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Plastic Waste and Women’s Household Practices in Asia and Australia
Plastic waste has been one of the most persistent and troubling contributors to climate change. Due to its widespread use and inability to biodegrade, plastic waste poses serious environmental threats, often ending up in oceans, rivers, or other ecosystems. This harms organisms living within those ecosystems, whether through entanglement, habitat …
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Making Her-story: How this History Graduate Turned Barriers into Bridges
Rachel Quek (NUS History and College of Alice and Peter Tan ’24) held on to the belief that her formative undergraduate years were a time for her to explore who she wanted to, and could, be. Armed with this conviction, she used the challenges that came her way as opportunities to grow and build up her resilience for life after graduation.
Curating Buddhism, Fostering Diplomacy: The ‘Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda’ Exhibition in Singapore
In their article ‘Curating Buddhism, Fostering Diplomacy: The ‘Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda’ Exhibition in Singapore’ (The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2023), Assistant Professor Jack Chia (NUS History) and Mr Darryl Lim (Assistant Curator for Southeast Asia, Asian Civilisations Museum) provide an in-depth analysis of the 2014 exhibition, …
Foo Hai Ch’an Monastery Fellow in Buddhist Studies
Associate Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia has been appointed as the inaugural Foo Hai Ch’an Monastery Fellow in Buddhist Studies, effective July 1, 2024. This prestigious appointment recognizes his significant contributions to the field of Buddhist studies and religious history. A/Prof Chia is a distinguished historian of religion at the National …
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AI and Tech Ideas Take Flight at NUS’ first Bay Area Forum
Organised for the first time in San Francisco’s buzzing Bay Area, the two-day NUS Innovation Forum sparked a vibrant exchange of ideas between NUS alumni, students, thought leaders and industry experts.
Archiving the Underclasses: Knowledge, Law, and Everyday Agency in Modern Southeast Asia
‘Archiving the Underclasses: Knowledge, Law, and Everyday Agency in Modern Southeast Asia’ is a research project funded from 2022 to 2025 by the Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 and hosted by the NUS Asia Research Institute (ARI). The project brings together a diverse team of scholars …
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