Waking up the brain with Professor Donald Pfaff

Sunway University’s popular Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Speaker Series (TSJCDSS) recently invited Professor Donald W. Pfaff, Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behaviour at The Rockefeller University to present a lecture titled Waking up the Brain: Mechanisms Underlying the Central Nervous System Arousal.

Professor Donald Pfaff presenting a talk under the TSJCDSS.

Sunway Resort City To Become 100% Smoke-Free

At the official launch of the Malaysian Blue Ribbon Campaign held recently at Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway Group Founder and Chairman Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah announced that Sunway Resort City is joining the global initiative to curb smoking by moving towards becoming a Smoke-Free Township.

Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah pledges his right to clean air witnessed by Minister of Health Malaysia Dato Sri Liow Tiong Lai , WHO Representative to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei, Dr Graham Harrison, CEO of Malaysia Health Promotion Board, Datuk Dr Yahya Baba and Deputy Director General (Public Health), Datuk Dr Lokman Hakim Sulaimman

Sunway students reach out to refugee kids

A group of Myanmar refugee children have been receiving tuition classes given voluntarily by Sunway students since August 2011.

The students, from Sunway University and Sunway College are all members of the Sunway Volunteer Society who have committed themselves to give classes every Friday morning in Geography, English, Math and Art to the children at a church in Petaling Jaya. There are currently 60 children in the weekly classes and are aged from 4 to 16 years.

Chang (left) with some of the refugee youngsters