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In conjunction with the United Nations’ International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem on 26 July, mangrove expert and geographer Associate Professor Daniel Friess (NUS Geography) diaries a day in his life as a researcher in an Eco-Business article.
Undergraduate Friedel Wong (NUS Sociology) explores why there is an “unhealthy obsession with grades” in Singapore universities, and what it would take to move beyond grades.
On 27 July 2019, Channel NewsAsia (CNA) Insider featured a video article on Ms Bay Song Lin, who works as a medical illustrator at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Ms Bay creates graphics and animations of human anatomical structures to enhance the learning experience for students in the faculty. For example, …
Taking place at the Kent Ridge Guild House, the dinner honoured the newly minted graduates and was graced by some 160 guests, from the graduates – including Honorary Graduate Professor Wang Gungwu – and faculty to members of the NUS Board, and NUS Pro-Chancellors Mr Po’ad Mattar, Mrs Theresa Foo, and Prof S. Jayakumar.
Speaking at the inaugural NUS Lifelong Learning Festival, Minister for Education Mr Chan Chun Sing called on Singapore’s Institutes of Higher Learning to work closely with industry to enhance their lifelong learning course offerings.
No one knows what the future holds, except that there is a vast and technology-driven world out there. NUS has done its best to prepare students for a digital, post-pandemic society — and done it well — through the introduction of game-changing tech tools and major reforms focusing on technology subjects.
The new initiatives, including tuition fee rebates and increased capacity in selected Graduate Certificate courses, will make it easier for prospective students to pursue postgraduate studies with NUS.
Professor Wang Gungwu (NUS History), Chairman of the NUS East Asian Institute and University Professor, was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize on 18 July, 2022. Home Is Where We Are, the second part of Prof Wang’s memoirs, is in the running for English creative non-fiction. The book was written with Prof Wang’s late wife …
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Professor Tan Tai Yong, whose previous roles at NUS include President of Yale-NUS College, Vice Provost (Student Life), and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will become President of SUSS in 2023.
‘Mangrove jungle stock photo’, iStock/Joshelerry NUS researchers are pioneering innovative solutions for sustainability in light of Singapore’s Green Plan 2030. In Season 1 Episode 4 of Channel NewsAsia’s Innovating for the Future documentary series titled Environment, Associate Professor Daniel Friess (NUS Geography) discusses the value of mangrove forests in Singapore and Asia. Millions of people …