Dr. Torsten Wiesel, Co-chair of the OIST Board of Governors, is awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

Nobel Laureates Dr. Erwin Neher and Dr. Ryoji Noyori join BOG.

The 4th meeting of the Board of Governors took place on 4 and 5 October on the OIST campus.

The 6th meeting of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University’s (OIST) Board of Governors (BOG) took place on 9 and 10 May on the OIST campus. The University’s advisory body, the Board of Councilors, met on the same dates.

On August 23, seven students from the Okinawa National College of Technology, accompanied by Professor Hideyuki Yamashiro, visited the OIST campus for a “Science Talk” with Dr. Akito Arima, Co-chair of the OIST Board of Governors (BOG), Chairman of the Japan Science Foundation and the President and Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Human Frontier Science Program.