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Fostering Neighbourliness through Public Housing in Singapore

May 2, 2022

Researchers from NUS Sociology deem that Singapore’s public housing provisions build a greater sense of togetherness among residents, which translates into stronger and more robust nationalistic sentiments.

FASS Alumni Honoured for Sterling Contributions to Nation and Society

April 29, 2022

The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) honoured five eminent alumni on 29 April 2022, presenting each with a FASS Distinguished Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award 2021.

Conserving her Heritage Language

April 28, 2022

Dr Nala Lee (NUS alumna and Assistant Professor of Linguistics) who is Peranakan Chinese by birth, tells us more about her language documentation work on her heritage language, Baba Malay.

‘Malay History’ Sulalatus Salatin, Relevant to this Day

April 28, 2022

Dr Azhar Ibrahim, Senior Lecturer from the Dept of Malay Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS College of Humanities and Sciences, explains why ‘Malay History’ is one of the best works in the world of Malay literature and remains relevant to our modern times.

Suria News Online, 24 April 2022

FASS Undergraduate in Global L’Oréal Case Competition

April 27, 2022

In April 2022, a team led by Year 3 NUS Philosophy student Aingeal Keong came ahead of more than eighty teams in the Green Track to clinch a spot in the International Semi-Finals of the global L’Oréal Brandstorm 2022 competition.

The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords

April 25, 2022

In the late 1990s, there were concerns of a decline in Singapore’s standard of English. This was attributed to Singaporeans’ penchant of using Singlish in casual conversation, which is grammatically incorrect and not commonly understood among foreigners. To reverse this problem, the Speak Good English Movement was launched on 29 April 2000 to discourage the […]

#DiscoverFASS@CHS 2022 | Watch Masterclasses Here!

April 21, 2022

As part of the #DiscoverFASS@CHS campaign leading up to our Open House in May, we are holding in-person Masterclasses presented by three of our award-winning Faculty members this Saturday, 23 April 2022, and streaming them ‘live’ on our website—so NO ONE misses them.

A Class of its Own

April 18, 2022

United through shared memories and passions, the Class of ’72 — and their close long-time friends — continues to give back to the NUS community, 50 years since their graduation.

If These Walls Could Talk

April 18, 2022

For close to a century, generations of students have passed through the NUS Bukit Timah Campus, their memories adding to its long history — a story that continues to be written.

Emerging class circles amid fading racial lines

April 16, 2022

While meritocracy has levelled the playing field and blurred ethnic lines for earlier cohorts of Singaporeans, new inequalities have emerged.

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