CIMB Book Prize Chinese Government Scholarship
Three Banking and Finance students – Vivi Setiawaty, Lai Wanqing and
Andrew Lim Ken Wern – were awarded the Commerce International
Merchant Bankers (CIMB) Book Prize which included cash prizes and
an internship at the bank. CIMB Malaysia awards high-achieving
students from the School of Business annually. Lee Chee Leong from the School of Arts and Social Sciences was
awarded the coveted Chinese Government Scholarship (Bilateral
Program-Malaysia), which gave him the opportunity to conduct
fieldwork for nine months in Nanning city, Guangxi. Lee was also
admitted as Visiting Senior Scholar at the Guangxi University for
Nationalities.
Canadian Undergraduate Research Award
Abbvie Young Leaders Award
More than 10 students from the School of Pharmacy were recognised
for their outstanding academic performances by Abbvie Malaysia. The
top three final-year students were given cash prizes and an internship
with the organisation. Monash and Abbvie have been in partnership
since 2012 to provide education grants and awards to deserving
students.
Third-year Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering student
Vinodh Rajagopal Muthu received a competitive Undergraduate
Research Award from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the
University of Waterloo in Canada. The award gave him the opportunity
to spend the summer at Waterloo’s Nano-Photonics and Quantum
Optics Lab led by Professor Michal Bajcsy.
Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) Prize
Science student detects error in genomic
classification
Final-year student Phuong N. Tran from the School of Science and
her team of researchers detected a species misidentification and new
genospecies within the genus Pseudomonas. Pseudomonas has one
of the largest diversity of species within the bacteria kingdom, and its
reclassification will assist future comparative genomics analysis
studies. Her research was published in Frontiers in Microbiology, a Q1
high-impact microbiology journal.
Awarded to the highest achieving Bachelor of Medical Science
(Honours) student across all cohorts in Clayton and Malaysia each
calendar year, 2017's prize went to Victoria Tan Phooi Kei who bested
113 fellow students. She was supervised by Professor Ishwar Parhar
and Dr Shogo Moriya for her project titled 'Investigati on of Molecular
Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease'.
CPA Australia & BDO Book Prize Award
School of Business students Teh Ju Li, Yoong Su Li and Yeoh Hui Jin
were recognised for their academic excellence by Certified Public
Accountant (CPA) Australia and Binder Dijker & Otte Co (BDO)
Malaysia. All were presented with certificates and cash prizes.
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