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NUS Open House 2022: Interdisciplinary Offerings, In-person Activities and More!
NUS is offering a number of new programmes to prepare graduates for the future.
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FASS Inspiring Mentor 2021 Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!
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Winners of AY2020-21 Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards Unveiled
The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is proud to announce the 37 winners of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for their work in AY2020‐21, 16 of which have also been nominated for the Annual Teaching Excellence Award(ATEA) and Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA).
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FASS Announces New Additions to Leadership Team
The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the most recent appointments to the Faculty’s leadership team.
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NUS Bags Major PR Award for College of Humanities and Sciences Campaign
One year since the official inauguration of the NUS College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS), the publicity campaign for the new College has gained recognition at the recent Public Relations in the Service of Mankind (PRISM) Awards. The University bagged a Distinction Award in the category “Outstanding Campaign by a Non-Government Organisation or Not-For-Profit Organisation” for the launch and publicity of the interdisciplinary College. The award recognises NUS’ effective communications regarding the necessity of an interdisciplinary education to faculty members, prospective students and their parents, alumni, employers, and members of the public. The campaign also underscored what CHS offers students in a world plagued by complex challenges that require integrated interdisciplinary approaches. The campaign included the launch event, student profiles, social media, and CHS collaterals and media assets in the form of CHS-specific infographics, news and FAQs. The campaign also included a video series on interdisciplinarity, a podcast series by the teaching team of the common curriculum Humanities module, and stakeholder endorsement in the form of testimonials from students and alumni of NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and the NUS Faculty of Science (FoS) who have pursued interdisciplinary studies. A successful admissions publicity campaign was run, including the 2021 NUS Open House which drummed …
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Results of the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize 2021 – DRAMA
Department of English Language & Literature National University of Singapore The Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize 2021 – Drama We are very pleased to announce the results of the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition 20212 – Drama. Congratulations to the prize winners! 1st Prize ($10,000): Danial Matin B Zaini for “Circle Around a Square” 2nd Prize ($6,000): Soh Kai Xin for “Eclipse” 3rd Prize ($4,000): Firqin Binte Sumartono for “ADILA” Honourable Mention: Felix Cheong Seng Fei for “Inconvenience of Minor Parts” The prize winners will be notified by email and will be required to attend the Award presentation. Details of the event will be provided closer to the date. 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’ predecessor institutions. The Prize commemorates Goh Sin Tub’s life, achievements and support for …
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An Interview with Emeritus Prof S. Vasoo and Assoc Prof Winston Goh on The Strange Start of Psychology at the National University of Singapore
The Strange Start of Psychology at the National University of Singapore (NUS Department of Psychology, 2021), showcases the history of the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Department of Psychology, Singapore’s oldest psychology programme. The programme, which kicked off during the 86/87 academic year at the Department of Social Work (renamed the Department of Social Work and Psychology), became a department in 2005. Author Dr John Michael Elliott (1945-2019), who was at the time a psychologist at the then Ministry of Social Affairs, joined the programme six weeks after it began and retired in 2018. As the book explains, in Singapore, historically psychology was viewed more as clinical work that supported psychiatry, and mental health care was deprioritized. Instead, during the island’s colonial era, patients requiring mental health treatment were institutionalized in The Insane Hospital, which commenced operations in 1841 with 30 beds. This hospital evolved into The Lunatic Asylum (1862, 100 beds), followed by The New Lunatic Asylum (1887, 300 beds), and then the Mental Hospital in 1928, which became Woodbridge Hospital in 1951. In 1993, Woodbridge Hospital moved to Buangkok Green, becoming the Institute of Mental Health‘s new inpatient facility. There was a definite need for trained …
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mar/gins: Call for Submissions
Margins is gearing up for its seventh issue and we need your work once again! Why submit? As students, we write on the margins of professional research. Our papers and theses—the products of much devoted labour—hardly see the light of day once TurnItIn and LumiNUS get hold of them. But you can save your brilliant work from the exile of your hard drive or the cloud by letting us give your ideas a voice outside the classroom. If you’ve got a paper you’re especially proud of, a daring alt-take too risqué for class, a poetic incision on something you learned, photos or even footage of your blood, sweat, and tears, send it to us and let us, as your peers, celebrate you. You’ve already encountered your peers’ exciting ideas in Issue 6. Now it’s your turn. Head over to our website or our Facebook page to find out more! You may view our submissions guidelines here, and please do email us at marginsjournal@gmail.com with any questions you might have. We look forward to receiving your submissions! — The Margins Team
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LESSONS FROM THE DREAM FACTORY
Alumni entrepreneurs from the NUS Overseas Colleges programme share the profound influence the experience has had on them.
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