Background to the opening of a new graduate school, the Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Sciences

Kyushu University celebrated the centennial anniversary of its establishment in 2011. In commemoration of this milestone, we at Kyushu University are promoting reforms and new projects in various fields, with a view to opening the door to a new Century of Knowledge by tapping the intellectual resources we have built over the university’s 100-year history.

As part of the effort to develop the new frontiers of science, and to reorganize and reintegrate the scientific knowledge accumulated so far, we opened a new graduate school, the Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Sciences in April, 2009. The increasing specialization and segmentation of fields of study has resulted in a vast amount of intellectual assets. The new graduate school is designed to reorganize these assets to pursue new scientific knowledge and value in an integrated manner, thereby contributing to the solutions of various pressing problems that face today’s scientific community and society at large, all while training personnel to acquire the ability to work for this end.