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<b><span
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lang="EN">Information Session: Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS)</span></b><b><span
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- 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
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3"><span
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="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 &
Associate Provost</span></b><span
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<b>MIT Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE)<br>
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