In The News

One of the most difficult questions are: what to eat for lunch? Why do we have late night snacking habits? We have answers from Dr Azlina Amir Kassim, a senior lecturer from Bangor University, UK.

Head of Academic Enhancement Division, Ms Annyza Tumar, and Teaching Fellow at the Department of Psychology, were recently awarded fellowships by Advance HE, previously known as Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the United Kingdom. Annyza and Elaine were respectively awarded the Senior Fellowship (SFHEA) and Fellowship (FHEA).

The Department of Allied Healthcare, School of Healthcare & Medical Sciences, organised a short course in collaboration with Malaysian Society for Hand Therapist on 3 Dec 2019, “Exploring Hand Therapy: Beyond the Basics, with the theme – Wrist & Hand” at Lecture 7, Sunway University.

International Office recently hosted a group of top high school Principals from Medan, Indonesia.

Professor Andrew Abbott joined Lancaster University on 1st November as the newly appointed Academic Dean for the Sunway University partnership in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

CAE congratulates Julian Yee Zhi-Jie for wiining the 4th Gold Medal in the Sea Games for Malaysia in the men's figure skating held in Phillipines.

Azrain’s paper, which was co-authored with Dr Ann Rosnida Md Deni (AED) was entitled “Using Padlet for Project-based Learning in Documentary Filmmaking” whilst Padma’s was “The Impact of Perceived Lecturers’ Self-Disclosure in Personal and Impersonal Facebook Account on Students’ Emotional Engagement, Students - Lecturer Communication Satisfaction, and Academic Performance”.

Congratulations to Professor Kheireddine (Associate Dean (Research) and Head of Research Centre for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilisation) and Professor Saidur (Head, Research Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology), who have been recognized as 2019 Highly Cited Researchers!

The department of Film and Performing Arts participated in a research workshop on Translocality and Performance organized by KunstUniversität Graz, sponsored by ASIA-UNINET and hosted by USM School of Arts.

Research projects were presented at a conference on intercultural musicology at the University of Cambridge.