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An interdisciplinary team of NUS researchers will be embarking on a five-year project to investigate digital information creation, dissemination and consumption using a lens of consumer behaviour.
Dr Khoo Kim Choo (NUS Social Work, ’70) has been recently inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame for her legacy and impact in the early childhood education sector.
Temasek Hall welcomed its first 485 residents in July 1988 as a full-fledged student residence. Now in its 35th year, it counts around 7,000 individuals as alumni, and prides itself on a fun-loving and innovative culture, a legacy of sporting triumphs, and its achievements in staging annual productions and charity activities.
The biennial Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize is a gift from Dr Sylvia Goh to NUS in memory and recognition of her husband Goh Sin Tub, one of Singapore’s best-known writers. The Competition is open to all members of the NUS community. The closing date for receipt of entries is at 5pm on Monday, 4 September 2023.
The COVID-19 pandemic had forced many activities, traditionally held in large groups and in-person, to be adapted into online forms. ‘Cyber Dharma: Celebrating E-Vesak in Singapore’ (CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, 2023) by Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History & Asia Research Institute) explores how Buddhist organisations in Singapore have adapted mobility […]
An Op-Ed by Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng of NUS Japanese Studies in Lianhe Zaobao (11 June 2023).
Singapore’s racial classification system — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others (CMIO) scheme — is a key policy in maintaining racial harmony among the country’s diverse multiracial population. Each racial category is associated with traits defined by the state’s racial ideology, a prominent state-defined trait being the mother tongue associated with the three major racial […]
Head of NUS Chinese Studies Professor Ong Chang Woei comments on songs in Chinese.
Dr Serina Rahman (NUS Southeast Asian Studies) discusses the negative impact adverse climate and environmental conditions have on societies, and the complex relationships that sometimes make accountability more difficult to establish.
The Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has awarded the Edwin Thumboo Prize 2023 to three pre-university students for their excellent literary work. Named after one of Singapore’s most prominent poets and scholars, the Edwin Thumboo Prize, aims to promote excellence […]