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UM FAH launches state-of-the-art multi-media Smart Classroom to enhance interaction with big data
To enhance interaction between the teacher and the students, and to strengthen students’ autonomy in learning, University of Macau’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) established a multi-media Smart Classroom equipped with the state-of-the-art technology. The fully-interactive Smart Classroom, the first of its kind at UM, began its formal operation in March. Students can now use their own mobile phones, laptop computers, tablets and other electronic devices to connect to the software and the ...
UM professor awarded 2022 National Rare Books Collation & Publication Grant
Professor Yang Bin, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, has participated in the collection, collation and compilation of the Jiangxi Fuliang Sanyinwan Wangshi Wenshu江西浮梁三银碗汪氏文书 (The Wang Documents of the Sanyinwan Village, Fuliang, Jiangxi Province) that has been recently awarded the 2022 National Rare Books Collation and Publication Grant and would be published by The Southwest Jiaotong University Press (https://www.nppa.gov.cn/nppa/contents/279/103705.s ...
Cross-linguistic collaboration and innovation: The University of Macau establishes Centre for Linguistics
Cross-linguistic collaboration and innovation: The University of Macau establishes Centre for Linguistics The University of Macau officially established the Centre for Linguistics in early 2022, under the administration of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH). On the morning of March 24, FAH held an opening ceremony at the E21-G016 Lecture Hall, with the university leaders, off-campus guests, and related teachers and students attending this particularly meaningful event. The opening ceremon ...
UM holds Macao Humanities Forum on the mission and responsibilities of translation scholars
The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities recently held the second lecture of the Macao Humanities Forum in the academic year 2021/2022, featuring Prof. Xu Jun, a prominent and highly respected translation scholar from Zhejiang University. Prof. Xu’s lecture, titled “the Responsibility and Mission of Translation Scholars in the New Era,” attracted nearly 320 participants, including academic members and students from UM. The forum was conducted on-site and online concurrently. ...
IPIM and UM co-organize a Sharing Session on Doing Business in Portuguese-speaking Countries
IPIM and UM co-organize a sharing session on doing business in Portuguese-speaking countries Interaction between staff and invited guests during the event Interaction between students and invited guests during the event Many students were interested in The Economic & Trade Co-operation and Human Resources Portal between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries and in products from Portuguese-speaking Countries. The Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the Chinese-Portugu ...
Academic Conversation with Professor Martin Kern of Princeton University Successfully Held at UM
The Department of Chinese Language and Literature organized an academic conversation entitled “Cultural Memory and Early Chinese Civilization” at 8:30 pm on March 1, 2022. Professor Martin Kern of Princeton University and Professor Zhang Yue of University of Macau held a fruitful and constructive academic conversation. Faculty members and students from UM, such as Professor Tang Chon Chit of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and Professor Yeung Siu Kwai of Faculty of Education, ...
UM Professor wins Prestigious Essay Award
Joshua Ehrlich, Assistant Professor of History (FAH), has been awarded the 2021 Library History Essay Award by the Library and Information History Group. The LIHG is a UK-based organization devoted to the history of information, libraries, and librarianship, and is a part of CILIP, a professional body for knowledge professionals with some 10,000 members. The award is described on the LIHG’s website as “an annual prize for the best article or chapter on library history published in, or pertainin ...
To Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of UM: Remarkable Academic Achievements of the Department of History
Being a young member of UM, the Department of History has paid a glorious tribute to the 40th anniversary of UM by its remarkable academic achievements in the year of 2021. In the past year, staff of the Department have cultivated deeply in different fields and achieved a great deal including publishing monographs and papers, constructing databases, and being awarded various prestigious academic prizes. In April, Chair Professor Mao Haijian released a new book The Thoughts of Kang Youwei and Li ...
Announcement of Results for the “Short Video Shooting Contest of Higher Education Institutions in Macao”
The Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC) of the Department of Portuguese of Faculty of Arts and Humanities organized the “Short Video Shooting Contest for Higher Education Institutions in Macao” to enhance the interest of the Macao higher education students in media production. The theme of the Contest is “Paixão” and the CPC started accepting applications since the beginning of the 1st semester of Academic Year 2021/2022 until 19 November 2021. CPC is honored to hav ...
UM holds opening ceremony for selection of winners of Luxun Teenagers Literature Award
UM holds an opening ceremony for the selection of winners of the Luxun Teenagers Literature Award Zhu Shoutong receives the certificate of appointment The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Chinese History and Culture held an opening ceremony and a press conference for the selection of winners of the Luxun Teenagers Literature Award. The event collects outstanding entries from college and secondary students from Macao, and a panel of judges comprised of leading literary scholars from Macao and ...