Faculty of Biology Universitas Gadjah Mada celebrated its 62nd birthday on September 19, 2017. Several events were held to celebrate the anniversary, including ceremony and scientific speech, gathering, alumni meeting, as well as house visit to the retired lecturers and staff. The house visit is an annual agenda held by Faculty of Biolog ...
The dry season in Indonesia in the recent months has impacted the society. The Meteorology Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicted the condition will continue until end of September, while rain season will occur in October and November. According to Dr. Ing. Ir. Agus Maryono, Civil Engineering lecturer at UGM, said drought ca ...
Tourism of today has developed into alternative tourism that pays more attention to quota, education, social-economic and environmentally friendly characteristics. This also touched on animal husbandry sector. But challenges are still encountered in this type of tourism, such as rights, veterinary welfare, social conflict, and environmental degr ...
Universitas Gadjah Mada’s Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (PSSAT) in cooperation with Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM held a discussion on a book titled Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian, which is opinion of scientists in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Germany who focus on Southeast Asia studies. ...
Veterinary authorities have a significant role in highest decision making related to veterinary health. Such authorities, however, have yet to materialise that will specifically make regulations. This has caused ineffective handling of zoonosis. “As high as 67 percent of human diseases are caused by animal diseases (zoonosis). So, ...
The increasing activities run by Faculty of Economics and Business UGM to conduct education, research, and community service have raised awareness that external parties engagement is needed to help the Faculty become the best economics and business education institution. Thus, collaboration with other parties absolutely needs to be done. Since J ...
Indonesia is a tropical country with rich biodiversities with the supplies of microorganism resource which is one of the largest in the world. Experts estimated there are millions of bacteria, but just 5-10 percent have been identified. Microbiologist from UGM, Prof. Agnes Sutariningsih Soetarto, M.Sc., Ph.D., said microorganism diversit ...
Centre for Environment Studies (PSLH) of Universitas Gadjah Mada has given training on waste disposal in Wediombo, Gunungkidul regency. It ran from 16-17 September 2017. The training was part of community service projects by the centre to raise awareness on the importance of sustainable tourism management. “In this event we ...
Strategies for the development of Papua and West Papua cannot solely rely on Special Autonomy’s funding. On the other hand, infrastructure and human resource development through education need to be encouraged, too, due to the low level quality of education, limited educators as well as the wide spread of population and transportation acce ...
Indonesia lies in the volcanic ring which is vulnerable to geological disaster. With such condition, the role of geologists is key to infrastucture development, which became the priority of President Joko Widodo . "Such condition is not a barrier, but a challenge that has to be resolved by geologists or earth science practitioners,&rdquo ...
