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Malaysian Research Universities...

Malaysia in a multi-ethnic country with a population comprised of roughly one-half
Malays, who are ethnically similar to their neighboring Indonesians. Nearly all the
ethnic Malays are Muslim, and recently Malaysia was declared a Muslim state. More
than a third of the country’s population is of Chinese descent, and are largely the
descendants of workers brought to the Malaysian peninsula by the British to work the
tea and rubber plantations, and tin mines (Malaysia Ministry of Culture, Arts, &
Tourism, 1996).
 

Malaysia's Leading Research University, Universiti Putra Malaysia(UPM), is the Garden
of Knowledge, was officially established on 21 May 1931. Universiti  Putra Malaysia
seeks to become a top 80 university in the world and and top 20 in Asia within 5
years' time. It seems that 62 per cent of 2,400 academic staff have doctoral degrees
and Seventy-five per cent of our graduates gained employment upon completing

their studies. The University is a leading Centre of Learning and Research, contributing not only towards human advancement and discovery of knowledge but also to the creation of wealth and nation building.

Today, the university has gained international reputation among international students and scholars from fifty nine different nations and has become an acclaimed
international institution of higher learning in the region. Universiti Putra Malaysia
(UPM) is the host university and department for the Fulbright award. There is very
little mention of traditional music: 2 out of 67 undergraduate courses (UPM Akademic
Kalendar, 1999) in the curriculum of the music department at the Universiti Putra
Malaysia (UPM).

From its humble beginnings,UPM has continued to develop and has become

one of the distinguished universities in the region. Commencing as an agricultural-based university, UPM has expanded its frontiers in various disciplines such as engineering, medical sciences, pure sciences, economics, management, education, languages, communication and other fields. These fields have synergized and complemented the university's focal area, namely, agro-bio, which encompasses related areas of agriculture and science. The field of tropical agriculture has gained the most prominence.

The Research and Innovation Division was established in November 2006. It

is directly held responsible to the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation).

The Research and Innovation division manages the human resources, finance

and physical entities which are directly under the portfolio of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) and acts as a secretariat for the related scheme of researchers and consultancies in research activities conducted by the University.

The mission of this division is to assist the University in sustaining the ‘Research
University’ status by providing full support directly and indirectly to the activities
related to research, innovation and commercialization.

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