RIEC Open Day

Every year RIEC holds an 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 is taken place on weekend in early October. 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, historical milestones of RIEC activities. In addition, we have planned a number of open experiments and craft classes that parents and children can participate in, which have been well received. Some of them draw long lines every year.
In recent years, the event has been canceled or held only online due to the severe impacts of a large typhoon and COVID-19. From FY2022, we have restarted holding it onsite, and in FY2023 we held it as a joint one-day event with other research institutes on Katahira campus for the first time in 6 years. About 620 people selected by lottery in advance among about 3000 people enjoyed each open experiment and craft class so as to form a long line at each booth.
From the next RIEC Open Day, which will be in FY2025, we will hold it biannually in October as a joint one-day event with other research institutes on Katahira campus.
In addition, please enjoy virtual RIEC Open Day on the following.

Web page:
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.