 Biotron Institute |
| This Institute was established in 1966 to furnish biologists with controlled
environments and to promote biotronics. The Institute has various types of
equipment (i.e., phytotron glass rooms, artificial light growth chambers,
incubators, a zootron and an entomotron) for exact control of environmental
factors such as air temperature, humidity, wind, light and CO2 concentration. |
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| Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| This Institute was established in 1975. The functions of the institute are: to
plan and execute joint research on tropical agriculture; to communicate with
other similar organizations in both Japan and foreign countries; to promote
cooperation for education in tropical areas including the exchange of
researchers and students; and to conserve specimens and stocks in tropical areas
and to make them available to researchers. |
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| Radioisotope Center |
| The Center was established in 1980 by combining four existing radioisotope
facilities. It consists of three divisions: Radiation Safety Management,
Radiological Science Research, and Radiation Monitoring and Information. The
Center provides experimental facilities and the latest radiation measurement
instruments for users in all fields of radioisotope sciences. The Center also
provides information and instructions on the safe handling of radioisotopes
as well as a fundamental training course for less experienced researchers. |
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| Center of Advanced Instrumental Analysis |
| The purpose of the Center is to facilitate advanced instrumental analysis and
high grade specimen preparation for research and education conducted by staff of
the entire university. Thirty-three instruments have been installed or registered
at the main center, and thirty-five at its branch in the Faculty of Engineering.
(for joint use by researchers in Kyushu University) |
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| The International Student Center |
This Center was established in 1985 to provide Japanese language training for
international students and help them adapt to life in Fukuoka. Now with over
1,100 overseas students at the university, it offers a growing range of educational
programs and support services. Japanese language courses have developed to include
all levels from beginners to advanced learners. There are also Japanese and Asian
Studies programs in both English and Japanese, which run for six weeks,
one semester and a full year. Please see our website for more details.
http://www.isc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/center/home.htm |
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| The Kyushu University Museum |
| The Kyushu University Museum was established in 2001 in order to standardize
the maintenance and management of individual collections of specimens and
archives that have been scattered among numerous laboratories. This standardization
will allow these collections to be recorded in a database, which will aid research
and education both inside and outside the university. The museum consists of
three laboratories: Laboratory of Curatorial Sciences, Laboratory of Analytical
Sciences, and Laboratory of Information and Multimedia Sciences. |
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| System LSI Research Center |
| 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 Silicon Sea Belt
Fukuoka project through research activities of the Innovative Cluster Creation
Project and education in QUBE and System LSI College. SLRC is also promoting the
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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| Space Environment Research Center (SERC) |
| SERC was established in 2002 to conduct fundamental studies of space weather.
SERC's primary mission is to collect data on the earth's magnetic field. In this way,
SERC provides, Japan's most inportant contribution to IHY (International Heliophysical
Year on the UN). In addition, in 2006, SERC was instrumental in the creation of
ULTIMA, which is an international consortium of magnetometer arrays. More information
on SERC, IHY, and ULTIMA canbe found at www.serc.kyushu-u.ac.jp |
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| Research Center for Korean Studies |
In November 1998, the then Korean Prime Minister, Kim Jong-Pil, gave a lecture
at Kyushu University expressing his determination to forge a new relationship
between Korea and Japan. The success of his visit to Kyushu University contributed
enormously to the conclusion of an agreement with the Korea Foundation in July 1999.
To further promote Korean Studies at Kyushu University and cultural exchange between
Korea and Japan, the Center was established on the 17th of December 1999. In April
2002, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology founded
the Center as an institution under ministerial ordinance. The Center offers four
fields of research: the social network, the political and economic system, the human
environments and the general research plan.
The Center is a two-story building. The first floor is a communal lounge equipped
with a large screen TV broadcasting news and other programming in Korean and various
magazines and journals about Korea. The second floor has offices for the director
and professors including a visiting professor.
In addition to acting as a source for academic information, the Center promotes
international conferences and facilitates joint research with regard to Korean
studies. |
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| Research Center for Education in Health Care System |
| This Center was established in 2003 to improve and enhance a multidisciplinary
education of the health care system based on medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutics,
and health sciences. The key functions are to research education in this area and
to support planning and implementation of multidisciplinary curricula in the
Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutics. |
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| Center for Research
and Advancement in Higher Education |
| This Center was established
in June 2006. It consists of four
collaborating divisions of Higher
Education, General Education,
Admissions, and Student Counseling
and Guidance. The aim of the Center
is to improve, develop and promote
higher education, and to support
the course on the admissions office
style of student selection (AO
selection). |
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| Research
Institute of Superconductor Science
and Systems |
| The Research Institute of Superconductor
Science and Systems (RISS) was
initiated in 2003 as the joint-use
research center for basic science
and the near-future application
of superconductors. Research and
education in RISS cover basic
phenomena and new concepts in
superconductors, improvements
in electromagnetic properties
of superconducting wires and films,
applications to superconductive
devices and systems in cooperation
with several Graduate Schools
and Faculties in Kyushu University. |
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| Kansei Center for Arts and Science |
Newly established in October 2003, when Kyushu University and Kyushu Institute
of Design were unified, the Kansei Center for Arts and Science functions as
a base for cooperative research and education drawing on the academic activities
of the two universities. Its goal is the creation of technology with innovative
values that combine artistic sensitivity and contemporary science.
Through training in this discipline, students will be able to play active roles
in the world of science and design. The Center consists of four Departments :
the Department of Digital Image Creation; the Department of Real Objects Design;
the Department of Applied Digital Information; the Department of Design Archives. |
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| Art, Science and Technology Center
for Cooperative Research |
| Established in 1994, the Center is dedicated to various types of collaborative
research among industry, government and academia. The Center includes three
divisions, Liaison, Design and Project. The Liaison division promotes
collaboration, technology transfer, and licensing between the university and
industry. The Design division functions as a core base for cooperative research
in art and technology. The function of Project division is to promote joint
research by coordinating activities among advanced projects. The Center seeks
to nourish research and education, and contributes to social welfare by utilizing
the scientific and intellectual resources of Kyushu University. |
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| Research
Laboratory for High Voltage Electron
Microscopy |
| This Laboratory was established in1975 to support research at Kyushu University.
Principal equipment includes a JEM-1000 high voltage electron microscope with a
maximum accelerating voltage of 1,250KV, a JEM-4000EX high resolution electron
microscope. A JEM-200CX auxiliary electron microscope, a JEM-2000FX analytical
electron microscope with X-ray spectrometer, and a JEM-2010FEF nano-probe
energy-filtering electron microscope, and various types of equipment have also
been introduced to facilitate the laboratory's research objectives. Furthermore,
a TECNAI-20, a TECNAI-20F and a JEM-3200FSK digitized transmission electron
microscopes have also been installed. Installation of a new High-Voltage
electron microscope, JEM-1300NEF, was completed at Ito Campus. |
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| Laboratory for Waste Water Treatment |
| This Laboratory works to remove harmful components from waste water produced by
a wide variety of experimental activities in all faculties and institutes of
Kyushu University, while simultaneously undertaking technologically advanced
efforts to perfect water treatment. |
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| Natural Disaster Information Center of Western Japan |
| This Center is the natural disaster information center in the western
part of Japan. The main aim of the Center is to collect reports and
information about natural disasters, and make them available to engineers
and scientists in the field of natural disasters. Another aim of the Center
is to lead research activities on the science and prevention of natural
disasters in the western part of Japan. |
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| Institute for Ionized Gas and Laser Research |
| The Institute was established in 1989 and aims to promote interdisciplinary
research in Kyushu University in the field of ionized gas and laser research.
The studies at the Institute are 1) the development of new lasers for ionized
gas research 2) optical and instrumental calibrations for ionized gas and
laser research and 3) applications of laser diagnostics and engineering
for ionized gas research. |
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| Kyushu University Archives |
| Established in 1992 and reorganized in 2005, the Kyushu University
Archives house a wide selection of documents relating to Kyushu University.
The archives actively collect, examine and preserve all kinds of documents
dealing with the university. The collection is open to visiting scholars and
to the general public. |
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Center for Accelerator and Beam Applied Science |
| The purpose of the center is to supply particle beams andgamma rays for
users in fields including the nuclear, material, biological, and medical science
and technology. The center consists of four divisions of accelerator development,
hadron material and energy science, interdisciplinary particle-beam science,
and interdisciplinary gamma-ray science. Construction of a building and transport
of a Fixed-Field-Alternating-Gradient synchrotron (proton energy of 150 MeV)
to the Ito Campus will be completed before the end of the 2007 fiscal year.
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| Venture Business Laboratory |
| The Kyushu University Venture Business Laboratory with a total floor area of
2,000m2 including a 200m2 clean room was established on the Hakozaki Campus in 1996.
The research project, "Development of New Electronic and Electric Devices and
their Systematism," has been developing various scientific subjects such as new,
functional, high-speed transmission devices. The Laboratory also offers a wide
variety of educational projects for graduate students with venture spirit. |
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| Admission Center |
| The Admission Center (AC) was established in April 1999 as one of the first
three research centers for admissions at national universities. The aim of the
Center is to develop a new student selection program called "the admissions
office style student selection (AO selection)." Kyushu University started
this new AO selection program in 2000 for admissions to three schools,
and in 2009 for admission to eight schools and the 21st Century Program. |
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| Hydrogen Technology Research Center |
The Hydrogen Technology Research Center (HTRC) was founded in 2004 to develop
technologies for hydrogen energy. The HTRC is involved in four research
activities: hydrogen energy utilization and conversion; hydrogen production and
supply; safety design technology for mechanical systems and infrastructure; and
integration technology to optimize overall system performance.
The goal of the HTRC is to establish hydrogen-related science and technology.
Research, development and demonstration of materials and systems for hydrogen
energy are the major research activities, including fuel cells, hydrolysis,
hydrogen storage and supply, hydrogen sensing and safety. This Center of
Kyushu University is cooperating with the Research Center for Hydrogen
Industrial Use and Storage, founded in the National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), focusing on fundamental materials
science and technology in high-pressure hydrogen systems. |
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| Center
for Future Chemistry |
| The purpose of the center is to develop the materials, sciences, and
technologies for future chemistry. The center consists of three divisions:
Division of Information Materials, Division of Photoactive Materials,
and Division of Translational Research. The research activities
in this center mainly include information, photoactive, nanotechnology,
biological, environmental, and energy related chemistry. Research
activities of this center also include translational research
of the developed materials and technologies for industry. |
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| Bio-Architecture
Center |
| The Bio-Architecture Center was established in April 2005,
aiming to create a strategic research foothold in a period of five years.
The center comprises 5 divisions to promote a new research field
able to design metabolic regulations and networks to produce functional
biomaterials, named: Metabolic Architecture Design System. The
activities of the center also aim to establish an effective
and productive cooperative framework for industry and academia. |
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| Research Center for Steel |
| The Research Center for Steel was established in April, 2005 to develop research
related to the production of steel and the evaluation of its properties.
In addition, the center seeks to train excellent researchers and engineers
who will be engaged in steel making companies, public research centers and
universities in future. The management of this center features the collaboration
between steel related companies and Kyushu University with respect to both
education and research activity. |
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| Digital Medicine Initiative |
| Despite enormous contributions of life science to medicine, the lack of a
framework to integrate the knowledge of life science into clinical medicine
prevents full exploration of its potential. To promote such integration, Kyushu
University established the Center for Digital Medicine Initiative in 2005.
The center aims at developing high performance multi-scale, multi-physics
computational human pathophysiology models. The human models translate
molecular mechanisms into complex system function and facilitate the development
of new modalities of diagnosis and treatment. They serve as a universal platform
to integrate new discoveries and observations in life science into the complex
human system. |
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| Asia Center |
| Established in July 2005, the Asia Center serves as a focalpoint to promote
research on contemporary Asia, and address selected policy issues facing
Japan and its neighboring countries. The Asia Center's multidisciplinary research forcuses 1) the formation of East Asian identities in China, Korea and Japan 2)the transnational migration of care workers in Asia. It also offers various outreach programs and provides information on Asian studies at Kyushu University. |
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| Mathmatical Research Center for Industrial Technology |
| This Center , called the MRIT.,was established in 2007 to create a new research and educational collaboration between the industrial world and the mathematics world. It is intended to be a major contributor to the promotion of mathematical approaches for use in various areas of technology. In order to achieve this purpose, the three divisions of Functional Mathematics, Technological Mathematics and the Research & Education Support Division are constituted and mainly supported by the Faculty of Mathematics. |
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| Low Temperature Center |
| The Low Temperature Center was established in April 2006 to supply liquid
nitrogen and liquid helium for research and education of low temperature science.
The Center provides seminars in cryogenic education for researchers, technical
staff and students in Kyushu University. It consists of two sub-centers:
Hakozaki Center and Ito Center, the latter of which has started work in 2007. |
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| Reseach and Education Center of Carbon Resources |
| This institute has been established to create an international Center of Excellence for more sustainable utilixation of coal, oil, and other fossil fuel resources. While carbon resources are of crucial importance for society , the world is facing significant problems due to the exhaustion of supplies and the pollution resulting from their use. Top-level research and educationthrough international cooperation on the utilization of carbon resources, with concomitant protection of the global environment, constitute the mission of this institute. |
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| Inamori frontier Research Center |
The newly established INAMORI FRONTIER RESEARCH CENTER(IFRC) owes its existence
to the strong support of the INAMORI FOUNDATION and KYOCERA CORPORATION. The
IFRC focuses its research on science and advanced technologies to help achieve
comfortable and environmentally-friendly living standards. The IFRC comprises the
following 4 research fields:
(A) Environmental science and technology
(B) Energy science and technology
(C) Science and technology for soft materials
(D) Electronic materials and devices
The IFRC is a unique interdisciplinary Center of Excellence. Located in Kyushu
University, and acting as an intellectual core to open up the frontiers of
future sciences and technologies, the IFRC encourages active researchers with
exceptional qualifications to expand new research fields. |
