2025年3月7日 PhD Student Shine-Undarga Dagva's paper on fieldwork-friendly plant RNA extraction and leaf tissue storage methods went online at the Journal of Plant Research (Q1 journal): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10265-025-01624-w
2025年2月17日 Assoc. Prof. Josephine Galipon and co-authors got the Excellent Speaker Award (優秀講演賞) at the SI2024 conference in Morioka, Japan, for poster presentation 2B2-11 "位相変換するメビウス型機構 Mobius mechanism for topological transformation", 〇Galipon Josephine(山形大学), 邢 文静(山形大学), 黒澤 大暉(山形大学), Billien Lucas Joseph(ESEO), 石川 ほのか(山形大学), 菊地 玲乃(山形大学), 多田隈 建二郎(大阪大学). More here: https://sice-si.org/si2024/excellent_speaker.php
2024年12月20日 Yamagata University awarded Assoc. Prof. Josephine Galipon with the Excellent Educator Award (優秀教育者賞). More here: https://www.yamagata-u.ac.jp/jp/university/commendation/20241211/
2024年6月24日 Mr. Shunsuke Sano from Osaka University's Robot Mechanisms lab (PI: Kenjiro Tadakuma) gave a special lecture in person on his invention, a new type of active omni-wheel. The lecture was attended by three labs.