The Nakatani Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of our 11 participants in the 2017 Nakatani RIES Fellowship for Japanese students.  Our Japanese Fellows were selected from a nationally competitive application pool with women representing 54.5% and men representing 45.5% of 2017 Japanese. These students represent a range of science & engineering fields of study and five different Japanese universities including: Hiroshima University (1), Nagoya University (2), Tohoku University (3), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1), and the University of Tokyo (4).

Our Japanese Fellows will travel to Rice University this August to participate in a six-week program that will provide students with real world experience in science & engineering research, provide an introduction to U.S. higher education and provide opportunities for cultural engagement and collaboration with U.S. students. The program will serve as a catalyst for Japanese students interested in S&E study and research and engagement with the U.S. through international research collaborations.

We look forward to working with these students this summer. Congratulations to you all!

Click on the student names below to learn more about the 2017 Nakatani RIES Japanese Fellows

	Ayaka Hatano Tokyo Institute of Technology, Junior Chemistry
	Etsuko Ishii The University of Tokyo, Junior Applied Mathematics
	Seiya Ishizawa Tohoku University, Junior Agriculture, Chemical Biology
	Tomo Kinoshita Nagoya University, Junior Medicine
	Miki Matsumoto The University of Tokyo, Junior Applied Biological Chemistry and Biotechnology
	Shohei Nishimura Tohoku University, Sophomore Materials Science and Materials Processing, Sophomore Research Host Lab: TBD
	Jumpei Nomura Hiroshima University, Junior Vehicle and Environmental Systems
	Ryota Sasaki Tohoku University, Sophomore Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering
	Tomoyuki Sato Nagoya University, Junior Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace
	Rio Tsukimura The University of Tokyo, Sophomore Chemical Engineering
	Nina Yoshitake The University of Tokyo, Junior Bioinformatics and Systems Biology