From the lab to the zoo: Fieldwork at the UNMC with Dr Neil Mennie
September 25, 2015
The deadline fast approached and then passed, by first days and then weeks. In the death throes I fired off one final email chasing up my funding application to carry out fieldwork at the Malaysia campus for three months. I had no expectation for a prompt response, so I was caught completely off guard half …
How Your Job Affects Your Memory?
April 16, 2014
One of our assistant professors, Dr Jessica Price along with her PhD student, Wei Lin Poh were interviewed by DJ, Lee Chwi Lynn, one of the hosts of ‘The Bigger Picture’ programme on BFM radio on Monday, 14th April 2014. Dr Price specializes in written language comprehension in healthy ageing. She is also interested in …
Life of an Intern – Investigating Orangutan’s Eye Movements
May 29, 2013
The exam period of May 2012 proved to be a period of a lot of stress for me. Part of it came from all the reading and studying I had to do for the upcoming exams – something I think nobody in their right mind genuinely enjoys. Another part of the stress came from thinking …
Life of an Intern – Active Vision Research
March 22, 2013
As one of the first year students, I was delighted to be given such a wonderful opportunity to join the 3-months summer internship on campus. The research – a collaboration between UNMC and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) – that I was working on, aimed to explore the anticipatory eye movements of children with clinical nystagmus …
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