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Edwin Thumboo Prize 2021
The Department of English Language and Literature has awarded the Edwin Thumboo Prize 2021 to four pre-university students for their exceptional performance in the study of literature. Named after one of Singapore’s most prominent poets and the Department’s Emeritus Professor, the Edwin Thumboo Prize seeks to encourage excellence in the study of Literature at the pre-university level by recognising outstanding literary works by A-level and International Baccalaureate (IB) students of English Literature in Singapore. Established in 2019, the annual Prize is administered by the Department with support from the Ministry of Education (MOE), and is funded by generous donors including patrons of the arts and former winners of the Angus Ross Prize. Joint Winners Suneeti Sreekumar (National Junior College) Wong Shao-Yi (Raffles Institution) Suneeti Sreekumar Suneeti’s essay explored the themes of inadequacy and the quest for affirmation in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Suneeti said, “I owe it all to my parents for impressing on me from young the value of reading widely and for supporting all my endeavours. I’d like to thank both the NJC English and Language Arts Departments. I would like to give special thanks to the following teachers …
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Singapore through the years: A digital cartographic record
The one thing that Himani Dharshini never expected to learn about when she entered university was herself. The self-professed introvert confessed that, prior to studying at the National University of Singapore (NUS), she never saw herself as a leader. But her journey with NUS has shaped her into a person she never knew she could become.
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#DiscoverFASS@CHS 2021 | Sign Up for Masterclasses, Learn All About Our Majors
As part of the #DiscoverFASS@CHS campaign leading up to our Open House in May this year, we are holding ‘live’ Masterclasses presented by three of our award-winning Faculty members, and our Departments are hosting ‘live’ Q&A sessions for prospective students.
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The Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize 2021 – DRAMA
The Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize 2021 – DRAMA The biennial Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize was established by the late Dr Sylvia Goh with an endowed gift to the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore in memory and recognition of her late husband, Goh Sin Tub, who was one of Singapore’s best-known local writers. Goh Sin Tub and Dr Sylvia Goh are both alumni of the University of Malaya (UM), one of NUS’s predecessor institutions. The Prize commemorates Goh Sin Tub’s life, achievements and support for education. The deadline for submission of entries is Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 5pm. The results will be announced on 15 December 2021 at the NUS websites https://fass.nus.edu.sg/ell/news/. Award The following prizes will be awarded: First Prize: $10,000 Second Prize: $6,000 Third Prize: $4,000 Only one prize per recipient will be awarded. In the event that there is no deserving prize winner, the Department of English Language and Literature has the discretion not to award any prizes for this competition. Rules of the Competition 1. The competition is open to all members of the NUS community (including the NUS High School of Mathematics and Science) …
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NUS Undergraduates Push the Frontiers of Engineering and Design
When one explores uncharted territory, things can go wrong. Training undergraduate students to solve complex challenges is precisely the aim of the iDP at NUS Engineering. It was established in 2009 to give students a holistic education, and the opportunity to collaborate with industry partners to work on real-world problems.
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Dr Susan Ang: Training Students to Grapple with Complications and Complexities
Dr Susan Ang, Assistant Professor at NUS English Language and Literature, talks about the “randomness…involved” in her choice of career, and shares her approach to teaching and perspectives on learning.
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FASS Alumna Georgette Tan Receives Lifetime Accolade at SABRE Awards
On 24 September 2020, Georgette Tan (Arts and Social Sciences, ’82), was conferred a lifetime accolade at the virtual Asia-Pacific Superior Achievement in Branding, Reputation & Engagement (SABRE) Awards. Tan was previously Senior Vice President of Communications at Mastercard, where she managed external and internal communications across the Asia Pacific for over 18 years.
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Road to Gautam’s PhD Journey
Meet Gautam, an awardee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Dean’s PhD Fellowship. The FASS Dean PhD fellowship is one of the highest honors awarded to the top few incoming PhD FASS Students, with a cap of maximum three recipients annually. Recipients of the FASS Dean’s PhD Fellowship will attain an extra year worth of funding in addition to the NUS Research Scholarship. In this feature, Gautam will be sharing more about himself and his research project. As a teenager I searched novels for sentences that felt true, and later grew fond of stringing together moments in my writing. Before starting my PhD at NUS, I was working on a creative writing MA at NTU. The MA thesis traced my prodigal-son journey to the US, hiding hurt of migrating from small-city India to Singapore as a tween. Where that story was a chance to travel past dysfunctional bits of the global as I came to terms with Singapore, the PhD allows me to ask more methodically what may replace that which I have critiqued. My research then is focused on ways of reframing Indian Ocean histories of migration and environmental transformation to allow for alternate terms of …
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Poetry Shortlist | Singapore Literature Prize 2020
We are pleased to announce that Professor Edwin Thumboo’s poetry collection, A Gathering of Themes (Ethos Books, 2019), has been shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020! Professor Thumboo is one of Singapore’s foremost pioneer poets. After more than a decade since his last anthology, Still Travelling (Ethos Books, 2008), he brings to us a new work that features 109 poems, covering a wide range of topics including love, religion, history and nationhood. In time his words fly. ‘A special moment’. We wish Professor Thumboo all the best! The virtual awards ceremony is on 27 August 2020, 8pm. You can tune in to the ceremony on Facebook! Find out more about the shortlisted titles here: https://bookcouncil.sg/singapore-literature-prize/shortlists/category/poetry-English Get A Gathering of Themes here: https://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/products/a-gathering-of-themes Read about the collection here: https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/edwin-thumboo-releases-new-poetry-collection-at-age-85
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