UMS student ‘Best Participant’ in international summer course

Kota Kinabalu: Universiti Malaysia Sabah’s (UMS), Jacqueline Joseph, was recognised as the Best Participant in the “Department of Resource and Environment Economics (ESL) International Summer Course: Reducing Carbon Footprints from Individual to Global Actions” organised by Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) University, Indonesia, recently. 

The PhD student of Forestry at UMS’ Faculty of Science and Natural Resources beat 370 other participants from 70 international universities and received prizes in the form of money and certificate of participation. 

“At first I just wanted to expand the network of cooperation with foreign researchers and participate proactively in assignments and partnerships with academicians from abroad.

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“I feel overwhelmed and did not expect to be selected as the Best Participant apart from getting second place in the Learning Journal which was screened and selected by a panel from Indonesia and Australia,” said Joseph, here, Thursday. 

 

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