A group of Japanese students visiting Eugene’s Churchill High School got to spend a day talking science at the University of Oregon on Tuesday, March 4th.

The UO Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry along with the Nanoscience Open Research Initiative (NORI) hosted students Ayaka Hikitawho, Hiroki Suyama, and Haruka Oda along with their teacher, Mr. Ryosuke Yamashita, from Miyazaki Kita High School, a science high school in Japan.

Assistant department head Julie Haack served as their guide, arranging a full day of activities. In addition to touring the university, the group spent time in the Lokey Laboratories where they had the opportunity for some hands on experience with the instrumentation in the CAMCOR facility. The visitors also gave presentations about their own research projects to UO Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate students, followed by tours of the laboratories of Jim Hutchison, Darren Johnson, Ken Prehoda.

More photos of their visit are posted on our Facebook page.

Thanks to the following UO chemistry community members who assisted Julie Haack in welcoming our guests: Motoaki Honda and Dr. Ryuichiro Maruyama (NORI), Kurt Langworthy (CAMCOR), Ed Elliott (Hutch Lab), Kara Nell (Darren Johnson Lab), Emma Downs (David Tyler Lab), Romano (Guenza Lab), and Lyle McPherson (Prehoda Lab).