CORE - Community of Research Meeting

The university, through the Research Management Institute (RMI) has recently established the Community of Research (CORE)group to spearhead transdiciplinary research. Basically, CORE researchers comprise those serious researchers who are not members of specific centre of excellence. Whilst CoE members are very focused in their respective niche areas, CORE members are grouped into seven other research areas. The CoRe areas have been carefully selected based on international foresighting and scanning and nationally recognised research niches. These thrusts have been alludded to in the New Economic Model, Government Transformation Programmes, National Key Result Areas, National Key Economic Areas and Tenth Malaysia Plan. The seven CORE areas are namely:(1)Green Technology & Sustainable Development, (2) Frontier Materials & Industry Aplications; (3) Advanced Computing & Communications; (4)Drug Discovery & Health; (5) Humanities & Quality of Life; (6) Forensic Sciences and
(7)Brain & Neuroscience. Today, the Forensic Science CORE group met to discuss possible research topics to be submitted to the various national and international fund providers.