First, allow me to thank you all for making your way through this oppressive heat to join us here at the Ochanomizu University Open Campus. Although your time here today may be too short to explore everything we do, I hope you can get a sense of what the campus feels like and how we go about our educational efforts.

One of our graduate students recently received a highly competitive award given to exceptional female scientists in doctoral programs. The award review board, famous for its selectivity, chose two recipients in the material sciences and two recipients in the life sciences and one of those four extraordinarily gifted women students right here on campus. This is actually the second year in a row that an Ochanomizu University student has taken home the award. Some of our undergraduate students are even using the results of their research to develop new products in collaboration with different companies.
While our current students are doing some amazing things, our graduates are also charging ahead on a truly diverse array of life paths. Data shows that the most popular destinations for our alumnae are positions in education, public service, academic research, IT-related industries, and manufacturing areas where they can drive the formation of our communal knowledge base, help construct important government policies, and make other valuable contributions to the core components of society.
Ochanomizu University students are also extremely inquisitive, cultivating interests in a multitude of fields and constantly aspiring to try new things. In many ways, this spirit is part of what defines the Ochanomizu University tradition.

Our alumnae and past faculty include Japan's first woman to earn a doctorate of science, first woman to obtain a doctorate of agriculture, and first female researcher to play an active role on the international scene as both a student and a professor. Many of our graduates have also helped establish universities and other educational institutions such as Tokyo Women's Christian University, the current Kyoritsu Women's University, and Japan Women's College of Physical Education, just to name a few, while the Oinkai Alumni Association, always a dynamic member of the wider community, established Oin Gakuen the year after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Ochanomizu University has continually worked to fulfill its obligations as a national institution of higher education by giving women the refined education a