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Award-Winning Research from Sunway University Provides Access to Clean Water in Remote Areas

The IChemE Water category award recognizes the best project or process to demonstrate engineering excellence in water use, clean-up, and re-use, with particular emphasis on reducing environmental impact while preserving commercial viability. The project, which was carried out in collaboration with…

Computing Students Selected to MMSA 2020 Program

Bachelor of Science (Honours) Information Systems (Business Analytics) students, Chan Wei Chee, Chan Wei Wei…

The Hidden Wealth of Neglected and Underutilised Crops

Malaysia is known throughout the world as a country rich with unique flora and fauna, and signature culinary arts. But for the urban Malaysian population, access to this cultural diversity has narrowed as a result of the easing of access to food containing high amounts of energy, fats, and sugar.…

Preparing for Advanced AI, Safely

Recent progress in advanced information technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are all very exciting and point to a new world in which life and work should become easier in the future. Cars that drive and park themselves, robots that perform surgery better than humans, and…

It is Time for Business Schools to Practise What They Preach

The world of higher education is changing. Several trends are emerging and converging that will have an impact on the future of business education. One trend of shifting the power from higher education providers to the student means that students have an increasing expectation for mass…

Housing Affordability A Concern for M40 and B40 Groups

Residential property prices in Malaysia have been rising in recent years. A report published by the National Property Information Centre (NAPIC) indicated that the residential price index was at an all-time high in 2017 and is expected to continue to rise.

How To Drag Ourselves Into The 21st Century

When I was a young lad working as a management trainee, I came across a department called Organisation and Methods (O…

Education with Values

I have been working at Sunway University for over three years. I came to help build pro¬vision in the arts, specifically, as head of a department with courses in film, music and theatre. Since then, that department has grown from a handful of students to nearly 300 and I have taken up a new role as…

Creativity - The Secret of Business Success

Universities now turn out thousands of graduates every year who yearn to build successful careers for themselves. Some aspire to be successful entrepreneurs building their own enterprises, which is very much to be applauded as necessary for economic growth. But no matter how much training and…

What If Customers Are Not Always Right?

What disgruntled customers want are reasonable answers to their concerns. With the growth in e-Feedback platforms (e.g. Google review, Facebook Business Review, TripAdvisor and Booking.com) and e-Feedback apps (Mopinion, Apptentive, AppStark and Doorbell), customer relationship management should be…

Ways to Improve Innovation Success Rates in Universities

March 12, 2019 marked my first anniversary of working at a university. Firmly planted in a “grow fast or die slow” commercial world, I had never considered a university as a possible workplace. While pursuing my passion for thinking ahead and putting trend-setting ideas into action, I was dubious…

Sustainability in the Age of Disruption

In a recent interview, James Manyika from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) asked Thomas L Friedman, the New York Times journalist and writer, about climate change. In a candid yet gutsy manner, Friedman admitted that he could do nothing about climate change but to try to “manage the unavoidable…