Post date: 22/07/2014 - 11:46
Batik Anime: Batik Motif Innovation by YSU Students

Batik is one of Indonesian cultural heritage that is well known abroad. This implies that Indonesian youth need to preserve this traditional costume amid the technology advancement. In preserving the cultural heritage, some students of Yogyakarta State University designed contemporary batik motifs in the forms of anime. They are students of Biology Education Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Those students chose anime, Japanese animation, to be their batik... Read More ...

Post date: 21/07/2014 - 14:17
Teaching Junior High School Students at Wolojita, Ende Disrict, Nusa Tenggara Timur

Erma Rahmawati, an alumnus of the Department of Biology Education of Yogyakarta State University, recently has joined the Scholars Teaching in Remote, Outermost, Underdeveloped Areas of Indonesia Program.

The program, which is aimed at providing distributed education for school student all over Indonesia, requires selected scholars to teach at schools which are located in remote, outermost, underdeveloped areas of Indonesia.

Erma was selected by the committee to teach students... Read More ...

Post date: 17/07/2014 - 16:02
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Delegates Discussed Cooperation in BIPA Program with YSU Leaders

Friday (7/11/2014), Prof. Juliana Wijaya, Ph.D, Indonesian Studies Coordinator, and Prof. Dr. Gyanam Mahajan, Language Program Coordinator for Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures Programs, University of California Los Angeles visited Yogyakarta State University to discuss the cooperation between YSU and UCLA in providing BIPA program (Indonesian Language and Culture Course) for UCLA summer program.

 

Currently, UCLA is developing its curriculum for Asian Languages and... Read More ...

Post date: 17/07/2014 - 12:31
YSU Students Developed “GamelanD” Interactive Game

Gamelan is one of the Indonesian cultural heritage which consists of musical instruments played in an orchestra. Originally played in Java, Bali, and Lombok islands, gamelan is now less popular among Indonesian youth despite its being quite popular in other countries.

Based on the need to introduce gamelan and attract more children to learn it, some YSU students created an interactive game for children and everyone who want to learn gamelan through this game. They are students from... Read More ...

Post date: 17/07/2014 - 11:13
ENGLISH FOR HOLIDAY 2014 AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF YSU

YSU students took part in organizing English for Holiday 2014 conducted by the Department of English Education. The program started from Monday, June 30th to Friday, July 11th 2014.

Lecturers and students of English Education Department of YSU together organised this program and designed the curriculum. The students involved in teaching the EFH 2014 participants were chosen based on their teaching experience so that the committee were able to provide the best... Read More ...

Post date: 15/07/2014 - 14:25
UNY STUDENTS CREATE A LEARNING MODULE OF THE DRAGONFLIES OF KARIMUNJAWA ISLAND, CENTRAL JAVA

The students of Biology education of Yogyakarta State University were interested to create a learning module of  the dragonflies in coastal areas of Java Sea, 45 miles from Jepara City. They are Tria Septiani Subagyo, Setyo Sulistyono, Febrina Suci Wulandari and Benny Ari Kusuma.

Tria said that the research was aimed at recording dragonfly species (Odonata) in... Read More ...

Post date: 15/07/2014 - 09:39
Representatives of the Government of Victoria, Australia Showed Initiative to Plan a Batik Workshop for Australians in YSU

Belinda Rimbo, Education Services Director of the Government of Victoria, Australia  admitted that it was very interesting that YSU and Kangan Institute, Australia conducted a collaboration in batik design. (03/07/2014).

Together with Brett Stevens, Commissioner for Victoria to Indonesia and Graham Long from Kangan Institute, visited YSU and Kangan Institute... Read More ...

Post date: 08/07/2014 - 11:45
YSU STUDENTS RECORDED SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES IN MERAPI NATIONAL PARK

Rany Zeinita, Dian Rahmawati, Galay Widhiasmoro, and Violita Bella Sandya, Students of Biology Education Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Yogyakarta State University have conducted a research on butterflies in the Merapi Volcano region. Entitled the Inventory of the Diversity of Pieridae Family Butterflies in Merapi volcano, Kinahrejo Village, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta, their research was aimed at recording the butterflies of pieridae family.

As... Read More ...

Post date: 04/07/2014 - 14:30
Waterman: A Semi-Automatic Sprayer for Pesticide

Rice is a very strategic food commodity as it is the staple food for Indonesians. Indonesia, with its big population and 1.49% population growth in 2010, is predicted to be inhabited by 252,034,317 citizens in 2014. This lead to the challenge of feeding the nation as there is less supply than demand.

The biggest problem in supplying the demand is the crop failure caused by plant damaging organisms. The best way to prevent pests from damaging rice plants is to use pesticides. A system... Read More ...

Post date: 03/07/2014 - 12:54
YSU Expands Its Cooperation with American Universities

Prof. Dr. Rochmat Wahab, M.Pd., M.A., YSU Rector, signed 6 MoUs which mark the start of cooperation between YSU and six American universities. The cooperation is mainly focused on the field of education. The partnering university which has signed the MoU is University of Nebraska at Lincoln  (UNL) (6/2/2014), whereas discussions on cooperation were conducted with the University of California at Los Angeles  (UCLA), ... Read More ...

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