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The ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ Global Research Internship Program£¨GRIP£©is a program that accepts students from top-level US universities and offers about eight weeks of research internship opportunity under a ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ mentor/laboratory.

In AY2016, ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ accepted its first internship student from Harvard University and since the program was fully launched in AY2018, a total of 19 students from Harvard University, University of Chicago and Arizona State University have participated in the internship program at ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥.

In AY2020, due to the current continuous status of COVID-19 around the world, ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ decided to cancel the visit to Japan and provide an alternative opportunity. Two students from the University of Chicago were given a remote internship opportunity from July to August under Prof. Takio Kurita, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering.
The interns worked on a project about machine learning, interacting with ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ students online through seminars and an international exchange event. They also held an online report conference (as can be seen in the above image) on August 18^th.

After the internship program, Prof. Kurita commented, ¡°Through weekly online progress reports, ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ students were really inspired by the intern students¡¯ posture to work positively on the project and also through witnessing them progress rapidly.¡± He also evaluated that this remote internship program increased ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ students¡¯ interest in international exchange and their desire to study.