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Reflecting on the Role of Humanities and Social Sciences in an Era of Disruptive Change

April 18, 2024

Column on Lianhe Zaobao by Professor Wang Gungwu, NUS University Professor.

Clones, Drones and Visual Culture: Teaching the Human Condition in the 21st Century

April 16, 2024

Associate Professor Graham Wolfe and Assistant Professor Beryl Pong incorporate innovative pedagogical tools into their lessons to get their students to think critically about pertinent issues of the day.

NUS and NTU Again Ranked as Top Asian Universities Based on Subjects

April 16, 2024

NUS and NTU ranked higher than Chinese, Japanese and Hong Kong universities in terms of the number of top 10 programmes, and have done so since at least 2021.

Preserving Flesh and Spanning Families

April 15, 2024

Tamils celebrate the Tamil New Year, Puthandu, on the 14th of April. As part of the festivities, Tamils gather with their families and partake in a vegetarian feast. Vegetarian foodways play a significant role in Tamil culture and have featured in academic scholarship. However, Asst. Prof. Indira Arumugam (NUS Sociology and Anthropology) directs the focus […]

The Term “Raya Anak Dagang”

April 13, 2024

Column on Suria News Online by Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, NUS Malay Studies.

Authoritarian Resiliency: Cambodia’s Politics of Social Protection Policy

April 11, 2024

Dr Soksamphoas Im, 2024 LKC NUS-Stanford Fellowship awardee, is visiting FASS from 8 April to 31 May 2024. She is working on ‘Authoritarian Resiliency: Cambodia’s Politics of Social Protection Policy’, a research project and future book that examines Cambodia’s National Social Protection Policy Framework 2016-2025’s IDPoor Program. The project builds on her dissertation research on the […]

19 NUS Programmes Placed in Global Top 10 in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024

April 11, 2024

Spanning across the fields of Business, Computing, Engineering, Science, as well as Humanities and Social Sciences, 19 of NUS’ 44 ranked programmes have been placed among the world’s top 10.

Are our Singaporean Youths Ready for the Working World?

April 11, 2024

Column on CNA Online by Jonathan Sim, Associate Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy and Lecturer from NUS Philosophy.

We Need to Talk: Youth Mental Health Takes Centre Stage at the NUS SSR Conference 2024

April 8, 2024

The hybrid conference, attended by 800 social work practitioners, healthcare professionals, policymakers and researchers, shone a spotlight on the various approaches to help youths cope with social media pressures – from digital initiatives to providing more support at school and at home.

The Importance of Considering Debt and Young Children in Activation: A Survival Analysis of Return to Welfare

April 8, 2024

In April 2020, the Singapore government launched the GoWhere Suite, an all-in-one portal to direct citizens to the resources they needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, one of the key websites in the suite, the SupportGoWhere site, has been used extensively, receiving 4.8 million visits as of June 2022. As society progresses, the government’s […]

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