2009 Dec.17: Nazli (D3) finished his first Doctoral defence

Nov.19: Nazli (D3) was selected as recipient of young authors travel support from 22nd International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC 2009)

Nov.15: An article in Advanced Powder Technology, 2006 (WL: co-author) was (#1 ) in Top25 Hottest Articles (July-September 2009, data from Elsevier) ScienceDirect.Com (This article was, #11 in Jan.-Mar.2010; #5 in Oct.-Dec. 2009, #9 in April-June 2009, #8 in Oct. 2008-Mar. 2009, )

Nov.15: An article in Advanced Powder Technology, 2006 (WL: co-author) was extracted in Top 10 Cited (#3) articles published in the last five years (data from: Scopus, Elsevier)

Oct.19: Dr. Heru Setyawan (a faculty member of Departmet of Chemical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia) joined as Graduate School of BASE Visiting Fellow, for one month. > www.ITS

Oct.3: STEP program awardee (with the JASSO scholarship, one year): INDAH NURMAWATI joined as an exchange student. She is a final-year bachelor student of Dept. of Physics, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), a sister university of TUAT.

Sept.4 Three students (including one externally from another Lab) passed the entrance examination for Graduate School of BASE. They may join the group in April 2010 as Master degree’s students.

Aug.21: A guest from Indonesia: Prof. S. Winardi (Vice President, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember ITS, Surabaya)
Aug.18: A guest from Korea: Prof. T. Kim (Kumoh Univ. Technology)
Aug.6: A guest from Sweden: Prof. K. Deppert (Solid State Physics, Lund University)

July 15: A discussion/meeting with Dr. Honjo Tasuku (Member, The Council for Science and Technology Policy, Government of Japan, Later, he became a Nobel Award Winner) and other fellows from the Bureau of Science and Technology Policy at the Cabinet Office, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology….www.CSTPPhoto:www.TUAT/News

June 4: Article on WL’s comment was printed in an Indonesian newspaper (Pikiran Rakyat)

June 11: Together with colleagues at School of Agriculture, we started the long-term (few months) experiment on “aerosol and plants” using six chambers in Fuchu campus.

May 19-23: Dr. Tunlawit Satapnajaru (Environmental Science, Kasetsart University) visiting us.
May 1: Four master degree students and a bachelor degree student got official job offers, for April 2010.

April 14: Mr. Burimparth Pakornsiri (as visiting fellow) from Dept. of Environmental Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand joining for two months.
April 14: Ms. Sureepun Wannasawang, graduate student, Kasetsart University visited for a week.
April 10: Nazli Naim (Doctoral student) is named the 2009 Atoda Scholarship Fellow (a program at TUAT for graduate students)…東京農工大学 阿刀田央一基金受賞

April 1: Two students joined the master course at Grad. School of BASE.
April 1: Three bachelor course students (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) joined.

Mar.25: Graduation day (three B.S. students and one Master degree students)

March: National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP REPORT No.134): Our technology is one of the selected technologies from Japanese universities…文部科学省 科学技術政策研究所 … 科学技術調整費による業務として、第3期科学技術基本計画のフォローアップに係る調査研究「政府投資が生み出した成果の調査」中の「大学・研究機関の多様な成果」に研究室の成果が選ばれた: PDF file (1000 pages)

Jan.30: Dr. Asep Sofyan (Faculty member, Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung(ITB), Indonesia) joined for 40 days. Sponsor: JSPS-TUAT Biomass-related Program, www.JSPS

See below: NEWs in 2007, 2008.