On November 19, 2011, The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University held its Inauguration Ceremony. 
400 dignitaries from Okinawa, mainland Japan and overseas came to OIST to celebrate the creation of the new graduate university. Watch a slideshow of scenes from the event.
Scenes from the OIST Inauguration
- Quantum Researchers Descend on OIST
- OIST Researchers Visit Shionogi Pharmaceutical Company
- Recommendations and Summary Released for Okinawa R&D Cluster Workshop
- International Workshop on Random Matrix Theory
- New Unit Profile: Custom-Built Nanoparticles
- The Innovative Academic: OIST Welcomes Hirotaka Sugawara
- New Unit Profile: DNA’s Minders
- Harnessing Bacteria to Turn Waste into Electricity
- Paper by OIST Researchers Published in Zoological Science
- Ryukyuan Artifacts in the USA: A Detective Story
- OIST Hosts the Second International Workshop “Toward the Development of an R&D Cluster in Okinawa”
- OIST Concludes Cooperation Agreement with the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters
- OIST featured in Nature
- Prof. Jeff Wickens Awarded HFSP Grant
- Waste Water to Energy: The Natural Solution
- The Long Road to Publication
- Generous Donation
- OIST Meeting Homes in on Long-standing Evolutionary Puzzle
- Creativity, an Indispensable Requisite in Physics
- OIST concludes collaboration agreement with Okinawa Prefecture
- Stream of Visitors
- OIST Selected as Inaugural Member of Kauffman Global Partners Network
- OIST Researcher Talks about “Her Heaven” in Japanese Speech Contest
- Getting Trained in the Real World: OIST Welcomes Two IT Interns
- Producing Technically Capable Students is Insufficient
- 310 High School Students Enjoy Scientific Exchange
- OIST Nurse Brings Gleam of Light to Uncertain Futures
- Crossing Frontiers, a “Scientific Passport” Podcast
- OIST holds 1st Admissions Workshop
- Currents, Corals and Collaboration
- Fiery Neurons
- Science Is Fun! – OIST Researchers Visit Local Junior High Schools
- A Breathtaking Skywalk
- VP Maki Kubo speaks at International Symposium “Women’s Life in Science”
- Watching the Auditorium in Fast-Forward
- OIST Inauguration Videos
- “Modern, Oval, Harmonious…”
- Gameifying Proteins, the Kinect-Xbox at OIST
- One Step Closer to Understanding Mechanism behind Cellular Division: Condensin Eliminates Components Bound to Chromosomes
- Start the year with OIST Newsletter Volume 13!
- 720 High School Students in Two Days
- Always have questions about the world around you: Dr. Uusisaari speaks at Nakadomari Jr. High School
- Is this the smallest Holiday Greeting ever?
- Crossing Scientific Borders
- Not So Abstract After All
- Thinking about Environment and Energy: Dr. Qi visits Yamada Jr. High School
- Chaos Leads to Order … But How?
- Scenes from the OIST Inauguration
- The OIST Inauguration
- OIST in the Spotlight
