Degree Conferment Ceremony for AY 2024 Spring Held
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On March 21, 2025 (Fri), the degree conferment ceremony for AY2024 Spring was held at the University of Aizu auditorium. 281 individuals, including 211 students graduating from the Undergraduate School of Computer Science and Engineering, 57 students completing the Master's Program and 13 students completing the Doctoral program were conferred with degrees that will help them contribute to society in their own way.
At the conferment ceremony, University President TSUKAHARA Tsuneo conferred diplomas. Following congratulatory addresses by the Governor of Fukushima and Fukushima Prefectural Assembly Chairperson, students who excelled in academics and research while attending the university were commended.
Then, Undergraduate Representative KOBAYASHI Ryoji stated his reply address.
Students who were commended are as listed below:
| President's Award | KURIBAYASHI Seru (Undergraduate School) |
|---|---|
| NGUYEN Van Tinh (Master's Program) | |
| Award of Excellence | KOBAYASHI Ryoji (Undergraduate School) |
| KAZUMATA Yuma (Undergraduate School) | |
| KOKUBUN Kota (Master's Program) | |
| The award from Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Tohoku Division | HAYAFUJI Fumiaki (Undergraduate School) |
| Encouragement Award from Information Processing Society of Japan, Tohoku Division | FUKAI Hajime (Undergraduate School) |
| The award from the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Tohoku Division | SUZUKI Haruto (Undergraduate School) |
| The award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers | MURAKAMI Tatsuya (Undergraduate School) |
| The award from Aizu Area Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Science | TOKUDA Tatsuki (Undergraduate School） |
Congratulations to all of you receiving degrees today, including 211 from our undergraduate school, 57 from our master's program, and 13 from our doctoral program.
On behalf of the University, I humbly express my heartfelt congratulations to all of you.
I am sure that your family members and those who have supported you up to this point are incredibly happy for you.
I would like to express my deep respect for all the support they have made for you until today.
Since its founding, the University of Aizu, a university specialized in Computer Science and Engineering, has admitted diverse students from Japan and around the world and turned out a number of computer scientists capable of succeeding in international society and engineers highly skilled in information and communications technology.
I am extremely honored that we are once again able to send out all of you in the world with the cutting-edge skills you acquire and a heart full of hope.
We are living in an era marked by the occurrence of some of the most notable social changes in recent memory.
This includes the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear-power-plant accident, the COVID pandemic worldwide, last year's Noto Peninsula earthquake, and the advent of generative AI.
With the 2024 Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry both awarded for AI-related research, it has become increasingly clear that AI is causing a major upheaval in the fundamental sciences, and is at the same time having an immeasurable impact on society as a whole.
In the future, you may confront seemingly insurmountable challenges, but there is one important ability that will allow you to overcome them. That is "negative capability," a term first used by the 19th century English poet John Keats, who described it as the state "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."
The cutting-edge technologies and skills you acquired at the university will serve you over your entire life as the basis for solving challenges with uncertain solutions, such as the declining birthrate and aging population, rural economic decline, and increasingly extreme natural disasters.
I urge all of you to use this knowledge and skills as the foundation to train your negative capability through daily practice, develop your ability to discern the true nature of things, and continue to strive to move your lives and society in a more prosperous direction.
Thanks to all the efforts of our alumni, the University of Aizu has become a university that attracts attention not only from across Japan but also around the world.
Your future success will be a driving force for boosting the status of your alma mater.
I hope that you will proactively interact with people from diverse fields, deepen the knowledge you have gained here, strengthen your relationships with friends and mentors, and continue to evolve yourself.
I will conclude my address by expressing my desire that all of you will play an active role as talents who will create a prosperous world in the future.
Once again, congratulations to all of you today.
March 21, 2025
TSUKAHARA Tsuneo,
President, the University of Aizu