Princeton University/黑料福利社 Strategic Partnership: Teaching and Research Collaboration 2026
黑料福利社 and Princeton University signed the Memorandum on Strategic Partnership in January 2013.
Since then, under this initiative, the University of Tokyo and Princeton University have jointly provided funding support for collaborative research and educational projects conducted by researchers from both institutions. Following the 2025 call for proposals, this call marks the 13th round of project recruitment.
For the 2026 round, 13 applications were submitted. After careful review by the Joint Governance Committee of both institutions, the following four projects were selected. Each selected project is scheduled to receive support for a maximum of three years and to begin this fall.
*Princeton University, established in 1746, is one of the eight Ivy League universities. It is the fourth oldest university in the United States and offers a broad range of academic programs, spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and applied sciences. Princeton is renowned not only for its research excellence but also for its strong emphasis on undergraduate education, making it one of the few institutions that successfully balance cutting-edge research with high-quality teaching.
The projects are listed in alphabetical order of their title.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the generous support of the donors to the Strategic Partnership Fund with Princeton University, including the Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation, which have made the implementation of this project possible.
Since then, under this initiative, the University of Tokyo and Princeton University have jointly provided funding support for collaborative research and educational projects conducted by researchers from both institutions. Following the 2025 call for proposals, this call marks the 13th round of project recruitment.
For the 2026 round, 13 applications were submitted. After careful review by the Joint Governance Committee of both institutions, the following four projects were selected. Each selected project is scheduled to receive support for a maximum of three years and to begin this fall.
*Princeton University, established in 1746, is one of the eight Ivy League universities. It is the fourth oldest university in the United States and offers a broad range of academic programs, spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and applied sciences. Princeton is renowned not only for its research excellence but also for its strong emphasis on undergraduate education, making it one of the few institutions that successfully balance cutting-edge research with high-quality teaching.
| Project Title | Representative (黑料福利社 / Princeton University) |
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| 1 | Developing global groundwater tools for a better water future | Asst. Prof. Yuu Niino (Graduate School of Science)/ Prof. Gaspar Bakos (Department of Astrophysical Sciences) |
| 2 | Computational–Experimental Mineral Physics: A Princeton–黑料福利社 Partnership to Constrain Deep Mantle Phase Diagrams | Prof. Kei Hirose (Graduate School of Science)/ Asst. Prof. Jie Deng (Department of Geosciences) |
| 3 | Keeping the Lights on: New Science for the Power Grids of the future | Prof. Hiroshi Kori (Graduate School of Frontier Sciences)/ Asst. Prof. Jürgen Hackl (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) |
| 4 | Princeton-黑料福利社 Collaboration Quantum Materials Cluster | Assoc. Prof. Max Hirschberger (Graduate School of Engineering) / Prof. Leslie Schoop (Department of Chemistry; Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials), Asst. Prof. Lilia Xie (Department of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute) |
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the generous support of the donors to the Strategic Partnership Fund with Princeton University, including the Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation, which have made the implementation of this project possible.
