Studium Generale 2025 Fall

Lecturer	Multiple Instructors
Department	G30, 2025,Fall
Recommended for:	All Nagoya University Students, faculty members and staff

Course Overview

Studium Generale is a unique immersion program that provides an English-based lecture environment. The course offers exposure to a variety of academic topics presented in an accessible way - all in English.

Videos

Science communication and public relations

Date: October 10
Lecturer: Azusa Minamizaki
Handout: handout
Video:

The science of shampoo

Date: October 17
Lecturer: Nicola Skoulding
Handout: handout
Video:

Automated Delivery Robots as a Service – from research to a startup

Date: October 24
Lecturer: Jude Nwadiuto
Handout: handout
Video:

Fossil Coral Reefs as a Window into the History of Sea-level and Climate Change

Date: October 31
Lecturer: Marc Humblet
Handout: handout
Video:

Is pessimism actually shortening your life?

Date: November 7
Lecturer: Maria Vassileva
Handout: handout
Video:

CO2 and Plastic Waste Utilization in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation

Date: November 28
Lecturer: Rabah Boukherroub
Handout: handout
Video:

From playstation to hospitals: hidden mathematics in our daily life

Date: December 12
Lecturer: Henrik Bachmann
Handout: handout
Video:

Adventures in the Nanoworld

Date: December 19
Lecturer: Leigh Canham
Handout: handout
Video:

What's the smell? - A Scent of a Molecule

Date: December 26
Lecturer: Asraa Ziadi
Handout: handout
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Syllabus

Date	Topic	Lecturer
10/3	COURSE INTRODUCTION
10/10	Science communication and public relations	Azusa Minamizaki (Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe)
10/17	The science of shampoo	Nicola Skoulding (Graduate School of Science)
10/24	Automated Delivery Robots as a Service – from research to a startup	Jude Nwadiuto (Graduate School of Engineering)
10/31	Fossil Coral Reefs as a Window into the History of Sea-level and Climate Change	Marc Humblet (Graduate School of Environmental Sciences)
11/7	Is pessimism actually shortening your life?	Maria Vassileva (Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
11/14	Project workshop
11/21	Student Projects presentations
11/28	CO2 and Plastic Waste Utilization in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation	Rabah Boukherroub (Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, France)
12/5	Comfortable Human - robot interactions: it's all about emotions!	Sarah Cosentino (Waseda University)
12/12	From playstation to hospitals: hidden mathematics in our daily life	Henrik Bachmann (Graduate School of Mathematics)
12/19	Adventures in the Nanoworld	Leigh Canham (University of Birmingham)
12/26	What's the smell? - A Scent of a Molecule	Asraa Ziadi (ITbM)
1/9	Project workshop
1/16	Student Projects presentations

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Last updated

October 21, 2025