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JULY 2018

Here comes the Newsletter of this July 2018 which will update you with the latest news

about our beloved campus. There is a report on the process of July 2018 graduation day,

when everything was solemn yet glorious. The graduates looked beaming in this long awaited

event. There were about 1.030 graduates attending the event.

An article on Faculty of Nursing, all set to compete globally, is also presented here.

Students of Japanese and Thai universities recently visited the faculty to do a comparative study. An Australian delegation is scheduled to

be the faculty’s guest too this July. Another column talks about students’

researches the government gave appreciation of by providing research grant. Products of

these researches are considered applicative for the community.

Last but not least, a profile of an outstanding lecturer. Interestingly this professor, Prof.

Dr. Bagong Suyanto, successfully completed his bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees at

Universitas Airlangga.

Dear Readers,

Universitas Airlangga graduation for July 2018 period was held on Sunday (1/7) at Airlangga Convention Center (ACC). The procession was solemn and brought happiness. There were about 1.030 graduates attending the event.

Rector Prof. Dr. Moh. Nasih delivered a speech before the graduates. He reminded them of the importance in contributing into the community since it is a responsibility for a university graduate. “Apply the knowledge learned from the campus for the public interests as much as possible,” he said.

While at the campus students are not merely taught of academic skills, but also of character or personality. Among others are work ethics, honesty, seriousness, power struggles, interests, and commitment. Not to mention moral and religious values. By doing so they are expected to be holistic graduates, means their competence covers hard skills and soft skills so that they can be compatible with the community.

After the sacred procession, the graduates joined their friends and families outside the venue; on the ACC yard and around the campus to be exact. Their juniors from the same faculty or program greeted and congratulated them; and they used many ways. Some did a theatrical performance, played musical instruments, chanted their faculty or program’s yells or slogan, and many others.

Some of the graduates made their time to take

Graduates Must Be Ready to Apply Their Knowledge

pictures around the venue. There were many available booths. A lot even chose photo spots at the lake near the rectorate building and at the campus parks. Some did it at their faculty or program building, as a memento of their study there.

Graduation day is a long awaited event for the campus citizen. The festivity brings positive and blissful atmosphere. Let alone the bazaar stalls which are always crowded on the day. (*)

Rector Prof. Dr. Moh. Nasih (left) on graduation day of July 2018 period at Airlangga Convention Center.

The graduates looked beaming in this long awaited event. There were about 1.030 graduates attending the event.

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Faculty of Nursing keeps working on innovations. There are not a few international events going on there as well. Not to mention, the faculty’s students, lecturers, and academicians often do comparative studies abroad. Therefore the quality of their civitas academica is constantly improving and competitive globally.

Interestingly, Faculty of Nursing often becomes a referred place for a comparative study. Recently, delegations from Thailand and Japan came to feel the collegiate atmosphere in the campus.

Students from Japanese Red Cross Kyushu International College of Nursing came in March 2018. Meanwhile a group from Naresuam University Thailand arrived last April 2018. This July 2018, a delegation from La Trobe University, Australia is also scheduled to visit Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga.

“The foreign students learn about Transcultural Understanding in Nursing, Introduction to Tuberculosis

Japanese and Thai Delegations PayFaculty of Nursing a Visitand Tropical Disease,” said Setho Hadisuyatmana, one of the Universitas Airlangga lecturers who became the liaisons for the foreign delegations.

Faculty of Nursing is committed to produce graduates who are ready to give concrete contribution to the society. Supporting facilities are prepared for the students. Let alone the entrepreneurship skills they are trained with. That way they will be capable not only academically, but also in the non-academic aspects. They are encouraged to be creative and innovative.

Since it was established on 20 June 2008, Faculty of Nursing has been determined to be a prominent center of nursing education and development at national and international level. This faculty is willing to create distinguished, independent nurses who have tropical diseases nursing skills as their plus point without setting aside professional ethics.

Its international network is wide. Partnerships undertaken have reached institutions or high education centers in Asia, Europe, Australia, and America. (*)

Two Japanese students discuss with Faculty of Nursing students (far left). They admit getting lots of new insights from Universitas Airlangga.

Thai students wear the Age Simulator at Gerontology Laboratory. Age Simulator helps users feel physical change because of aging.

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Universitas Airlangga has always been successful in producing cre-ative students who are able to make applicative products. For example, five students from Faculty of Fisher-ies and Marine (FPK) who managed to make mosquito repellant lotion made of seaweed. For their inno-vation, they are entitled to receive research grant from the government through the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education this year.

The team consists of Muhammad Fadhil Ilham Almadani, Aditya Dwi Saputra, Yolanda Graciela Budiman, Dayne Salkha Moudya, and Muham-mad Zamzami. “We want to make this new innovation by utilizing Sar-gassum sp. seaweed, as it has not been widely used by the communi-ty,” said Muh Fadhil.

From the same faculty, there is a group of three students, Zakiyatus-sany, Nur Fitria Firmaningrum, and Nisrina Husniah Hana Khalda, who managed to make another applica-tive product.

They designed a toxicity absor-bent tool called Anti-Bacterial and Heavy Metal Water Filter Made of Shells of Asian Green Mussel (Per-na viridis). The absorbent material in this filter uses the Asian green mussel shell chitosan (Perna viridis), which can absorb heavy metals, kill pathogenic bacteria, filter out fe-ces and food waste, and supply dis-solved oxygen in water maintenance media.

Creative StudentsDevelopApplicative Products

Meanwhile, creativity also emerged from the Faculty of Phar-macy. A team consists of Galuh Primadani, Yenni Desilia Indahsa-ri, Nabilah Lutfi, Ajeng Della Sari, and Kholidah Febriani, successfully managed to process shrimp shells waste. In their hands, shrimp shells chitosan can be created into a CHI-TOUCH natural hand sanitizer as an innovative alcohol-free antiseptic hand cleaner.

There are indeed many other results of student research that is guided by other experienced lec-turers. All faculties have the same potential to produce qualified grad-uates. (*)

The packaging of mosquito repellant lotion made of seaweed developed by Faculty of Pharma-cy students of Universitas Airlangga.

The water filter made of the shells of Asian green mussel developed by students of Faculty of Fisheries and Marine.

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There are many sociologists from Universitas Airlangga. One of them is Prof. Dr. Bagong Suyanto. The professor at Faculty of Social and Political Sciences was conferred as a professor in 2017. The man who was born in Nganjuk on 6 Septem-ber 1966 completed his bachelor, master and doctoral degrees at Uni-versitas Airlangga.

Bagong has published many sci-entific publications, both at national and international level. He also of-ten speaks at scientific conferences. He has written a lot of books and often referred by other academics.

His focuses of research are social change, poverty, social inequality, and the rights of children and wom-en. He is an experienced lecturer and has been a lecturer since 1988.

Thanks to his expertise, Bagong was once in the Board of Experts of East Java Province in the field of poverty. At that board, Bagong served as an advisor on poverty and gap issues in East Java.

Economic Sociology is the field of science that has only been Bagong’s focus in the last decade. Eco-nomic sociology focuses on the development of

“Consumers must be intelligent and critical as they face group of capitalists who expect nothing

but profits” “

Consumers Must BeIntelligent and Critical

PROF I LE

post-industrial society in terms of consumption. Bagong has conduct-ed many researches on the econom-ic behavior of society in the perspec-tive of social science. The man from Nganjuk is also still active with some associations, such as Association of Study Programs throughout Indone-sia, and the Association of Sociology in Indonesia.

At more practical level, the sci-ence of Economic Sociology is not merely explaining consumer behav-ior, but it is also a science that can be understood by small business practitioners in Indonesia.

Bagong said that the government needs to consider non-economic factors in the development of small and medium enterprises. “The devel-opment of small and medium enter-prises does not only need capital and skills training, but also other kinds of training. For example the knowledge on packaging of products, effective marketing promotions, as well as branding ability appropriate in the contemporary society,” he said. (*)

Prof. Bagong Suyanto

Economic Sociology Expert

Prof. Bagong Suyanto, an expert of economic sociology and an author of many books such as Sociology, Introduction and Applied Textbook (2010), Chil-dren Social Problems (2013), Economic Sociology, Capitalism and Consumerism in Post-Modern Community Era (2013), and Social Philosophy (2013)

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