RIEC Open Day

RIEC holds an open day (RIEC Open Day) to present research and educational activities to the public, university staff, students and alumni as well as representatives from the industry. The RIEC Open Day takes place on weekend in early October once every two years. All the research laboratories, research centers, and machine shops of RIEC exhibit various types of demonstrations focused on their research fields. The exhibitions include some historical devices and instruments developed in RIEC, such as magnetron tubes and steel recorders. We also plan several open experiments and craft classes that parents and children can participate in; these experience-based events are quite popular and sometimes have people waiting in line.
Although the RIEC Open Day used to be an annual event, it has been held biennially as a joint one-day event with other research institutes on Katahira campus since FY2023. The last RIEC Open Day was held in October 2025, and more than 1200 people visited it. We will have the next RIEC Open Day in October 2027.
The following website is also prepared as virtual RIEC Open Day, where easy-to-understand introductions to our research activities are always available:
https://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/koukai/

RIEC News

As a part of RIEC’s publication service, “RIEC News” is published.
With the 75th anniversary of the establishment of RIEC, RIEC News introduces cutting-edge’s research and the vision of the future from RIEC’s contributions to the progression of science and technology in Japan. RIEC News was first launched in March 2011. Every issue introduces special topics such as large-scale projects and Specially-Promoted Research, etc. RIEC News also includes current information about each laboratory and center, all kinds of RIEC events, research exchange meetings, laboratories open to the public (RIEC Open Day), etc. English version was also launched in March 2014. Further,　an electronic version of every issue published so far can be downloaded by following the link below.

https://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/riecnews/

With the 26th issue of RIEC News, it has finished multi-monthly publication style as before. From April 2020, in order to bring you the latest research results and event information as quickly as possible, RIEC News was renewed to a new web-based publication style. The new RIEC Newsweb is published by the following link.

https://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/riecpr/

From 2024, we plan to shift the publicity activity from Web-based style to SNS-based style.