Activity records of Takahashi Lab. [FY: 2020]

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Activities in 2020 (School year: Apr.2020 - Mar.2021)

26th, Mar, 2021 Graduation ceremony
Wiranpat Simadhamnand and Tsamara tsani completed bachelor course and master course, repectively.
Qiuhui Jiang, Patcharanat Kaewmee, and Andile Blessingsmade Maqhuzu completed doctor course successfully.
Congratulations!




15-19th, Mar, 2021 3RINCs2021 @Online
Takahashi and 4 students (Sugimoto, Hao Xu, Hungwe, and Zhao) made oral presentations in 7th 3R International Scientific Conference on Material Cycles and Waste Management "3RINCs2021" @Online.



4th, Mar, 2021 Kanto-branch workshop of JSMCWM @Online
4 students in our group (Maqhuzu, Xuejie Xu, Tsamara Tsani, and Simadhamnand) made online presentations in Kanto-branch workshop of Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management in Tokyo.
Unfortunately, nobody won the excellent presentation award. Try next!


24th, Feb, 2021 Doctor degree was approved!
Doctor degree was approved to Qiuhui Jiang, Patcharanat Kaewmee, and Andile Blessingsmade Maqhuzu.
Congratulations!




18-19th, Feb, 2021 Final presentation for bachelor degree
Wiranpat Simadhamnand made the final presentation for bachelor degree.<
She completed a good bachelor research in spite of drastic change of her research owing to COVID-19.
Let's try the publication in a peer-review journal.


15th, Feb, 2021 GEDES student activity workshop
4 students of Takahashi lab. (Kobori, Sugimioto, Zhao, and Dilixiati) presented their activities in GEDES workshop online.
Dilixiati won excellent poster award. Congratulations!


8-9th, Feb, 2021 Final presentation for master degree
Tsamara Tsani made the final presentation for master degree.
Due to COVID-19, she needed to change experimental plans so much. However, she completed the master thesis with high quality.
Very good!


7th, Jan, 2021 Final presentation for doctoral degree
Qiuhui Jiang, Patcharanat Kaewmee, and Andile Blessingsmade Maqhuzu made their final presentations of doctoral researches. For doctoral degree, they will defend doctoral dissertation in Febuary.

9th, Dec, 2020 Paper accepted! (Waste Management )

A paper of Nattapon LEEABAI, completed doctoral course on Sep. 2020, was accepted for the publication in Waste Management.
This paper reports the effect of color and noticeability of trash bins on waste sorting.

Congratulations!

13th, Nov, 2020 Paper accepted! (Science of the Total Environment )

A paper of Tatiya WANNOMAI was accepted for the publication in Science of the Total Environment.
This paper reports inhalational exposre risk of flame retardants contained in dust of an e-waste processing site.

Congratulations!

30th, Sep, 2020 Interim presentions of master and doctoral researches
Seonkyeom KIM and Sumayya made interim presentions of master researches.
Daisuke SUGIMOTO, Douglas HUNGWE, Xuejie XU also made interim presentions of docotor researches.
In usual, master researches interim presentation is poster and doctoral interim presentation is hybrid style of short oral and poster presentations.
However, they were changed to online oral presentations.
No screenshot unfortunately.


30th, Sep, 2020 Paper accepted! (Sustainable Production and Consumption )

A paper of Andile Blessings MAQHUZU was accepted for the publication in Sustainable Production and Consumption.
This paper reports prospective utilization of brewers' spent grains (BSG) for energy and food in Africa and its global warming potential.

Congratulations!

25th, Sep, 2020 Graduation ceremony
Astryd Viandila DAHLAN, Nattapon LEEABAI, and Tatiya WANNOMAI completed doctor course and successfully got doctor degrees.
Astryd and Leeabai comes back Indonesia and Thailand, respectively.
Wannomai works as a post-doctoral research fellow.
We are so sorry that we could not host a farewell party for them due to COVID-19.




16-18th, Sep, 2020 31th annual conference of JSMCWM @Online
Although Sapporo was scheduled for 31th annual conference of Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management (JSMCWM), it was changed to online conference due to COVID-19.
Two doctoral students (Astryd and Leeabai), one master student (Tsamara Tsani), and Takahashi made their presentations.
Online conference is less fun.


24th, Aug, 2020 A course on rock-paper-scissors game
In 2nd quarter, Takahashi has offered a course for 1st grade undergraduate students in Ookayama campus.
In this course, students consider nobel design of trahs bins, fabricate it, conduct waste collection experiment using designed trash bins, and then discuss the effect of design on waste separation.
However, it was cancelled owing to COVID-19.
As an alternative course possible only online, Takahshi offered a course on rock-paper-scissors game.
Can some student have strong performance with statistical significance?
Do rock, paper, and scissors assignment depend on the personality?
Although first several courses were onlien, we have the rest courses in Ookayama campus accroding to thorough risk control like mask, air ventilation, finger disinfection, and intensive course in summer season.
Very interesting results of RPS games!




19th, Aug, 2020 Entrance examination of graduate school
In this school year, the department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering changed graduate school entrance examination from conventional paper test to only online admission interview.
For students, hard works owing to dramatically different admission process.


11th, Aug, 2020 Doctor degree was approved!
Doctor degree was approved to Astryd Viandila DAHLAN, Nattapon LEEABAI, and Tatiya WANNOMAI.
Congratulations!




8th, Jul, 2020 Final presentation for doctor degree
Astryd Viandila DAHLAN, Nattapon LEEABAI, and Tatiya WANNOMAI mader their final presentations of doctoral researches.
All presentations were online.
For doctoral degree, they will defend doctoral dissertation in August.


25th, Jun, 2020 Wild berries in Suzukakedai campus
Due to global outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 virus, campus entry has been restricted severely.
In Suzukakedai campus, many wild berries are produced.
A little sweety!




8th, Jun, 2020 Paper accepted! (Global Environmental Research )

A paper of Fumitake Takahashi was accepted for the publication in Global Environmental Research.
This paper reports the quantification of perceptive aversions toward mercury and other hazardous substances.

A paper with single author!

1st, Jun, 2020 Paper accepted! (Journal of Clenar Production )

A paper of Patcharanat KAEWMEE was accepted for the publication in Journal of Clenar Production.
This paper reports the fabrication of porous geopolymer using coal fly ash and its application to an adsorbent.

Congratulations!

1st, Apr, 2020 New students
Yueyuan ZHAO and Kei SOYAMA enrolled in doctor and master courses, respectively.
Wiranpat SIMADHAMNAND, a undergraduate student of GESEP program, joined Takahashi Lab.
Kei Shiraisi also joined our group as probationary assignment.
Welcome to Takahashi Lab.!




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