How to crack British intelligence service’s devilish Christmas puzzle
December 18, 2015
“Calling all aspiring spooks. Robert Hannigan, director of Britain’s security and intelligence organisation GCHQ, has included a rather tantalising puzzle with his Christmas card this year. He hopes that it will exercise your grey cells over the holiday period. If you can solve the puzzle, along with the others that it will lead to, you …
Athena SWAN: Rosalind Franklin Appathon
December 15, 2015
Athena SWAN Charter Member network has informed us of Rosalind Franklin Appathon which is a national app competition that aims to empower women to become leaders in STEMM and is a fantastic opportunity to showcase leading women, working in the digital space from across the UK. Applications can be submitted at www.rfappathon.com before 4th January …
Keynote speech at Technology & Application for Disaster Management International Conference 2015
December 14, 2015
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu, School of Geography, was invited as an international keynote speaker at Technology & Application for Disaster Management International Conference, 27-28 October 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Highlighting the theme ““Managing Disaster Efficiently with Technologies”, Dr. Vu spoke on the “Space Technologies for Disaster Management”. The conference brought together relevant parties in the field of …
Challenge-based interventions to promote obesity awareness and seek innovation in youth and school children
Dr. Suresh K. Mohankumar and his obesity awareness team, including Dr. Soma Mitra (co-applicant) have received an activity support grant (Japanese Yen 1,000,000) from Tanita Healthy Weight Community Trust*, Japan. The funds will be used to promote obesity awareness/health education in youth and school children. *Tanita is a Healthy Weight Community Trust, from Japan supports …
International Engineering and Technology Exhibition (IETE 2015)
November 30, 2015
by Dr Amin Malek Mohammadi The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) team won one Gold, one Bronze and the Special Award from Malaysian Research and Innovation Society (MyRIS) at the recent International Engineering and Technology Exhibition (IETE 2015). UNMC team consists of Dr. Amin Malek Mohammadi, Dr. Mohanna, Mr. How Chin Joe, Mr. Ong …
Research Centres and Research Groups at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
November 15, 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) has recently completed an exercise to establish Research Centres and Research Groups. This has been done for a variety of reasons, inclusing: To more actively promote our research both internally and externally To have a “go to” person for a given research area To enable us to be …
International Competition on Oil Palm Mechanisation (deadline: 30 November 2015)
October 9, 2015
We have received the following information about a competition that might be of interest to colleagues at UNMC. Colleagues in CFFRC and engineering may be interested in the following competition. International Competition on Oil Palm Mechanisation Official website: http://www.mpob.gov.my/ICOPM/ A flyer is availble here. Submission deadline: 30 November 2015 Objectives: This competition is aimed at …
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
October 7, 2015
In almost every aspect of our lives, we have a unique identifier, enabling us to be uniquely identified. This might be a student/staff ID, a bank account number, a customer reference for a utility service etc. You are little more than a number inside an IT system! When you create an account with a journal, …
MyMentor on the road (UniSZA and UMT)
September 20, 2015
On the 15 Sep 2015 two members of the MyMentor team visited UniSZA (Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin) and UMT (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu) to present the MyMentor program and to discuss other opportunities that might exist. The MyMentor team, …
Universities are more than just a paper mill
September 17, 2015
There was an interesting article in Focusweek recently that discusses how Malaysian institutions are changing, and need to continue to change. You can view the article here. As an aside, Focusweek often has a lot of interesting articles so worth keeping an eye on their content and also following them on Twitter.
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