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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
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3"><o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a
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                style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">Room 3-133</span></a><br>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Speaker:<o:p></o:p></span></b><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>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span
                style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN">Please register
                online at:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"
                lang="EN"> </span></b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
              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>
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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">Please direct any
              questions regarding this event to Jessica Landry (<span
                style="color:#444444"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:jlandry@mit.edu">jlandry@mit.edu</a></span>)<span
                style="color:#444444"> </span>or Dana Bresee Keeth <span
                style="color:#444444">(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:breese@mit.edu">breese@mit.edu</a></span>)<br>
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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
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                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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          <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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                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>
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