Kyoto University faculty members at the forefront of research will give lectures, and we will publish them. You can experience the forefront of research anytime, anywhere!
"Let Me Tell You About When You Were an Embryo"
Yoshiko Takahashi, Program-Specific Professor
Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability
It all starts with a single fertilized egg. As it divides again and again, the brain, limbs, and heart take shape. Throughout this process, cells work without rest. In this lecture, I will introduce how cells work to build tissues and organs. Why not listen in on the "whispers" cells exchange with one another?
What Does It Mean to “Be Academically Capable”? : Exploring the Question Through the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Terumasa Ishii, Professor
Graduate School of Education
Does getting a perfect score on a test mean that you have high academic ability? What does the test actually measure in the first place? Are people with high academic ability necessarily intelligent—or successful in their work? And when we say that someone “has academic ability,” is there perhaps something problematic about the very way we frame the question? Drawing on research into the taxonomy of educational objectives, this lecture explores these questions and invites us to reconsider what we really mean by “academic ability.”
Books Born out of Translation
Kyoko Yoshida, Professor
Arts and Letters, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
This lecture introduces several new ways of thinking about literary translation, drawing on the speaker's own experience as a translator. Translation is not merely moving an original into another language. This lecture argues that it is, in fact, also a source of literary creation.
Wireless Power Transfer from Space
Naoki Shinohara, Professor
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere / Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Digital Engineering
Wireless power transfer, a technology for sending electricity without cords, makes space-based power stations possible. This lecture explains the space solar power station and related technologies that Kyoto University has been researching and developing for many years.
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