Mr. SAITO Yuji, a second year student of the Master’s Program at the Advanced Acoustic Information Systems Laboratory, received Young Investigator Paper Award from Tohoku Chapter, the Acoustical Society of Japan. This prize is awarded to the young investigator who delivered the excellent papers among the presentations related to acoustics. The honor was awarded for the paper titled “Development of a microphone for acquisition of infrasound using MEMS atomospheric pressure sensor” presented at the Tohoku young researchers’ workshop in 2017