On June 3, the Dean of Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University Professor Yury Zinchenko, Vice Dean Professor Valentina Barabanshchikova, and Adviser for the Dean Alexander Raevskiy paid a courtesy visit on Tohoku University Executive Vice President Toshiya Ueki. Professor Zinchenko was visiting to discuss the establishment of a jointly-supervised degree program between MSU and TU’s Graduate School of Arts and Letters, and used the opportunity to visit EVP Ueki as well.
TU Professor Tsuneyuki Abe and Associate Professor, Nobuyuki Sakai from the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, and Assistant Professor Masachika Shiotani of the Center for Northeast Asian Studies also attended the meeting, where they actively shared their opinions on the possibilities of future student exchanges and collaborative research.
The Japan-Russia Forum of Rectors is scheduled to be held at MSU this October, with MSU Rector Viktor Sadovnichiy and TU President Susumu Satomi jointly serving as chair. It is hoped that academic exchanges between both universities will continue forward in the future.
