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19 Jul 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
PENANG, 9 July – Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) with the collaboration of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Centre for Knowledge, Communication and Technology, Engineering Campus contributed almost 110 used computers to several selected schools under the Lestari Siswa Project introduced by USM.
19 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Razak
The writer is the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia. He can be contacted at [email protected]
This article was published in the 'New Sunday Times' on 4th July 2010
19 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Razak
The writer is the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia. He can be contacted at [email protected]
This article was published in the 'New Sunday Times' on 28th June 2010
19 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Razak
The writer is the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia. He can be contacted at [email protected]
This article was published in 'The Edge Malaysia on 21st June 2010
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has opened doors to 5,103 new students through 60 courses offered for the first semester session 2010/2011 on the 3rd and 4th of July, just recently.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: Recently, I made a presentation entitled Reinventing Science at the Academy of Sciences Malaysia Inaugural Lectures.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: World Environment Day, which is celebrated every June 5, took the theme Biodiversity -- Ecosystems Management and the Green Economy this year.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: In a May 30 interview on a weekly public affairs show hosted by journalist and author Fareed Zakaria on CNN, Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates mentioned the need "to reorder the priorities of the innovation system" in making changes in the healthcare sector.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: It was immensely satisfying to listen to Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad speak on a subject as tricky as "technology-based innovation"...
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
A total of 952 new students for the 2010/2011 Intake will attend the First Phase of the Universiti Sains Malaysia Pimpin Siswa Programme from 9-11 July 2010.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Students’ achievement in co-curricular activities is important although in terms of weightage for university admission, it only contributes 10% compared to the 90 % for academic achievement.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
The registration of new students at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for the 2010/2011 Academic Session ran smoothly and witnessed more than 4000 students registering themselves at the three USM campuses.
28 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
The Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Dato’ Muhyiddin Yassin said that further investigations regarding the issue of members of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) recruiting local teenagers and university students will be handled fully by the police. He said that he has been given to understand that a special meeting to discuss this matter will be held soon.
28 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
PENANG, 12 June – The 29th edition of the Royal Commissioning of the Cadet Officers of the Reserve Officers Training Unit (Palapes) in Public Institutions of Higher Learning which was held in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) recently was described as the best so far.
28 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
he Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) contingent has been urged to turn the spirit of kinship among the campus community into a major weapon of strength in the 35th Malaysian Universities Staff Games (SUKUM) which will commence on 17 June 2010.
23 Jun 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Hazwanie Hashim, a PhD student of the Faculty of Pharmacy, UiTM, Malaysia, won her gold with her research UGT1A1^PROMISE Kit for Personalized Treatment of Irinotecan Therapy in Colorectal Cancer.
22 Jun 2010
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
The Forest Research Institute Malaysia has recently launched its Environment Education Centre (EEC), located near the Sg. Kroh picnic area, Kepong.
22 Jun 2010
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
FRIM has won awards for all 10 of its research products showcased at the 21st International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX) 2010 held from 14 to 16 May in Kuala Lumpur.
22 Jun 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Soft opening of UiTM Innovation and Creativity Gallery (ICG).
22 Jun 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Master’s student Saliha Mohamad and her professor, Suhaimi Abdul Talib of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia, studied microbial transformation in wastewater during transportation to reduce bad smell of drains and sewer system.
07 Jun 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
The Non-Destructive Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research Centre and the Particle Design Research Group, Faculty of Pharmacy, UiTM, organized a 2-day conference and 3-day exhibition, 25 - 27 May 2010, at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).
07 Jun 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
The Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, sets out to focus on nanotechnology.
04 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: The Facebook-based competition, Everyone Draw Mohammed (sic) Day!, on May 20 is said to promote "freedom of expression".
04 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: On the 13th of this month, I was on my way to the new Bangkok airport after having participated in a UNESCO retreat in the outskirt of the city...
02 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION - FIVE Malaysian universities were ranked among the top institutions in the 2010 QS Asian University Rankings. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), however, were amused by the news for the simple reason that they have neither agreed to the invitation to participate nor have they submitted any data or information.
24 May 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
A team of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) researchers have produced a device based on the concept of Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) which can accelerate the process of marine data collection and minimize manpower.
20 May 2010
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
FRIM Geoinformation Programme has conducted for the first time a new course on Forest Biomass and Carbon Stocks Inventory Using Remote Sensing Methods
20 May 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Noor Aznimah Abdul Aziz, Siti Salwa Salleh, Daud Mohammad and Megawati Omar of UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia, studied the conventional Jaccard Distance performance to recognize shapes with and without pre processing tasks.
19 May 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
UPM was awarded Self Accreditation Status by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) in a Certificate Presentation Ceremony which was officiated by the Minister of Higher Education Malaysia, YB Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
19 May 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Institutions of Higher Learning in the country have been urged to focus on efforts to produce graduates who are not only independent and can face challenges, but more important, who are able to understand the meaning of life.
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Giants in history
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, Mazlan binti Othman (born 11 December 1951) was instrumental in launching the country’s first microsatellite, and in sending Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, into space.
Susan Lim (14 February 1952 – 2 August 2014) was a Malaysian parasitologist who specialized in studying a class of flatworms, the Monogeans, which are parasites of fishes.
Little is known about Ali, a teenager from Sarawak, Malaysia, who was chief assistant to the famous naturalist Alfred Wallace. Most of what is known comes from Wallace’s writings. Ali accompanied Wallace on expeditions throughout the Malay Archipelago from December 1855 to February 1862.
Wu Lien-teh (10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malaysian-born doctor who invented a mask that effectively suppressed disease transmission. Winning the prestigious Queen’s Scholarship enabled Wu to become the first Chinese student to study medicine at the University of Cambridge.
Known as Mr. Natural Rubber, chemist and researcher B. C. Shekhar (17 November 1929 – 6 September 2006) introduced a number of technical innovations that helped put Malaysia’s natural rubber industry on the world map.
Lim Boo Liat (21 August 1926 – 11 July 2020), a leading authority in the conservation of Malaysia’s biological diversity, had his initial interest in the outdoors piqued by nature lessons in school. Lim, who helped found the National Zoo of Malaysia and re-establish the Malaysian Nature Society, had a particular interest in researching zoonotic diseases associated with small animals.