JSPS Funding Opportunities Info session: 10/24; 4 - 5 pm

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

*Information Session: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 
(JSPS)**- Programs to Support International Research Collaboration*

*Wednesday, October 24, 2012*

4:00-5:00 pm<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3>

Room 3-133 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3>


The *Japan Society for the Promotion of Science* (JSPS 
<http://jspsusa.org/fellowship.html>) 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.


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

*Speaker:*

Fumiyo Kaneko, Deputy Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of 
Science (JSPS) Washington Office

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Please register online at:***http://www.doodle.com/5w6rm9acmdkszzwq. 
Please feel free to forward this announcement to any colleagues who may 
be interested.

Please direct any questions regarding this event to Jessica Landry 
(jlandry at mit.edu <mailto:jlandry at mit.edu>)or Dana Bresee Keeth 
(breese at mit.edu <mailto:breese at mit.edu>)


/Sponsored by
/*MIT Office of the Vice President for Research & Associate Provost*
*MIT Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE)

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