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NUS Researchers Honoured for Early Career Contributions by the Association for Psychological Science
The four NUS Psychology researchers join other NUS faculty members who have been recognised by APS in the past including Associate Professor Eddie Tong (also of NUS Psychology), Professor Sam Yam and Assistant Professor David Peter Daniels from NUS Business School, and Assistant Professor Reuben Ng from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS.
International Women’s Day is commemorated annually on 8 March. This celebration empowers women by making their struggles visible, thus advocating for greater equality of the sexes.‘Singaporean Women Living in China: The Uneven Burdens of Middle-class Transnational Caregiving’ (Asian Studies Review, 2022) by Dr Sylvia Ang (Monash University), Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng (NUS Japanese Studies …
A paper authored by Ms Aimee-Sophia Lim, a full-time teaching assistant at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Anthropology was among the 130 papers presented by academics analysing Swift’s influence across diverse disciplines including economics, business, media studies, health, as well as the societal and cultural spheres.
Recent NUS graduates have secured exciting careers, armed with a diverse skill set honed through a rigorous interdisciplinary and experiential NUS education, and future-ready life skills.
As Asian and European nations prepare to commemorate ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Day on March 1st to celebrate the partnership and dialogue between the continents, it is pertinent to reflect on the urban dynamics of Asia and Europe. Cities in Asia and Europe are undergoing significant shifts in migration patterns, marked by transnational ties and …
Xie Hening, a Master’s student from the NUS Chinese Studies, considers the ways one of the larger international student groups in Singapore make the most of the Spring Festival away from home.
NUS alumni Mr Darius Cheung (Engineering ’04) and Dr Shannon Ang (Sociology ’15) recently shared their insights at Institute of Policy Studies’ annual flagship Singapore Perspectives conference, exploring the hopes, fears, expectations of youths in relation to family life.
‘Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition: China’s Rise and the Remaking of Ancestral Communities in Southeast Asia’, a Ministry of Education AcRF Tier 2 grant funded from 2023 to 2026, investigates the transformation of Chinese Voluntary Associations (CVAs), also known as Huaren Shetuan, in contemporary Southeast Asia. CVAs are non-official and non-governmental community groups that originate …
On 3rd November 2023, the Political Science Society of NUS (PSSOC), in conjunction with the NUS Political Science Department, organised the second iteration of the Singapore Foreign Policy dialogue.
A chance meeting on the bus led to a lifetime love for Sunil Rai (FASS ’13) and Khirti Belani (FASS ’13). The pair have now been married for nine years and are parents to a 4.5-year-old son, Veer Belani-Rai.