{"id":7568,"date":"2012-08-14T02:31:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=7568"},"modified":"2015-05-13T02:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:36:45","slug":"15-permatapintar-students-accepted-for-studies-in-known-us-varsities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/august-2012\/15-permatapintar-students-accepted-for-studies-in-known-us-varsities\/","title":{"rendered":"15 PERMATApintar Students Accepted For Studies In Known US Varsities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2012%2Faugust-2012%2F15-permatapintar-students-accepted-for-studies-in-known-us-varsities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=7568&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">TUESDAY, 14 AUGUST 2012 00:00 <\/span><span class=\"createby\">ADMINISTRATOR<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong class=\"border\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/KunjunganPERMATApintar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong class=\"border\">By Abd Razak Hussin<br \/>\nPix Izwan Azman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 14 Aug 2012 \u2013 Fifteen students from the PERMATApintar Centre of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) have been accepted to continue their studies in a number of known American universities in the subjects of their choice that are needed by the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All the 17 year olds will do their first degree programme this year with some having left from Aug 9 with the last batch leaving on Sept 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThey are:<br \/>\nCrystal Iskandar and Elena Zafrul who will take up Mathematics at the University of Iowa,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee Yan Joe doing Biology at Brown University,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nor Qhadijah Rohayati, Nur Elena Mat Nayan, Chan Jia Huei, Timothy Ho Zhen Wei and G. Ashwin A. Ganesh studying Biology and Physics at Rutgers University New Brunswick,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amirul Fitri Zainol Abidin at John Hopkins University doing Mathematics,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevinraj Naggan Sukumar studying Physics and Khoo Jia Hui in Biology at the University of Wisconsin,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vishal Kalyani Mukudan, Kong Yek Ching and Kuhan Muniam in Biologi at the University of California Los Angeles, and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nur Syazana Natasha Hisham taking up Chemistry at the University of California Davis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/KunjunganPERMATApintar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/KunjunganPERMATApintar3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAll of them have been awarded the Higher Education Ministry MyBrainSc Programme scholarships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They secured their places after obtaining excellent results in the TOEFL examination and the Scolastic Assessment Test 1 (SAT 1).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A number of those still in the country paid a courtesy call on the UKM Vice Chancellor, Prof Tan Sri Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin at her office here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Sharifah Hapsah congratulated them on their achievements saying that the country and Malaysians have high hopes on their success and advised them to always carry the good name of the nation.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/KunjunganPERMATApintar5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/KunjunganPERMATApintar4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 14 AUGUST 2012 00:00 ADMINISTRATOR By Abd Razak Hussin Pix Izwan Azman BANGI, 14 Aug 2012 \u2013 Fifteen students<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/august-2012\/15-permatapintar-students-accepted-for-studies-in-known-us-varsities\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7570,"parent":1284,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7568","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7573,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568\/revisions\/7573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}