{"id":5378,"date":"2023-12-08T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T02:19:36","slug":"academy-of-sciences-malaysia-gathers-esteemed-senior-fellows-to-tackle-key-issues-and-enhance-national-research-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/academy-of-sciences-malaysia-gathers-esteemed-senior-fellows-to-tackle-key-issues-and-enhance-national-research-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy of Sciences Malaysia Gathers Esteemed Senior Fellows to Tackle Key Issues and Enhance National Research Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ASM Membership Division successfully organised the second edition of the 2023 Senior Fellows Meeting on 29 November 2023, conducted in a hybrid format and attended by 16 esteemed Senior Fellows. <a href=\"https:\/\/twas.org\/directory\/das-kumar-vg\">Academician Professor Emeritus Dato\u2019 V.G. Kumar Das Govinda Panicker FASc<\/a> presided over the meeting as its chair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/experts\/profile\/itcs0002\/\">Academician Datuk Dr Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen FASc<\/a>, the President of ASM, provided a comprehensive update on the Academy\u2019s activities, underscoring ASM&#8217;s role in uniting the future of Malaysian science. He also reported on ASM&#8217;s engagements with Research Universities and institutes through outreach programmes and roadshows across the nation, which has broadened the ASM&#8217;s perspective on the spectrum of Malaysia\u2019s research and technological advancement, thereby fostering more collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting addressed key issues, notably the rising threat of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/hunger\/en\/\">food insecurity<\/a>, with the Senior Fellows presenting concrete recommendations. Other important topics included efforts to establish ASM as Malaysia\u2019s national research coordination centre, engaging a broader community of Fellows in ASM activities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/43296-what-is-stem-education.html#:~:text=STEM%20education%20is%20a%20teaching,%2C%20technology%2C%20engineering%20and%20math.\">STEM education<\/a> and other crucial matters. Puan Hazami Habib, ASM\u2019s CEO, also introduced the Malaysia Science Endowment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2023\/08\/943311\/malaysia-science-endowment-aims-raise-rm2-biilion-boost-govt-funding-rd\">MSE<\/a>) and highlighted its implementation plan and upcoming developments.<\/p>\n<p>ASM expresses our highest appreciation to all Senior Fellows for actively participating in the meeting and collectively contributing their invaluable knowledge.[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=&#8221;3&#8243; images=&#8221;5379,5380,5381,5382,5383,5384,5385,5386&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASM expresses our highest appreciation to all Senior Fellows for actively participating in the meeting and collectively contributing their invaluable knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[999],"tags":[124,281,751,1049,1050,672,1051],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-december-2023","tag-asm-fellows","tag-expert-network","tag-hazami-habib","tag-senior-fellows","tag-senior-fellows-meeting","tag-tengku-mohd-azzman-shariffadeen","tag-vg-kumar-das"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/12\/senior-fellows-meeting-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajCBQ-1oK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/asm-focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}