The Kyoto University－Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium (KUIP) aims to widely share the latest trends and attractions of cutting-edge research with society. Hosted by Kyoto University and co-hosted by the Inamori Foundation, KUIP has been held in Kyoto since 2014 and in Tokyo since 2018. This year, KUIP will be held for the first...
Savoring the Words from Kyoto Prize Laureates” is a series featuring the words of Kyoto Prize laureates. This is the second installment in the series. The words featured in this piece can be also enjoyed by touching the large displays at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art in Kyoto . We hope you will...
November 11──Commemorative Lectures by the Kyoto Prize laureates were to be held on this day. However, this year’s events have been postponed due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection. So instead, we have collected some of the words of the past laureates for your enjoyment. You can read the scripts of all the...
Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program is a research grant program that allows researchers to pursue challenging projects over a 10-year period. The Advisory Board Meeting of InaRIS Fellowship Program was held on October 26 at the Inamori Foundation in Kyoto to have a discussion over the fellows’ research themes. InaRIS Fellowship Program...
“Plants provide us with the splendid colours that they possess for nothing in return” —Fukumi Shimura, 2014 Kyoto Prize laureates in Arts and Philosophy The exhibition “Shimura Fukumi: Her Vocation to Weave Life” is running at Himeji City Museum of Art in Hyogo prefecture until August 30, 2020. This exhibition explores some 60 years of...
New exhibition featuring Dr. Masatoshi Nei, the 2013 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences opened at the University of Miyazaki. Dr. Nei, an evolutionary biologist, proposed what is now called “Nei’s Genetic Distance,” which quantifies differences in the vestiges of evolution that remain within proteins and DNA in his 1972 paper. This innovative idea has...
The Inamori Foundation started to accept applications for the 2021 Inamori Research Grants and Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship on May 21. The Inamori Research Grants Program was established in 1985 to foster diverse and creative research activities by providing opportunities to challenge many potential themes. This program has little scrutiny on how...
In consideration of the continuing spread of the novel coronavirus infection, the Inamori Foundation (President: Shinobu Inamori-Kanazawa) has decided to delay the annual celebration of the Kyoto Prize one entire year. The new laureates will be officially decided and announced in June 2021 instead of June 2020, and related events including the Prize Presentation Ceremony...
On April 10, 2020, the Inamori Foundation announced the 2020 fellows for the Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program. As the first two InaRIS fellows for this new program, Tadashi Takayanagi (Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University) and Atsushi Noguchi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, The University of...
Kyoto Prize Room will open inside the newly renovated Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art! We would like to invite you to visit this Kyoto Prize Room and learn about the life and thoughts of the Kyoto Prize Laureates. *After an extended delay due to coronavirus concerns, the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art is...
Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at the Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.) announced that 2020 Inamori Ethics Prize would be presented to Judge Silvia Alejandra Fernández de Gurmendi, an important figure in international justice, humanitarian law and human rights. After her tenure as the Director General for Human Rights at the...
The Inamori Foundation announced the 2020 Inamori Grants 50 recipients on March 17. Out of 538 applicants, 40 from the natural sciences and 10 from the humanities and social sciences were chosen through the rigorous selection.