Nagoya University (名古屋大学 Nagoya Daigaku, abbreviated to 名大 Mēdai; Tokyo's Meiji University's 明大 is pronounced identically) is a Japanese national university in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, and is considered by some to be one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. Meiji University (明治大学) is a famous private university in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. ... A professor teaching in a university A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Chikusa (千種区; -ku) is a ward of Japan in the eastern part of Nagoya. ...
Dr. Ryoji Noyori, one of 2001Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners spent most of his academic career researching and teaching there. Ryoji Noyori (野依良治) (born September 3, 1938) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ...
Reiji Okazaki, discoverer of Okazaki fragments, graduated from Nagoya and was a professor there. An Okazaki fragment is a relatively short fragment of DNA that is created by primase and Pol III along the lagging strand (see DNA replication). ...
In addition to this, NagoyaUniversity is proud of faculty members such as Professor Isamu Akasaki who was recently awarded for his research on GaN Blue Light Emitting Diode, as well as various other professors and graduates who have been recognized for their high level research and contributions to society.
NagoyaUniversity invited representatives of the universities and institutions among those which it currently holds education and research exchange agreements with (129 at department level, and 40 university-wide), and hosted 25 of them at the forum.
In the arena of education, NagoyaUniversity, as the first in Japan to take on such a project, established the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences to assume the responsibility of coordinating undergraduate university-wide liberal arts education, in which all faculty members are registered to teach classes.