That Dive Life: Asia Business Prize winner

May 21, 2018

Alumni from the University of Nottingham Malaysia, Shahbaaz Siamwala (BEng Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2015) and May Thawdar Oo (Biomedical Sciences, 2017) claimed £5,000 for Asia Business Prize category at Ingenuity18. That Dive Life believes all divers deserve a seamless booking process for their next diving escape. To help make this a reality, the team …

Researching to clean up palm oil waste

As UK frozen food retailer Iceland vows to ban palm oil from all its products, Professor Denny Ng, from the University of Nottingham Malaysia, explains why we don’t need to stop using this controversial vegetable oil if it is produced sustainably, and how his research supports this greener approach. Why is palm oil in so …

Coping with Dengue – A Stinging Experience

May 17, 2018

In this blog, our University’s Provost and CEO, Professor Graham Kendall recounts his experience of coping with Dengue.   In July 2014, I attended a conference in Beijing. It was after the second day that I began to feel flu-like symptoms and I took myself to bed for a while. I did not tell anybody …

Transforming Sustainable Oil Palm Research into Reality

May 16, 2018

A group of researchers from Centre of Sustainable Palm Oil Research (CESPOR), University of Nottingham Malaysia together with industrial partners have successfully built a working Integrated Anaerobic Aerobic Bioreactor (IAAB) system to transform palm oil mill effluent (POME) into biogas and clean water.   The system is built at an existing commercial palm oil mill treating …

L’Oréal Brandstorm 2018

May 7, 2018

The team from the University of Nottingham Malaysia comprising of Jessica Neoh Jie Qi (Chemical and Environmental Engineering), Kate Lee Chia Min (Computer Science), and Rynn Leow Chok Nam (Economics) emerged as the first runner-up from 73 participating teams in the recent L’Oréal Brandstorm 2018 Malaysia National Finals. This year, the teams were challenged to …