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◆ Outline of Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences
◆ What is the Cooperative Graduate School Program?
◆ Outline of Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences

◆ Outline of Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  Of the eight former five-year consecutive doctoral programs, five programs, Structural Biosciences,Functional Biosciences,Appropriate Technology and Sciences for Sustainable Development,Biosphere Resource Science and Technology,and Life Sciences and Bioengineering, have been reorganized and restructured. These have all been transferred to an integrated course consisting of a two-year Master’s program and a latter three-year Doctoral program. The Master’s program consists of two programs—Biological Sciences and Agro-bioresources Science and Technology—and the Doctoral Program consists of seven programs: Structural Biosciences,Functional Biosciences,Appropriate Technology and Sciences for Sustainable Development,Biosphere Resource Science and Technology, Life Sciences and Bioengineering,Bioindustrial Sciences,and Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences(latter Three-year Independent Cooperative Doctoral Program)
  We aim to perform research and provide education on the themes of basic scientific investigation of the vital phenomena of various living organisms, including humans, and the global environments that support these phenomena. These themes also include the investigation of methods of natural and social scientific application of conservation and sustainable use of biological resources, and moreover the integrated investigation of the coexistence of global life systems and humans on the basis of a new sense of value. These approaches enable students to accomplish cross-sectional learning of knowledge and techniques in various fields of expertise. In this way they enable us to foster researchers and other experts with high levels of expertise who can cope with dramatic changes in science and society, have excellent basic academic abilities and creative research capabilities, and have a wide range of vision from the basic sciences to their application.
We hope that those students who are excellent in foreign languages (especially in English), never neglect their efforts to absorb knowledge from a broad viewpoint, and have inquisitive and tenacious minds will take the admission examination.

◆ What is the Cooperative Graduate School Program?
  Agricultural production in Japan is currently far lower than in other developed countries on both a calorie basis and a production basis, and it is therefore desirable to increase agricultural productivity and strengthen agricultural production systems. To achieve technological development for domestic or international agricultural production, enhance agricultural technologies useful in actual production fields, and cultivate the human resources needed to accomplish these goals, we have constructed an integrated cooperative system by using the research environments collected in the Academic Newtown Community. This system has multilateral outcomes in terms of the development of agricultural production technologies in various fields such as crop production, horticultural production, livestock production, soil science, agricultural machinery, and information technology. The system has been organized toward problem-solving, output-based and practical education and research guidance that meet the needs of the agricultural industry and related fields by using the abundant resources of the affiliated National Agriculture and Bio-oriented Research Organization. In the Cooperative Graduate School Program, temporary projects are run mainly on subjects where there is a substantial social need. Because project research requires a research methodology, background, and even specialties, we will give group guidance to students who apply to the Program. To do this, we will establish an advisory committee that includes instructors from related laboratories (assistant educators) other than those in the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences. We will also stimulate the students to learn in related fields during the Master’s Program. This system enables us to cultivate creative human resources with expertise. Mastering of problem-solving abilities and cultivation of human resources with high levels of expertise are the characteristics of the Cooperative Graduate School Program.

◆ Outline of Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences
  Agriculture in Japan is required to realize a stable food supply, food safety, and reduction in environmental impacts while strengthening its platform and increasing its productivity. Integrated and effective promotion of the development of agricultural production technologies that contribute to the realization of these goals is strongly desirable in research fields. Therefore, research on advanced agricultural technology and sciences and cultivation of human resources who can apply these technologies to practical agriculture are needed.
  This three-year independent doctoral program is operated by scientists of the National Agriculture and Bio-oriented Research Organization, which is located in the Tsukuba Academic Newtown Community, as instructors of the Cooperative Graduate School. We aim to provide research guidance to those of our students who want to develop what they have learned in the first two-year program (Master’s program) in this field. Our aim is to cultivate the human resources mentioned above and to send them into society in fields of research in Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences. These fields include the production and utilization of new crop genetic resources; fruit trees and ornamental flowers with new functions or applicability to environmentally friendly agriculture; field informatics systems that harmonize agricultural sciences and information technologies; crop production and management systems; and the function and regulation of animal production.