Universitas Gadjah Mada participated in the SEARCA University Consortium (UC) Faculty Forum held at Los Banos, Philippines on July 23-25 ​​2019.

The event was the first forum held by SEARCA and the University of the Philippines Los Banos as the host. This forum is a follow-up meeting of one of the points produced in the 31^st SEARCA Executive Board Meeting which took place at UGM on November 13-14, 2018.

The activity was attended by around 90 people from various world universities which are SEARCA members. Raising the theme “Responding to the Challanges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, this activity became an arena for exchanging research ideas and building cooperation strategies for members of SEARCA University Consortium. read more

Universitas Gadjah Mada and Maejo University, Thailand, have signed an agreement to enhance education and research.

Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding was done by Rector of UGM, Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng., Ph.D., and Acting President of Maejo University, Associate Professor Dr. Weerapon Thongma, at UGM on Tuesday (23/7). The agreement covers exchange of student, staff, and lecturer, as well as collaboration in staff development and research.

Weerapon Thongma said the agreement signing was to extend and expand the collaboration already in place with UGM. read more

As many as 26 students from 8 countries attended the 4th Summer Course Program: Integrated Food Security in ASEAN at Faculty of Animal Science UGM from 22-31 July 2019.

Students from Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Timor Leste, and Ethiopia will learn along with Indonesian students about food security in ASEAN.

Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Agus, DAA., DEA., said the summer course was expected to be a forum for these students to exchange views and experience particularly in farming. This was important to do remembering the current world condition related to food security. read more

Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) UGM inaugurated 67 animal industry engineers on Tuesday (9/7) at the Grha Sabha Pramana UGM. This is the first inauguration in 2019.

“Congratulations to all the inauguration participants. The animal industry engineers handle living things called bio-engineering, and this is needed for the advancement of livestock development. In working, animal industry engineers need a synergy with engineers in other fields,” said the Dean of FAS UGM who is also the head of FAS UGM Technical Vocational Board, Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Agus, DAA., DEA., IPU when giving a remark at the inauguration ceremony at the Drh. R. Soepardjo Auditorium of FAS UGM. read more

Mountaineering Club of Faculty of Animal Science (FAS) UGM, Caravan Mountaineering Club, held Seminar on Orang Utan Conservation entitled Where’s My Home: My home destroyed, your world destroyed, on Saturday (5/25) at the Auditorium of drh. R. Soepardjo FAS UGM.

“This event is held to find out the role of the community in conserving orangutans and to equalize perceptions of knowledge about orangutan conservation. In addition, this event is also expected to increase the spirit of caring for biodiversity conservation, especially orangutans,” said Ranny Rahayu as the head of the committee. read more