 Foundation
and Expansion of Five Centers
Under President's Initiative |
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| To promote
the support for "improvement
of facilities and spaces"
in particular, five centers were
founded and expanded as strategic
education research bases in the
FY 2005. |
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 The
Center for Future Chemistry |
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"Functional
Innovation in Molecular Informatics,"
a part of the 21st Century COE
Program, led by Prof. Shinkai
Seiji of the Graduate School of
Engineering, aims at the creation
of a novel Molecular Informatics
which connects information characteristics
of molecules with nanotechnology.
The Center for
Future Chemistry, fully utilizing
Molecular Informatics, develops
translational research, which
puts newly developed materials
and novel technologies into practical
use, together with chemistry research
based on nanotechnology, a field
with great prospects for industries,
which is characterized by information,
newly developed materials and
optics.
The
Center for Future Chemistry, while
joining hands with organizations
in Fukuoka and Asia, will actively
contribute to society through
collaborative initiatives between
the academic and the industrial
worlds, the creation of new industries
and the cultivation of human resources. |
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| The
Center for Future Chemistry |
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| Bio-Architecture
Center |
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| The Bio-Architecture
Center was established in April
2005, aiming at the formation
of a strategic research foothold
in a period for five years. The
center comprises 5 divisions to
promote a new research field able
to design metabolic regulations
and networks to produce functional
biomaterials, which is named Metabolic
Architecture Design System. The
activities of the center also
aim to construct an effective
and productive framework for cooperative
research works between industry
and academia. The Academic/Industry
Exchange Center (tentative title)
will be established in the science
city which includes Kyushu University's
new campus as its core. The Center
for Future Chemistry and the City
of Fukuoka are now studying concrete
methods for close cooperation. |
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| Center
of Digital Medicine Initiative |
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| Recent explosions
of life science have tremendous
impact on clinical medicine. However,
mechanisms to incorporate basic
knowledge into integrated pathophysiology
in patients remain unestablished.
To overcome such limitations of
latest medical sciences, Kyushu
University has founded the Center
of Digital Medicine Initiative.
The Center of Digital Medicine
Initiative is a dedicated institution
where we develop computational
human models capable of reproducing
pathophysiology by incorporating
fundamental knowledges in life
sciences, and investigate new
modalities of treatments and diagnoses. |
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| Kyushu
University Asian Policy Research
Center |
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| The new center
is designed to bring together
and fully utilize the established
intellectual and human resources
of Kyushu University concerning
Asia to carry out contemporary
social and cultural research,
keep abreast of the rapid change
in the region and thereby be in
a position to offer policy are
commendations and solutions to
the issues facing contemporary
Asian society. The center will
cooperate with prominent intellectual,
social and political organizations
in Japan, Asia and the world.
It will strengthen the established
perception of Kyushu University's
special access to Asia. The new
center is a development of the
former KUARO and will initially
have three research areas: |
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Contemporary
Asian Cultural Research,
carrying out vigorous
investigation of Asia's
changing society and culture;
Asian Social Development
Research, investigating
civic and agricultural
development and such attendant
issues as preservation
of the environment, maintenance
of mental health and;
Asian Social Science Research,
systematic, theoretical
and verifiable investigations
in order to issue policy
recommendations, drawing
on the other research
areas, the 21st-century
COE program, and Kyushu
University’s expertise
on historical change in
Asia. |
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| The special
character and usefulness of the
research of the center will be
made apparent to the wider world
through the development of academic
networks and research cooperation
with other international research
institutions. The center's recommended
policies and solutions to contemporary
problems facing Asia will be made
available alongside the center's
research results through a full
use of print and digital media. The
center will also strengthen the
special relationship of the Western
Japan region with Asia through
cooperation with numerous prominent
local bodies and organizations. |
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| System
LSI Research Center |
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| System LSI
Research Center (SLRC) was established
in 2001 to be a COE of System
LSI design technologies. SLRC
has played an important role in
the Silicon Sea Belt Fukuoka project
through research activities in
the Innovative Cluster Creation
Project and education in System
LSI College. SLRC is also promoting
an IC card project in Kyushu University.
A satellite campus was opened
in Momochi-hama in 2004 where
many LSI design industries are
located. |
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| Momochi-Hama
Satellite campus System LSI Research
Center |
