2012
Did you know?
By Noorhafeeqa Sefri
officially
Hey, did you know when UNIMAS was incorporated? If you all out there don‟t know when the existence of UNIMAS is, let me tell you then. University Malaysia Sarawak or known as UNIMAS was officially incorporated on 24th December 1992. With about 30 academic staff, the University started with the first batch of 118 students on 8th August 19 93.
Two academics support centre were also established: the Centre for Applied Learning and
Multimedia, and the Centre for Academic Information Services or also known as CAIS. The first two faculties was the Faculty of Social Science and the Faculty of Resource Science and
Technology as the pioneer faculties.
In 1994, four more faculties opening their doors for degree courses: the Faculty of Cognitive
Sciences and Human Development, the Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, the Faculty of
Engineering, and the Faculty of Information technology. Two more faculties began taking in their pioneer batches of students; the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (1995) and the Faculty of Economics and Business (1996). These brought the total numbers of faculties to eight, as originally planned.
UNIMAS is synonym with its lucky number of 8. There are several things that represent the lucky number such as the total number of faculties, the flat number of busses in UNIMAS, telephone number of each faculty offices, 8 total of residential colleges (in present), and many more. So guys, you must be proud being a student of UNIMAS.
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PBI 1052 English in the Media
2012
“our SECOND AWESOME HOME IN UNIMAS”
By Ngui Lee Chien
Centre Academic Information Services is UNIMAS library and we call it “CAIS”. CAIS was established in early 1993 and officially started operation in the new building on 6 February 2006. The size of CAIS is around 22600 square meters. CAIS is located in the strategy place, because CAIS is near