The Rector of Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Sutrisna Wibawa inaugurated and took oaths of a number of officials at UNY on Tuesday (1/10). Among the inaugurated officials is the new Vice Rector for Student Affairs and Alumni Anik Ghufron who will continue the work of Sumaryanto as previous official.

"Managing sports such as basketball, badminton, soccer, bicycle racing or other sports that are collaborated with the sports industry, is indeed not easy. Everything has its challenges and art, "said Prof. Associate Dr. Mohd Salleh Bin Aman from the University of Malaya to UNY’s master degree students of Sport Sciences. Organizing sports is certainly related to the event organizer (EO). It turns out that many EOs have not utilized their potential to the fullest.

UNY’s Centre for Pancasila and Constitution (PSPK UNY) conducted research on mainstreaming Pancasila as nation ideology in the post amendment of 1945 Indonesia Constitution in Pancasila Ideology Development Agency (BPIP). The research was carried out by the Research Team namely Dr. Samsuri, M.Ag, (Team Leader), Dr. M. Murdiono, M.Pd (Member). Drs. Cholisin M.Si (Member) and Galih N Paripurna (Field Researchers).

During the golden age of child development, parents try to stimulate a child with a variety of general knowledge. How to introduce children to the unlimited variety of worlds? The stimulation process must certainly be done in a fun way, one of the option is using a picture story book. Such statement is given by Kordula Schulze from Muenster University, Germany in front of UNY Graduate School students from Primary Education study program and UNY bachelor students from English Literature study Program.

Indonesia has rich local languages. Unfortunately, some of local languages have become extinct. Moseley (2010) in “Atlas of The World’s Languages in Danger” mentioned that there are 12 languages in Indonesia that have become extinct. Serawai Language in South Bengkulu is on the extinct list. This has driven the interest from Tara Belinda (Communication), Arif Hidayat (Communication) and Adesta Feby Putri Setiadi (History) with Benni Setiawan, M.Si as supervisor to conduct a research about Serawai Language.

UNY Student Center (SC) received enthusiast volunteer who would donate their blood. This event was organized by UNY Students Activity Unit of Indonesia Red Cross Volunteer Corps (KSR PMI UNY) to celebrate 74th anniversary of Indonesia Red Cross

This event was fully supported by Indonesia Red Cross from Sleman and Yogyakarta Chapter. For those who willing to be a donor, there are several condition should be fulfilled namely physically and mentally healthy, at least 17 years old, not menstruating and taking drugs, and have a minimum body weight of 50kg.

Saturday (28/9) is the last day in the Energy Saving Car Competition held in Universitas Negeri Malang. Garuda UNY Team (GUT) took part in the Fun Race. For this race, the team participated using Garuda Urban Ethanol.  On the previous day, GUT Urban Ethanol had experienced several technical failures. But in the end, this car has surprised other participants because of its ability to maintain speed as well as to save fuel used. No wonder, UNY Urban Ethanol earn the First Place on Fun Race.

Dermawan Zain, Nurul Wulan Sari and Nifta Noor Halimah from Instructional Technology Study Program won the First Place in “Indonesia Ayo Aman Berlalu Lintas (IAABL) Video Competition” in animation category. This competition is part of Pre-event of Festival Kampung Berseri Astra organized by ASTRA in commemoration of Road Traffic Safety Day in Pontianak.

"We are very grateful to our Dean who has led Faculty of Social Sciences for these two periods. We feel that there has been a lot of progress made. We also thank all Vice Dean for their guidance and direction, so that we can do our tasks well. We also pray for the Dean to always be given health and hopefully this togetherness will always be closely intertwined in the times to come "Yuyun Farida, M.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Yogyakarta State University held an international conference titled The Science and Science Education International Seminar (SSEIS) 2019, 27-28 / 9/19 in the UNY Rector's courtroom. The theme of the conference is "Promoting Science for Technology & Education Advancement". The keynote speaker at the seminar was Prof. Mahesh Narayan, Ph.D., (Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, Texas, USA), Prof. Dato ’Dr. Musa bin Ahmad (Biosensor, University Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia), Prof.