Call for Content
February 10, 2014
So, we’ve had Christmas, we’ve had New Year, we’ve had Chinese New Year (apart from the Lion Dance this Friday!) and teaching starts again is earnest. So, after the long break, we are sure you have many stories that would be appropriate for this blog. So, let us have your items. All we need is …
Deep Sky Videos (Supernova in M82)
February 7, 2014
In this series, we are presenting videos from the Deep Sky Videos (Web Site / YouTube) project. The video below looks at the the Supernova in M82. Previous blog entries on this topic can be seen seen here (this is a link to entries tagged with Deep Sky Videos).
TheConversation launches Education Section
February 6, 2014
A few days ago (03 Fe 2014), TheConversation launched an Education section. Not only is it interesting reading, but it would be great to see authors from The University of Nottingham writing for it, particularly people based at UNMC (both academics and professional services). There are a few people on campus who have already written …
Overhauling your diet for 2014
February 5, 2014
“Diets have gained a bad reputation as something that seems to be just for starving people forcing themselves to eat salad. However, the word in and of itself just covers the food and drink that we consume. The start of the year always seems like a good time to turn that around. Giving us an …
Malaysia Toray Science Foundation
February 4, 2014
The Malaysian Toray Science Foundation (MTSF) offers two awards and grants for MALAYSIAN RESEARCHERS every year, on science and technology related stuffs. The foundation gives TWO awards (each RM 30000) and TEN grants (each RM 60000). Please visit the website www.mtsf.org for more details. All Malaysians, who’s interested to apply, please check the website, The …
How to get ants to solve a chess problem
February 3, 2014
We have just had a piece published in TheConversation (other posts featuring TheConversation can be seen here). The article looks at a mathematical problem that asks whether a knight can visit every square on a chess board, exactly once, using legal knoight moves. The piece starts “Take a set of chess pieces and throw them …
So, you wanna consult
January 30, 2014
Some academics at UNMC carry out consultancy (remembering, of course, that you need to request to carry out external work). We were recently interested to see a blog post from the NUBS Postgrad Careers blog. The post is aimed mainly at postgrads but we thought that it might be of interest to anybody who sees …
What is carbon capture and utilisation?
January 29, 2014
TheConversation has a category called explainer articles. These are a really good way of finding out the basics of a particular topic. We thought that it would useful to feature some of these on this blog. In this post we’d like to feature What is carbon capture and utilisation?. The article starts: “Carbon and carbon …
Google Research Awards
January 28, 2014
This might be of interest: http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html Note that the next closing date is 15 Apr 2014. Thanks to Nash Billa for bringing this to my attention.
University of Malaya and University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus Sign Dual PhD MOA
January 27, 2014
On the 24 Jan 2014, the University of Malaya (UM) and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the two institutions to cooperate on a dual PhD program. This program is a follow up to the recently completed Malaysia Nottingham Doctoral Program (MNDP). This new initiative uses MNDP as …
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