MONDAY, 24 NOVEMBER – A total of eight graduates received the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) highest awards in conjunction with UMS 16^th Convocation Ceremony which ended this morning.

For the Royal Academic Award, Bumiputera Category, the recipient was a student of Industrial and Organisational Psychology Programme, Faculty of Psychology and Education (FPP), Muhammad Yusuf Mohd Sobery.

The same category but for Non-Bumiputera went to Kimberly Yap Chun Ying, a student of International Business Programme, Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy.

The Chancellor’s Gold Medal was awarded to a student from the Industrial and Organisational Psychology Programme, FPP, Azliza Sanimin, whilst Yeo Sze Kai from the same faculty major in Education with TESL Programme was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Gold Medal Award.

Alumni Gold Medal Award was accorded to Phang Siew Thing of the Chemical Industry Programme, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources.

Also awarded at UMS Convocation ceremony this year was the Tun Zaki Tun Azmi Award which was divided into two categories, Postgraduate and Undergraduate.

For the Postgraduate category, prizes were awarded to Raymond Alfred @ Jenry from the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, who graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ecological Processes).

As for the Undergraduate category, it was awarded to a student under the Doctor of Medicine Programme, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Lim Hai Yuen.

The final award named Zainal Abidin Bador Prize belonged to Junia Anilik, a student of Biology Conservation Programme, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources. – SS (fl)


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