June 22, 2021 Prof. Yoschenko gave a lecture at Fukushima High School.

On June 22, Professor Vasyl Yoschenko visited Fukushima Prefectural Fukushima High School and gave a lecture to around 40 third-year students in the “Global Science” class held at the school.

The school has been designated as a Super Science High School (SSH) by the MEXT, and as part of the program, researchers from overseas are invited to give lecturers at the school.

Prof. Yoschenko began the lecture by introducing his country Ukraine and his career as a researcher in Radioecology, and then talked about his research on the theme of “Radioactivity and Forest”. The students listened attentively to the lecture, which was given entirely in English.

During the Q & A session, there were questions about Chernobyl nuclear accident, which Prof. Yoschenko was involved in the post-accident investigation. There was also a unique question: “If you had to choose one most important subject to study, what it would be?” Prof. Yoschenko encouraged the students that every scientific subject will help their future research, and Project Assistant Prof. Igarashi, who accompanied Prof. Yoschenko, advised that as a Japanese researcher, it is of utmost importance to learn Japanese properly, since Japanese is the base of all research, especially in thinking and writing. At the end, each student gave a presentation on what they learned from the lecture.