News Report
Some 162 students from vocational schools across Java have participated in the engineering skills competition held at UGM Vocational School from 24-25 February 2015. There are five categories to be competed: CADD, metrology, automotive, Computer Numerical Control programming, and pneumatic.
Japanese Government through the Association of Japanese Institutes of Technology has offered scholarships for graduates from Vocational Schools to study applied sciences at undergraduate level in Japan.
JAKARTA – President Joko Widodo has been requested to draw a lesson from the recent political turmoil occuring in the country.
Faculty of Dentistry UGM from 13 – 14 February 2015 conducted a community service in Kebumen, Central Java, to support the government in giving quality oral and dental health services through promotive, preventive, and curative methods.
YOGYAKARTA – Indonesian Foreign Minister, Retno L.P. Marsudi, said the number of Indonesian nationals living abroad totals to 2.7 millions.
UGM has launched a bike patrol service recently. According to Vice Rector for Human Resource and Assets, Prof. Dr.
Rector of UGM, Profesor. Ir. Dwikorita Karnawati, M.Sc., Ph.D, has been one of keynote speakers in the Global Education Dialogue (GED) hosted by the British Council in New Delhi, India, from 10-11 February 2015.
YOGYAKARTA – As many as 20 deans from South East Asian universities join a dean’s course programme for university governance facilitated by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) at Universitas Gadjah Mada on Tuesday (10/2).
UGM students no longer have to feel restricted if they wish to borrow references from libraries other than those in their respective faculties.
Faculty of Medicine UGM has called on members of the public to keep alerted against the dengue fever.
YOGYAKARTA – Researchers from Universitas Gadjah Mada and Ritsumeikan University Japan have collaborated on disaster information management system that targets tourist destination areas, namely Parangtritis and Kotagede in Yogyakarta and Borobudur Temple in Central Jawa.
YOGYAKARTA – Hundreds of academicians from Yogyakarta have urged President Joko Widodo to stick to the commitment in corruption eradication as mandated by the Constitution and the Reform spirit.
YOGYAKARTA – Universitas Gadjah Mada sends two forensic odontology experts – . Prof. Dr.
Demands arise in joint replacement due to osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
To produce the mapping of the landslide that occured in Banjarnegara recently, the Geodesy department of UGM has utilised an unmanned aereal vehicle (UAV).
To mark the 65th UGM anniversary, UGM runs an event for blood donors to have their blood taken.
YOGYAKARTA – Education and human resource are complementing each other.
YOGYAKARTA – Lecturer in Engineering Physics of UGM, Prof Sunarno, has produced an early warning system for landslides that is user friendly.
YOGYAKARTA – Researchers from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) conducted a research in nanotechnology engineering.
YOGYAKARTA – Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Prof. Ir. Dwikorita Karnawati, M.Sc., Ph.D., regretted the act of terror perpetrated on some 20 students who were watching the Senyap movie by Joshua Oppenheimer which was being screened in Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at UGM on Wednesday, 17 December 2014.
YOGYAKARTA – One main problem facing Indonesia ahead of the ASEAN Economic Community is human resource competitiveness.
Universitas Gadjah Mada Alumni Association (KAGAMA) will soon submit its programme to President Joko Widodo related to food, energy, IT, socio-political, cultural issues, etc.
YOGYAKARTA – The Universitas Gadjah Mada Centre for Energy Studies has pioneered the production of biodiesel from cooking oil waste.
YOGYAKARTA – Environmentalist from UGM, Dr. Tjut Sugandawaty Djohan, has urged Forestry Minister to stop forest conversion that makes way for palm oil industry by extending the palm oil moratorium in order to protect Indonesia’s rainforests that are now measuring to only some 33 percent or 43 millions of hectares of all Indonesia’s forests.
UGM has received scholarship funds from Lippo Group that are aimed for underpriviledged students.
YOGYAKARTA – President of the Republic of Indonesia, Ir. Joko Widodo, or popularly called Jokowi, said there are four crucial issues that need addressesing immediately.
YOGYAKARTA – Eliminate Dengue Project (EDP) team of researchers from Universitas Gadjah Mada have officially released thousands of eggs of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that have Wolbachia bacteria to villages in Bantul regency, namely Singosaren 3 and Jomblangan.
Universitas Gadjah Mada students joining the NextIn Indonesia group have presented the LexiPal application to some education and health agencies.
Indonesia has the largest geothermal reserves in the world amounting up to 28.617 Megawatts or 40% of the total world reserves.
YOGYAKARTA –UGM Rector, Prof. Ir. Dwikorita Karnawati, M.Sc., Ph.D., has proposed disaster risk reduction and mitigation to the government as one of development programmes for year 2015, bearing in mind that Indonesia lies in the tectonic plate.