| School
of Natural Science and Ecological Awareness |
[Doctoral
Course] |
School of Natural Science and Ecological Awareness >>
STAFF
Human lifestyles are conducted within interrelationships
between humans and a range of environments, with the goal
of achieving health, safety, and comfort based on a theme
of harmony with the environment. In this backdrop, humans
maintain a state of homeostasis in terms of both the physical
body and life activities. The goal of this School is to
accumulate knowledge from a natural science perspective
to achieve a harmony between physical life
activities and the environment. In order to conduct comprehensive
education and research targeting problems related to human
environments from a microscopic and macroscopic perspective
and seek a path of coexistence between humans and the environment
that surrounds them, we must not only conduct deeper research
into the interactions among these stratified organic phenomena,
living organisms, and the environment, but also undertake
both integrated and interdisciplinary education and research
aimed at achieving a harmony between these elements.
With this goal in mind, the School of Natural Science and
Ecological Awareness offers the following three Departments.
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| Department of Interdisciplinary
Materials Science |
This Department focuses on materials from an organizational
and comprehensive perspective, ranging from micro constructions
and reactions on a molecular level to micro functions.
Specifically, it undertakes both theoretical and experimental
education and research on such themes as the relationships
between material and chemical characteristics and micro
constructions; dynamics of changes in form in the microcosm,
and changes in materials due to chemical reactions and
synthesis. This type of education and research field
forms the foundations for developments with a harmony
between materials and human environments. As such, the
goal of the Department is to foster individuals that
can contribute to society with advanced knowledge in
a broad range of fields, including the human environmental
problems mentioned above.
To this end, education and research is promoted through
collaborations among teaching staff in the fields of
fundamental chemistry and functional chemistry. |
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| Department of Biological Science
and Environment |
| This Department undertakes research and education
aimed at clarifying environmental response functions
and interactions demonstrated by a wide range of biological
organisms, including humans, in a variety of living
environments, as well as by groups of organisms, cells,
and biological molecules. The Department covers a broad
range of education fields from fundamentals to applications,
with a specific focus on issues related to how the activities
of humans and other organisms are regulated by environmental
factors, and how these environments (ecological systems)
can be protected. To achieve this goal, education and
research conducted by this Department targets fields
including biomacromolecules, which focuses on the construction
and physiological functions of biomolecules; bio-information,
which targets genetic information and the changes in
structures and functions that result from the expression
of that information; the field of biofunctions, which
focuses on the various biological phenomena expressed
by organs and organizations; and the field of group
functions, which focuses on behaviors and ecosystems
in the context of biological organisms and groups. |
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| Department of Food and Nutritional
Sciences |
| This Department offers a wide range of educational
opportunities in the fields of food and nutrition. We
provide academic training and research opportunities
in a full spectrum of subjects from basic to advanced
studies in the areas of general and clinical nutrition,
food functionality and safety, and relationship between
food and behavior. We aim to educate students to become
experts in their fields, and contribute to food-related
disciplines such as medicine, agriculture, biology,
pharmacology, engineering, life science, and social
medicine. It is our hope to encourage the cultivation
of the experts who can actively take the initiative
in food and nutritional issues. |
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| Department of Environmental
and Life Sciences |
| This Department deals with education and research on humans and their
immediate environment, and aims to foster individuals to contribute to
society as well as to the construction of such human living conditions as
being healthy, safe, pleasant, and well-balanced lives within natural
environments.
The methodology of the research in this Department is mainly of natural
science. For the research on humans, methods of biochemistry, physiology,
and bioscience are taken, and for those on the immediate environment,
methods of chemistry, physics, biology, design studies are used, and for
those on the relationships between these two areas, all the methods are
combined and on top of them, other related subjects like health education
are added to achieve these aims.
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[Educational Philosophy]
The primary mission of the School of Natural Science and
Ecological Awareness is to conduct research and education
focusing on the establishment of safe, comfortable human
lifestyles and healthy human living environments; the creation
of functional materials and material conversion systems
characterized by a minimal environmental load; and the study
of biological phenomena and harmonious living environments.
To achieve this goal, the School fosters individuals who
can contribute to the construction of healthy human living
environments, for example through the application of foods,
chemical substances, and lifestyle materials to safe and
comfortable human lifestyles, or through the prevention
of lifestyle-related diseases based on bioscience methods
or an understanding of organic reactions at the molecular
or solid-state level; individuals who can apply nano-molecular
science to create functional materials and material conversion
systems characterized by a minimal environmental load; and
individuals who can conceptualize harmonious environments
and organisms through an understanding of the genetics and
biological characteristics of organisms, biological phenomena,
and the interactions of other organisms with environmental
substances.
[Expectations of Students]
The School of Natural Science and Ecological Awareness aims
to foster individuals with an interest in investigating
relationships between humans and their environment based on
methods rooted in the natural sciences. We thus welcome
students with the following objectives:
○ Persons wishing to contribute to the preservation
of a harmonious human living environment
○ Persons wishing to establish healthy and comfortable
living environments in terms of food, clothing, and shelter
in an aging society
○ Persons wishing to acquire in-depth knowledge and
skills related to the synthesis of materials and chemical
reactions with attention to harmony with human environments,
and to develop new materials that offer a high level of
function and performance
○ Persons wishing to develop healthy, safe, comfortable,
and harmonious environments based on an understanding of
live processes, and to resolve issues related to human lifestyles
○ Persons wishing to acquire in-depth knowledge and
skills related to lifestyle-related materials
○ Persons wishing to pursue careers in university
education or research at institutions related to the fields
of environment or basic sciences such as biology and chemistry
○ Persons wishing to participate in government policymaking
processes related to the preservation of the environment
and the improvement of living conditions
○ Persons wishing to establish environmental indexes
and conduct environmental risk and benefit assessments
○ Persons wishing to acquire the latest knowledge
and skills in biotechnology, and to contribute to society
through activities in academic fields or industries such
as food and pharmaceuticals
○ Persons wising to take on leadership roles in planning
healthy environments for individuals and communities based
on behavior modification theory
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