Announcement

On April 1, as part of efforts to reach a broader audience in Japan and across the world, RIKEN launched its first ever official channel on the video distribution website YouTube.

On March 18–19, RIKEN held its second symposium on biosupercomputing in downtown Tokyo, focusing on new directions in life science research made possible by high-performance supercomputing

FRIM Geoinformation Programme has conducted for the first time a new course on Forest Biomass and Carbon Stocks Inventory Using Remote Sensing Methods

Deadline Extended to 15 June 2010

Andy Knight wins Trailblazer award and Denis Desautels is appointed Chair of Accounting Council

IDRC is the Government of Canada’s lead for its new $225 million Development Innovation Fund, an initiative aimed at bringing together Canadian and developing-country scientists, and the private sector, to tackle persistent health challenges facing poor countries.

MALAYSIA'S bid to be an exporter of quality tertiary education will see Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) establish an offshore presence in India by the middle of this year.

In Nature China this week: Arsenic trioxide triggers the degradation of an oncoprotein that drives leukaemia cell growth by binding arsenic to specific regions on the oncoprotein

In Nature China this week: Researchers in Hong Kong have discovered an unexpected feature of the cystic fibrosis ion channel

Eight representatives from the Forestry Research and Development Agency (FORDA) of Indonesia attended the 5th FRIM-FORDA Bilateral Closed Door Meeting at FRIM on 8 April 2010.

TWAS and ISTIC are collaborating on a project aimed at identifying, rewarding and disseminating best practices in the innovative use of science and technology in the development of new products, processes or services that have had impacts on economic development in the South.

In Nature China this week: Results from the latest national survey indicate that diabetes has reached alarming levels in China

Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) launched a website for the GIGA Program (Global Information and Communication Technology and Governance Academic Program), which is scheduled to start in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies in September 2011.

The 2010 Keio University Entrance Ceremony was held on Friday, 2 April at the Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall. This year, 6,728 freshmen for 10 faculties enrolled.

Universiti Sains Malaysia’s (USM) efforts in maintaining the heritage of the Straits-born community (Peranakan) in Southeast Asia has been described as a good move to ensure that students in institutions of higher learning are given greater exposure to issues of diversity.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) joined several other universities in the country to develop sports among undergraduates when it was selected as a Sports Excellence Centre (Swimming) by the Ministry of Higher Education.

A delegation of seven from the International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (ICBR), the People’s Republic of China visited FRIM on 1 April 2010.

FRIM received the APECP Excellent Child Contributor Award 2009/2010 for Child-Friendly Eco-Education Destination from the Association of Professional Early Childhood Providers Malaysia (APECP) on 31 March 2010.

On 19 January 2010, RIKEN and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) signed a memorandum of understanding toward the establishment of a new joint center focused on research in chemical biology.

Laura Gainche writes to Katsuhiko Mikoshiba at the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, RIKEN Brain Science Institute

A global organization dedicated to advancing science around the world, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) attracts thousands of leading scientists, engineers and educators to its annual meeting every year.

FRIM has launched another landmark publication — “Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, Series I: Ferns and Lycophytes, Volume 1”

2010 Call for Applications - The Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) is an international autonomous organization based in Trieste, Italy.

In Nature China this week: The calcium-sensing receptor is important not only for bone development, but also for tooth development

The Wall Street Journal Asia is now accepting entries for the prestigious "Asian Innovation Awards 2010." The deadline for entries is April 9, 2010.

The Flood Hazard Research Centre (FHRC) has won one of the first ALINe Farmer Voice awards for its work with more than 200 community-based organizations (CBOs) improving floodplain management in Bangladesh.

USM undergraduates joined others around the world in making Earth Hour 2010 a success by switching off all lights in all the Residential Halls for one hour, from 9.00pm to 10.00pm last Saturday.

Through “The Brand Laureate Awards 2009-1010”, the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation has once again acknowledged Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for its corporate branding.

The Raja Muda Perak, D.Y.T.M. Raja Nazrin Shah Ibni Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah had dinner with undergraduates from Perak (Kusisdari), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) here, recently.

The top three finalists in each category will be sponsored to present their work in a public symposium to be held the first week of July 2010 at Tongji University in Shanghai.