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Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) and Department of Sociology) discusses ways the pandemic is making the impact of economic recession on young people much worse compared to other age groups in a piece in Bloomberg. She warns that the impact of this crisis may strain relations with older generations and put young people’s mental health at risk.
Associate Professor Albert G. Z. Hu (NUS Economics) writes in The Straits Times about how the nature of basic science makes it harder for sanctions to work. Discussing whether the United States’ sanctions will stunt the ascent of Chinese science, he first states that China ranks second globally in the world league table of science, with the US ranked first, and has been swiftly catching up. A/P Hu reports that his research reveals that China’s top scientists have benefited from their academic training in US universities.
For students to learn well, educators must first help to mitigate the fear and anxiety that impede their learning, said Mr Jonathan Sim, National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Philosophy instructor, when outlining his teaching philosophy.
He was one of 36 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) recipients, awarded to outstanding Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) faculty in recognition of their high level of commitment in Academic Year 2019/2020.
NUS Southeast Asian Studies Master’s student Poh Yong Han has been named the 2021 Singapore Rhodes Scholar. With this prestigious scholarship she will pursue a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, matriculating in October 2021.
Professor Jean Yeung (NUS CFPR and Sociology) was interviewed on Channel 8’s Hello Singapore about Singaporean fathers taking paternity leave on Tuesday, 27 October. She shared results from the 2019 SG LEADS (Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study). They included the fact that 66.4% of the dads in families with a child under 7 took the paid paternity leave when their child was born. Of them, 59% took 2 weeks, 37% took less than 2 weeks and less than 4% took more than 2 weeks. Prof Yeung pointed out that fathers with higher education and occupational status are more likely to take paternity leave.
University Professor Wang Gungwu needs no introduction. That is well and good because, otherwise, the rest of this article would have consisted of a list of his academic achievements and awards.
The great historian, who is a Sinologist and Southeast Asianist alike, knows that the world knows him. However, he is a cheerfully easy man to talk to. He wears his credentials lightly, does not stand on ceremony, and speaks with a clarity that not everyone possesses even in writing. He is courteous to an Asian fault, but every word of his is informed by the contentious intellectual legacy of the West. His Chinese upbringing is impeccably Confucian, his English accent is effortlessly patrician, but his mind is restlessly global.
The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami launched Ms Selly Amalina Muzammil’s (Arts and Social Sciences ’09) lifelong mission to fight hunger globally. The NUS Alumni Awards 2019 winner talks about her passion to save and transform lives.
The Faculty Teaching Excellence Award is awarded to faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching. Each year, a select few colleagues are recognised for their teaching based on peer reviews, student feedback and exposition of their teaching philosophy.
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.
The 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology has been awarded to Professor Wang Gungwu, University Professor at NUS Arts and Social Sciences and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Chinese diaspora. Announced on 20 June 2020 by the Tang Prize Foundation, this prestigious award was conferred on Prof Wang in recognition of his trailblazing and dissecting insights on the history of the Chinese world order, overseas Chinese, and Chinese migratory experience.