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Research Showcase Archive is now available!

AIU created the Research Showcase (formerly called Research Week) in 2017 to allow AIU faculty and students to present the results of their research to the university’s internal and external community.

In academic year 2022, taking advantage of the online format, AIU also invited researchers from our international partner universities to participate.

This is an archive of research week presentations since academic year 2020.

Please find a link to the presentations from the following list.

*All presentations are provided in English.

*Titles and affiliations of faculty members and students are current at the time of the initial release of each video.

Academic Year 2023 Presentations

Academic Year 2022 President’s Fund Recipients

Academic Writing Workshops for Akita High School Students

Presenters:

  • Clay H. Williams, Professor, English Language Teaching Practices
  • Leigh Bennett, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

Ikebana Therapy for Dementia Patients

Presenters:

  • Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Yuko Abe, Professor, Head of Japanese Language Program
  • Ayako Motegi, Manager, Nagoyaka nursing care home
  • Ayuk Eyong, Advisor, Sotoasahikawa hospital

Materials:

Developing a “Place” to Support Student Writing at AIU

Presenters:

  • Rebecca Clegg-Sasaki, Select Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Ian Hurley, Assistant Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

Creativity & Wellbeing among Akita Students

Presenters:

  • Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Naoko Araki, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Joel Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Tsuyoshi Cuhullan McGivern, Lecturer, Global Connectivity Program
  • Naeko Naganuma, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes
  • Mary Hoeft, Emeritus Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
  • Hiromi Sone, Professor, Akita University of Art

Materials:

Service-learning for Rural Sustainability

Presenters:

  • Shogo Kudo, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
  • Norihito Mizuno, Professor, Director of Global Studies Program
  • Luke Dilley, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program

Materials:


Academic Year 2022 Presentations

AIU – English for Academic Purposes

Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naoko ARAKI (Professor), Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naeko NAGANUMA (Associate Professor/Dean of Students)

Rebecca CLEGG-SASKI (Select Lecturer)

  • Title: Privileging Dialogue with Academic Writing – the creation of a writing centre at AIU
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AIU – Global Business Program

Clinton WATKINS (Professor)

Hideyuki NAKAGAWA (Associate Professor)

Sungkyu LEE (Assistant Professor)

  • Title: The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
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Sungkyu LEE (Assistant Professor)

  • Title: The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
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AIU – Global Studies Program

Noah Keone VIERNES (Associate Professor)

  • Title: The Political Resonance of Film in the Works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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AIU – Global Connectivity Program

Andy CROFTS (Professor) Sayaka OHIRA (AIU undergraduate student), Mashiho TAKAHASHI (AIU undergraduate student), Kanako TSUCHIYA (AIU undergraduate student)

  • Title: Adventures in the Lab: Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
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Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor)

Florent DOMENACH (Professor)

  • Title: Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities of the Various Course Delivery Formats
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Kaeko CHIBA (Associate Professor)

AIU – Exchange Students

Thaya NGAMPRAVATDEE (Mahidol University International College, Thailand)

  • Title: The effect of monetary policy under quantitative easing to the exchange rate in Japan
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AIU – Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices

Hitoshi HORIUCHI (Associate Professor)

  • Title: Visualizing the Syntactic Structure of L2 Japanese: The Suginoki Treebank
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AIU – Administrative Office Staff

Kazuhiko TAKEUCHI (Director of Office of Faculty and Staff Support)

  • Title: SpeechCraft Akita: a community-initiated adult education for public speaking in English, introduced in northern Tohoku area of Japan as a way to address opportunity gaps.
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Partner University Presentations

Brunei

Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Dr. Maria Carinnes ALEJANDRIA (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei)
  • Title: Humanitarian Response in Urban Settings:
  • Exploring the Role of Community Leaders during Complex Disasters in the Philippines
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Germany

University of Passau

Dr. Kathrin Eveline PLANK (Academic Coucillor, University of Passau, Germany)
  • Title: From Digital to Spatial Turn in Holocaust Education? (Re)Locating Remembrance and its Requirements and Opportunities for Media Education
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Dr.  Tamara RACHBAUER(Academic counselor, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany)
  • Title: Internationalization@home Promoting virtual mobility – an online group experiment
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Andrés David Castro LOTERO (PhD Student Communication Sciences, University of Passau, Germany)
  • Title: Virtual reality and war reporting: uses, potentialities and challenges of 360° video to narrate armed conflicts
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Dr. Benjamin HEURICH (Research Associate, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany)
Ms. Siti MAIMUNAH (PhD Student, University of Passau, Germany)
  • Title: Seeing Indonesia from East Kalimantan: An Invitation to Decolonizing Environmental Justice
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Norway

University of Bergen

Dr. Nathan HOPSON (Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway)

Portugal

ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon

Dr. Jose CAMPINO (Professor, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

Spain

University of Malaga

Dr. Antonio PELAEZ-VERDET (Assistant professor., Dpt. of Management and Business, University of Malaga, Spain)

Academic Year 2021 – All Presentations by AIU members

English for Academic Purposes

Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naoko ARAKI (Professor), Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor)

From Writing Workshop to Community Action: Storytelling as Immigration Advocacy

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Global Connectivity Program

Andy CROFTS (Professor), Reona YANAGI (AIU undergraduate student), Ryoka IGUCHI (AIU undergraduate student)

Adventures in the Lab: Building Analytical Thinking and Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor), Chrystopher L. NEHANIV(Professor University of Waterloo, Canada)

Computational Holonomy Decomposition of Transformation Semigroups

Irina KUZNETCOVA (Assistant Professor)

English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Universities: Focus on the Teacher

Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices

Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices


Academic Year 2020 – All Presentations by AIU members

English for Academic Purposes

Basic Education

Global Business Program

Undergraduate Student