Awards received by OU members in January 2025

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 January 2025.)

DATE	DEPARTMENT	AWARDEE	AWARD NAME
2024/11/23 (Award ceremony 2025/1/29)	Osaka University	Executive Vice President MIZUSHIMA Ikuko	Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Award for Distinguished Service to Local Labor Administration
2024/12/9	Graduate School of Engineering	HAKKAKU Toru (M2)	Best Poster Award, The 20th Meeting of the Adhesion Society of Japan, Kansai Branch, Young Scientists' Group
2024/12/20	Graduate School of Engineering	HARADA Ryotaro (M2) Assistant Professor HISANO Daisuke Professor MARUTA Akihiro Associate Professor MISHINA Ken	Outstanding Paper Award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Communications Society of Japan, Optical Communication Systems Research Group, 2024 OCS
2024/12/20	Graduate School of Engineering	MARUYAMA Kiyotaka (M2)	Encouragement of Excellent Paper Presentation Award, The Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity
2024/12/24	Graduate School of Engineering	Professor MATSUSAKI Michiya	42nd Academic Award, the Chemical Society of Japan
2025/1/15	Graduate School of Engineering	KUSUHARA Rina （M2）	Incentive Award, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Kansai Branch
2024/12/14	Graduate School of Engineering Science	INOUE Soshun (D2)	Incentive Award, 35th Annual Meeting of Photophysical Properties Society of Japan
2024/12/22	Graduate School of Engineering Science	SHIBAMOTO Kenji (D2)	Distinguished Paper Award for Young Scientists, The Japan Institute of Metals 5th Workshop on Architecture of Functional Properties of Materials
2024/12/22	Graduate School of Engineering Science	KINOSHITA Ryosuke (D1)	Best Poster Award, 5th Workshop on Architecture of Functional Properties of Materials, The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials
2025/1/1	Graduate School of Engineering Science	Associate Professor FUJITA Masayuki	2025 IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer
2025/1/20	Graduate School of Engineering Science	Associate Professor EINAGA Mari	5th Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Award, The Physical Society of Japan
2025/1/15	SANKEN	AMEMIYA Yuma (M2)	Best Student Poster Presentation Award, The 23rd International Symposium on Eco-Materials Processing and Design (ISEPD2025)
2025/1/28	SANKEN	Associate Professor KOGA Hirotaka	Kansai Textile Science Award
2025/1/15	Joining and Welding Research Institute	Assistant Professor Ruben Canton Vitoria	The conference "Advances and applications in carbon related nanomaterials: From pure to doped structures including heteroatom layers" The second prize for the poster presentation
2025/1/28	Joining and Welding Research Institute	YOSHIDA Tamaki (M1)	FY2024 asiam Activity Encouragement Award, Osaka University
2025/1/28	Joining and Welding Research Institute	MIYAMOTO Sei (M2)	FY2024 asiam Activity Encouragement Award, Osaka University
2025/1/29	Joining and Welding Research Institute	UCHIDA Hiroto (D2)	Incentive Award, Smart Process Society Symposium Award Mate 2025 Incentive Award
2025/1/29	Joining and Welding Research Institute	HIRASE Kana (D2)	Best Poster Award, Welding Society of Japan Mate 2025
2024/12/13	D3 Center	Specially Appointed Professor KAWAI Yukiko Associate Professor SHIRAI Shizuka	Corporate Award, National Institute of Informatics (NII) IDR User Forum 2024

*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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