Jordan Woodard, a JICUF scholarship recipient, is from Austin, Texas. She is a junior student studying for four years at ICU, and her major is media, communication, and culture (MCC). We asked her a few questions about her life at ICU.
Li Boxiang is a sophomore student at ICU, who is receiving a scholarship from the JICUF. He is from China, and has yet to decide on his major but is interested in information science, economics and business. We asked him a few questions to get to know him better.
JICUF awarded Associate Professor of Linguistics Seunghun Lee a grant of ¥300,000 this fall to host the Asian Junior Linguists (AJL) Conference at ICU. Professor Lee organized the conference with Professor Tomoyuki Yoshida, the current chair of ICU’s psychology and linguistics department, to provide a forum for pre-doctoral linguistics students to present their work. The conference took place from December 2nd (Friday) to 4th (Sunday) in ICU’s Dialogue House.
ICU Professor Norie Takazawa, who specializes in modern French history, received a grant of ¥400,000 from the JICUF during the Fall Term to convene a workshop on “Considering Early Modern Society and Social Status from the Gender Perspective.”
Katie Cheshire is a one exchange student (one-year regular or OYR) who is receiving the JICUF scholarship for international students. We recently had the opportunity to ask her a few questions.
ICU Professor Natsumi Ikoma, who specializes in gender studies, was awarded a grant of ¥335,380 from the JICUF for her program “Performance of Gender in Kabuki.”
We are happy to introduce our new photography intern, Ms. Hana Kamio. Hana is an undergraduate student at ICU, and she will be taking photographs of JICUF-sponsored events and programs on campus. We asked her to introduce herself.
This fall, ICU International Relations Professor Stephen R. Nagy was awarded a ¥1,100,000 grant from the Japan ICU Foundation to run a short-term academic exchange and research program called the Japan-China Young Leaders Development Project (YLDP). Read about the participants and their plans.
The Alumni Association’s Dream Competition (“Doricon”) 2016 took place on September 25th in the Alumni House. The Doricon is organized annually as a way for alumni to help current students realize their dreams, and this was its twelfth year.
On Sunday, September 18th, the JICUF hosted an ICU and ICU High School Joint Information Session at the Interchurch Center, where our office is located. ICU President Junko Hibiya, who was in New York to attend the JICUF trustees meeting, gave a presentation about the university to an audience mostly comprised of prospective students and their families.
