Saturday May 21, 2011
Unimas aims to become research university by 2015
By JACK WONGjackwong@thestar.com.my
KUCHING: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) has set 2015 as its target to become a research university.
Vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Khairuddin Abdul Hamid said Unimas had streamlined its research and development capacity and human resource development in niche areas relevant to the country’s Vision 2020 to become a developed nation.
“We are working very hard towards achieving the vision of becoming a research university,” he said at the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Unimas and South Korea’s Man & Tel Co Ltd at its new campus near here yesterday.
Unimas is the country’s eighth public university and the first to be established after Vision 2020 was unveiled.
Dr Khairuddin said Unimas now had eight centres of excellence with the latest on disability set up recently.
He said the new centre would help needy Malaysians with disabilities.
The other centres of excellence are on rural information, malaria research, water research, image analysis and spatial technology, renewable energy, semantic technology and augmented reality and sago research.
Dr Khairuddin said Unimas had set up two new research institutes – Institute of Design and Innovation (Indi) and Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovation (Isiti).
Indi is attached to the Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts while Isiti comes under the Faculty of Computer Science and IT.
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