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Emeritus Professor John Norman Miksic, a distinguished scholar at NUS Southeast Asian Studies and Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, passed away on 25 October 2025 at the age of 79. Professor Miksic first came to Singapore in 1968 while serving in the Peace Corps in Kedah, Malaysia, and went on to spend most […]
By Associate Professor Vincent Chua (NUS Sociology and Anthropology) and Dr Chew Han Ei (Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
In the early years after Singapore’s independence, there was a clear formula for achieving a desirable lifestyle: securing a well-paying job, raising a family in a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat, and striving for constant upgrades and social mobility. However, demographic changes have resulted in a rapidly ageing population. Combined with challenging economic and […]
The October edition of NUS Career Fest 2025 kicked off on an energetic note, with NUS students from across disciplines engaging with potential employers to explore internship and full-time career opportunities.
Since its inception in 1988, the International Corpus of English (ICE) has been a cornerstone for research on World Englishes, comprising 14 countries’ corpora from both the Inner Circle countries like Britain and the US to the Outer Circle countries like Singapore and the Philippines. Grammatically annotating the ICE corpora is a tall order due […]
Over 11 days, students from NUS Geography and the Environmental Studies (BES) programme crossed Kenya’s legendary landscapes, immersing themselves in the realities of environmental change, human-wildlife interactions, and the deep connections between people and place.
Despite the global phase-out of leaded gasoline, lead pollution continues to threaten health and widen inequality, with low- and middle-income countries bearing the brunt.
The October edition of NUS Career Fest 2025 kicked off on an energetic note, with NUS students from across disciplines engaging with potential employers to explore internship and full-time career opportunities.
Non-consensual sexual content among most severe online harms: Study
Recently released findings from a study by the Institute of Policy Studies on online harms and Singaporeans’ attitudes and responses to them.