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Campus With a Conscience Hosts A Week-Long SDG Festival |
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In a wonderful display of unity, corporate leaders, non-governmental organisations, local school children, special society groups, influencers and over 20,000 students from all across the Klang Valley gathered at Sunway University, Sunway City for a week-long festival of events and activations in support of the United Nations 17 SDGs and its worldwide initiative of Local Action for Global Goals 2022, celebrated from Monday 19th of September through to Friday 23rd of September... › |
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Don't Miss It: Story Writing Competition |
Aspiring authors are invited to embark on a literary journey towards achieving the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Stories should be well-written, authentic and creative; embody the message underlying any of the 17 SDGs; and showcase sustainable behaviour, technologies, practices or ideas, and/or illustrate solutions to sustainability issues or conflicts... › |
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Colours of Malaysia: The Art of Amirudin Ariffin Book Launch |
It was truly a wonderful celebration at the Colours of Malaysia: The Art of Amirudin Ariffin book launch! This launch was hosted by Sunway University Press in strategic partnership with the National Art Gallery Malaysia and the National Book Council of Malaysia.
The event was graced by the presence of YBhg. Dato' Indera Dayang Fatimah Tom Abang Saufi, Chairman of the National Visual Arts Development Board, who delivered the opening address. We were proud to hear that the National Book Council of Malaysia, the highest awarding body in Malaysia for book-related matters, has selected Colours of Malaysia: The Art of Amirudin Ariffin as one of the 50 Best Malaysian Titles for International Rights 2021/22. This book is written by our very own Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Professor, Professor Graeme Wilkinson and Ms. Bo Li... › |
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Sunway University and Hungarian Universities Promoting Transnational Education |
Sunway University collaborated with the Embassy of Malaysia, Hungary at the Universities of Nyiregyhaza, Miskolc and Debrecen to promote opportunities for transnational higher education. MOUs were signed between Sunway University and three Hungarian Universities, paving the way for educational cooperation in the fields of sustainable development, business, cross cultural communication, research and exchanges.
Pictured here is the University of Debrecen MOU signing with Sunway University represented by Professor Stephen J Hall, Dean, School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor Tamas Kiss, Centre for English Language Studies. The signing at University of Debrecen, which has its roots in 1538, was witnessed by the Malaysian Ambassador to Hungary, Francisco Munis... › |
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"The Brief Introduction to Hungary and Hungarians" Forum |
Recently, we were privileged to have Hungary’s Ambassador to Malaysia, Her Excellency Dr Petra Ponevács-Pana at a forum, "The Brief Introduction to Hungary and Hungarians", where she shared her insights about scholarships the Hungarian government offers for Malaysian students in the framework of the Stipendium Hungaricum scheme.
This forum marked our first milestone of upcoming collaborations with three Hungarian universities, University Of Debrecen, Miskolci Egyetem (University of Miskolc), and University of Nyíregyháza. In efforts to broaden our collaboration with European universities, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed with these three Hungarian universities to enable research and teaching collaborations, staff and student exchange in the next three years... › |
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Professor Dr Chia Yook Chin Awarded ISH Honour for Senior Women Researchers 2022 |
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Professor Dr Chia Yook Chin was recently awarded ISH Honour for Senior Women Researchers 2022 for her outstanding service to the ISH and her exceptionally distinguished contributions to experimental and clinical research in hypertension. This award was given only to three senior women researchers worldwide and Professor Chia was one of them... › |
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Dr Mayco Santaella Awarded the 2022 Jeffrey Cheah Scholars-in Residence Fellowship |
Congratulations to Dr Mayco Santaella, Associate Professor at the Department of Film & Performing Arts and Associate Dean (International) for the School of Arts, who was awarded the 2022 Jeffrey Cheah Scholars-in Residence Fellowship.
He is presented with the opportunity to spend four weeks at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. During his residency in the UK, he will visit other partner institutions including Lancaster University and discuss arrangements for a planned summer school and International Arts Festival that will take place in 2023 at Sunway University... › |
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Love of My Life (LOML) Campaign |
The Department of Psychology, in partnership with Sunway University Press, Peer Counselling Volunteers and Sunway Psychology Club organised their third Break Up Exhibition public event at Sunway University.
The event was inspired by the Museum of Broken Relationship in Zagreb, Croatia. The aim of the exhibition was to normalise break ups, grief, separations and the emotional pain associated with them. This exhibition hoped to impress onto people that they are not alone in their journey of recovering from separations. The event also hoped to empower individuals to move on in their lives through the sharing of anonymous stories of survival from breakups and other separations... › |
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MyWASSH Public Forum: Salt & Hypertension |
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The Public Forum was part of the MyWASSH Public Health Education event held in conjunction with Sunway University Campus with a Conscience Festival Week to celebrate the 17th Anniversary of the United Nations Local Action for Global Goals. The objective of the event was to reach out to the public and create awareness of the importance of salt intake in relation to hypertension which is one of the main contributors to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events worldwide. It’s also in line with SDG Goal 3 – Good Health and Well-Being... › |
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Sunway iLab’s 2022 Make It Challenge – Best Innovation Award Winner |
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Let's give a round of applause to our Doctor of Philosophy in Sustainability Science and Technology (PSST) students for winning the Inaugural Best Innovation Award 2022 at this year's Sunway iLabs Make It Challenge. TEAM ENERGY came up with an economical solution to mitigate the thermal comfort of building during the summer and winter seasons using Phase Change Materials (PCMs). They also won RM 2,000 cash prize and a wildcard entry for the upcoming LaunchX Startup Incubation Programme that helps commercialise the idea into a real start up... › |
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Winning the Best Oral Presentation at ICEMT 2022 |
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A big shout out to Elaine Yong, FHEA for being awarded the "Best Oral Presentation" in the 6th International Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology (ICEMT), which was held virtually. The title of her presentation was "Influences of Academic Self-Efficacy, Academic Procrastination and Digital Literacy for Online Learning"... › |
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Sunway Future Nurses Club (SFNC) Community Service 2022 |
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The SFNC Community Service 2022, organized by Sunway Future Nurses Club (SFNC), was held on the 1st & 2nd of October 2022 (Saturday & Sunday), at AgeCare Elderly Home. It was attended by 7 student nurses from different groups and 7 Committee Members of SFNC. The event took 7.5 hours per day... › |
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The Events Team at Sunway University to Represent Malaysia and Compete at the Asia Level |
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Congratulations to the team comprising four BSc (Hons) Conventions and Events Management students: Moh Jing Yi, Boo Su Ting, Lee Lit Thung and Jackson Lim from the School of Hospitality and Service Management at Sunway University who will be representing Malaysia at the AFECA Asia MICE Youth Challenge 2022. The team is coached by Ms Hairani M Nur, Senior Teaching Fellow... › |
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