Awards received by OU members in June 2024

Below is a list of awards received by OU students, faculty, and staff from academic societies. Certain awards not listed below were announced via a separate news article.

(Note: Some of the awards listed below were received before or after June 2024.)

date	department	awardee	award name
2024/6/17	Graduate School of Humanities	Associate Professor YAMADA Akitaka	Honorable Mention, The Best Paper Award, International Spring Forum, The English Linguistic Society of Japan
2024/6/13	Graduate School of Law and Politics	SUMI Masami (D3)	Research Encouragement Award (Poster Division), The Japanese Society for Public Administration
2024/5/22	Graduate School of Engineering	Professor NAKANO Takayoshi	49th Inoue Harushige Prize
2024/5/26	Graduate School of Engineering	IMURA Mai (M1)	Excellent Presentation Award, 73rd Annual Meeting (FY2024), The Society of Materials Science, Japan
2024/5/30	Graduate School of Engineering	Associate Professor YOSHIMOTO Shunsuke	Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research Award, Robots and Mechatronics Division, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2024/6/2	Graduate School of Engineering	Associate Professor YAKIYAMA Yumi	29th Encouragement Award, The Society of Japanese Women Scientists
2024/6/4	Graduate School of Engineering	Associate Professor HIROHATA Mikihito NAKAHARA Tomonori (doctoral student at the time the research was conducted)	Roads and Transportation Study Paper Award, Express Highway Research Foundation of Japan
2024/6/7	Graduate School of Engineering	Dr. MORI Naoki (Lecturer) TAKAHASHI Masahi (received master's degree in AY2021) Professor HAYASHI Takahiro	Best Paper Award, The Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection
2024/6/14	Graduate School of Engineering	Professor YABUKI Nobuyoshi	Outstanding Research Achievement Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2024/6/19	Graduate School of Engineering	YOSHIMURA Ryo (M2)	Scholarships for Outstanding Students, The 34th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE2023)
2024/6/25	Graduate School of Engineering	YAMAMOTO Ryunosuke (M2)	IEEE VTS Tokyo / Japan Chapter 2024 Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award
2024/6/19	Graduate School of Engineering Science	NAKATANI Yuki (M2)	Poster Award, 9^th General Assembly, The Japanese Society for Genome Editing
2024/6/3	SANKEN	Professor SAKAMOTO Masanori	23rd (AY2023) Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award (GSC) (Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
2024/6/12	SANKEN	Associate Professor KOGA Hirotaka	Research Encouragement Award, Konica Minolta Science and Technology Foundation, The Imaging Society of Japan
2024/6/22	SANKEN	CHIHARA Naoki (M2, Information Science) Associate Professor MATSUBARA Yasuko FUJIWARA Ren (D2, Information Science) Professor SAKURAI Yasushi	Best Paper Award, 16th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2024), The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
2024/6/4	Joining and Welding Research Institute	Professor FUJII Hidetoshi	42nd Award for Light Metal Welding Technology, Japan Light Metal Welding Association
2024/6/4	Joining and Welding Research Institute	Li Weihao (D2)	42nd Award for Light Metal Welding Technology, Japan Light Metal Welding Association

*D: doctoral program | M: master's program | B: undergraduate program
*Years in school and titles of award recipients are current as of the time of their reception

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