Rebecca Hofland

Jerome Friedman

Institutional News

Dr. Jerome Friedman receives the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun Award

Nobel Laureate, professor, and member of the OIST Board of Governors, Dr. Jerome Friedman, receives the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun Award.

Watanabe

Research Update

OIST Welcomes Professor Hiroshi Watanabe

New Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit lead by Prof. Watanabe.

Research Update

Liquid Spiral Vortex Discovered

Unexpected spiral vortex phenomenon found when liquid is pushed through cross-shaped pathways.

Research Update

How the Ant Queen Gets Her Crown: Uncovering the Evolution of Queen-Worker Differences

Networks of co-expressed genes are found to be different between queen and worker ants.

Innovation Seminar

Institutional News

Igniting Innovation to Improve Society

International experts discussed accelerating innovation at universities in an interactive symposium at OIST.

Research Update

Scientific Secrets for Successful Aging?

Age-related differences in human blood metabolites identified.

Research Update

Hot Larvae: Calculating Dispersal from Unique Submarine Hot Spring Ecosystems

Larval dispersal from hydrothermal vent fields quantified in order to understand and protect the creatures found there.

Institutional News

Science Challenge 2016

Students from universities throughout Japan attended a one-week workshop to explore the question: What would you do in graduate school?

Research Update

The Quest for Spin Liquids

OIST researchers show new connections between exotic states of matter.

Research Update

Re-thinking Renewable Energy Predictions

The OIST study on fluctuations in wind power describes how to find errors in forecasting renewable energy needs.

Institutional News

‘Future Watch:’ the World in 2046

In an interactive symposium that brought together science and humanities perspectives, OIST and APU students discussed how they believe the world should change in 30 years.

24 February 2016