Exciting new publications
January 22, 2015
Veronica Alicia Yap, Bi-Juin Loong, Kang-Nee Ting, Sandy Hwei-San Loh, Kien-Thai Yong, Yun-Yee Low, Toh-Seok Kam, Kuan-Hon Lim (January 2015). Hispidacine, an unusual 8,4’-oxyneolignan-alkaloid with vasorelaxant activity, and hispiloscine, an antiproliferative phenanthroindolizidine alkaloid, from Ficus hispida Linn. Phytochemistry, Volume 109, Pages 96–102. (check it here) The paper describes the detailed structure elucidation and biological activity …
FoS Pump-priming Research Grant (First Call) Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their Pump-Priming Awards: Daniel Seal Developing cultural appropriate interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder in Malaysia (RM, 10,000.00) Marina Ng Application of Internet of Things to create Digitally-adorned Pewter Gifts (RM 9,000.00) Mustafa Al-Shagga Identification of the peripheral targets of Khat (Catha Edulis) action on gravid and non-gravid rat uterus …
Faculty of Science – grant capture
Congratulations to the following individuals on their grant captures: Yap Chiew Lin Title: Effectiveness, selectivity and kinetics of novel biofuel production via ionic liquid catalysed conversion of palm waste to levulinate esters. Grant provider: FRGS, RM 125,750.00 Malaysia produced 19.2 million tonnes of palm oil in 2013 from over 5 million hectares of plantation lands. However, …
How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors
January 3, 2015
This piece recently appeared in the Higher Education section of the Guardian newspaper. We thought that it was worth sharing.
Faculty of Engineering Employer Appreciation Awards
December 23, 2014
I was very pleased, and honored, to recently (08 Dec 2014) be asked to say a few words about UNMC research as one of the opening speakers at the Faculty of Engineering Employer Appreciation Awards. Collaboration with employers is very important for UNMC, particularly in Engineering, where we are required to work with external partners …
UNNC BEIS visit UNMC
December 20, 2014
We were delighted to host a visit by members of the UNNC Business Engagement team (Ian Dwyer, Kelly Yao and Du) in December 2014 (15-19 Dec 2014). This was a follow up to the visit the UNMC’s team made to Ningbo in Oct 2014. It was a packed program, including a visit to Penang: Date …
DuPont Young Professor Program
December 16, 2014
We have just received this email, which might be of interest to some of our academic staff. The attachments that you might be interested are accessible below: DuPont Young Professor Program_details 2015 DuPont Young Professor Program 2015 Some particular points of interest: Program will award up to USD$50,000 over 2 years to young faculty Nomination …
The Christmas Present Problem: It’s Hard – NP-Hard
December 7, 2014
This post first appeared at Graham-Kendall.com. For previous posts about Christmas, see here. As Christmas approaches, many of us are faced with the annual problem of who to buy presents for, how much to spend, what presents to buy and how to be fair to everybody. Is this a tough problem to solve? Perhaps some …
Keynote at ICACCI-2014
December 3, 2014
Dr Lawal Billa has been invited as a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Advances in Computing Communications and Informatics-2014. ICACCI-2014, 28-30 November 2014, Roorkee India. Organised be the COER School of Management and Computer Society of India. He will be giving a talk on the “The Future of Geo-informatics in the Information Age”. …
The best student paper award at IWGRS 2014
Darshana Wickramasinghe, a first year PhD student in the School of Geography was awarded the prize for the best student paper l at the IEEE Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IWGRS) 2014 held in STRIDE, Kajang on 20 November 2014. Darshana’s paper presented his PhD work on “Satellite remote sensing techniques for construction project monitoring” which …
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