A Message from the President: NU MIRAI

Since born as the youngest of the former imperial universities in 1939, Nagoya University has been taking on the challenge of producing world-leading scholarship over the last 80 years, while at the same time striving to cultivate “courageous intellectuals” who can play leading roles in society. After World War II, despite its status as an imperial university, Nagoya University had minimal resources and had to start from scratch. However, our University was able to gain strong support from the local community, and afterward, high-performing young faculty members gathered from all over the country, who created a free and open atmosphere with no hierarchy. Such an “environment” of Nagoya University has generated 6 Nobel Prize winners who have been affiliated with the University since the beginning of the 21st century until now, and our many graduates have come to play central roles in various fields. For these achievements, we are grateful for the support of all our donors.

Going forward, we aim to advance our world-class education and state-of-the-art research, to realize an attractive campus chosen by students and researchers from around the world, and to further expand into the Asian region. At the same time, as a university rooted in one of Japan’s main manufacturing clusters, we will also pursue the equally important goal of contributing to innovation through industry-academia-government collaboration. The education and research activities that Nagoya University has been currently promoting as a Designated National University is very much a courageous challenge aimed at solving social issues of the current era. There is a big wall for that realization but I believe that with courage we can move forward.

It is crucial to further strengthen the “Nagoya University Foundation”, an independent source of funding for the University, to achieve these goals. To that end, your understanding and support are indispensable. Your valued donations have been put to use chiefly in our students scholarship, where they have generated steadily increasing results.

In 2019, our University marks the 80th anniversary of its founding, and in 2021, will mark the 150th anniversary of its initial founding as the Owari Domain’s temporary hospital/medical school. To commemorate this occasion, our faculty and staff members are altogether striving to realize world-leading research and education. For my part, I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt request for your continued support of the Nagoya University Foundation.