Institute of Science and Environment - News and Events
November 29, 2020
A group of students and staff visited VANNEX International Limited of Macau to raise awareness and to build bridges between research and practice.
November 25, 2020
Since 2015, the Institute of Science and Environment (ISE) has been promoting the preservation and sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems through a series of lectures and talks open to the community.
November 16, 2020
A series of field trips to the local wetland ecosystems were organised by the ISE/USJ in the months of October to November this year, with the aim to promote the value of freshwater and brackish/marine ecosystems to the community.
November 10, 2020
The Institute of Science and Environment of USJ will hold an online public lecture titled “The benefits provided by urban mangroves” on the 10th November 2020.
October 10, 2020
Rector Stephen Morgan introduced the Ilha Verde Campus to the delegation of The Science and Technology Development Fund Committee (FDCT) on Oct 8.
September 29, 2020
The Institute of Science and Environment of USJ will hold an online public lecture titled “Mangrove Rehabilitation and Conservation in the Philippines” on the 29th September 2020.
September 1, 2020
Institute of Science and Environment is organising an exhibition titled “Macao’s Mangroves: A COASTAL TREASURE” in September 2020 at Kent Wong Exhibition Gallery.
July 21, 2020
On 21 July 2020, the Institute of Science and Environment is organising an online lecture titled “Revisiting the Rainbow Hydrothermal Vent Field in the Azores: high grade Cu-Au mineralization in an ultramafic rock setting”.
July 7, 2020
Clean the World and Las Vegas Sands Corps. partner with ISE
July 7, 2020
The Institute of Science and Environment of USJ will hold an online public lecture titled “Seas Alive! Understanding the whales, dolphins and porpoises of Macao and adjacent waters” on 7th July 2020
June 30, 2020
The Institute of Science and Environment of USJ will hold an online public lecture titled “Quantifying Hearing: from mechanics to behavior” on 30th June 2020
June 2, 2020
On 2 June 2020, Institute of Science and Environment is organising a Public Lecture on Zoom titled “Nature-based solutions for water in cities” at 6:30pm.
December 5, 2019
On December 5th, 2019, Dr. Pedro Moniz Quelhas defended his Doctoral thesis on “Petrology and Geochemistry of the Igneous Rocks from Macao (South China): Tectono-Magmatic Implications”. The thesis was developed in cotutelle between ISE and FCUL.
December 3, 2019
On 3 December 2019, the Institute of Science and Environment is organising a public lecture titled “Adaptation and Phenotypic Plasticity in Marine Species as a Response to Global Change” by Prof. Celia Schunter.
November 14, 2019
From November 10th to 14th, 2019, USJ signed MoUs with Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science (HITS; Chennai, India) and Krempl Communications International (KCI) at AUAP Annual Conference 2019 being held at Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, Thailand.
October 18, 2019
The USJ PhD student, Mr. Warren Li, gave a presentation at an international workshop on Food Loss and Waste Prevention targeting the Southeast and East Asian Region in Tokyo in October.
November 2, 2019
On November 2nd, 2019, PIRO organised three groups of colleagues from various administrative units and from the University’s ISE to participate in the 10th Edition of Macau Eco TrailHiker.
October 24, 2019
On 24 October 2019, USJ’s Institute of Science and Environment is organising a Public Lecture titled “Standing on Peak 1844: The Case of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park Northeastern Philippines” by Prof. Roberto R. Araño.
October 14, 2019
On 14, 16 and 17 of October 2019, USJ’s ISE will offer a free Short Course on Optical Microscopy facilitated by Prof. Álvaro Madureira Pinto
October 1, 2019
On October 1st 2019, ISE Students and Staff volunteered to do a Mini Coastal Clean-Up and Gathered Sand Samples and Data in Coloane
September 26, 2019
The Institute of Science and Environment is organising a public lecture titled Hydrothermal fields from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: the role of brecciated rocks in ore formation on 26th September



