Neil Calder

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) welcomes Prof. Mary Collins as Dean of Research.

On 13 December, 14 teams from 10 Okinawan High Schools came to OIST to decide which team would be the 2015 SCORE champion.

Nobel Laureates Serge Haroche and Yuan Tse Lee and Professor Albrecht Wagner join the OIST Board of Governors.

2015 External Peer Review Report states that OIST's "progress across all key measures of excellence has been outstanding”.

21 teams of Okinawan high school students, selected from the 31 teams that applied, competed in the 3rd SCORE! – Science in Okinawa: Research for Enterprise - contest on Saturday 13 December.

At the 2nd Annual SCORE!, 13 teams of high school students from within Okinawa gave presentations on the content and potential of their research.

In his opening speech to the Science Technology in Society Forum, Prime Minister Abe focused on the contributions of Japan to science and technology and he specifically referred to OIST.

OIST participated in the 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts from February 14-18.

Ahmed Alkhunaini, Representative Director of Aramco Asia Japan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with OIST on Friday 7 December.

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