KiPAS

Taken from "Emerging 2024, p.97":

Amidst the rapid development of science and technology and staggering pace of social change, universities everywhere shoulder a responsibility to pursue the fundamentals of science and engineering in order to understand the essence of things and to advocate the establishment of science and technology rooted in these fundamentals. The fact that many cutting-edge breakthroughs in science and technology and big innovations in industry today are grounded in the basic research of the early 20th century speaks to the vital importance of the fundamentals. This is one reason why the Faculty of Science and Technology of Keio University has chosen to establish the Keio Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences (KiPAS) in commemoration of its 75th anniversary.

KiPAS is intended to focus on the important areas of basic science and fundamental engineering with the aim of becoming one of the world's foremost centers in fundamental research. The institute will offer a collegial research environment in which students and faculty members alike can immerse themselves in their research and engage in active discussion with one another in the spirit of hangaku hankyo - learning while teaching, teaching while learning. In particular, this institute will offer strong support for exploratory research topics which show promise for future development and grow those research topics into pioneering research fields at Keio. KiPAS will also invite leading researchers from home and abroad to boost research exchange, aiming to form a core research facility for basic science and produce the next generation of world-class researchers in the Faculty and Graduate School of Science and Technology at Keio University.

KiPAS homepage (in Japanese only)