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<b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#632523;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#632523;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"
lang="EN">Information Session: Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS)</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#632523;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#632523;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">
- Programs to Support International Research Collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">Wednesday, October 24,
2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">4:00-5:00 pm<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3"><o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">Room 3-133</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">The <b>Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science</b> (<a
href="http://jspsusa.org/fellowship.html" target="_blank"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">JSPS</span></a>)
will present information on funding opportunities for faculty,
postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students. Opportunities
include funding to conduct research in Japan or in
collaboration with Japanese researchers. Opportunities are
offered across disciplines, including the humanities. social
sciences, and natural sciences.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">JSPS is a
Japanese research funding agency. JSPS supports all research
fields, such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering,
geology, computer sciences, biomedical sciences, humanity and
social sciences etc. JSPS’s main missions are (1) to
distribute research grants; (2) to provide fellowships to
Japanese young researchers; (3) to carry out international
programs; and (4) to support university reform. Through its
third mission, in addition to the international cooperative
programs which JSPS runs with nearly 90 overseas counterpart
agencies such as NSF or NIH, JSPS also offers various
invitation fellowship programs to Japan for overseas
researchers and graduate students in accordance with each
research career. Through these programs JSPS supports
thousands of researchers/graduate students exchanges every
year<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Speaker:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Fumiyo Kaneko,
Deputy Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS) Washington Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"
lang="EN"><br>
Please register online at:</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN"> </span></b><a
href="http://www.doodle.com/5w6rm9acmdkszzwq">http://www.doodle.com/5w6rm9acmdkszzwq</a>.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to any colleagues
who may be interested.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">Please direct any questions
regarding this event to Jessica Landry (<span
style="color:#444444"><a href="mailto:jlandry@mit.edu">jlandry@mit.edu</a></span>)<span
style="color:#444444"> </span>or Dana Bresee Keeth <span
style="color:#444444">(<a href="mailto:breese@mit.edu">breese@mit.edu</a></span>)</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">Sponsored by<br>
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">MIT
Office of the Vice President for Research & Associate
Provost</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN"><br>
<b>MIT Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE)<br>
<br>
</b><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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