April 21, 2016, by Lisa Chin
Postgraduate Prize Awards Presentation 2016
The University of Nottingham Postgraduate Prize Awards recognise accomplishments in research, publications, conferences and contributions to the Postgraduate Community. Students were nominated by their Head of Schools for excellence across aforementioned areas.
On 14th April 2016, prize winners and their guests were invited to the awards ceremony hosted by the Graduate School. Professor Graham Kendall, Vice-Provost of Research and Knowledge Transfer, presented the awards to the prize winners while their supervisors and fellow friends cheered them on. A total of three students were awarded the Postgraduate Prize Awards and one student was awarded the Postgraduate Teaching Award.
It was the very first time the Postgraduate Teaching Award was introduced at the Malaysia campus. It is an award to recognise and celebrate examples of innovative teaching and support of learning. Applicants may support teaching and learning through a wide range of activities, including: demonstrating in laboratory classes, distance learning. leading seminars or tutorials, supporting project work, lecturing or assessing and giving feedback on student work. The award is given to applicant who can show innovative and reflective practice by improving effectiveness in teaching and support of learning, making appropriate changes in learning activities or techniques, and evaluating and reflecting on the impact of intervention and possibilities for further development.
The students who received the Postgraduate Prize Awards 2016 are listed below:
- Pang Ee Leen, School of Biosciences
- Nagulendran Kangayatkarasu, School of Geography
- Sadia Afreen, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
[From left] Professor Sandy Loh Hwei San, Pang Ee Leen and Professor Graham Kendall. “Ee Leen is a great assest for the University with a good track record in succeeding high impact publications, prestigious awards and engaging international collaboration as well as providing excellent academic services particularly in WinSET Athena Swan and Biosafety Committees. She is a very ambitious scientist who has strong focus in steering her research direction towards the potential vaccine development against Dengue disease which possesses a global significance.” – Professor Sandy Loh Hwei San
[From left] Nagulendran Kangayatkarasu and Professor Graham Kendall. “We are very fortunate to have Nagu one of our postgraduate students in UNMC. He has brought with him his broad experience, a wide interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and – very importantly – a unique personal ability to unify people and make any working group much more effective than without him. I have a deep respect for Nagu’s attitude towards work and study – he is always humble and ready to work hard (and smart) to get things done. Nagu is called to play a remarkable role in the conservation of Malaysian biodiversity.” – Dr Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz
[From left] Ms Kasturi Muthoosamy, Professor Sivakumar Manickam, Sadia Afreen and Professor Graham Kendall. “Sadia Afreen, a sincere, well-talented and a desrving candidate who already made outstanding contributions in the area of functionalising fullerence nanoparticles in the most facile way reported so far. The outcome of this research will be employed in devising a biosensor for diagnosing early stage cancer. As a young researcher, her commitments and efforts towards research are remarkable and her contributions and achievements are noteworthy and marked to impact.” – Professor Sivakumar Manickam
- Ong Kian Chuan, Department of Civil Engineering
[From left] Professor Andy Chan, Ong Kian Chuan and Professor Graham Kendall. “Ong Kian Chuan is currently working on the research project entitled ‘A pressure-based Mach-uniform method for viscous fluid flows’ in which he developed algorithm for more efficient computations. He is the teaching assistant for the Year 4 module – Computational Fluid Dynamics. His expertise, passion and enthusiasm touched all his students and he is very popular amongst the students. He had contributed beyond his normal teaching duties to help students on the subject and the assignment.” – Professor Andy Chan
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