Ms. Tomoka Kazama (Supervisor: Prof. N. Kutsumura) was awarded the BestStudent Presentation Award 2024 from the 144th Annual Meeting of thePharmaceutical Society of Japan (Yokohama).Title: Development of comprehensive synthetic method for flavonoids andstructure-activity relationship study for salt-inducible kinases

It has been decided that Assist. Prof. Takayuki Ohyoshi received the Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.This award is given to young researchers who have conducted outstanding research or inventions in the field of organic synthetic chemistry or related industries.Achievement title：Total Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of Bioactive Natural Products(Reference: SSOCJ website) https://www.ssocj.jp/award/encouragement/

Mr. Makoto Saikawa　(Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Yasuo Norikane)was awarded Student Poster Prize at10th International Symposium on Photochromism, ISOP2023(Nara, November 7th–10th, 2023). (Presentation title: Particle Transport by Crawling Azobenzene Crystal)

The open recruitment for an assistant professor position in the field of Inorganic Reaction Chemistry (Coordination chemistry; Catalysis using molecular metal complexes) has started.For more details, please refer to the following URLs.https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/about/jobs-information/pdf/20230926093000-en.pdfhttps://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D123091805&ln=1 (JREC-IN)

The open recruitment for an assistant professor position in the field of physical chemistry (Physical Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy) has started.For more details, please refer to the following URLs.https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/about/jobs-information/pdf/20230915105000-en.pdfhttps://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D123091233&ln=1  (JREC-IN)

Mr. Kengo Oshiyama (Supervisor: Prof. Kiyoharu Nakatani) was awarded Poster Awardat the 42nd Symposium on Analytical Science (Kumamoto, September 13th-15th, 2023)(Presentation title: Label-free detection of sandwiched DNA based on the particle dissociation incoupled acoustic-gravitational field)

Mr. Hayato Takayanagi (Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Takashi Nakamura)was awarded Poster Award at the 33rd Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry(Okayama, September 12th–14th, 2023). (Presentation title: Amide Cyclodextrin Derivative That Selectively Recognizes Anions in Water)

Ms. Ayane Shibuya was awarded Excellent Poster Award from the Japanese Society of Microscope. Research Title: Induced folding structure revealed by cryo-EM SPA

The open recruitment for a full-professor position in the field of physical chemistry (experimental or theoretical/computational) has started. For more details, please refer to the following URLs. —https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/about/jobs-information/https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail/Changelang?id=D123070042&lang=1 (JREC-IN)

The open recruitment for a full-professor position in the field of organic chemistry (synthetic organic chemistry, organic reaction chemistry) has started. For more details, please refer to the following URLs. —https://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/about/jobs-information/https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail/Changelang?id=D123070029&lang=1 (JREC-IN)