Press releases

A final year international student of Land Resource Management course from the Faculty of Agriculture Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Hafeez Babar won the Presidency seat for Universiti Putra Malaysia International Students Association (UPMISA).

In their bid to promote safety among international students, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) organized a seminar on security and protection to further improve the sense of confidence with the University’s campus safety measures.

It is with deep sadness that the International Development Research Centre shares the news of the passing of Rex Nettleford, a founding IDRC Governor, on February 2, 2010 in Washington, DC.

In collaboration with CIDA, the Rural Poverty and Environment team (RPE) is happy to announce the launch of two calls as part of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF).

As IDRC marks its 40th anniversary this year, activities are rolling out in Canada and around the world to celebrate four decades of promoting development through knowledge and innovation.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is among the organizations finding ways not to use polystyrene any more such as through the ‘White Coffin’ Campaign where polystyrene containers are no longer used as food containers in the university.

Universiti Sains Malaysia is the only institution of higher learning in the country that has been selected to help train IPv6 network engineers at St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering (SXCCE), a world-class engineering college in India.

According to the National Cancer Register Report, in 2006 alone, more than 26 000 new cancer cases were detected in Peninsular Malaysia. This means 1 in every 5.5 Malaysians is expected to contract the disease.

Established in April 2009 through an agreement between RIKEN and Keio University, the Research Center for Human Cognition (CHC) held its first international symposium on December 14 and 15, 2009.

A microchip fabricated with femtosecond lasers at RIKEN allows the rare observation of microalgae behavior

Guanghui Wang writes to Nobuyuki Nukina at the Laboratory for Structural Neuropathology,RIKEN Brain Science Institute

A combination of positive and negative regulation narrowly restricts a genome-shuffling enzyme’s activity

Size-controllable bulky ligands stabilize multiple bonds of heavy elements into photoactive materials

The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) researchers received three silver and three bronze medals at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE 2010)

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Cancer and copy number, General relativity tested in the lab, Multi-wavelength view of an astrophysical jet, iPS to understand diseases, Supernova progenitors constrained by their X-rays and Learning to sing changes the brain

The complete genome sequences of an indigenous hunter-gatherer from Namibia’s Kalahari Desert and of a Bantu from southern Africa are presented in this week’s Nature. Alongside these genomes are presented the sequences of the protein-coding regions from three other hunter-gatherer groups from the Kalahari.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Variants associated with dementia, Makeover to yield designer proteins?, Unprecedented pressure from ocean acidification, A new villain in multiple sclerosis, Deletion associated with childhood developmental delay and Melting glaciers in Greenland fjords

Revitalizing Agricultural Research for Global Food Security.

The following paper written by Professor Akihiko Kudo, et al. from the Department of Applied Chemistry in the Faculty of Science Division I relating to water splitting using photocatalyst materials was selected as part of the Chem Soc Rev Top 10 for 2009.

The official result of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) campus election session 2009/2010 witnessed the dissolution of several candidates’ victory due to breaching of campaign etiquette stipulated for student representatives council (MPP) election.

Call for Nominations 2010 Deadline:Noon, Tuesday 23 March 2010 (Japan local time)

Call for Applications : 1 Assistant Professor Position (Non-tenured)

A total of 789 graduands from the Postgraduate and Bachelor’s Degree Programmes will be conferred their respective degrees at Universiti Sains Malaysia’s (USM) 41st convocation ceremony to be held on Saturday, 20 March 2010 at the Main Hall, USM Engineering Campus, Nibong Tebal, Penang.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) successfully maintained its excellence in the field of research when it won 20 awards for the 19 innovations that were exhibited at the Malaysia Technology Expo at the Putra World Trade Centre today.

Genome Profiling Technology Unit, LSA Technology Development Group, Omics Science Center

A new breed of cherry blossom tree that blooms all year round has been created by RIKEN scientists using heavy ion beams at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerated-Based Science.

Studies on mutant plants provide insights into the role of strigolactone, a plant hormone that inhibits shoot branching and attracts both beneficial symbionts and damaging root parasites

The newly sequenced genome of the soybean could allow for the development of hardier plants

X-rays emitted from the remnant of a supernova provide clues to its explosive history

RIKEN will be hosting a booth at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), to be held in San Diego, Feb. 18-22.