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Congratulations to the 2024 Diploma and Commencement Ceremonies and the President's Award Ceremony

Communications & Public Relations Committee

Representatives: Masaya Sakakibara.

The Diploma Conferral Ceremony and Commencement Ceremony for the academic year 2024 were held on March 24 (Mon.) and 25 (Tue.), 2025, respectively, at Yasuda Auditorium. Masaya Sakakibara (Doctoral Student, Department of Chemistry), Yutaro Shudo (Master's Student, Department of Biological Sciences), and Ayumi Ohno (Department of Information Science) stood on stage as representatives of the Graduate School of Science.

The doctoral degree conferral ceremony was hosted by the Graduate School of Science at Koshiba Hall, where Dean Shinichi Okoshi handed out diplomas to each of the graduate students who had received their doctoral degrees. The degree conferment ceremony for master's course graduate students and undergraduate students was held for each Department. The 2024 Faculty of Science Encouragement Award and Graduate School of Science Encouragement Award were also announced, and the students listed in the table received these awards. These awards are given to students who have achieved particularly outstanding results.

We are also pleased to announce that Masaya Sakakibara, Department of Chemistry, received the "Atomic-Scale Mechanism of Phase Transitions Using Nano-Size Effects," Yutaro Shudo, Department of Biological Sciences, received the "Structural Basis of PegRNA-Dependent Reverse Transcription by Primeeditool," and Ayumi Ohno, Department of Information Science, received the "International Activities in the Field of Cyber Security and Elliptical Science" award. International Activities in the Field of Cyber Security and Research on Fast Computation Methods for Point Addition on Elliptic Curves" and Ayumi Ohno of the Department of Information Science received the President's Award (Academic), The University of Tokyo, for "International Activities in the Field of Cyber Security and Research on Fast Computation Methods for Point Addition on Elliptic Curves.

We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to all of you who have graduated and completed your studies. I hope that you will all make further contributions to the advancement of academic research in the world in the future.

Representatives : Yutaro Shutoh

The doctoral degree conferment ceremony was hosted by the Graduate School of Science on March 21 at Koshiba Hall, where Dean Shinichi Okoshi handed diplomas to each of the graduate students who received their doctoral degrees at the end of March. The degree conferment ceremony for master's course graduate students and undergraduate students was held for each Department. The 2023 Faculty of Science Encouragement Award and Graduate School of Science Encouragement Award were also announced, and the students listed in the table received these awards. The awards are given to students who have achieved particularly outstanding results.

Representatives: Ayumi Ohno

Furthermore, we are happy to announce that Ms. Takayoshi Kuwahara of the Department of Biology received the President's Award of The University of Tokyo for her extracurricular activity "Outstanding International Achievement in Research Guidance Activities for High School Students". I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to all of you who have graduated and completed your studies. We look forward to your further contributions to the advancement of academic research around the world in the future.

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