Grant Making
FY2009-2010 Campaign: Interim Report on Grant Giving
As of June 15, 2010
We are pleased to thank many alumni and friends of FOTI for their generous gifts which have enabled us to award grants to enhance our mission. After careful consideration, FOTI Board of Directors have announced the following grants. In March 2009, we awarded grants to The Todai Yale Initiative (TYI) at Yale University （http://todai-yale.jp） to support its programs. TYI is an academic collaboration of the University of Tokyo and Yale University. In the same month, we also awarded a small grant to the Institute of the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley (http://www.ipmu.jp). (Please see below a photo from the IPMU’s website.)
In June 2010, we established FOTI International Leadership Awards (FOTI Awards) which target students undertaking international study or internships pertinent to FOTI’s mission (see outline below). The first recipient of this award is Mr. Nicolas Poilvert, a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a participant of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program, Mr. Poilvert is undertaking an internship in the summer of 2010 at the laboratory of Prof. Ryotaro Arita, associate professor, Department of Applied Physics , School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. http://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-japan/）. During FY 2010-2011, we hope to grant FOTI Awards to five to ten qualified students. (See the photo below taken from MISTI’s URL.)
OUTLINE OF FOTI INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
Goal of Award:
Eligible Students:
Selection criteria:
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Academic excellence
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Leadership
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Demonstrated commitment to international academic collaboration
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Working knowledge of the Japanese language (one year of class work or equivalent)
Administration of Awards:
Financial Aid:
The goal of the award is to develop future leaders committed to international academic collaboration through an exchange of students between the University of Tokyo and universities in the U.S.
Students eligible for FOTI awards are 1) those in U.S. universities undertaking a short-term course of study or internship at the University of Tokyo (Todai) and 2) Todai students undertaking a short-term course of study or internship at U.S. Universities.
U.S. universities with a Japan study program recommend eligible candidates to FOTI, which review applications and award grants to the universities based on the merit of application. Upon notification of an award from FOTI, the university contacts the student and administers the award.
Partial support for travel and cost of living expenses in the amount of $3,000 per student.
Please contact mosako@friendsoftodai.org for further details.
The mission of Friends of Todai, Inc. (FOTI), a section 501(c)(3) organization, is to promote charitable, educational and scientific activities in the United States through the support of joint/collaborative research and educational activities between the University of Tokyo ("Todai") and U.S. academic institutions conducted in the U.S.
FOTI support is provided to principally to tax-exempt organizations in the United States in the form of grants for research, lectures, workshops, publications, exhibitions and other activities which promote FOTI's mission. FOTI does not provide financial support to Todai or any other foreign university or institution.