On 9 September, the JSPS San Francisco Office held its third Meeting for University Administration Officers in the US. The purpose of this meeting is to establish a network and exchange information between administrative officers of Japanese universities based in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. The participants of the meeting were from Kagoshima University, Kyushu University, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Science, and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) along with JSPS’s San Francisco Office. After briefly introduced themselves and their activities, the participants exchanged views on differences between operating in Japan and the US. The administrators described the nature for their overseas assignments and the missions of their university’s overseas offices. The meeting proved to be meaningful in boosting exchange between people from a diverse group of Japanese universities and research institutions. The fourth meeting is scheduled to be held in February 2010 at the JSPS San Francisco Office. - JSPS San Francisco Office |