Institutes for Research
Center for Instrumental Analysis
Staff
Director of Center, Teaching Staff, and 2 Technical Staffs
Purpose
For education and research in natural sciences dealing with physical materials, the use of equipment and instruments for measurements and analysis are essential. The Center for Instrumental Analysis is responsible for the central management of various general-purpose large-scale analysis instruments, which are shared with education and other relevant fields.
Main Facilities
■Center for Instrumental Analysis
Transmission Electron Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope, Powder X-Ray Diffractometer, Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer, High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer, Polarimeter, X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer, Organic Micro Elemental Analyzer, X-Ray Diffractometer, Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer
Center for Water Environment Studies
Staff
Director of Center, 5 Teaching Staffs
Purpose
The Center for Water Environment Studies aims at promoting education and research in a wide range of issues concerning the water environment from global scale protection of the coastal environment against global warming to 1ocal environmental problems, such as groundwater resources, environmental resources of rivers and lakes, geo pollution issues, problems in waste disposal and measures against disasters.
Main Facilities
■Center for Water Environment Studies
Management Office, Study Room, Research Laboratories, Student Laboratory, Lodging Room, Investigative Boat, Groundwater Observation Wells System, Naturally-Preserved Pond
Gene Research Center
Staff
Director of Center, 2 Teaching Staffs
Purpose
The Gene Research Center is a facility to support the education and research on biotechnology such as recombinant DNA experiments at Ibaraki University and to share the results of them with the society.
Main Facilities
■Gene Research Center
P1, P2, P3 Laboratories, RI Laboratory, Plant Culture Rooms, Animal Facilities, Cold Room, DNA Sequencer, Real Time PCR System, Laser Confocal Scanning Microscope, Real-time Monitoring System of Biomolecular Binding
Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science
Staff
Director, 29 Research staffs, Guest professors and Contracted researchers
Purpose
■ICAS(Environment Research Laboratory)
Ibaraki University has established a new organization "Institute for global Change Adaptation Science (ICAS)" since May, 2006, after it was appointed as a member of the Integrated Reach System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) lead by the University of Tokyo. ICAS's main theme is adaptation to climate change focusing of special characteristics of Asia and the Pacific. ICAS will promote researches based on its three divisions for Adaptation Engineering and Applied Science, Climate-Change Adaptive Agriculture, and Regional Planning and Policy Studies for Adaptation. It also provides educational programs on the sustainability science through IR3S collaborative programs and international courses mainly at the Graduate Schools.
Frontier Research Center for Applied Atomic Sciences
Staff
Director of Center, Division Head (3), Research Staffs (Full Time (7) and Part Time (15)), Research Professor (1), Researcher (4), Educational, Industrial & Governmental Cooperation Coordinator (1) and Technical Staffs (4)
Purpose
■Frontier Research Center for Applied Atomic Sciences
The Center, which would be the center of the research and education of atomic sciences in Japan, promotes neutron sciences in terms of applied sciences and technology using “neutron beam” by J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex), and contributes to the regional industry-application and technology-innovation.
Center for Astronomy
Staff
Director of Center, Teaching Staff
Purpose
■Center for Astronomy
The center aims at promoting education and research on the astronomy by means of radio telescopes. Utilizing the facility of an astronomical observatory, the center contributes to the development of fundamental education of natural science.
Izura Institute of Arts and Culture
Staff
Director of Institute, and 30 employees
Purpose
The Izura Institute of Arts and Culture, commemorating Tenshin Okakura, the internationally recognized philosopher, conducts a variety of research in human sciences that are related to his wide-ranging achievements. The institute also works to maintain his works and articles in a good state of preservation, and thus, to contribute to the local culture and the betterment of education.
Main Facilities
■Izura Institute of Arts and Culture
3 registered cultural properties of the Rokkakudou, 20 letters, 16 Paintings & Drawings, 5 Sculptures, 31 Articles, 3 Calligraphic Works, etc.
Organization for Creation of Collaboration and Innovation
Staff
Directors of Organization for Creation of Collaboration and Innovation (Additional post, 1), Vice Directors of Organization for Creation of Collaboration and Innovation (Additional post, 1), Full-time Teacher (1), Head of Section (Additional post, 5), Visiting Professor (6), Coodinator of Industry-University-Government Cooperation (3), Coodinator of Intellectual property (1), Coodinator of Industry-University-Government Cooperation, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (1), Part-time Researcher (4)
Purpose
■Organization for creation of collaboration and innovation
Organization for creation of collaboration and innovation promotes the cooperative research and academic exchanges with local companies and communities. These activities are designed to contribute to the progress in education and research at Ibaraki University, and to promote technical development and technical education in the community. Furthermore, this organization promote innovative research and development that can show the seeds for new venture businesses, and nurture the creativity of highly talented individuals who have a special aptitude for businesses.
