The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (UGSAS) held a seminar with the title, "The 8^th United Graduate School of Agricultural Science Seminar; Inspiration & Excitement Research Internship" on May 24, 2017. A total of 42 people attended (28 students, 8 teaching and administrative staff and 6 company employees).
After a speech by Dr. Masateru Senge, Dean of UGSAS, 4 students made presentations about research achievements for their studies of "Research Internship" of UGSAS. All 4 students studies at IC-GU 12^* partner universities overseas. In their presentations, they spoke about different life environment, communications with their supervisors during their stay at the partner universities. They all had wonderful, unique experiences and many of them were beyond imaginations while they were in Japan. They reported their strong wishes of making the best use of such experiences for their future academic activities.

Afterwards, representatives of the five member companies of Industry Subcommittee^** introduced their business operations. After the seminar, the company representatives and the students held an informal talk. They exchanged opinions about a wide range of issues including the ideal job candidates that the companies seek to hire.

^*IC-GU 12: "International Consortium of Universities in South and Southeast Asia for the Doctoral Education in Agricultural Science and Biotechnology", which was created at the initiative of Gifu University.
^** Industry Subcommittee: Industry Subcommittee is composed of seven companies in the Tokai Region specializing in biological and biotechnological research and development. Its founding objective is to support the UGSAS-GU education and researches from the business point of view in order to cultivate doctoral students into highly-skilled professionals.

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