my "Dreaming Campus" Today

Fist i'll introduce about my dreaming campuss..

The University Today (The University of Tokyo)

Introduction The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. As a leading research university, the University of Tokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. The university aims to provide its students with a rich and varied academic environment that ensures opportunities for both intellectual development and the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills. The University of Tokyo has a faculty of over 4,000 and a total enrollment of about 29,000, evenly divided between undergraduate and graduate students. As of 2006 there were 2,269 international students, and over 2,700 foreign researchers come annually to the university for both short and extended visits. The University of Tokyo is known for the excellence of its faculty and students and ever since its foundation many of its graduates have gone on to become leaders in government, business, and the academic world.   Campus life The University of Tokyo is composed of three campuses: Hongo, Komaba, and Kashiwa. In addition, some University of Tokyo facilities are situated in other parts of both Tokyo and the country. The main campus of the university is located in Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo and occupies about 56 hectares of the former Kaga Yashiki, the Tokyo estate of a major feudal lord. Parts of the seventeenth century landscaping of the original estate have been preserved to provide greenery and open space. The campus is graced by the Kaga Estate's celebrated Akamon, or Red Gate, which dates from 1827 and has been designated as an 'Important Cultural Property' by the Japanese Government. Most of the faculties, graduate schools, and research institutes of the university are located on the Hongo Campus. The Komaba Campus, located in the Komaba section of Meguro-ku, Tokyo, occupies an area of about 35 hectares. Facilities such as the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, and the Institute of Industrial Science stand on this campus. The Kashiwa Campus, the newest of the three, is located in Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, a suburb of Tokyo. Housed on this approximately 24-hectare campus are the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, the Institute for Solid State Physics, among other research facilities. The University of Tokyo in the twenty-first century is being built up on the strong links among these three campuses. Student lifeStudents carry out two annual festivals: the Komaba Festival in November on the Komaba Campus, organized and run by first and second-year undergraduates, and the May Festival or 'Gogatsusai' on the Hongo Campus, organized by a committee drawn from all undergraduate students at the university. The latter is a three-day event and a chance for students, with the support of the university, to promote their academic and extracurricular activities to society. These festivals are both open to the public, and many visitors come to get a glimpse of activities at the university. In addition, The University of Tokyo has recently introduced a new 'open campus' annual event, which introduces university life to high school students hoping to enter this university from all over Japan. As the preeminent academic institution in Japan, The University of Tokyo has a long history of nurturing and promoting academic excellence. One of the ways the university does this is through recognizing the achievements of outstanding students with the newly-introduced, twice-yearly President's Award. In spring each year, several students are selected from among those nominated by their professors for the award recognizing outstanding academic achievement, and in autumn, a second award is made to students for their extracurricular and cultural activities. From 2007, a single student is also chosen from all those awarded the President's Award that year for the President's Grand Award, recognizing particularly outstanding achievement in any field. Since 2000, The University of Tokyo has held the 'UT Forum' on a roughly annual basis in partnership with a leading university or universities overseas. The UT Forum is a chance for the university to present the latest research activities and results and for both faculty and graduate students taking part to deepen international relationships. In parallel with the researchers' forum, undergraduate and graduate students also organize and present a students' forum, where they have a chance to experience all aspects of the planning and implementation of an international conference and to develop valuable links with their peers and academics around the world.   4 d department my interest Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences/ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences This faculty has a long history spanning the 130 years since the establishment of The University of Tokyo; the subject of its research has been from the outset consistently in the life sciences. The field of Pharmacy pursues the fusion of the physical sciences with the science of living things, where we want to know the most about human health (or in the reverse sense, ailments), and carries the greatest level of difficulty and demands a high level of accomplishment. The greatest characteristic of research in the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is that while emphasizing basic research in life science, it also turns its sights toward the highest goal of "human health". The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences are also currently continuing to undergo transformation. Along with rising concern about health in society, expectations are also growing about education and research in fields linked directly to society, such as the economic aspects of pharmaceutical products, training in pharmacy through the proper use of medicines, cultivation of personnel for bio-ventures, etc. In order to meet such expectations, we have already established endowed courses, guest instructor courses collaborating with Drug Discovery and Development and Joint Business-Academia Collaborative Laboratories. At the same time, we have been trying to speed up education and research in new fields which previously did not exist in pharmacy. Moreover, in 2004, we set up a new division of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Science, with the objectives of studying and establishing a science to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of medicines, and have, thus, been launching such activities. A new system of education in pharmacy was adopted in the 2006 academic year, and two departments in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (a four-year program and a six-year program) were set up in juxtaposition. We think the missions of this Graduate School and Faculty are to carry out research and education with weight placed on the life science studies, while making use of such reforms in the system in the training of individuals as high-level pharmaceutical scientists and finally to continue producing outstanding staff capable of being active in fields ranging widely from the very foundations of "health" to government administration. Graduate School of Information Science and TechnologyThe Graduate School of Information Science and Technology was established in April 2001 with the aim of enhancing education and research in information science and technology. The school was spun off from the School of Science and the School of Engineering and initially consisted of five departments: Computer Science, Mathematical Informatics, Information Physics and Computing, Information and Communication Engineering, and Mechano-Informatics. The Department of Creative Informatics was added in April 2005. Having established information science and technology through education and research in widely ranging basic to applied fields, this graduate school aims to nurture the next generation of talented people. Information science, as the foundation of knowledge in the 21st century, is the cornerstone of the technology that supports a wealthy and safe society. Information Science and Technology is the academic field which guides knowledge from information into technology and opens up the future of society. Seeking scientific methods related to information and developing new information technology based on those methods are the central themes of its research. In order to transform Information Technology into the foundation of knowledge for society, while improving both the depth and the breadth of information science and technology and creating through such research new ways of thinking as well as science and technologies superseding the framework of academic spheres, this Graduate School has aimed to nurture the people capable of taking the lead via the technology of information knowledge in both the academic and industrial worlds. www.u-tokyo.ac.jp