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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>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><br>
        <span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></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">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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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><br>
        <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&#8217;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>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
      <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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        <span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN"><span
            style="color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
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 &amp; 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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