Bengkel Resolusi Melayu & Gejala Rasuah

March 12, 2009 I was among 60 people invited to attend a brainstorming and think tank session organized by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed’s Yayasan Kepimpinan Perdana in Putrajaya and in association with Kumpulan Melayu Serdang

Alumni Fakulti Sains UPM

Perjumpaan akan datang Alumni Fakulti Sains UPM pada 9 Mei 2009 jam 9.30 pagi di Fakulti Sains, UPM.

Semua guru-guru sains alumni Fakulti Sains UPM yang tinggal 30 km sekitar UPM di jemput hadir.

Taklimat Alumni Fakulti Sains UPM

Satu taklimat khas Alumni Fakulti Sains telah diadakan di Dewan Kuliah Sains pada 9 April 2009. Taklimat itu bertujuan menerangkan kepada pelajar tahun akhir tentang kewujudan alumni Fakulti Sains yang sedang bergerak dan meminta seluruh pelajar tahun akhir menyambung dan bersama dengan aktiviti berkenaan.

Ada beberapa kumpulan alumni Fakulti Sains.

1. Kumpulan guru sekolah

2. Penyelidik di universiti dan institut penyelidikan

3. Pegawai kerajaan dan swasta atau bekerja sendiri.

Masing-masing kumpulan ini boleh menyumbang kepada alumni melalui berbagai cara pendekatan dan aktiviti.

Bagi pelajar tahun ini boleh menubuhkan kumpulan alumni sendiri dengan menamakan Alumni Fakulti Sains tahun 2009 dan berhubung dengan pejabat fakulti. Satu laman sesawang akan dibina khas untuk alumni berkomunikasi dengan fakulti.

Seminar Alumni Biologi UPM

Seminar Alumni Biologi telah selamat dijalankan pada 4 April 2009. Sebanyak 21 kertas kerja telah dibentangkan dan lebih 50 peserta telah hadir. Seminar ini akan diadakan setiap tahun pada bulan Mac bertujuan mengumpulkan alumni Jabatan Biologi yang berkecimpung dalam penyelidikan atau ingin mengikut perkembangan penyelidikan biologi dan memperkasakan penyelidikan berkaitan biologi melalui Fakulti Sains. Seminar dirasmikan oleh Profesor Dr. Sidek Abdul Aziz, Dekan Fakulti Sains. Saya ingin mengucapkan setinggi-tinggi terima kasih atas segala sokongan semua pihak menjayakan seminar ini.

Earth Hour Light Off. Is there any significant?. WE need more Education and Awareness in Malaysia

Lights out: At 8.30pm Saturday night the well-lit Petronas Twin Towers and KL Tower (pictured below) both switched off all their lights (top) to mark the Earth Hour conservation effort. — KEVIN TAN/ The Star

BILLION PEOPLE TAKE PART
The U.N. Climate Panel says rich nations will have to cut their emissions to a level between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 to avoid the worst effects of warming. Developing nations will also have to slow the rise of their emissions by 2020, it says.

Australia first held Earth Hour in 2007 and it went global in 2008, attracting 50 million people, organizers say. WWF, which started the event, is hoping one billion people from nearly 90 countries will take part.

"The primary reason we do it is because we want people to think, even if it is for an hour, what they can do to lower their carbon footprint, and ideally take that beyond the hour," Earth Hour executive director Andy Ridley told reporters at Sydney's Bondi Beach.

In Asia, lights at landmarks in China, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines were dimmed as people celebrated with candle-lit picnics and concerts.

Buildings in Singapore's business district went dark along with major landmarks such as the Singapore Flyer, a giant observation wheel.

Other global landmarks that switched off their lights included the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Reserve Bank in Mumbai, the dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Egypt's Great Pyramids and the Acropolis in Athens.

Climate Change Forum

The British High Commission
in collaboration with the Chevening Alumni of Malaysia
invite you to a

FORUM
on

CLIMATE CHANGE:
From Poznan to Copenhagen

26 MARCH 2009 (THURSDAY), 9.30am

Ballroom, Grand Millennium Hotel, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

As seats are limited, kindly RSVP by 23 March 2009.
Tel: 03 2170 2274; Fax: 03 2170 2325; E-mail: Krisnan.Veeriah@fco.gov.uk
Contact: Krisnan Veeriah

The aims of this forum:
- To build on the momentum created at Poznan by engaging with a broad base of stakeholders and communicating to them what transpired there and what it means to the global community, including Malaysia.
- To discuss what would make a satisfactory conclusion at Copenhagen, what needs to be done to achieve it and possible challenges ahead.

The forum will be designed to communicate the key decisions made in Poznan and assess its progress, highlight the path towards Copenhagen and the challenges that lie ahead, and examine what these mean for all.

Target audience
Broad bases of stakeholders including those in government, academia, non-governmental organisations, including think tanks, business and industry, and the media.


PROGRAMME
9.30 am - Registration of participants, coffee break

10.25 am - Welcome speech by Acting British High Commissioner, Mr Patrick Moody
10.30 am - Introduction of panelists by moderator, Mr Nithi Nesadurai, President, Chevening Alumni of Malaysia

Brief presentations:
Panelist 1: The Climate Change Conference in Poznan and the Road to Copenhagen (Chow Kok Kee, Managing Director, Sustainable Technology Resource Centre Sdn Bhd)

Panelist 2: Climate Change from the UK perspective - Why we need to take action in 2009? (John Pearson, Head of the SE Asia Climate Change Network, FCO)

Panelist 3: The Framework of an Ideal Outcome in Copenhagen and Challenges (Gurmit Singh KS, Chairman, Centre for Environment, Technology and Development Malaysia)
11.30 am – Q&A, Comments
12.30 pm - Wrap-up by moderator12.35 pm – Special presentation on ‘Earth Hour 2009’ by WWF Malaysia

12.45 pm - Lunch

UPM Students participate in Nature Walk and Raptors Watch in Tanjung Tuan 7 and 14 March 2009

Malayan Nature Society and Wildlife Department Melaka organised nature walk, exhibitions and raptors watch to bring people together witness a great nature migrating north for breeding in summer. Thousands of these very important birds were spotted flying from Sumatra across the worlds busy shipping lane, Straits of Malacca to Tanjung Tuan on their way to northern hemisphere.

Students from Faculty of Environmental Studies and Veterinary Medicine participated in the activities. UPM s students should be more agressive in promoting nature awareness and conservation.

Congratulation to those students involved.

Students fron Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Students from Faculty of Environmental Studies