F1 Technician makes Pit Stop at UNMC

Following the recnt visit by Mike Gascoyne to UNMC, the visit was featured in the Star Online.

IEEE Xtreme Competition

This post was contributed by Mahendra Chilukuri IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members, supported by IEEE Student Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE member; compete in a 24hour competition conducted globally to solve a set of programming problems. IEEEXtreme is an online 24hrs programming competition conducted by IEEE …

UNMC Publication Status: Nov 2013

Every so often we publish the current status of our publications. This is useful to see how we are doing against previous years, but it might also be useful to people from outside the University to see what areas where we are currently publishing. I have extracted the publications listed on Web of Knowledge and …

Periodic Table of Videos (Lithium – 3 – Li)

In this series, we are presenting videos from the Periodic Table of Videos (Web Site / YouTube) project. This project shows a short video about each of the chemical elements. The video below looks at Lithium, which has an atomic number of 3 and the symbol Li. Previous blog entries on this topic can be …

Merdeka Award

Established by key players in the Malaysian oil & gas industry – PETRONAS, ExxonMobil and Shell – in conjunction with Malaysia’s 50th anniversary in 2007, the award aims to recognise and reward Malaysians and non-Malaysians who have made outstanding and lasting contributions to the nation and the people of Malaysia in their respective fields. More …

BBC Coverage of Elephant Relocation

There has recently been some very nice coverage of the elephant relocation work that is being done at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, under the MEME (Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants) project (all previous posts on MEME can be seen at this tag). The BBC recently printed a very nice story (9th Nov …

Lecture by Robin Grimes – The role of simulation in addressing technological problems

The role of simulation in addressing technological problems In his talk, Robin will also speak about the use of simulation in developing new materials and also in developing nuclear energy. Venue: The Great Hall. Date: Monday, 18 November 2013. Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm If you wish to register to attend this lecture, please email Anita …

Industrial talk organised by UNMC-IEM student chapter: Food Processing and career opportunities

This post was contributed by Dr Hii Ching Lik A talk was delivered by Dr Hii Ching Lik (CEng MIChemE) from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering to student members of The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (UNMC student chapter). In his talk Dr Hii shared his experience while working as a researcher in the …

Monitors of Malaysian election report widespread media bias

This post was contributed by Tessa Houghton and L:indsay Brooke During the 2013 Malaysian election campaign and in the days immediately afterwards, a team of communications experts at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) kept a close eye on the performance of the country’s press. Their aim was to encourage fair coverage of this …

Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is Influential

The Journal of the Opertaional Research Society (JORS) is one of the most respected journals in Operational Research. They editors recently picked the ten most inflential articles, as a reprsentative sample of the quality of the articles that they publish. In their remarks they say: “Tom Archibald and Jonathan Crook, the Editors of the Journal …