General
8 XMUM Faculty Members Receive 2020 MOHE Research Fund
Eight faculty members from Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) received Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) 2020 awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, with a total allocated amount of RM 833,366.The recipients are from School of Economics & Management, School of Energy & Chemical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Mathematics.
School of Energy and Chemical Engineering
Dr. Tan Swee Tiam Named Expert Returnee by TalentCorp Malaysia
The Research Management Center congratulates Associate Professor Dr. Tan Swee Tiam from School of Energy and Chemical Engineering for being named an Expert Returnee under the Returning Expert Programme (REP) by Talent Corporation Malaysia (TalentCorp).
Master of Business Administration
XMUM MBA Programme Gains Full Accreditation from MQA
The MBA Programme of Xiamen has gained full accreditation from Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) after a 2-day visit from 8 to 9 October 2020.Two expert panellists - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdul Kadir Othman (UITM) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maniam Kaliannan (University of Nottingham Malaysia) - as well as MQA’s officer Ms. Nurul Najmi Alias, carefully examined seven areas of the programme and spoke highly of its development.
School of Energy and Chemical Engineering
Dr. Ong Wee Jun Named as Young Chemists 2020 by Chemistry–A European Journal
The Research Management Center congratulates Associate Professor Dr. Ong Wee Jun from XMUM School of Energy and Chemical Engineering on his recent accomplishment of being highlighted and featured in the 2020 Young Chemists of Chemistry – A European Journal, a prestigious journal under Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe with a latest impact factor of 4.857. The Young Chemists 2020 Special Collection features young and emerging scientists from around the world.
Department of Chinese Studies
Prof. Wang Xiaomei Publishes in Leading SSCI Journal on Malaysia’s Tianjin Community
The Research Management Center congratulates Prof. Wang Xiaomei, Head of Chinese Studies, on her recent publication entitled ‘The restructuring of a speech community on a foreign land: The Tianjiners in Sabah, Malaysia’ in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development on 14 October 2020.
School of Energy and Chemical Engineering
XMUM Undergraduate Co-authors Research Article in SCI Tier-1 Journal
The Research Management Center congratulates Chen Weichen, an undergraduate student from XMUM New Energy Science and Engineering (NESE) programme on co-authoring a paper entitled “Electrospinning-Based Strategies for Battery Materials” on 24 June 2020 in Advanced Energy Materials, a peer-reviewed SCI Tier-1 journal with an impact factor of 25.25. The paper is a collaboration with researchers from Fujian Normal University, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Sydney.
