Soemardja Award Aims to Increase Arts Education's Prominence Amidst the Academic World

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - One of the forms of appreciation to arts in itb is the Soemardja Award; an award event aiming at choosing the best student and best young artist in the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Arts & Design School. The event was held in the Soemardja Gallery, named after the same person in which the award is based upon. The Best Student award was given to...

April 12, 2011

Rector: Â鶹ֱ²¥ Will Not Stop Strengthening Its Position in The Nation's Development

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - As an institution that has given birth to countless prominent figures in Indonesian development, Â鶹ֱ²¥ has a huge responsibility to advance the nation's goals in all possible aspects. The complexity and heterogenity involved in Indonesia's development demands every person that hopes to contribute in it to be able to blend in in...

April 11, 2011

Public Lecture on the Application of Naturan Language Processing by Prof. Seiichi Nakagawa

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - The Informatics Engineering major attempted to explore sensoric technologies by holing a public lecture on Natural Language Processing, with Prof. Seiichi Nakagawa, an artificial intelligence researcher from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, as key speaker.He opened the lecture by firstly introducing the Toyohashi...

March 31, 2011

Climate Change May Cause Clean Water Crisis in Indonesia

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Experts predict that Indonesia will experience a scarcity of clean water by 2025, says Head of the Regional Environmental Control Agency (BPLHD) of West Java, Setiawan Wangsaatmaja. "The Earth consists of 97.5% water, but only 1% is freshwater," he said. The freshwater comes from rainfall that is contained within...

March 31, 2011

Road to Ecocampus; Students Movement Towards a Greener Environment

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Ganesha Hijau (Green Ganesha), an organization formed through the collaboration between student unions in itb, has recently held a program called the Road to Â鶹ֱ²¥ Ecocampus. Various unions took part in the program; the Environmental Engineering Students Union (HMTL), the Architecture Student Union (IMA-G), the Planology...

March 30, 2011

Â鶹ֱ²¥ Alumnus, R. Priyono, Talks About Energy Risk Solutions in 2011

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Â鶹ֱ²¥ Geological Engineering alumnus of 1976, R. Priyono, talked about solutions to the 2011 Energy Risk as Chairman of BPMIGAS (Execution Agency of Upstream Oil and Natural Gas Activities). This topic was discussed in a talkshow on one of Indonesia's privately-owned television channels not long ago.The reality this year is that...

March 30, 2011

E-Camp Â鶹ֱ²¥ Entrepreneurship Challenge 2011: Providing Inspiration and Education in Entrepreneurship

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - As many as 20 best teams with 20 diverse business idea proposals were chosen out of the initial 670 teams that participated in the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Entrepreneurship Challenge (IEC 2011) took part in the Entrepreneur-Camp (E-Camp) as a part of a coaching clinic program in the IEC 2011. The camp was done for a week; from Monday (03/21/11) to...

March 29, 2011

Earth Hour 2011, a Collective Momentum to Establish an Environment-Friendly Attitude

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Campaigning for energy efficiency, Â鶹ֱ²¥ participated in the program Earth Hour 2011. "For 60 minutes Â鶹ֱ²¥ turned off the campus lights, except for laboratories, to save energy together with the society," said the Director of Public Relations and Alumni Â鶹ֱ²¥, Dr. Marlia Singgih. Together with students, Earth Hour 2011...

March 28, 2011

Studium Generale: Optimizing Forest Resources to Support National Economy

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Â鶹ֱ²¥ has once again had the honor of hosting an important public figure; the Minister of Foresty, Zulkufli Hasan, to speak in the campus hall as part of the Studium Generale subject. The class, moderated by the Dean of the School of Biological Science and Technology, Prof. Tati Syamsudin Subahar, discussed the importance of...

March 26, 2011