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Soka University hosted the TIES 2010 Summer Symposium, which it co-organized with Cyber Campus Consortium-Tezukayama Internet Education Service, or CCC-TIES, a nonprofit group promoting e-learning methodologies and technologies in academia, industry and local communities.

Soka University Graduate School of Engineering Nobuyuki Nakatomi, who is majoring in Environmental Engineering for Symbiosis, won the Best Presentation Award in the student competition at the 2nd Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium held in Phuket, Thailand.

On August 2, a Soka University student lifesaving club organized a course on emergency resuscitation techniques for students participating in extracurricular club activities, as well as for citizens in the local community.

On August 1, Soka University’s Graduate School of Teacher Education held a seminar on campus, with some 170 teaching professionals and students from throughout Japan attending.
On July 13, PLos one—an interactive online service for peer-reviewed scientific and medical research based in the United States—featured a study on the development of the Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) by a multiple-university research team led by Soka University Department of Bioinformatics Professor Shoko Nishihara.

On June 15, the Fine Arts Institute (FAI) of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences presented Soka University with the Ikuo Hirayama Award for its advancement of archaeological research on the Silk Road through the school’s Center for Silk Road Studies.

Soka University and Soka Women’s College will hold a campus-wide general disaster response exercise on September 17 for the first time.

Soka University Faculty of Business Administration Noriaki Fukushima ran in the AJC Peachtree Road Race on July 4, placing 49th in the annual 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) race in which 55,000 people participated. The race was sponsored by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the largest daily in the state.

Former President Fidel V. Ramos of the Republic of the Philippines visited Soka University on Saturday to donate a set of works on behalf of his Ramos Peace and Development Foundation. His visit coincided with the 149th anniversary of the birth of Dr. José Rizal, a Filipino polymath and national independence hero of the Philippines.

Negai, a microsatellite developed by Soka University engineering students led by Dr. Seiji Kuroki, still remains in near-Earth orbit some 20 days after it was launched. The Negai—or “to dream” or “wish” in Japanese—weighs just one kilogram and was designed to stay in orbit for no more than three weeks.
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