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Dr. Sabri Ali, Dr. Faizah Metali, and Dr. Nicole Lim from the Environmental and Life Sciences Programme, Faculty of Science, UBD, completed the ‘Training Course on Hybrid Rice Senior Expert Consultants in Brunei Darussalam’.

A major international collaboration of 356 scientists, including Professor Ferry Slik (FOS, UBD) has found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world’s tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations, published in Nature, found that just 2.

Dr. Haziq Jamil (Mathematical Sciences) recently made an impactful visit to the prestigious London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in London. Engaging in a research collaboration with experts from LSE’s Department of Statistics, Dr.

Brunei’s forests and gardens are home to hundreds of snake species, but none have perfected the art of flying as well as the Paradise Tree Snake. Taking a leap of faith, they can glide with astonishing precision from tree to tree in pursuit of their lizard prey. Within fractions of a second they can double the width of their bodies to become essentially a flat, undulating airfoil. Who better to study this astonishing behavior in the Paradise Tree Snake and its relatives than Prof Jake Socha, the World’s expert on flying snakes.

A book entitled Chalcogenide-Based Nanomaterials as Photocatalysts, edited by Associate Professor Dr Mohammad Mansoob Khan of the Chemical Sciences programme, was published by Elsevier in April 2021.