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Ochanomizu University and Tohoku University sign “Comprehensive Partnership Agreement”

25.07.2019 Update

Ochanomizu University and Tohoku University have concluded a comprehensive partnership agreement on Friday July 19, with the view of promoting AI/mathematical science/data literacy education, women’s global leadership development, and diversity by leveraging each other’s strengths. The inter-university partnership is expected to strengthen research capabilities through a cross-appointment program, establish research and education centers of excellence (COEs), promote practical application and implementation of research results in the society and develop collaborative human resources.

Tohoku University was the first Imperial University to accept three female students in 1913, two of who were graduates from Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School, the predecessor of Ochanomizu University. Dr. Chika Kuroda studied at Women’s Higher Normal School (renamed as Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School, presently Ochanomizu University), the first institution of higher education for women in Japan, and then enrolled with Tohoku Imperial University to do research on natural pigments. She was Japan's first woman bachelor of science and Japan’s second woman to receive a doctorate in science. She became a professor at Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School, and at Ochanomizu University.

In respect of this connection, the two universities are working together in collaboration programs and projects in areas necessary for promoting education, research, exchanges of students, university-industry partnerships, and university-community partnerships. To begin with, Ochanomizu University accepts Tohoku University’s faculty members in engineering/information science, depending on our faculty’s needs, while dispatching our faculty members to help promote diversity in Tohoku University, through cross-appointment for an exchange of researchers. 

In June this year, Ochanomizu University opened an IoT technology-driven institution, the Center for Interdisciplinary AI and Data Science. Under the comprehensive partnership agreement with Tohoku University, we strive to accelerate interdisciplinary collaboration and integration in education and research activities in these areas, to foster engineering with the focus on women’s accessibility and to promote commercialization of joint R&D results.

At the signing ceremony, President Murofushi of Ochanomizu University commented on women leadership in AI/IoT society, and President Hideo Ono of Tohoku University expected that the inter-university partnership should leverage each other’s strengths to promote diversity and enhance gender balance.

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