PNG UNRE News

UNRE Acting Chancellor Dr. Andrew Masta UNRE acting Chancellor welcomed new students on behalf of the University Council and urged them to concentrate on their studies, respect their fellow students and the University’s rules and regulations. Acting Chancellor Dr Andrew Masta told students during the 2020 Student Orientation Welcome on Monday (Feb 24) that they must consider themselves as privileged to be selected to a University. He said students must also be considerate of their parents’ efforts and should do their best in their studies. Dr Masta cautioned that all universities and institutions are governed by rules and regulations which means that students are expected to adhere to those regulations. He said alcohol consumption is a major challenge in all institutions and universities including UNRE and warned students that UNRE will not tolerate such behaviours as it has a Zero Tolerance of Alcohol policy on campus. This means students caught will be dealt with seve...

ENB Deputy Provincial Administrator Mr Levi Mano. IN the pursuit of academic excellence, it is important that students also develop good morals or ethics and integrity. East New Britain Provincial Deputy Administrator Levi Mano made the remarks during the University’s 2020 Student Orientation Welcome Program on Monday (Feb 24). He was the guest speaker. Mr Mano said PNG has evolved over the last 40 years, but although it has all the natural resources it has not fully developed because people lack concentration, focus and discipline in life.  “I hope those are learning curves for our students. Apart from academic programs, you must try your best to acquire the intangible features of development maybe our institutions and education system has forgotten for the last 30 years.  “There are reforms in all government sectors; education, health and more reforms are currently taking place but what are those infrastructures in relation to the life of man? What we see now is...

RESEARCH has proven that botanical pesticides are effective in controlling diamondback moth on round cabbage. This was confirmed through a study by Sandrina Malapa, a 2019 Year 4 Sustainable Tropical Agriculture student last year, who is expected to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree next month. Her research, which was conducted under the supervision of her lecturer Kari Iamba, resulted in their joint paper Efficacy of selected plant extracts against diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella L.) on round cabbage in situ , being published in the Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies (JEZS).  Solomon Yoba, another student that Mr Iamba supervised also had his research published in another journal called the IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science.  The diamondback moth (DBM), also known as cabbage moth, is one of the most destructive cosmopolitan insect pests of Brassicaceous crops such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and mustards.  Originally pest...