ABBVIE YOUNG LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP 2016
More than 10 students from the School of Pharmacy
were recognised for their outstanding academic
performances, and applauded for their well deserved
achievements by Abbvie Malaysia. The top three final
year students were also given internship opportunities
with the organisation.
RECOGNISING MEDICAL ACADEMICS
Dr Satoshi Ogawa and Dr Priyia Pusparajah from
the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences
were both awarded the MSPP Young Investigator Award
2016 and the MSPP Teacher's Prize in Physiology
respectively, at the 30th Scientific Meeting of Malaysian
Society of Pharmacology and Physiology 2016.
MAYBANK GOAhead CHALLENGE
William Teo and Dedi Lee from the School of Business, and
Neil Liew, from the School of Arts and Social Sciences
were among the 60 finalists selected to compete at
the Grand Finals of the Maybank GOAhead Challenge.
Teo, a final year student at the School of Business emerged
Global Champion which saw him sharing a prize pool of
USD40,000 with his teammates from China and
Singapore, as well as a conditional offer for the Global
Maybank Apprentice Program.
MONASH ASIAN TRANSLATION CONFERENCE
Monash University Malaysia was the host of The 7th Asian
Translation Traditions Conference, with the theme ‘Shifting
Powers: The Ethics of Translation in a Transforming Asia’.
The conference was organised by the Monash Asia
Institute and the School of Languages, Literatures,
Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University Australia
together with University Kebangsaan Malaysia.
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