Bengkel Climate Change di Taiwan

12-21 November 2009 (Tainan, Taiwan): Dr. Ramzah Dambul telah menghadiri satu bengkel pembangunan kapasiti untuk bidang penyelidikan impak perubahan iklim anjuran START (The Global Change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training). Program yang dikenali sebagai Advanced Training Workshop on Southeast Asia Regional Climate Change and Health Issues telah berlangsung di Zenda Suites (sebuah premis seminar milik National Cheng Kung University). Seramai 20 saintis dari

Kadazandusun Chair goes International

AP Dr. Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan (Kadazandusun Chair)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, holder of the UMS Kadazandusun Chair, was recently appointed Adjunct Research Fellow in Anthropology, from the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia. This is an honorary annual appointment.

According to the Monash University Council, adjunct appointments have been established as

Kejayaan Berganda

Dr. Bilcher Bala (Program Sejarah)

Tahniah diucapkan kepada Dr. Bilcher Bala (Program Sejarah) yang baru-baru mendapat dua kejayaan berganda. Pertama, kejayaan memperoleh ijazah kedoktoran daripada Universiti Malaya. Kedua, kejayaan mendapat dana FRGS bernilai RM40,000.00 bagi kajian bertajuk “Sejarah Masyarakat Lundayeh: Kajian Mengenai Asal-Usul, Migrasi dan Petempatan di Daerah Sipitang, 1945-2000″. Kejayaan Dr. Bilcher Bala ini sekaligus mencipta rekod unik

KADAZANDUSUN CHAIR REPRESENTS UMS AT ICTM 40TH WORLD CONFERENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

1 – 8 July 2009 (South Africa): Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, who holds the UMS Kadazandusun Chair, recently presented some of her ethnomusicological research on the ritual world of the Lotud Dusun of Tuaran, Sabah, at the ICTM 40th World Conference in South Africa.

ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) is one of the major world bodies dealing with research in Ethnomusicology.

Salam Idul Adha 2009

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