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 …