Today, I served as a judge for the TEDxAPU Speakers’ League, which was requested by an APU student group. The task was to select three outstanding speakers before the actual event, which will be held at APU’s Premium Hall at a later date. Four professors, including myself, served as judges. More than ten students gave
素材記事：https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/even_young_children_prefer_people_who_act_with_humility素材写真：the same as above site Despite being only children, or, because of being children? Psychological experiments have shown that even children as young as five years old have a very keen sense of the “intelligence” displayed by adults. It turns out that children prefer people who have “intellectual humility,” who “humbly ask for instruction on
素材記事： https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/06/leadership-and-legacy/写真クレジット： from the above site｜上のサイトから How many more years do we have to wait for a female scientist to sit at the top of the engineering faculty at a leading Japanese university? I seem to recall a bit of such talk at Tokyo Institute of Technology once, but it did not surface at full.
The day finally arrived… a farewell dinner with my excellent colleagues who worked together at UM (Universiti Malaya) for three years. Although it was called “farewell,” we had a good time for three hours talking about various topics, no different from the usual dinner, and then we ended it simply, saying “Let’s meet again” without
Today, I received an email from the organizer with a certificate of appreciation for the webinar for medical students hosted by UMMC (University of Malaya Medical Center) that I did in May this year. It was already half a year ago. Time flies, man. Coincidentally today, I left Japan for Malaysia for the final procedures
It’s finally here, my last day of work at the University of Malaya, and it has been a very valuable 3-year experience. My official contract was to last until December 14, but I had 25 days of “on-leave/paid leave” for this year that I had not used at all, so I decided to use these
Last week we had a wide-ranging meeting regarding the production of SIMs (Self-Instructional Material) for the new Master of Digital Health course that we at the eHealth Unit have been working on for the past few years. A SIM is a series of instructional materials designed to allow students to learn at their own pace,
Today, the busy members of the eHealth Unit and I worked together on the “Master of Digital Health” program, which has been in the making for about a year now, and we are almost completing the essential ODL (Open and Distant Learning) content for this online distance learning course. Since there are members who are
This project is one of the efforts at Universiti Malaya as part of the RESPIRE project led by the University of Edinburgh Medical School in the UK. We are currently in the process of reviewing the interface and core functionality of the app, and are now entering the climax of the project, incorporating feedback from
Last night, as part of a seminar series titled “Blood Cancer Know-it-all Night” organized by CNJ (Cancer Net Japan), I gave a two-hour talk on “Shared Decision-Making (SDM),” a framework for reaching a consensus that is acceptable to both medical professionals and patients/families in a difficult decision-making setting in healthcare. I am in charge of