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UNM students build device to aid flood victims
March 31, 2021
The Mechatronics Engineering degree at the University of Nottingham Malaysia equips passionate students with the skills to translate what they learn in the classroom into groundbreaking innovations. Putting what they learnt in the classroom to good use, a team of four from UNM have embarked on a robotics project to help victims of disasters. Students …
UNM’s FiS students celebrate Valentine’s Day with food distribution
March 5, 2021
Students from the Foundation in Science (FiS) programme at University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) organised a Valentine’s Day Drive with a difference. On 15 February 2021, instead of sending flowers to loved ones for Valentine’s Day, five students, who were staying on campus during the lockdown, showed some love to the cleaners, landscape crew and …
An outstanding achievement: The NAA recipients for 2019/2020
February 23, 2021
The Nottingham Advantage Award (NAA) programme is offered to all University of Nottingham undergraduate students as an opportunity to enhance their employability skills. Upon completion of the programme, the NAA certification is also added to one’s degree certificate upon graduation. For this year’s Spring Graduation on 24 February, seven students from UNM are set to …
UNM receives three nominations at the Policy Impact and Public Engagement Award
February 17, 2021
The University of Nottingham Malaysia received three nominations at the Policy Impact and Public Engagement Award. UNM academics bagged three nominations in three separate categories. They are: Professor Christopher Gibbins, Dr Ir. Fang Yenn Teo and Yih Yoong Lip (Faculty of Science and Engineering, UNM) were nominated for Best Public Engagement Initiative for their engagement …
Breaking the stereotypes: An engineering student’s journey
February 10, 2021
Choosing to undertake a degree in engineering is both exciting and challenging, however, engineering students are often the targets of stereotypes. Our alumna, Ayesha Rashid (MEng in Chemical with Environmental Engineering, 2020) addresses some of these misconceptions. While most stereotypes she has come across are harmless, such as engineering students are “boring” and solely motivated …
Alumna receives award for final year project
University of Nottingham Malaysia alumna in Civil Engineering, Shams Khaled Elhosseny Ghazy Essawy, won third place in the Tan Sri Ir Yusoff Ibrahim Final Year Project Competition 2020 for her final year project (FYP). The title of her FYP was “Future-proofing Klang Valley’s veins with REBET: A framework for directing transportation technologies towards infrastructure resilience”. …
UoNARI organises webinar to discuss Global Business Services
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute hosted a webinar entitled “Post COVID: Position of Malaysia’s GBS Industry in Asia and Beyond”, which took place on Microsoft Teams. The Global Business Services industry is estimated to be worth more than USD 200 billion globally and more than USD 6 billion in Malaysia and it has …
Nottingham alumnus impresses global economic leaders with unique gift box
January 21, 2021
The Balau Box, an artisanal gift box created by Nottingham alumnus Harith Ridzuan (BA Management Studies, 2008), was gifted to all 20 economic leaders who took part in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2020, which was hosted in Malaysia. The handmade gift box was made from Balau wood and contains locally made artisanal gifts. …
The role of biomedical scientists during COVID-19
The novel coronavirus disease discovered in 2019, now formally known as COVID-19, has impacted our lives greatly in the past year. In an effort to create more awareness of this topic, Dr Georgina Marsh, Assistant Professor from the School of Pharmacy, addressed the four key roles played by biomedical scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic. She …
Lord Dearing Awards: UNM winners
The Lord Dearing Award, which was first initiated in 1999, recognises outstanding achievements of University of Nottingham staff for their efforts in enhancing the student learning experience. Since its inception, the Lord Dearing Award has been presented to more than 100 members of staff. The award is held annually, and awardees are chosen from nominations …
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