TheConversation: Love, peace and the plight of the air hostess: Google opens its brain to armchair linguists
June 23, 2014
“I downloaded a new keyboard onto my phone yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see it suggesting the word “to” after I had typed “going”. It “knew” that the phrase “going to” was a very common pair of words and managed to use this in order to speed up the message I was sending. The …
Tips for finishing your PhD thesis on time
June 20, 2014
Anybody who has done, or is doing, a PhD will know the pressures that come at certain times. Often these come at the end, as you strggle to write up, and submit, within the prescribed time. The article, that recently appeared in the Times Higher Education, might just help! Header Image: Typing: Downloaded from Google …
Proposal Writing Workshop (12th June 2014)
June 19, 2014
On the 12th June 2014, the Research Support Office (RSO), along with the Research Training and Academic Developmnt unit (RTAD) held a proposal writing workshop. The aim of these workshops (and this is the latest in a series) is to encourage people to write (and, importantly, submit) proposals. It also gives researchers the opportunity to …
The Tourists’ Entitlement to Knowledge
June 18, 2014
This post was contributed by Douglas Teoh Shang En (MA Cultural Studies) In postcolonial studies, we are invariably drawn towards the familiar Foucauldian knowledge-power nexus: to see is to know. To know is to dominate. Not unlike Edward Said’s conception of Orientalism – it is under such a similar spectacle that the tourist gaze exoticizes …
Centre for Food and Bio-product Processing (Activities summary Jan-Jun 2014)
June 17, 2014
This post was contributed by Hii Ching Lik The first CFBP research forum was held on 3rd June 2014 at the Faculty of Engineering, UNMC. The PhD candidates presented the progress of their research to the PhD supervisors and research members from CFBP. In total 4 PhD candidates presented their projects and they were Gan …
UNMC IBC and Department of Biosafety, NRE Jointly Organize Two-day Biosafety Training Workshop
June 16, 2014
This post was contributed by Sandy Loh Swei San UNMC Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) jointly organized a 2-day Biosafety Training Workshop with Department of Biosafety, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) on 3rd and 4th June 2014 at UNMC. The main objective of the workshop was to create awareness among the researchers and laboratory …
TheConversation: The natural way to keep fruit fresh and stop the rot
June 13, 2014
“Nearly a third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted, according to the UN’s World Resources Institute. If we convert this mass into calories, it constitutes …” … so begins an article that Prof. Asgar Ali recently has published in TheConversation. Other Conversation articles that we have featured on this …
Human Life Advancement Workshop: Presentation by Dr Angelina Yee
June 12, 2014
Dr Angelina Yee presented a talk at the HLAF Annual Award and Workshop on 9 June 2014. The workshop is organised by Human Life Advancement Foundation, with the theme being Technology Transfer Experience: Success and Failure. The workshop was held in PWTC Kuala Lumpur. Angelina received a token of appreciation from Tun Mahathir Mohamed, the …
Taking tissue regeneration beyond state-of-the-art
June 11, 2014
“Researchers in the United Kingdom and Malaysia are developing a new class of injectable material that stimulates stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue and form new blood vessels, heart and bone tissue. Their aim is to ….” … so starts an article that was recently published in Medical Xpress. This project is part of the …
ACU Summer School Bursaries
June 10, 2014
UNMC is offering five partial bursaries for Malaysian & Singaporean students to attend the ACU Summer School and Christine has asked me to get in touch with you about publicising this. The deadline is this Friday 13th – short notice as we have already closed the general application process but still have a few places …
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