Sunway University sent 154 athletes to take part in 18 sports for the fifth edition of SUKIPT this year. SUKIPT is Malaysia’s largest University sports competition and the 2018 edition has got 80 institutions and more than 6,000 athletes took part. Contingents came from public universities, private universities, Polytechnics, Community Colleges and, 4 overseas universities from Thailand, Singapore, India and Indonesia.

Sunway University’s School of Science and Technology (SST) recently played host to the Directors of two major United States research funding bodies. Dr Patricia Gruber, who is the Technical Director of the Office of Navy Research Global (ONRG) and Dr Kristopher Ahlers, the Director of the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD), spent a day listening to presentations from SST researchers and taking guided tours of three of the SST laboratories.

Sunway University MSc in Life Sciences student Shobana Gabriel Jabanathan was awarded the “Best Research Poster Award” for her research entitled “Development of Molecular Methods for Rapid Detection of Brain-eating Amoebae” at the 2nd International Conference for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (ICMBB) 2017.

Professor Nigel Marsh from Sunway University’s Department of Psychology recently gave an invited