The presence of UNY’s Digital Library helps students, especially those in the final year, in finding references to complete the final assignment. But since digital library is offering new media use, this is important to ensure that student will be able to use the new media effectively.  To boost further the use of digital reference, UNY’s Library Unit held an e-book and journal information dissemination on Tuesday, 30 April 2019. The dissemination session had Erik Junikon from Ebsco and Joan from Cambridge as speakers.

UNY held Festival UNY Njathil as part of 55th UNY anniversary celebration on Thursday, 2 May 2019. Kuswarsantyo, the committee chairman for the festival, said that njatil is substantially can be symbolized as the spirit to totally focus on working, researching, serving the community and other positive effort to develop UNY and Indonesia. Kuswarsantyo, known as Doctor Jathilan, explained that jathilan or kuda kepang or braided horse is a popular dance show in Java.

Indonesia is blessed with abundant local food resources. However, the lack of reference in processing local food makes this potential not optimally utilized. This situation inspired student of culinary education study program to present “Cereal-Based Culinary Innovation to Encourage the Utilization of Local Food” in 2019 Final Culinary Project Exhibition at Auditorium UNY25/5/2019).

Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta held Disaster Preparedness Day commemoration as part of commitment for preparedness, responsiveness in preventing and reducing disaster risk. UNY Leaders and K3 team formally signing a joint commitment followed by a declaration of preparedness on 26 April 2019. The declaration led by Prof. Edi Purwanta, M.Pd as Vice Rector II of UNY. The declaration strictly stress on the importance of UNY  to prevent and reduce disaster risk by always creating  safe, healthy, orderly, clean, cool, friendly and green environment.

UNY Institute of Research and Community Service(IRCS) held pre-social community service on Sunday 28 April 2019. The program conducted  in Seloharjo, Pundong, bantul.  Siswantoyo, Secretary of IRCS UNY, expressed his gratitude to Seloharjo community for supporting the program. Capacity development of Early Childhood Education Teachers and Info Session about disability were completed activities done on 28 April 2019. In addition there is also culinary training in Goa Jepang Seloharjo.

UNY aims to boost further international collaboration. One of the efforts is by opening more opportunities for lecturer from UNY and respected partner university to have real research collaboration, sharing session and international lecturer exchange. For this reason, UNY supported Dwi Harsono, Ph.D, lecturer in the Department of Public administration UNY, to participate in visiting professor program. Dwi Harsono, Ph.D is visiting Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Malaysia  from 17 April to 3 May 2019. This visit has reciprocal approach because UiTM has sent Prof. Dr.

Kontes Robot Indonesia (KRI) or Indonesia Robot Contest is a robot competition for all universities in Indonesia. This competition is held at regional and national level. On April 27, 2019, UNY Robotics Team has competed in regional 3 level. At this level, university who participated coming from Yogyakarta, Central Java and Kalimantan. Universitas Jendral Sudirman became the host for the event.

Indonesia has many natural material to offer for textile use. Unfortunately, the use of plant as natural material for textile and batik craftsmanship has not been used optimally. Most of craftsmen prefer to use synthetic dyes that is potentially harmful for the environment. It is interesting to note that many plants has the potential as dyestuffs. The colour produced from natural material has been acknowledged for its unique characteristic and giving a high selling value for fashion use.

Industrial Revolution 4.0 Era is characterized by uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. To deal with it, those who teach have to mastering digital skills. Such message is pointed out at the national seminar held by UKMF Reality on 14 April 2019. The national seminar theme which themed “Optimizing the Role of Millennial Generation in Industrial Revolution 4.0” has invite two speakers. There are Dr. Samto from Ministry of Education and Culture and Prof. Dr. Sugiyono, M.Pd from Faculty of Engineering UNY.

Garuda UNY Team met the rector to confirm the next participation in the Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2019. The competition will be held in Sepang Circuit, Malaysia on April 28 to May 4 2019. This competition will challenge the team to present a fuel-efficient vehicle. There are 150 teams from various countries such as Japan, China, Indonesia and New Zealand.