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On Day 1 of the FASS Global Research Forum, following the two keynote speeches, the first theme, ‘Social Media: Human Behavior and Response’, showcased research by NUS Department of Communications and New Media faculty members Associate Professor Elmie Nekmat, Assistant Professor Kokil Jaidka, Assistant Professor Taberez Neyazi, and Assistant Professor Jiang Shaohai. Assoc Prof Nekmat …
A Psychology major and a Life Sciences major, both from the inaugural cohort of the NUS College of Humanities and Sciences, share their experience so far with HSH1000 The Human Condition, a rigorous module under the new college’s interdisciplinary Common Curriculum.
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) announced that Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia is the winner of the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2021 for his book “Monks in Motion, Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea”.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and the Department of Information Systems and Analytics (DISA) at the National University of Singapore held the inaugural Global Research Forum: The Fruition and Challenges of Computational Social Science from 23 to 25 August 2021. The forum explored the field of computational social science, which is the …
Since 2018, NUS has charted and implemented a planned series of educational innovations. In a world of change and uncertainty, students will need broad intellectual foundations, so that they can engage in lifelong learning across many fields. Students will also need to develop the ability, agility and attitudes to adapt as their world changes at an increasing pace.
Winning work challenges collective notions of Singapore Malay history and shines spotlight on Singapore’s cosmopolitan and dynamic economic, political and social history over the last two centuries.
In ‘Workplace discrimination: Greater clarity needed’ (The Straits Times, September 2021), Senior Lecturer Dr Kelvin Seah (NUS Economics) welcomes the Singapore government’s latest policy efforts to combat workplace discrimination and provide equal opportunities for employment and career progression for workers. At the same time, he points out that cases of workplace discrimination and unfair employment …
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In ‘Race, racism and racial privilege in Singapore’ (The Straits Times, September 2021) Professor Chua Beng Huat (NUS Sociology and Yale-NUS Urban Studies Program) discusses the conceptual development of racial privilege in Singapore, documents developments in Singapore’s history that have accorded privileges, conscious and unconscious, to specific racial groups, and evaluates the frameworks and solutions …
We extend our congratulations to the winners of the 2020 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards:
* Prof Audrey Yue Ing-Sue, Professor, Department of Communications and New Media
* Assoc Prof Mie Hiramoto, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
* Dr Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
* Dr Kamalini Ramdas, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography
* Ms Jasmin Tay Mei Hua, Assistant Senior Manager, Department of Communications and New Media
Estimates of long-run discount rates, that is, the rate at which economic agents discount future cash flows and other benefits, is an essential ingredient for analyses of policies guiding climate mitigation and long-term infrastructure projects.