Experience Sharing: Summer Internship at UNM

By GangHyeon Cho, who is currently a Year 3 Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) student at the UK campus.   Where did you do your summer internship?   I did my summer internship at the University of Nottingham Malaysia to work on a review article.   What did it involve? It was my inaugural venture into crafting …

Plastic World and Plastic Education Workshop

One summer holiday, I went to a beautiful island in Borneo with my family. I was looking forward to enjoying the white sandy beach and the clear blue sea. To my dismay, the beach on the island was littered with plastic rubbish. Looking at my kids cleaning up the beach (Figure 1), it left a …

Career Event – Discovering Careers in Health Sciences (2023)

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Pharmacy Society (PharmNotts) and Biomedical Sciences Student Society (BMed), in collaboration with the Career Advisory Services of the university, invited speakers working in the pharmaceutical industry to share their experiences about their career pathways and development. Most of the invited speakers were the School’s alumni, and it was heart-warming to …

MPharm Student Wins Top 25 Talentbank Future Leader Award

MPharm Year 2 Student from the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM), Mabeth Tan Oon Ling, has won the “Top 25 Future Leader Award” by Talentbank. The Future Leader Award aims to recognise top university students who excel in both academics and extracurricular activities.   What is Future Leader Awards? Future Leader Awards is a programme …

School of Pharmacy Bagged Four Prizes in Postgraduate Research Showcase 2021

The School of Pharmacy and Division of Biomedical Sciences have bagged four prizes in the Virtual Faculty of Science and Engineering Postgraduate Research (FOSE PGR) Showcase 2021! The winners and their presentation titles are: 1-MINUTE RAPID FIRE COMPETITION: GRAND PRIZE : Low Hui Ching Presentation: Controlling Diabetes Through Low GI-Coloured Rice? 2nd RUNNER UP:  Azrina Ely …

PhD student secured 2021 Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment

School of Pharmacy PhD student, Jessica Ooi, received the prestigious 2021 Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment on 26th November 2021. The Merdeka Award Trust (MAT) is established by PETRONAS, ExxonMobil and Shell in 2007. The Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment is one of the programmes introduced by MAT in 2011. The grant aims …

Spectacular Achievements in FOSE Online Postgraduate Showcase 2020

The Postgraduate Students Research (PGR) Showcase has been an annual event since several years back. Due to the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, Faculty of Science and Engineering (FOSE) had conducted the PGR Showcase 2020 online, with presenters presenting their 1-minute pitches and posters on Microsoft Teams. Despite the unprecendeted times, our …

Vice-Chancellor’s Medal 2020 Group Winners

The warmest congratulations to Vice-Chancellor’s Medal 2020 Group Winners i.e. Vanitha Singaram, Siti Nor Asma and Chong Zhi Xiong from the School of Pharmacy and Division of Biomedical Sciences! They were nominated by Prof Ting Kang Nee. Read the details of their achievements below: “We received a Cascade Award in May 2017 for three years to run a project entitled “Promoting science …

School of Pharmacy – Biomedical Sciences Photography Competition 2020 Winners

From 5th to 24th May 2020, the School of Pharmacy and Division of Biomedical Sciences held a Photography Competition, requiring participants to creatively capture the essence of multitasking during the COVID-19 pandemic with a photograph and a short caption. We are proud to announce the winners of the competition, as voted by all School of …

Vice-Chancellor’s Medal 2020: Omar Ashraf ElFar (Year 1, BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences)

Warmest congratulations to our School of Pharmacy Representative 2020/2021 Mr. Omar ElFar for receiving your Vice-Chancellor Medal Award 2020! Omar ElFar is studying under the School of Pharmacy – BSc Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences (PHS/PhamSci). He is an active smart student that managed to balance between his excellent academic studies and research. As a young researcher and author at …