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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.
Adjunct Professor Bertha Henson (NUS Department of Communications and New Media and Tembusu College) recently published Not for Circulation: The George E. Bogaars Story (NUS Press, 2021), a biography of one of Singapore’s pioneer civil servants, The Straits Times reports in ‘Ex-spymaster and top civil servant’s biography on WWII, S’pore’s separation launched’ (October 2021). During his illustrious career …
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In a recent The Straits Times article, Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Social Work & NUS Social Service Research Centre), Dr Natalie Pang (NUS Communications and New Media) and Professor Lim Sun Sun (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, SUTD) discuss the factors that prevent people from using digital services. For lower-income families, sometimes fear gets in the way, on top of cost concerns.
Open to all NUS students, the CHS Case Competition saw participants tackle the problem from a multitude of angles, including technical innovation, regulation, cost, and consumer education, charging behaviour, mindset change, acceptance, and willingness to pay.
As part of the NUS Students’ Political Association’s (NUSPA) 45th anniversary, the association published “On The Road: A Collection of Essays and Articles From NUSPA Publications”. The book highlights Singapore’s major transformations in its political, societal and economic landscape through 39 essays and interviews from the 1980s till today.
The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is pleased to re-appoint our Faculty Advisory Board (FAB) members for another term till September 2022.
The Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia is now accepting applications until 31 January 2022. Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford fellows spend three or four months at Stanford and two to four months at NUS, writing and conducting research on, or related to, contemporary Southeast Asia. Dr Kate Imy (Assistant Professor of History, …
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