The prototype Schwarzschild–Couder Medium-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, a next-generation gamma-ray observatory, has been completed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Arizona, US. The completion was celebrated at its inauguration ceremony.

Aiming to develop space-earth environmental research, the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) is presenting an ISEE Award to a prominent research activity that is based on the ISEE Joint Research Program. ISEE seeks nominations for this new award.

Prof. Shiokawa of CICR and five students of ISEE joined the Science Festival in Tarumizu 2018 which was held on 15 December 2018 at Tarumizu, Kagoshima near the ISEE/CICR Kagoshima Observatory. 

The International ISEE symposium "Recent progress in heliospheric physics by direct measurements of unexplored space plasmas" will be held from 25-28 Feb. 2019 at Nagoya University, Japan.  The 2018 ISEE prize winner will also give a plenary talk at the symposium.

As an activity of SCOSTEP's VarSITI (Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact, 2014-2018), VarSITI Newsletter volume 20 has been published from ISEE, Nagoya University.