Lisa Chin
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Turning food waste to compost overnight with MAEKO
November 7, 2019
This post is contributed by Dr Cheng Shi Hui, Assistant Professor at the School of Biosciences. Food waste in Malaysia has reached a critical level. According to data by Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp), 55% of solid waste disposed at landfills comprises food. Malaysians contribute to more than 16,000 tonnes of food …
UNM researchers aiming for a Green economy and to enhance public awareness on waste management
November 5, 2019
This post is contributed by Dr Tshai Kim Yeow, Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. Responding to the recent call for Newton-Ungku Omar Grand Fund Challenge on Waste-to-Wealth, a group of researchers from University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) had visited Environmental Preservation and Innovation Centre (EPIC), Malaysia’s first Centre of …
Visit for Research Collaboration Opportunity
October 30, 2019
This post is contributed by Dr Lee Mei Kee, Assistant Professor at the School of Pharmacy. The management of pharmaceutical waste has been a major concern globally due to its potential high risk of harm to the human health and environment. In response to the Newton Ungku Omar Fund Grand Challenge 2019, our team submitted a …
Graduate School Bulletin, November 2019
October 29, 2019
Issue 07/19 (19) This bulletin provides monthly updates on upcoming events and activities by the Graduate School. Training courses & workshops Researcher Development Programme (RDP) We are offering the following RDP courses in November 2019. These courses are open to postgraduate students. Date Time Course 1 November 2019 10am – 12noon Preparing for Your Annual …
Coffee & Cake Session 6/2019
October 25, 2019
The sixth and final Coffee and Cake session for this year was held on 25 October 2019. This casual gathering session was very well attended by the postgraduates students. Introducing the new Postgraduate Students’ Officer During the session, the newly elected Postgraduate Students’ Officer, Angela Paul Peter, took the opportunity to introduce herself to the …
Open Access week 2019: Open science data?
This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). So far this week, I’ve been writing about open access publishing of academic manuscripts. But the data itself behind those articles is an increasingly important community resource. Open science data promotes public access to observations and results of scientific activities …
Open Access week 2019: Nottingham e-repository and ResearchGate
October 24, 2019
This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). Here at UNM, we’re keen for you to make Nottingham research outputs available to a global audience. Nottingham ePrints is a searchable digital archive which provides the green route to open access for research outputs (articles, conference papers etc produced by University of …
Open Access week 2019: Which license?
October 23, 2019
This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). In Monday’s blog, I explained that when you publish by traditional routes, as an author you typically grant all your rights as author and copyright owner to the publisher. It doesn’t belong to you anymore. A benefit of full open …
Open Access week 2019: Who pays?
October 22, 2019
This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). Publishers are businesses that make money out of managing academic journals. Academic publishers have two main income streams (excluding advertising revenue). The first income stream is from reader subscriptions. For example, our library at UNM pays publishers through annual journal …
UNM student wins the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellowship 2019
October 21, 2019
We are proud to inform that Shivaani Mariapun, our PhD student from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, has recently won the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship and received a research grant of RM30,000. Shivaani was awarded in recognition of her research on mammographic density and breast cancer risk in Asian women. Her …
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