Awards received by UOsaka members in April 2026

Below is a list of awards received by UOsaka 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 April 2026.) 　

DATE	DEPARTMENT	AWARDEE	AWARD NAME
2026/4/9	Graduate School of Humanities	Professor KIHARA Yoshihiko	"The Book That Booksellers Nationwide Want to Sell the Most! 2026 Japan Booksellers' Award, Translated Fiction Category, 3rd Place"
2026/4/25	Graduate School of Humanities	Associate Professor KANAZAWA Yu	44th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology and the 34th Joint Meeting of the Japanese Society for Emotional Psychology, Japanese Society for Emotional Psychology, Diligent Presentation Award
2026/3	Graduate School of Human Sciences	Associate Professor SUGAO Shoko	Japan Mindfulness Society Excellent Research Award
2026/3/4	Graduate School of Human Sciences	Lecturer HAGIHARA Hiromichi	8th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Developmental Psychology, International Encouragement Award
2026/3/18	Graduate School of Human Sciences	Assistant Professor SHITARA Tetsuya	Masato Kawai Memorial Anthropology and Archaeology Research Encouragement Award for Young Members (Anthropological Society of Japan)
2026/4/17	Graduate School of Science	OOyama Oto（D2）	Sasakawa Scientific Research Encouragement Award
2026/3/3	Graduate School of Engineering	Specially Appointed Professor (full-time) TAKIYA Toshio	18th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Branch of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, Contribution Award
2026/3/17	Graduate School of Engineering	ICHIKAWA Tatsuya（M1）	2026 Spring Meeting of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, Student Presentation Award, Corporate Award (Nisshin Ion Machinery Co., Ltd.)
2026/3/25	Graduate School of Engineering	YOSHIDA Tamaki（M2）	Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Excellent Student Award
2026/4/1	Graduate School of Engineering	Assistant Professor MATSUZAKI Takahisa	UBE Foundation for Science and Technology, 66th Watanabe Memorial Special Encouragement Award
2026/4/15	Graduate School of Engineering	Assistant Professor FUKUNAGA Shuhei	IEEE EPS JAPAN CHAPTER YOUNG AWARDS
2026/3/5	Graduate School of Engineering Science	Assistant Professor AMESAKA Takashi	Information Processing Society of Japan, Interaction 2026, Interactive Presentation Award (PC Recommendation)
2026/3/10	Graduate School of Engineering Science	Assistant Professor AMESAKA Takashi	Human Interface Society 22nd Human Interface Society Research Meeting Award
2026/3/23	Graduate School of Engineering Science	Professor IWAI Daisuke	IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D UserInterfaces (IEEE VR) Best Paper Award
2026/4/1	Graduate School of Information Science and Technology	KAWAMURA Hayate（M1）	2025 IEICE Software Science Research Committee Research Encouragement Award
2026/4/1	Graduate School of Information Science and Technology	KONDO Inase（M2）	2025 IEICE Software Science Research Committee Research Encouragement Award
2026/4/3	SANKEN	Professor TAKIZAWA Shinobu	Top Cited Article - WILEY
2026/4/15	SANKEN	Rubal Sharma（M2 Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences *March, at the time of announcement）	146th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Student Excellent Presentation Award
2026/4/15	SANKEN	Specially Appointed Professor (full-time) Chuantong Chen	International Conference on Electronics Packaging Outstanding Technical Paper Award - Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
2026/4/15	SANKEN	IZUHARA Moeha（M1 Graduate School of Science）	146th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Student Excellent Presentation Award

*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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