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.

Mechanical Engineering Study Program (D3) Faculty of Engineering, UniversitasNegeri Yogyakarta obtained an “A” accreditation based on BAN-PT Decree No. 3283/SK/BAN-PT/Akred/Dipl-III/IX/2019. This accreditation is valid from 3 September 2019 to 3 September 2020.

Various attempts have been made by UniversitasNegeri Yogyakarta to earn the position as a World Class University (WCU). One of the attempt is to get international accreditation from ASIC (Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges & Universities). In Batch 2, the ASIC Inspector who conducted the assessment of the study program at UNY consisted of Lee Hammond and Osman Suleman. Lee Hammond is the CEO of ASIC who has expertise in the fields of Education Management, Staff Development, Educational Leadership, Quality Assurance and Higher Education.

People can get an infectious disease if their immune system is weak and comes in contact with the cause of the infection. To prevent that, it is important to have clean and healthy living habit, keeping hands clean and implementing food safety. Such statement is given by dr. RL Ambardini from Faculty of Sport sciences UNY at Info Session for Lecturers and Staff on Thursday (9/26). According to her, personal health immunity can be maintained through healthy life application, regular exercise, having balances nutritious diet and good stress management.

Recently there has been a trend in the use of financial services based on digital technology or known as financial technology (fintech). The trend of the use of fintech also increased rapidly from 7% in 2006-2007 to 78% in 2017. This interesting fact  has made three UNY students, Meta Munita Sari (Accounting 2016), NurulKhasanah (Accounting Education 2015), and Apfi Anna Krismonita (Economic Education 2016) examines the impact of fintech on student lifestyles.