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Curating Shadows: Malayan Shadow Puppets in Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum

March 21, 2025

World Puppetry Day is celebrated worldwide on 21 March. Across Asia, shadow puppetry is an art form traditionally associated with the high culture of Hindu India and has proliferated as a form of entertainment in various contexts. Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) exhibits over 700 shadow puppets (wayang purwo), with most scholarship focusing on the …

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Malaysia won’t be able to solve its traffic woes without better bus networks

March 18, 2025

Dr Timothy Wong, NUS Economics,.

Baseline Study for Health District @ Queenstown unveils key insights on residents’ well-being

March 18, 2025

NUS study highlights the need for stronger social connections, trust and cohesion in a holistic approach to healthy longevity.

Awareness of history is a must

March 17, 2025

By Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, NUS Malay Studies.

Can classic moral stories with anthropomorphized animal characters promote children’s honesty?

March 15, 2025

From ‘The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ to ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, moral stories have long served to entertain children and convey moral lessons through their succinct narratives. Many of these classic moral tales feature anthropomorphised animals as key characters, with anthropomorphism — the attribution of human traits to non-human animals — being prevalent in …

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NUS120 Open House brings enthusiastic crowds to NUS campuses

March 14, 2025

Coinciding with NUS’ 120th anniversary this year, the event, which included a six-day virtual segment, provided a glimpse into the distinctive educational approach of Singapore’s first higher education institution and flagship university.

22 NUS programmes in global top 10 in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025

March 13, 2025

History of Art, Geography, Linguistics and Politics & International Studies at NUS ranked in the Global Top 10 of the latest Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (QS WUR) by Subject 2025 released on 12 March 2025.

Investigating the network structure of domain‐specific knowledge using the semantic fluency task

March 8, 2025

Cognitive scientists have a long-standing interest in mapping out how information in our brains is organised and retrieved. Semantic memory is the part of long-term memory that stores facts and information about the world, and is conceptualised as a network of concepts that are connected based on associations and relationships. In order to study the …

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Half of land use carbon emissions in Southeast Asia can be mitigated through peat swamp forest and mangrove conservation and restoration

March 3, 2025

Southeast Asia (SEA) is home to approximately 34% of the world’s mangrove forests, representing a crucial component of coastal ecosystems. From Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve to Thailand’s Tarutao National Park, these peatlands and mangrove act as natural carbon sinks by absorbing more carbon than they release, with the excess accumulating as partially decomposed organic …

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Do college admissions criteria matter? Evidence from discretionary vs. grade-based admission policies

March 1, 2025

The NUS Open House, generally held every March, welcomes prospective students and provides answers to their questions about university life. This coincides with when students receive their GCE A-Level grades and begin to decide on whether to pursue a college education. This can be a stressful time due to the importance of this decision, with …

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