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The TODAY Youth Survey, which polled 1,066 respondents between the ages of 18 and 35, found that there was a high overall acceptance rate of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people among youth. However, the survey also found that fewer people were willing to accept family members having same-sex relationships. 75 percent …
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Senior citizens with strong social networks of family, friends, and neighbours have been found to have better health. However, seniors’ social networks need not be limited to their local neighbourhoods. In our globalized world, it is not unlikely for many of seniors’ social ties, particularly with friends, to reach beyond their immediate surroundings. The project …
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Education entrepreneur Ms Rilla Melati (NUS Theatre Studies, ’96) is reimagining the way Malay is learnt.
The inaugural cohort of the College of Humanities and Sciences share their expectations of university, ambitions, as well as thoughts on HSH1000 “The Human Condition”, an interdisciplinary module that exposes students on topics related to the ethos of being human under the College’s Common Curriculum.
Third-year student Cassandra Yip (Major in NUS Environmental Studies, Minors in Global Studies and Economics) is rolling out ground-up initiatives to address environmental issues. She is the founder of Earth School Singapore (ESS), Singapore’s first non-profit school for environmental education and the co-founder of the NUS Chapter of Student Energy, consisting of a network of youth organisations advocating for sustainable energy.
Happening on Wednesday, 17 November: ICT4Good/Asia Workshop in collaboration with NUS Communications and New Media and NUS CivicTech Lab! This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners pursuing ICT4Good in Asia to discuss the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral development of the field. The morning panels feature academic topics such as educating computer science students about the civic, …
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40 exceptional individuals were recognised at the NUS Alumni Awards 2021, making this the largest cohort of trailblazers honoured in a single year since the awards were introduced in 2005. Organised by the NUS Office of Alumni Relations, this year’s awards was hosted in two ceremonies last week.
Ms Bianca Tham (NUS English Language & Literature and University Scholars’ Programme, ’17) isn’t naive about the impact she can make on the environment — but that doesn’t curb her enthusiasm one bit.
Professor Lu Xixi and Dr Dongfeng Li from the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences led an international team of researchers to conduct a new analysis of observations of headwater rivers in the area. The study revealed that fluvial sediment loads have been increasing substantially, even much faster than river water discharge. This is due to the recent warmer and wetter climate, and has important implications for water quality, hydropower development and maintenance, and for the riverine carbon cycle.
NUS has retained its position as the 24th most prestigious university worldwide, in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) global reputation ranking.