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Good Mental Health Can Improve Longevity: Local Study

March 1, 2023

The Singapore Chinese Health study, a long-term interdisciplinary study involving researchers from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences following about a thousand Singaporean Chinese participants for more than two decades, has found that positive psychological states can be correlated with better longevity. Findings from this study […]

The influx of International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes into local education systems in Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea

March 1, 2023

As one of Singapore’s International Baccalaureate (IB) schools, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) was founded on 1 March 1886. IB has experienced worldwide growth in recent years, with Asia-Pacific having seen the fastest increase. The ‘brand recognition’ of IB is primarily responsible for its rising popularity. IB’s brand recognition includes an elite image, liberal and progressive pedagogies, […]

Three MOE Tier 2 Grants Awarded to FASS Researchers

February 28, 2023

Congratulations to the Principal Investigators and research teams of the following projects, ‘Analyses and Projections of Households and Living Arrangements in Six ASEAN Countries (HOUSEHOLD-ASEAN)’, ‘Climate-driven Changes in the Terrestrial Carbon Sink of Tropical Asia’, and ‘Health Implications of Gender Inequality: Articulating A Global Research Agenda’, which are funded for three years via Tier 2 […]

FASS Inspiring Mentor 2022 Award Winners Announced

February 28, 2023

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!

The NUS Career Compass 2023

February 25, 2023

Find out how the University has developed and broadened our curriculum to better prepare our graduates for the swiftly evolving workplace, and how interdisciplinary learning can help students solve complex issues in our society.

Good Mental Health Can Improve Longevity: Local Study

February 24, 2023

By FASS Alumna Ms Audrey Tan (NUS Sociology ’13) who is Science Communication and Outreach Lead at the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions at the Faculty of Science and the Tropical Marine Science Institute at NUS.

Four NUS Faculty Members Recognised by the Association for Psychological Science

February 23, 2023

Alumni couples and donors raise more than S$357,000 for financially-challenged NUS students.

CHS at NUS Open House 2023: Download the FASS Essentials on 27 February 2023

February 23, 2023

On 27 February, get the full download on the essentials of academic programmes, student life, career preparation, overseas opportunities and financial aid at CHS via Zoom in the ‘virtual’ edition of CHS@NUS Open House 2023.

Cynthia Siew Awarded SSHR Fellowship for ‘Measuring the Singaporean Mental Lexicon: Lexical-Semantic Norms for Singapore English Words’

February 23, 2023

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Cynthia Siew (NUS Psychology) on being awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Fellowship for her project titled Measuring the Singaporean Mental Lexicon: Lexical-Semantic Norms for Singapore English Words! In Measuring the Singaporean Mental Lexicon: Lexical-semantic norms for Singapore English words, funded for S$747,188 by the Social Science and Humanities Research […]

Kung Chien Wen Awarded SSHR Fellowship for ‘Sinospheric Subjects: Chinese Singaporeans, China, and Taiwan, 1976-1990’

February 22, 2023

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kung Chien Wen (NUS History) on being awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Fellowship for his project Sinospheric Subjects: Chinese Singaporeans, China, and Taiwan, 1976-1990! In Sinospheric Subjects, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council in Singapore, Asst Prof Kung seeks to illuminate ordinary Chinese Singaporeans’ relations with […]

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