Data Visualisation Competition
March 7, 2013
We have been informed of a data visualisation competition by Sue Jones (who is part of the Horizon team – thanks Sue). There is a prize available but NOTE that you have be a citizen of UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands or Sweden to enter. That may not seem very useful to UNMC, but …
Drone demonstration over campus
March 6, 2013
The MEME project demonstrated one of their drones to the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia recently (1st Mar 2013). We were privileged to have four people from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia attend the demonstration, these being Dato’ Abd Rasid Samsudi – Director General, Department of Wildlife and National …
Ranking’s research impact indicator is skewed
March 5, 2013
Thanks to Chris Ennew for pointing me towards this article from the University World News web site. It starts: “The 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings consisted of 13 indicators grouped into five clusters. One of these clusters consisted of precisely one indicator, research impact, which is measured by normalised citations and which THE …
Video Channels
March 4, 2013
In previous posts we have mentioned the Periodic Table of Videos. We have found some other video sites which are informative and also introduce some complex topics to the general public who may want the information in a more accessible form. Here are the ones we have found (if you know of any others, post …
What is your research all about?
March 1, 2013
We plan to launch an occasional series (called What is? – this is a category link, so it will gradually get populated as people post about their research areas) where we will ask experienced researchers to briefly describe their research discipline, not from the point of view of their particular (focused) research area, but in …
Horizon Digital Nutrition Sandpit … and the winners are ….
February 28, 2013
Last week we reported on the Horizon Digital Nutrition Workshop. We said that we would would report the outcome of the event, as the results were not known at the time. We are very pleased to announce that the winning team’s project is called Understanding Underutilisation. The members of the team are shown in the …
EU Bulletin (Issue 63, 21 Feb 2013)
February 27, 2013
Dear all, Please find attached (EuroBulletin Issue 63) the EU Bulletin (Issue 63, 21 February 2013) from the European Union Delegation to Malaysia. Some of the latest news/events in this issue: Upcoming event (1 March) – Presentation on “The European Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Future of the Euro” by Dr Peter Bekx, Director of …
IIASA POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM 2013
February 26, 2013
We have only just seen this, but it might still be of interest, even though the deadline is quite tight. GENTLE REMINDER: IIASA POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM 2013 Dear Tan Sri/Datuk/Dato’/Prof/Dr, Forwarded for your info and kind attention. Please be informed that Malaysia is a member of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the …
Grundy Educational Trust (Postgraduate Scholarships)
February 25, 2013
We recently received this notification (see below). If you are interested in this you must first check eligibility, using the email address at the end of this post as we have not asked about UNMC. Of course, there might be an option for joint supervision between the two campuses, if you have the right idea/candidate. …
Horizon Digital Nutrition Workshop
February 22, 2013
On the 21-22 Feb 2013, we hosted a Horizon Digital Nutrition Sandpit, held in collaboration with UNMC and CFFRC. The aim of the sandpit (which was run similar to a UK EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Sandpit) is to generate ideas from all the participants, which the aim of arriving at a project …
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