Dominic Foo received award and presented at SCEJ 79th Annual Meeting
April 28, 2014
Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo was an invited speaker for the 79th Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ) Annual Meeting. He delivered a talk entitled “Process Integration – From Resource Conservation to CO2 Management”, that is chaired by Professor Yoshiyuki Yamashita. During the opening ceremony of the Annual Meeting, Professor Foo was awarded …
UNMC featured in Asia Research News 2014
April 25, 2014
We have been fortunate enough to have three pieces in the 2014 issue of Asia Research News. The featured articles are: Page 6: Natural protections for tropical fruits prolong shelf life Page 29: Crossing continents: Where we drive affects how we drive Page 50: Exposing the secret life of endangered elephants An interactive version of …
Islamic Finance Research Centre: Baroness Warsi speech
April 24, 2014
UNMC have recently established an Islamic Finance Research Centre. I am sure there will be a lot more information coming out over the next weeks/months, so we won’t steal any of the team’s thunder by going into great detail here. But, we’d just like to note that this centre has come at a very good …
Graduate Student Research Awards: 2nd Cycle Launch
April 23, 2014
We have just received this from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) QNRF is pleased to announce the launch of GSRA 2nd cycle; the RFA can be downloaded from the GSRA download centre of the QNRF website at http://www.qnrf.org/funding_programs/gsra/download_centre%20/ . Please note that changes from the last cycle are captured in blue in the current …
High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC)
April 22, 2014
This post was contributed by Muhammad Yaasiin Oozeer Computers have become an essential and extensively used tool in scientific research. It is no news to anyone that our home personal computer (PC) itself is quite a small piece of magic which facilitates many of our daily tasks. The same PC can actually be used to …
Rise and Globalization of Asian Higher Education： Neo-Renaissance of the 21st century?
April 21, 2014
This post was contributed by Chin Chiew Foan An interesting read. A vision of research collaborations among Institutes of higher learnings in Asia and Europe by Da Hsuan Feng at Ningbo Nottingham campus.
Prometeo Project: Fellowships in Ecuador
April 17, 2014
This leaflet provides details of fellowships available in Ecuador. Further details are also available at http://postulaprometeo.educacionsuperior.gob.ec/Prometeo/inicio.do.
New Centre for Environmental Geochemistry and opportunities for research collaborations
April 16, 2014
This post was contributed by Suzanne McGowan New Centre for Environmental Geochemistry and opportunities for research collaborations The British Geological Survey (BGS) and the University of Nottingham have announced a new research facility, the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. http://www.environmentalgeochemistry.org/home.html The centre will involve multiple Schools within the University and is headed by Professor Melanie Leng, …
ISESCO Prizes for Science and Technology, 2014
April 15, 2014
This flyer outlines the ISESCO Prizes for Science and Technology. For those that are successful there is a 5000 USD reward. The clsoing date is the 30 Apr 2014.
Taiwan Fellowship 2014
April 14, 2014
This fellowship program will accept applications from 1st May 2014 to 30 June 2014, with the research being carried in 2015. The field of study is in Social Sciences and Humanities with a topic relaed to Taiwan, cross-strait relations, mainland China, the Asia Pacific and Sinology. More details (along with the letter) are available from http://taiwanfellowship.ncl.edu.tw.
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