Vol.26

• Okayama University Integrated Reporting Forum 2019
  - Release Okayama University’s First Integrated Report “Pay it Forward” -
• A Side Event for the G20 Health Minister’s meeting held on the theme “Life-Cycle/ Course Approaches to Promote Healthy and Active Ageing and Economic Implications”
• Student representatives attended the One Young World (OYW) 2019 Japan delegation send-off party held at the JT Art Hall Affinis, Tokyo
• Okayama University accredited to implement the “Support Program on Collaborative Innovation Networks for Medical Device”
• Kickoff meeting held for “Okayama University SDGs Ambassadors” to enhance public awareness of SDGs and promote SDGs

Vol.25

• Whole Institution’s Approach of SDG efforts presented at the UN headquarters: University officials led by President Makino participate in the High-Level Political Forum in July 2019
• Welcome reception held by Okayama University and the U.S. Department of State for CLS American students
• Promote the SDGs across generations! The SDGs Youth Project launched
• Okayama University accredited to implement the “Support Program on Collaborative Innovation Networks for Medical Device”
• Okayama University Weight Training Club won the national championship!

Vol.24

• Two Okayama University students attend One Young World (OYW) 2018 as Japanese representatives
• Okayama University announces its plan to offer the SiEED program designed to enhance students’ abilities to identify unknown problems and create unknown solutions.
• President Makino and two others visit the University of Michigan: Two universities agree to strengthen their mutual collaboration, with the 70th anniversary of opening of the University of Michigan’s Okayama Field Station (2020) approaching.
• President Makino and Prof. Seno attend events to celebrate 150th anniversary of Wayne State University and agree to promote mutual cooperation between the two research universities

Vol.23

• Okayama University Vice President Atsufumi Yokoi participated in the International Youth Exchange Conference commemorating the marriage of Their Imperial Highnesses Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako as facilitator of the discussion on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Vice President Yokoi attends UNESCO’s 3rd International Conference on GCED
• Vice President Yokoi attends the 1st UNESCO’s Partners Forum, and strengthens Okayama University’s cooperation with UNESCO!
• Student of Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Dentistry) Receives Award at Meeting of International Dentistry Association

Vol.22

• The Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems was established in April 2018
• Second visit of Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes Delegation to Okayama University: strengthening a "promising powerful partnership"
• Okayama University Hospital successfully completes the first lung transplant between two people of different sizes in Japan
• Yutaka Hani, a member of the Shogi Club, gains revenge for his last year’s defeat and becomes the student shogi meijin master

Vol.21

• Okayama University honored with special prize in the first Japan SDGs Awards!!
• President Makino Speaks at 1st Japan SDGs Award Briefing Session
• President Makino and others visit the UNESCO headquarters to present Okayama University’s efforts for SDGs and ESD

Vol.20

• President Makino visits Leiden University in the Netherlands to strengthen inter-university partnership and promotion of Okayama University’s international competitiveness
• Delegation of the European Union to Japan visited Okayama University
• Okayama University Hospital succeeds in the world’s first transplant that combines parts of the left and right lung to make one lung
• Okayama University Hospital accredited by Japan Medical Services Accreditation for International Patients (JMIP)
• Professor Ma and Associate Professor Yamaji receive the Highly Cited Researchers Award for the second consecutive year!
• Former president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam makes a courtesy visit to President Makino
• Educators from Senegal start training program at Okayama University

Vol.19

• Okayama University Hospital successfully conducts lung transplant surgery from brain-dead donor to Japan’s youngest recipient
• Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes delegation visits Okayama University to strengthen partnership
• Commemorative symposium for the opening of the Okayama University-Wayne State University Joint Research Laboratory (OU-SCEED)
• Ninth course students of Okayama-Hue International Master’s Program meet their sponsors
• Shunsuke Shimada of the Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology selected as one of the “30 Under 30 Asia” Young Entrepreneurs

Vol.18

• Okayama University and International Atomic Energy Agency sign an agreement for the development of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) for cancer therapy
• Okayama University participates in Asia’s Biggest Bio-Business Event: ‘Bio Japan 2016’
• Japan’s Six National Universities Network (SUN)/ International Education & Research System (SixERS) Signs International Exchange Agreement with Excellence League of China

Vol.17

• Professor Jian Feng Ma receives the 2016 Corresponding Membership Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
• Surgeons at Okayama University Medical Hospital succeed in world’s second hybrid lung transplant operation: Simultaneous lung transplants from both brain-dead and living donors
• Misasa International Student Internship Program 2016 at Okayama University’s Institute for Planetary Materials:Students from all over the world gather to try their hands at research

Vol.16

• Professors Jian Feng Ma and Naoki Yamaji receive “Highly Cited Researchers 2015” Award
• OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY Summer School 2016 Apply now !

Vol.15

• Okayama University participates in “nano tech 2016”: world’s largest exhibition of nanotechnology
• Ambassador of the European Union Delegation to Japan gives a lecture on “European Higher Education in the World”

Vol.14

• Fifth University Research Administrator (URA) International Research Seminar
• Okayama University Silicon Valley Office (OUSVO) is officially opened at Fremont, California in November, 2015
• International collaboration work with Xiamen University, P. R. China
• Ninth Entrance Ceremony Held for the “Okayama-Hue International Master’s Program”

Vol.13

• International collaboration at the Okayama University Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR)
• The launch of Okayama University Hospital’s Biobank (Okadai Biobank)
• Misasa International Student Intern Program 2015: Japanese and Overseas Students Participate in Cutting-Edge Research
• Okayama University at the Licensing Executives Society 2015 Annual Meeting in New York City
• The ‘Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases’: a kickoff symposium

Vol.12

• Okayama University and IAEA sign a new agreement related to radioactive waste management and environmental remediation
• Developing new insights into iron-controlled biology
• Combatting Infectious Diseases with Research Networks
• World’s first hybrid lung transplant: Simultaneous lung transplants from both brain-dead and living donors
• Life Science World 2015 : Okayama University presents its latest research achievements at Asia’s largest bio event

Vol.11

• Misasa International Symposium 2015
• The 1st Okayama University and King Faisal University’s Workshop on Environmental and Life Science
• High-performance Terahertz Project kick-off symposium
• Symposium held on “The current and future state of radiation”
• From molecular diagnostics to target therapies
• Okayama University Special Movie ”Craftmanship of OKAYAMA"

Vol.10

• 100th year anniversary commemorative ceremony for the Institute of Plant Science and Resources
• The Opening Ceremony at the Junko Fukutake Terrace
• International Exchange Event “Erasmus Day”
• 2nd URA International Research Seminar

Vol.9

• Successful completion of a contralateral lung transplant using a donor lung from a brain-dead donor: a first in Japan
• Okayama Study Tour to Discover the Charms of Okayama from the Perspective of Foreign Students
• Professor Wirth, from Cardiff University in the UK, presents a lecture at Okayama University’s ‘Future Session’
• Selection as part of the ‘Top Global University Project’
• Okayama University selected as an additional MEXT ‘Translational Research Network Program’ research support site
• Selection as a Center for Excellence

Vol.8

• University-level agreement with Universiti Putra Malaysia concluded
• BIOtech Japan 2014: Okayama University presents its latest research achievements at the Asia’s largest bio event
• International Dental Center opens in Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam
• Assistant Prof. Miho Nishimura Spoke of Her Aspiration as Female Researcher at TEDx Tokyo 2014
• Prof. Kano Elected as Executive Committee Member of Global Young Academy

Vol.7

• First deposit from Japan: Barley seeds are preserved in Svalbard Global Seed Vault
• Okayama University Staff Join the Sports Day in Cambodia
• African Educators Begin Course at Okayama University
• Okayama University receives the "Business Matching Award" at "nano tech 2014"

Vol.6

• Okayama University Attends Licensing Executives Society (LES)
• Project launched to train educators from Senegal
• Selection for the Center Of Innovation (COI STREAM) Program
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Takashi Yorifuji Attends World Health Organization Meeting

Vol.5

• Okayama University selected for the prestigious ‘Program on Strengthen of Research Activity & its Promotion in Selected Universities’
• Space traveling seeds: sunflower seeds stayed in space were delivered to schoolchildren
• International Exchange Speech Contest
• Okayama University medical student wins gold medal at the World Junior Powerlifting Championships in Texas, USA

Vol.4

• World's first successful living donor transplant of the middle lobe of a lung:
  Mother's lung saves the life of her three year old son
• Japan's oldest votive tablets showing monkey leading a horse, and a cow are unearthed
• Launch of the Photosynthesis Research Center at Okayama University
• Launch of mega-hospital consortium: Okayama University Hospital is selected as one of 10 core hospitals for clinical research in Japan

Vol.3

• Jian-Ren Shen is awarded the prestigious 2012 Asahi Prize
• Vice President Shin-ichi Yamamato leads delegation to India to visit national research institutes and Okayama University-India collaborative research center
• Yuji Hasegawa of Vienna University of Technology describes his ground breaking findings on quantum physics and the Heisenberg principle
• Itsuo Nakano is one of the international group of scientists involved in research on the discovery of the Higgs Boson selected by AAAS Science for Science Breakthrough of the Year 2012.

Vol.2

• Okayama University Hospital surgeons perform a record 100 lung transplants exceeding any other hospital in Japan.
• International symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Photosynthetic Systems
• Okayama University Holds Special Lecture: Higgs Boson—the Last Elementary Particle

Vol.1

• Jian-Ren Shen 2011 breakthrough of year
• International symposium on photosynthesis to be held at Okayama University
• Start-up conference held to launch tri-nation 'Campus Asia'