Read the full Rice News feature on the 2016 Nakatani RIES Fellowship Program
Nakatani fellows and their university affiliation are (from left):
Front row: Toshihiro Takada (Ritsumeikan University), Soya Miyoshi (Tohoku University), Yunong Wang (Toyota Technological Institute), Ayaka Yoshida (Waseda University), Sasha Yamada (University of Hawaii, Manoa), Mayssa Gregoire (St. Joseph’s College), Brinda Malhotra (Carnegie Mellon University) and Hiromi Miwa (Keio University).
Middle row: Tatsuya Tanaka (Waseda University), Haihao Liu (Rice), Chandni Rana (University of Florida), Erica Lin (Brown University), Ronald Ballouz (University of Texas at Austin), Takuya Kurihana (University of Tsukuba) and Nobuyoshi Hiramatsu (University of Tokyo).
Back row: Brianna Garcia (Rice), Daniel Gilmore (Purdue University), Shweta Modi (Cornell University), Benjamin Kaiser (Bethel University), Nickolas Walling (Rice) and Youssef Tobah (University of Texas at Austin).
Not pictured: Donald Swen (Willamette University).