KHAMIS, 16 OGOS - Seramai 25 pelajar Wuyi University China kini mengikuti kursus profesional "Artificial Intelligence (Fuzzy Logic) Optimization Engineering" di Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

Kursus kejuruteraan selama 16 hari itu dikendalikan oleh Fakulti Kejuruteraan (FKJ) UMS.

Menurut Timbalan Dekan (Akademik dan Antarabangsa) FKJ, Ismail Saad, adalah menjadi suatu kebanggaan untuk menganjurkan kursus yang disertai oleh pelajar dari luar negara.

“Ia merupakan hasil hubungan baik kerjasama yang telah terjalin antara UMS dan Wuyi University sekali gus menjadi medan perkongsian ilmu untuk manfaat kedua-dua universiti.

“Kita mengharapkan agar lebih banyak program-program seperti ini pada masa-masa akan datang termasuk kerjasama dalam bidang penyelidikan dan pengajian peringkat pascasiswazah,” katanya.

Ismail berucap berkata demikian dalam satu majlis di FKJ bagi mengalu-alukan kehadiran kesemua pelajar universiti berkenaan.

Kursus yang diadakan sehingga 24 Ogos itu turut memberi ruang kepada para pelajar Wuyi University untuk mengenali negeri Sabah dengan lebih dekat melalui beberapa lawatan ke destinasi menarik yang terdapat di negeri ini.

Hadir sama pada program itu Pengarah Pusat Pengantarabangsaan dan Penglibatan Global UMS, Prof. Dr. Ho Chong Mun.

THURSDAY, 16 AUGUST - A delegation from Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), led by the Vice Chancellor Prof. Datuk Dr. D Kamarudin D Mudin recently visited Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences (HAS) in Harbin, China.

Discussion were held with Prof. Guo Chunjing, President of HAS, and other senior officials of the academy, as well as with key researchers from Institute of Microbiology, a comprehensive research institute under HAS.

Academic and research collaboration between UMS and HAS have been established since 2012, and both institution are strongly committed to further enhance this collaboration for the next five years.

Among the focus areas are research and cultivation of edible mushrooms, research on soil and crop improvement using microbes and organic amendments, research on functional food, and student and staff mobility.

A new initiative to be pursued in this collaboration is smart partnership with the industries.

Among the delegation from UMS during this visit is Datuk Yap Yun Fook who is an adjunct professor of UMS as well as a prominent agriculture entrepreneur in Sabah.

RABU, 15 OGOS – Jabatan Bendahari Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) dengan kerjasama Bahagian Sumber Manusia, Jabatan Pendaftar UMS telah mengadakan Kursus Lanjutan ‘Malaysian Public Sector Accounting Standard’ (MPSAS) sebagai usaha memperkukuhkan lagi pemahaman terhadap MPSAS yang merupakan piawaian perakaunan untuk entiti perakaunan sektor awam di Malaysia.

Bendahari UMS, Zallifah Shadan berkata, kursus ini merupakan lanjutan kepada kursus pengenalan MPSAS yang telah diadakan di UMS pada Julai tahun lalu.

“Selain daripada kakitangan UMS, kursus pada kali ini juga mendapat penyertaan daripada beberapa universiti awam dan agensi kerajaan antaranya Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Lembaga Pelancongan Sabah, Lembaga Kemajuan Perhutanan Negeri Sabah, Lembaga Kebudayaan Negeri Sabah, Lembaga Sukan Sabah, Lembaga Pembangunan dan Perumahan Bandar, serta Dewan Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu.

“Kita berasa amat bertuah kerana kursus ini dikendalikan oleh Ramesh Ruben Louis, seorang perancang kewangan bertauliah yang berpengalaman luas dalam mengendalikan kursus dan latihan perakaunan, pengauditan serta pengurusan risiko dengan pelbagai syarikat atau agensi kerajaan dalam pelbagai industri seperti perladangan, pembangunan hartanah, perkapalan, perdagangan, teknologi maklumat dan sebagainya," katanya ketika menyampaikan ucapan alu-aluan sempena program tersebut di Grand Borneo Hotel, 1Borneo kelmarin.

Justeru katanya, diharapkan kursus ini dapat membantu para peserta untuk lebih memahami tentang pemakaian MPSAS sebagai rangka kerja pelaporan kewangan serta mengaplikasikan ilmu pengetahuan yang dipelajari di organisasi masing-masing.

Kursus yang dihadiri lebih 100 peserta itu antara lain bertujuan untuk membantu peserta mengenal pasti impak pelaksanaan MPSAS dalam operasi kewangan harian serta membantu dalam penyediaan penyata kewangan yang mematuhi MPSAS di organisasi masing-masing.

Kursus tersebut yang berlangsung selama tiga hari membincangkan tentang perakaunan untuk aset, perakaunan untuk belanja dan liabiliti, perakaunan untuk instrumen kewangan, perakaunan untuk hasil dan pelaporan penyata kewangan.

TUESDAY, 14 AUGUST - An endangered juvenile green turtle has been found dead on the beach near Universiti Malaysia Sabah, here on Sunday night.

According to Associate Professor Dr. Juanita Joseph, the carcass of the 65-centimeter long green turtle was found on the beach near the Borneo Marine Research Institute, UMS at 10.35pm Sunday night and was immediately reported to the Sabah Wildlife Department.

“We suspect that the turtle has been killed after being hit by a boat propeller and this can be seen from the crack on the carapace and injury on its head.

“However, we are still waiting for the official post-mortem result from the Sabah Wildlife Department,” she said.

Classified as endangered, green turtle; scientifically known as Chelonia Mydas is the largest hard-shelled sea turtle in the world.

Based on the statistics from the Department of Marine Park Malaysia, the population of sea turtles worldwide has dropped significantly by 90 percent over the past half century.

“Green turtles are threatened by poaching of their eggs and loss of their nesting beach sites. They are also being caught in fishing gear and harvested from their foraging grounds around Sabah waters by foreign fisherman.

“On top of that, marine debris such as plastics is killing our sea turtles because it is often perceived as food,” she said.

Under the Sabah’s Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997 Section 1 Schedule 1, green turtle is a totally protected species. Individuals who are found guilty of killing/taking/selling/buying/be in possession the species including eggs and its parts, can face imprisonment of up to 5 years or fine of up to RM250,000.

For the record, UMS initiated research on sea turtles in Sabah in 1998, including research on green and hawksbill turtles in Pulau Mabul. A total of 207 green turtles and 21 hawksbill turtles have been tagged since the research began in August 2010.

Source: IPMB