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Chinese Media Group collaborates with NUS and Tsinghua University to offer minor courses

January 17, 2025

In order to cultivate local Chinese media talents, the New Press Media Chinese media group is collaborating with NUS and Tsinghua University to offer the minor in Chinese Media Minor at NUS Chinese Studies.

Explaining Health Misinformation Belief through News, Social, and Alternative Health Media Use: The Moderating Roles of Need for Cognition and Faith in Intuition

January 16, 2025

In recent years, the proliferation of health misinformation has plagued social media and digital platforms. The widespread and rapid dissemination of false claims undermines evidence-based knowledge and public health initiatives, posing a significant threat to informed individual decision-making and jeopardising public health outcomes on a societal level.  Previous research has examined misinformation on platforms like …

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A Lifelong Family Legacy Inspired by S$300

January 13, 2025

A one-time gift of S$300 to Mrs Lim Weng Sam (Arts & Social Sciences ’73) when she was a young girl has changed many lives.

Southeast Asia Friendship Initiative: Uncovering perspectives on education and entrepreneurship

January 9, 2025

Under the Southeast Asia Friendship Initiative (SFI), 19 Helix House students embarked on a 10-day trip to Hanoi and Sapa in December 2024, where they explored Vietnam’s cultural and industrial contributions towards meeting the United Nations SDGs.

Doing Business as a Christian in Singapore: The Case of C. K. Tang and the Tangs Department Store

January 9, 2025

Nestled in the heart of Orchard Road, TANGS Departmental Store features a modest appearance compared to flashier, more modern complexes in the region. Yet, under the astute guidance of Founder Tang Choon Kiat, colloquially known as C. K. Tang, the store is credited as the catalyst for transforming Orchard Road into Singapore’s most famous shopping …

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The Classes that Haunt Us

January 6, 2025

Dr Noorman Abdullah (Arts & Social Sciences ’02, MSocSci ’05) is FASS’ Assistant Dean (External Relations & Student Life) and a Senior Lecturer and within NUS Sociology & Anthropology and NUS Malay Studies. His research interests include religion and society; race relations; decolonial pedagogies; and sensory studies.

Hopes for the New Year, strengthening our commitment to humanity

January 6, 2025

By Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, NUS Malay Studies.

NUS alumnus and aspiring migration anthropologist wins prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford

January 3, 2025

Salifian Sulaiman (NUS History and International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, 2024) tells us that his interest in anthropology and migration studies is motivated by a concern for uplifting vulnerable and minority communities worldwide, as well as his own experiences.

Does volunteering improve the psychosocial well‐being of volunteers?

January 2, 2025

The act of volunteering is prevalent in Singapore, with key initiatives such as Values in Action in public schools fostering this behaviour within children from a young age. Existing trial studies have yielded inconclusive results on whether volunteering produces beneficial causal effects on the general population, specifically psychosocial outcomes, which refer to the life satisfaction, …

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Follow the money: Financial geography course uncovers how finance shapes our world

December 26, 2024

In GE3257 Financial Geographies, the first course on this topic to be offered at NUS, students are introduced to financial geography “as a lens through which they can better understand the world, the evolution of human civilisation and its relationships with nature,” says course instructor Professor Dariusz Wójcik.

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