YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY

Information Update following the March 11 Earthquake
August 24, 2011 - Ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of Yamagata University Center for Organic Electronics Research to be scheduled for September 30, 2011. > More
August 11, 2011 - YU students and faculty/staff dance at the 49th Flower Hat (Hanagasa) Festival. >More
August 4, 2011 - Joint Summer Disaster Relief Volunteer Events to be Held by Yamagata University, Tohoku University of Art and Design and Ritsumeikan University. >More
August 3, 2011 - Collaborative Research and Exchange Program for Young East Asian Scientists on Polymer Rheology is Under Way. > More
August 3, 2011 - All campuses but Iida will be closed on August 15 and 16. >More
August 1, 2011 - Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences signs an exchange agreement with University of Applied Science Osnabruck in Germany. >More
July 29, 2011 - YU’s SCITA Center sets up an outdoor science lab for local residents before a Montedio home game on July 17, 2011. >More
July 27, 2011 - Dr. Hiroshi Iizuka becomes Dean-Elect of Faculty of Engineering to serve a two-year term that begins on September 1, 2011. >More
July 20, 2011 - Information Seminar on Student Volunteer Activities to be Held Tomorrow. >More
July 13, 2011 - Upcoming Events
July 6, 2011 - Music students hold an opera concert in an arts and sciences classroom. >More
July 1, 2011 - Open House 2011 Update!
June 29, 2011 - Smile Engine Yamagata Information Seminar to be Held on July 5, 2011 to Call for Continuous Volunteer Help in Neighboring Areas affected by the March 11 Tsunami >More
June 28, 2011 - President Yuki on his way to second term
June 21, 2011 - Development Bank of Japan and Yamagata University hold a kick-off seminar on campus to promote internationalization. >More
June 15, 2011 - YU Institute of Arts and Sciences to Offer Lecture Series: Nuclear Reactors and Power Generation >More
June 10, 2011 - Tohoku Mirai-juku Opening Symposium, part of the Smile Trade 10% disaster relief initiative, held to discuss revitalization plans for the Tohoku region >More
June 9, 2011 - Faculty of Science will hold a public seminar titled “Fukushima Nuclear Accidents and Subsequent Energy Issues” on July 13, 2011. >More
June 6, 2011 - Team Yonezawa begins its disaster relief operations in Higashi Matsushima. >More
June 2, 2011 - Study abroad seminar held in YU’s Hanoi office to attract Vietnamese students to Japan.
May 25, 2011 - Vice President Nakashima Passes Away
May 19, 2011 - Professor Masaru Tanaka, YU’s Graduate School of Science and Engineering, has been awarded a grant from JSPS’s Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program) for his research project “Design of biocompatible materials for medical applications.” He was one of 329 awardees selected from 5,618 applicants for the NEXT Program whose guideline was set earlier this year by the Council for Science and Technology Policy and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to support world's promising researchers. >More
May 17, 2011 - Several disaster relief efforts led by students, faculty and individuals in the Yamagata region are already underway in devastated areas following the March 11 earthquake. In those areas volunteers will be needed for an extended period of time to help with a range of relief work such as removing debris. >More
May 13, 2011 - Dates for Open House 2011 to be held at four YU campuses are set. >More
May 12, 2011 - The Smile Trade 10%, a post 3.11 collaborative disaster relief program led by professors at YU and Tohoku University of Art and Design, begins its operations in Miyagi, Yamagata's neighboring prefecture. >More
May 11, 2011 - The Yamagata University Genki Project 2011 is calling for proposals for student-led projects. Awards will fund five such projects. Submission deadline is May 27, 2011.>More
May 10, 2011 - YU’s Research Center for Organic Electronics (RCOE), a driving force for organic electronics research and development across borders, opens its doors in Yonezawa. >More
April 27, 2011 - In their relief effort called "Hashire (Run)! Waah no Chari (My Bicycle)", Faculty of Agriculture students begin collecting and delivering used bicycles as donations to evacuees in disaster areas lacking transportation means. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Shunichi Kikuchi at bikesofhope@yahoo.co.jp. >More
April 26, 2011 -We have set up the Yamagata University Disaster Relief Fund for affected students and campus facilities at Yamagata University. >More
April 12, 2011 - The university shuttle bus service that connects campuses, a dorm, and a train station in Yamagata begins for Academic Year 2011-2012. >More information
April 11, 2011 - Professors from University Consortium of Yamagata institutions introduce their innovative disaster relief program called Smile Trade 10%. >Press release (See pages 11 -17)
March 31, 2011 - Students from the region’s University Consortium institutions will hold a charity concert at the Consortium’s YOU campus station on April 4 and 5 and at the Yamagata Sports Center on April 6 to raise funds for those who have suffered from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. >More information
March 9, 2011 - YU engineering professors join Government delegation to Bolivia from February 21 to 27 to promote resource diplomacy through rithium. > More information
March 8, 2011 - To commemorate the opening of Yamagata University Center for Organic Electronics Research, a ribbon cutting ceremony and other events will be held on Friday, April 22 from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm in the Yonezawa campus area. Dr. Alan J. Heeger, a 2000 Nobel prize laureate in chemistry, will deliver a keynote address at a symposium following the ceremony. To participate, please sign up by April 12. Free of charge. 5,000 yen for a reception. > More information
March 2, 2011 - Yamagata University Alumni Seminar will be held at YU's Tokyo office on Saturday, March 5. Click here for details and an application form (in Japanese).
February 17, 2011 - Eighth graders at YU-JHS write about their community experience in English in their class project called “Myojo” in order to share it with their counterparts outside Japan. Click here to see their writings and teacher's message on our University-Attached Schools page.
February 17, 2011 - A delegation of 24 German researchers and professionals led by Dr. Andreas Leson, head of the Nanotechnology Center of Competence, visits our Yonezawa campus to discuss organic electronics research with our Faculty of Engineering professors on February 14 as part of a joint initiative to promote research and development between Japan and Germany. >More information.
February 14, 2011 - Graduating students at the Faculty of Education, Art and Science and in the Graduate School of Regional Education and Culture will hold their art exhibit in our Tokyo satellite office from March 1 through 6. The exhibit begins at 3 pm on the 1st, is open from 9 am to 5:45 pm during the period, and ends at noon on the final day. >More information.
February 8, 2011 - The International Symposium on Food, Life, and Environmental Sciences in East Asia was held by the Faculty of Agriculture near its campus in Tsuruoka City on December 17, 2010 to discuss trends and challenges facing the fields of food, life and environmental sciences. Faculty, staff and students from our partner institutions in China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam participated in the English-medium Symposium. Click here for more information.
February 1, 2011 - Dr. Kenji Matsuo (medieval Japanese and Buddhism histories) in the Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, finds a pair of letters of appreciation dated August 12, 1611 which contain a personal seal of Yoshiaki Mogami, then head of Yamagata Castle. For details, please see our press release in Japanese (pages 11-13).
January 25, 2011 - Flu Spreading Rapidly on Campus
January 23, 2011 - Our group of internationally renowned organic electronics researchers at the Faculty of Engineering also known as “The Dream Team” are off to a promising start as Dr. Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci (organic solar batteries) joins the team to engage in its collaborative research project with the industry at the Faculty’s Center for Advanced Organic Electronics Research which will start its operations as an international foothold on Yonezawa campus in April, an unprecedented initiative in the field of organic electronics. The other members of the Team are Dr. Junji Kido (organic electroluminescence) and Dr. Shizuo Tokito (organic transistors).Click here for details (in Japanese).
January 18, 2011 - A team of our researchers at the Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences led by Professor Makoto Sakai finds two new geoglyphs showing a human head and an animal figure along with seventy-six other drawings in Nazca, Peru, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Click here for our press release (pages 2 -4).
YU student wins a silver prize at an international lighting competition.
YU students, faculty and staff participate in the 2010 Flower Hat Festival in Yamagata.
H1N1 Flu (Swine flu or shingata/butta infuruenza) UPDATE
Open House 2010 will be held on our four college campuses in July and August . >more information
Yamagata University signs a cooperation agreement with Montedio Yamagata, a Premier League soccer club in Japan, on May 26, 2010 to further develop collaborative activities between YU students and the club staff and players within the local community and beyond. YU also offers to seek educational opportunities for the club's foreign-born and retired players in the areas of Japanese language and continuing education.
The Master of Engineering in Management of Technology (MOT) program at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering is accepting applications from degree-seeking international applicants for fall 2010.
The exhibit of literal works of HISASHI INOUE, a well-known Yamagata-born novelist who passed away on April 9, 2010, is being held at the Kojirakawa campus Library.
A symposium on organic electronics, YU's prominent research area, will be held in Yonezawa on February 19.
YU will hold its 60th anniversary commemorative ceremony on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
Yamagata University secures a major government grant to launch its researcher training program in the field of science and engineering and seeks to recruit nine tenure-track senior research associates worldwide in FY 2009. This program is in conjunction with the university's on-going effort to establish an international complex for organic EL (electroluminescence) research in Yamagata, Japan.
YU Faculty of Medicine’s molecular epidemiological study project utilizing the regional characteristics has been awarded a prestigious Center of Excellence grant known as Global COE Program by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology (MEXT).
The Graduate School of Teacher Training opens its door to train experienced school teachers in the region in the areas of leadership and curriculum development
The Yamagata Consortium of Colleges and Universities launches its new study field called “Mogami River Studies”, an interdisciplinary field to explore the well-known river in Japan that runs through the whole Yamagata region.
To promote its newly established “Tohoku MIRAI (Future) Program”, the Master of Engineering in Management of Technology (MOT) Program at Graduate School of Science and Engineering organizes a consortium of private corporations and Yamagata University.
YU Research Center for Higher Education has been awarded a Japanese government grant for its innovative Faculty Development project with a focus on the development and implementation of student-centered classroom practice to foster fundamental real life skills among students.
A cooperation agreement has been reached between the Zao Hot Spring Sightseeing Association and Yamagata University. This is the first of its kind in a sense that a higher education institution and a sightseeing organization will work together. The purpose of the agreement is to promote internationalization and other collaborative initiatives in the local community.
The 2009 Academy Award-winning film "Departures" (Okuribito) directed by Yojiro Takita was shot right here in Yamagata, Japan and its screen writer Kundo Koyama is a university professor in the region.