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AUAM CHAT SERIES: STUDY IN LOUISIANA

Date: April 10, 2021

Time : 10am to 11am MYT

Panel Speakers

• Mr Alvin Tan – Moderator 

• Ms May Ng –  EducationUSA Advisor,

• Dr Rose Honegger – Associate Director of Global Engagement, ULL (Class of 2016)

• Ms Zoe Tan – Social Media Manager at Kaspersky Lab in Boston (Class of 2015)

Presentation Highlights

• Cultures and Activities in Lafayette

• Fast facts about our university: 2nd largest university in the state of Louisiana

• Issues F1 and J1 student visas for international students to study

• 8 colleges and 100 majors and concentrations

• Undergraduate admissions requirement

• Graduate admissions requirement

• Cost of attendance – undergraduate students

• Cost of attendance – graduate students

• Scholarships: Cayenne, Legacy and Fleur-de-Lis

• Graduate assistantships and funding

• Application deadline

• Application checklist

• Intensive English Program and contact information

• CPT and OPT; Student Life

The recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wvafmrqb68sgsgz/study_in_louisiana_20210410.mp4?dl=0

AUAM Chat Series: Study in Louisiana

Our Alumni Chat series continues with Study in Louisiana this Saturday at 10.00 AM. Catch our alumni Dr. Rose Honegger and Zoe Tan, both from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as they share their experience studying in the Pelican state and how it has helped shape them into who they are today.

Dr. Rose Honegger received her Ph.D. in Applied Language and Speech Sciences in 2016, and she is currently working as the Associate Director of Global Engagement at the university and Zoe Tan, who is now a Social Media Manager at Kaspersky Lab in Boston, received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing in 2015. This session will be moderated by Alvin Tan, Louisiana State University Alum, ’85.

To hear more from these Ragin’ Cajuns, please register at or by scanning the QR code and we hope to see you there!

Denis Asia Pacific

Career opportunity
Denis Asia Pacific is a group of company based in Singapore, with two canning seafood factories in Perak. They are currently looking for the recruitment of different engineer profiles to support the modernization and refurbishment of their factories, as well as further developments.
The profile backgrounds they are looking for include food engineering, quality management, electronic, informatics, automation, mechanics, project management with ideally some experience in the food industry.
Interested alumni please email to auam.postings@gmail.com for details

Happy New Year 2021

The year 2020 has been an unpredictable ride through the pandemic, protests and many more difficulties that had made living life quite hard for people across the globe. But as we near the end of this year, we all should accept the fact that with every passing year, one should leave behind the bad memories and mistakes. So now, as we embrace the upcoming year, 2021, let us all be positive and cheery with shining spirits and aspirations for the future. We should vow to not let the negative times affect us in looking forward to the future and working hard to achieve our dreams and ambitions. So, let us all embrace the new year with much-needed hopes and happiness.

Web Forum Series 2020: Startups & VCs

Speaker 1: Mr. Yeoh Chen Chow is Co-Founder of Fave Group, merchant digital platform in South East Asia. Fave serves tens of thousands of offline local business, ranging from restaurants, spas, offline retails, hotels, attractions etc. He is an alumnus of Cornell University and an Eisenhower Fellow. He is an angel investor as well.

Speaker 2: Mr. Jamaludin Bujang joined Gobi in 2019 and is overseeing operations and investment activities at Gobi’s Kuala Lumpur office. Prior to Gobi, he was the CEO of MAVCAP, Malaysia’s largest venture capital firm, which has directly and indirectly invested in over 1,100 startups since 2001. While at MAVCAP, Jamal shifted the company’s strategic direction to focus on raising funds from the private sector and managing funds with local and international VC partners, including 500 Startups, Elixir Capital, Gobi Partners, Vynn Capital and Intres Capital.

Date: 24-October-2020

Time: 3.30pm — 5.00pm

Registration: https://forms.gle/jERG4iu1QGo7son68

Biography Book Launch


Several Council members of AUAM, at the invitation of Yayasan Tun Suffian, proudly participated in the book launching ceremony; a book about our President Tan Sri Dato’ Indera Dr Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman.

The book entitled: “Tan Sri Dato’ Indera Dr Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman – On Course from Take-off to Touch Down” by Prof Sharifah Mariam Syed Mansor Al-Idrus was launched by the Honourable Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Utama Dr. Rais bin Yatim, Social and Cultural Affairs Adviser to the Government.