Stephen Hawking 1942-2018
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEULOGY… Without an iota of doubt, no other scientist in our current era has touched the public imagination as much as Stephen Hawking did. Beginning with his foundational work on the nature of black holes in the 1960s and 1970s, his ideas have left their mark on generations of physicists and cosmologists. And despite a […]
World café for women hits high note
Reading Time: 2 minutesBANDAR SUNWAY: World Café for Women@MonashMalaysia themed ‘Time is NOW – Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives’ was held on 8 March 2018 in celebration of International Women’s Day 2018 (IWD 2018) with support from our campus Working Women Committee, President & Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professors Advisory Group. President and Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew […]
UKM, AELB sign up MoU
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBY KHOIRUN NISA AHMAD UNIVERSITI Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) have strengthened the cooperation through Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in Bangi recently. UKM was represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation Affairs), Prof Dr Mohd Ekhwan Toriman while AELB by its Director General, Hamrah Mohd Ali. Also present […]
USM, Osaka University sign MOA to bridge future needs
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY KHOIRUN NISA AHMAD OSAKA: “Times are now changing, and we now have a concept called ‘Academia and Industry are one’,” said the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Datuk Dr. Asma Ismail during her working visit to Japan recently. “It is good that universities and industries can learn together and create research chairs as […]
UM ink MoU
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBY KHOIRUN NISA AHMAD MERCK Foundation (MF), a nonprofit company and subsidiary of Merck KGaA Germany, and the University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia’s oldest and most established institution of higher learning, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 10 January 2018 aimed at providing fellowship training for post-graduate medical trainees from Africa and other developing countries. […]
Science minister taps on the grace of feminine wisdom
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn his Budget Speech 2018, Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced that 2018 is earmarked as “Women Empowerment Year”. As one who ardently advocates science, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti), Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Madius Tangau shares his thoughts on women’s grace of feminine wisdom in the area of science and technology. […]
UPM receives RM1m to boost aerospace engineering
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBY KHOIRUN NISA AHMAD SERDANG: Managing Director for Weststar Group, Tan Sri Syed Azman Syed Ibrahim donated a one million ringgit endowment fund to Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) towards fortifying cooperation in innovation within Aerospace Engineering and other strategic areas. UPM Vice-Chancellor, Prof Datin Paduka Dato’ Dr Aini Ideris said that the establishment of such […]
DRAMATIC DECLINE…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNearly 50 years of conservation efforts have been unable to prevent orangutan numbers on Borneo from plummeting. The latest data published by a team from 38 international institutions, led by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Liverpool John Moores University […]
WEBBY COUSINS …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo groups of highly venomous spiders might be seeing more of each other at family reunions. A new study led by San Diego State University biologist Marshal Hedin has found that two lineages of dangerous arachnids found in Australia–long classified as distantly related in the official taxonomy–are, in fact, relatively close evolutionary cousins. The findings […]
Tis’ the season to be fruity, but where’s our tutti-frutti germplasm?
Reading Time: 3 minutesAT the time of writing this, the sounds of Chinese New Year (CNY) or the Spring Festival (and even so, the Lunar New Year) is ringing out loud and clear. Shopping malls around the country are bustling with people in a shopping frenzy as Chinese New Year jingles heighten the tempo of jollity. Of all […]