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ICU student and Study Abroad Scholarship recipient Mari Ohgushi shares her experience on what it’s like to study abroad at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

Rethinking Peace Studies II: Memory was held on March 27 and 28th on the 20th floor of the bell tower of Riverside Church in NYC. Rethinking Peace Studies (RPS) is a collaboration between ICU, Rutgers University and the Japan ICU Foundation that seeks to critically rethink the discipline of peace studies.

ICU professor of international relations and Rethinking Peace Studies participant Giorgio Shani is set to deliver a talk tomorrow evening at Rutgers University.

Thomas John Hastings, JICUF Senior Research Fellow in Science & Religion, is organizing an academic conference titled “The Presence and Future of Humanity in the Cosmos: Why Society Needs Both the Sciences & the Humanities”. The conference will be held on the ICU campus from March 18-23, 2015 and bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

The following article was written by Japan ICU Foundation trustee Bill Lesher. Bill will be completing his term as a trustee at the end of this month. His support and guidance over the years has been invaluable, particularly in the area he is most passionate about, interreligious understanding.

Emiko Imori is an ICU student spending her junior year studying abroad at the University of California, Berkley. She is also one of four students to receive the JICUF’s Study Abroad Scholarship, which was inaugurated this year.

The Japan ICU Foundation conducted a recent interview with Kosinara Sok, a recipient of the jointly funded Japan ICU Foundation/ICU/United Board Peace Studies Scholarship. He is a graduate student in Peace Studies at ICU.

Thomas John Hastings, JICUF Senior Research Fellow in Science & Religion, has been busy this past year organizing an academic conference and completing a book on Kagawa Toyohiko.

Anatolii Yonathan Ast studied East Asian Studies at University of Virginia and spent one summer at ICU’s Summer Courses in Japanese program. Anatolii now lives in NYC where he is focusing his studies on classical Japanese, translates Japanese to English for Japan Today and tutors Japanese language students via Skype. In this interview he tells us more about his passion for the Japanese language and what ICU means to him.

Yuki Nakao is an ICU student spending her junior year studying abroad at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also one of four students to receive the JICUF’s Study Abroad Scholarship, which was inaugurated this year.