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Why Education Reform? Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) aims to become one of the world s top 10 research universities by 2030. Now leading the world in several research fields, the Institute is carrying out plans to further strengthen its research by creating additional research infrastructure, boosting research support, and promoting international joint research. However, it is not enough to merely become one of the top 10 leading universities in research if the education offered by the Institute does not follow suit. As research and education are inseparable, only when world-class education at the Institute has been achieved, will the Institute s goal be accomplished. Hence, education reform is needed. ....
Previous image Next image “MIT’s work to understand and improve human health spans decades and covers the Institute,” said W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80, at MIT Better World (Health), a virtual gathering in February. “More than a third of the faculty representing every department at MIT engage in research directly related to health science and innovation.” Grimson, who is MIT’s chancellor for academic advancement and the Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering, spoke of the many achievements of Institute scholars in the human health arena: “Serving as the hub of the densest innovation cluster in the world, MIT is nimble and inventive, particularly when it comes to the life sciences.” ....
Previous image Next image “Our topic tonight, science and discovery, lives at the heart of MIT.” In his welcoming remarks for the first virtual MIT Better World gathering, W. Eric L. Grimson, MIT chancellor for academic advancement, detailed some of the ways MIT excels as a hub of scientific research and innovation. “Institute researchers are plumbing the secrets of the universe; modeling climate at a local, regional, and global scale; striving to understand how brains and bodies give rise to cognition and mind; and racing to find treatments and cures for diseases ranging from the acute, like Covid-19, to the chronic, like cancers and maladies of the aging brain,” said Grimson, who is also the Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering. ....