periods

This course covers fundamental chemical science during lectures andattempts to link this knowledge to real world examples through the useof videos and reading assignments. The objective is to give students not
only a working knowledge of chemistry, but also an understanding of
why it is important in our everyday lives.

This course mostly focuses on novel ICT solutions able to positively
impact our habits towards healthier lifestyles. The inclusion ofaccelerometer sensors in technologies that we used every day(smartphones, video games...) allows to monitor the volume of daily
physical activity, encouraging active lifestyles and a better managementof energy balance. The objective of this course is to make students morefamiliar with the accelerometer-based mobile health technologies.

Saori Ebihara (Food and Nutrition Sciences Course, Division of Life Sciences)■ Acquiring scientiﬁc fundmentals and English abilities! Fundmental Course for Innovation Creation

2The following ﬁve courses were offered in theﬁrst semester of 2016: Mathematics I, Chemistry
I, Computer Science I, Bioinformatics II, andPhysics II. Even though all lectures were heldin English, but were designed such as by theinclusion of creative educational materials orexplanations of technical terminology, to also
be accessible to students not specializing inthat particular field, or those who were not soChemistryⅠ
comfortable with their English skills.

MathematicsⅠ

Bioinformatics Ⅱ

Computer ScienceⅠ

PhysicsⅡ

Practical Use of Information Technology Ⅱ
The ability to use IT correctly is necessary in a variety of situations, not onlyin conducting further research as a student, but also for achieving success aftergraduation. The Practical Use of Information Technology course I offeredduring the first term taught how to process information using spreadsheet
software, including explanations on speciﬁc procedures.
Computers are especially good at conducting the same process repetitively.
Thus, if the processing algorithm is written in such a way as to allow it tobe applied to as broad a range of data as possible, such as by making use of
conditional branching, functions, and error checks, then all types of data can beprocessed simply by copying this algorithm. It can also be made to work even if
data is later added or changed.
During the course, students were given a company's accounting procedure as a
speciﬁc example to work on, as the underlying concepts can be applied to any
given situation. All of the students were very quick to grasp the explanations
provided during the course. I believe they acquired strong IT capabilities bycompleting the weekly tasks assigned.
For the latter semester, we are planning to learn how to analyze statistical data.
Through this course, I hope the students will develop into the kinds of people
who are able to use data to delve into the inherent nature of a problem.

Lecturer: Fumito Kyota, Part-time lecturer
Day & Time: Every Thursday, 1-2 periods

Note: This course is oﬀered in the Japanese language.

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Interactions with Participants in the"Summer Program in English 2016"
July 22 (Fri), 2016
Room 605 (PBTS Room), Graduate School of Humanities &Sciences Building

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The boothPresentations given by students

Instructive Seminars by Overseas Guests

Dr. Jaime Fernandez-Baca (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A.)
June 3 (Fri), 2016
Origami workshop

Second Joint Exchange Meeting for
Leading Program Students

A seminar was held by Dr. Jaime Fernandez-Baca of the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in the US. He talked about what research is like at a large-scale research
institute in the United States and introduced the activities being conducted at his ownlaboratory.
Dr. Ying-Duo Gao (Merck&Co., Inc., U.S.A.)
June 30 (Thu), 2016

Dr. Ying-Duo Gao, who acquired her doctorate at Ochanomizu University, gave aseminar with the title, "Computer-Aided Drug Design in Drug Discovery." The seminar
was followed by a discussion session among students hosted by our program students.

August 5 (Fri), 2016
Waseda University

A joint exchange meeting was held by 42 students among Ochanomizu
University, Waseda University, Keio University, and the University ofTokyo.
A workshop titled, "Methods for Exploiting the Potential of Teams"
was offered with the objective of promoting exchange among
Leading Program students and nurturing their leadership abilities.
An invited lecturer explained the coaching methods that leaders
can use to unlock the potential of their team members. Then, thestudents formed groups and practiced what they had learned. Whilemaintaining a friendly atmosphere, the students engaged in robust
discussions.
Afterward, 90 percent of the students stated that they found theworkshop helpful and that it provided an opportunity to interact withstudents from a variety of different ﬁelds. It was agreed to continue
such programs to promote active exchange with students among
those universities.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Doan Trang, M.Sc. (HCMC Univ. of Natural Resources & Environment, Vietnam)
August 19 (Fri), 2016

A talk was given under the title, "A Brief Introduction to Municipal Solid Waste
Management in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam," which introduced the environmental
issues that modern Vietnam is currently facing.

5Group discussions

4May 6–8, 2016 (Beijing, China)
May 9–10, 2016 (Jinan, Shandong Province, China)

The “Japan-China University Forum and Fair in China 2016” was held in Beijing andJinan, China. As a representative of Ochanomizu University, five members of ourprogram including two students participated.
The Forum entitled, “Aiming for the World's Top Level Universities: Balancing Higher
Education and Research Development” promoted academic relations between Japanand China. Then, the biggest educational fair in China was held with participants of 350
universities and educational organization from over 30 countries. Our students gave
presentation to promote Ochanomizu University as an appealing option for exchange
students by using easy-to-follow slides. They explained the characteristics of theuniversity and the features of our Leading Program with description by the perspectiveof students. Our Chinese student talked about her own experiences at Ochanomizu
University.
The event served as a good opportunity to let people know about the Leading Program,which provides students with an English-language learning environment.

The "Summer Program in English 2016", held every summer byOchanomizu University, never fails to attract numerous students
from partner universities. This year, there were 40 international
students from 12 universities in 10 different countries, who attended
classes and workshops over a period of two weeks.
Dr E. Foley, Project Associate Professor from the Study Commons
gave a lecture of natural science.
We invited the Summer Program participants to the PBTS Room,where our students introduced the Leading Program and gave
presentations on their PBTS research in English. They also offeredan origami workshop to promote exchange between the Leading
Program students and the Summer Program participants.

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Participation in the "Japan-China University Forum & Fair in China"

Advisory Board of the Leading Graduate
School Program
August 24 (Wed), 2016
Executive Meeting Room in the Main Building, Room 605 of theGraduate School of Humanities & Sciences Building

The Advisory Board is comprised of experts from outside of the university,and has been established for the purpose of enabling the Leading Program
to receive guidance on a broad range of issues.
For this first meeting of 2016, the board gave a report on the program,
visited the educational facilities, and heard individual opinions.

Advisory Board

Visit to the seminarroom5Introduction of the New Students Part2

STUDY COMMONSEdward Thomas Foley,
Project Associate Professor❶ Your major❷ Your interests in thisprogram

Shoko Okada
Course: Computer Science, Division of Advanced Sciences
Hometown: Aichi prefecture
Hobby: watching American TV shows and listening to western music❶ My ﬁeld is Optimization. If you see Amazon’s website, it recommends which products
would best suit you. I study about recommendation systems like Amazon’s system.
My subject is ‘How to recommend English texts to each person’. I consider the mathematicalformula to recommend, and make the algorithms and programs.
❷ I enjoy communicating with people from different ﬁelds here. I hope I will be inspiredby the people and have amazing ideas. I would like to contribute to my team by using myoptimization skills. I am interested in healthcare ﬁeld as well.
❸ My dream is to have my own opinions with enough knowledge. At the same time, I would
like to be an open-minded person who can listen to other people’s opinion. Also, I hope I
can work overseas.

Miki Tomeoku
Course: Human Developmental Sciences, Division of Life Science
Hometown: Tokyo prefecture
Hobby: baking breads, creative knitting, quilting, embroidery, and sign language❶ Research and Development of Cane for Use to Alleviate Osteoarthritic Pain and toImprove Walking Endurance.
❷ I hope to improve my skills in academic English to more effectively collaborate inperforming Science and Engineering research. I want to make the most of this opportunity
to learn different viewpoints and ways of thinking from students with diverse backgrounds
and academic disciplines. I think that all of the team members can make meaningful
contributions utilizing their specialized knowledge and experiences. I hope to cultivate a
global viewpoint through the rich environment provided by the Study Commons.
❸ I would like to develop the ability to foster creative innovation. Ten years after
completing my Ph.D., I would like to become a person who can support other students’future career paths.

Miki Yonemura
Course: Physics, Division of Advanced Sciences
Hometown: Kumamoto prefecture
Hobby: snowboarding and sudoku❶ I am doing research in the ﬁeld of particle physics. Particle physics takes place at thesmallest scale of human perception. It is very mysterious and mathematical in nature.
❷ I joined this minor program to improve my English communication skills, which I

believe will be important for my research in the future. I feel interacting with students fromdifferent disciplines helps us to stimulate each other to new understanding.
❸ I want to be open to different points of view, and to use my mind to accept new ideas
in my own way. I think it's interesting that I can ﬁnd inspiration for my work in everyday lifeand conversation with others.

6❸ Your dreams for thefuture

Main research ﬁeld: Nanoscale Scienceand Engineering

Q. What was your birthplace like?
I was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew
up in Oak Park, a suburb on Chicago'swest side. The home and studio of Frank
Lloyd Wright, a famous American architect, was across the street from my elementary school. I have seven brothers andsisters, and all of them are my very best friends. I grew up during the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, whenMartin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. I was deeply inﬂuenced by the writings of King and Gandhi. I
went to Oak Park River Forest High School, where I did little homework, but I learned a great deal from my teachers, mostof whom had PhDs. After high school, I served in the Marine Corps for four years, working to maintain a tracking radarfor an antiaircraft missile system. I learned first-hand about the most advanced
military technologies man has created, and decided to use my gifts to help betterthe lives of men, rather than kill them.
Q. How did you become interested in science?
My father was a physician and, from an early age, I would ask him questions about
the world. He taught me human anatomy and physiology, and he had a beautiful
telescope, and showed me the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. As anundergraduate, I studied physics at Northern Illinois University and worked atFermilab with veteran experimental physicists to reﬁne muon detectors for the DØI served in the Marine Corps
project. I developed an interest in biomedical electronics and neural prosthetics,
and transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I began a broadly interdisciplinary program inelectrical engineering. After the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope by Binnig and Rohrer, I entered graduate
study to investigate integrating microelectronics and biological systems on a molecular level. My career has been devoted
to developing the instrumentation, facilities, and expertise for investigating, and educating students in, the nanoscalecharacterization and manipulation of materials and biological systems.

Student's Report

The 4th Student Meeting of Leading Graduate Schools
July 8 (Fri)-10 (Sun)Makuhari Messe International Conference Hall

We participated in the 4th Student Meeting of Leading Graduate Schools,
where three hundred students joined from the Leading Programs in Japan.
On the ﬁrst day, Mr. Yoshihiko Hatanaka (CEO, Astellas Pharma Inc.) gave
a lecture entitled, “Responsibility and thoughts to the next generation,” andtalked about the idea of “Take risk and minimize risk.” We came to notice
the importance of not only challenging but also building steps toward thegoal with crisis management.
On the second day, we had an idea-generating workshop, where students tried produce “funnovation” (=funny+ innovation)
through funny ideas based on random words. Among a variety of opinions, we were able to summarize an article offunnovation story by receiving advice from company participants. It was a great opportunity for us to get inspired by active
students from other Programs and foreign countries.
Reported by Misato Takahashi, Miyu Kusumoto, Mio Kubota and Miki Yonemura

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July 22, 2016
July 25-30, 2016
August 5, 2016

October 4, 2016
October 5, 2016
October 5, 2016
October 6, 2016
October 6, 2016

Essential Engineering and Technology for Global Leaders I
Essential Physics for Global Leaders I
Essential Bioinformatics for Global Leaders I
Essential Chemistry for Global Leaders II
Practical Use of Information Technology II■ Scheduled activitiesNovember 11&12, 2016
December 21, 2016
February 22, 2017
March 7, 2017
March 15, 2017

Forum 2016, Program for Leading Graduate Schools
Information session for prospective students for Academic Year 2017 April
Selection examination for Academic Year 2017 April (tentative)
International Symposium (tentative)pQE (periodic Qualifying Examination)■ Report on implementation of Global Internship I & II
August, 2016-February, 2017
August, 2016-February, 2017
September, 2016-December, 2016
September, 2016-November, 2016
September, 2016-November, 2016
September, 2016-December, 2016

RIKEN, Kobe Branch (Kobe, Japan) (Global Internship II)
Tokyo Engineering Consultants CO., LTD. (Tokyo, Japan) (Global Internship II)
Northeastern University (United States) (Global Internship II)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) (Global Internship I)
Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy ofSciences, Banach Center (Poland) (Global Internship I)
LANXESS AG (Germany) (Global Internship I)

Editor's notes
For overseas students participating in the Summer Program,their summer in Japan was one full of challenges. Now,
the fragrance of orange-colored olive trees permeates ourcampus, We hope our overseas exchange students will returnto Japan another time to experience its four distinct seasons.

Leading Graduate School Promotion Center,Ochanomizu University
Graduate School of Humanities &Science Building, Room No. 601
2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
112-8610, Japan
E-mail: leading-ocha@cc.ocha.ac.jp
http://leading.dc.ocha.ac.jp/leading/en/

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Ochanomizu University■ Information on offered lectures for Academic Year 2016 second semester

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August 19, 2016
August 24, 2016
August 26, 2016
August 26&28, 2016
August-September, 2016
September 5, 2016
September 21, 2016

Seminar by Dr. Jaime Fernandez-Baca
Essential Ethics for Global Leaders
Seminar by Dr. Ying-Duo Gao
The 4th Student Meeting of Leading Graduate Schools
Exhibition at the 2016 College Guidance Fair forInternational Students (Tokyo, Osaka)
Students visit of “Summer Program in English 2016”
Essential Culture and Arts for Global Leaders
Second Joint Exchange Meeting for Leading Program
StudentsSeminar by Ms. Nguyen Thi Doan Trang
Advisory Board of the Leading Graduate School Program
Safety Management Seminar (Global Internship I & II)
Study in Japan Fair 2016 (Chiang Mai, Bangkok)
Special Practice in Global Science & Technology I to VI
Selection examination for Academic Year 2016 OctoberpQE (periodic Qualifying Examination)

October 2016

June 3, 2016
June-July, 2016
June 30, 2016
July 8-10, 2016
July 10&16, 2016

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