As we mark International Women’s Day, NUS alumna Ms Miruna Ranjan (NUS Communications and New Media ’09) reflects on her journey from communications to social impact — and why sport can be a powerful space for girls to find their voice.

Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia reveals how Buddhist networks and ideas have been mobilised for soft power, peacebuilding and geopolitics.

Recently selected as a 2026 AFR Top100 Future Leader and featured on the cover of the Australian Financial Review Graduate Guide, Ziyan spent a semester in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2023. He attributes his now well-developed interests in international engagement and policy to his experience studying in Singapore and at NUS.

The awards, held on 1 April, honoured three distinguished alumni whose careers have shaped the arts, diplomacy and communities: Ms Lim Hai Yen (English Language and Chinese Studies ’92), Mr Ashok Mirpuri (Political Science Hons ’84), and Ms Ang Bee Lian (Social Work ’77). Though their careers have unfolded in very different arenas, they share a common thread: a commitment to serving society and shaping the world around them.

Achieves strongest performance to date, with all-time high of seven NUS subjects ranked among the global top three and a record 28 subjects in the global top 10.

Launched in 2022, the NUS Public Art Initiative aims to cultivate a distinct campus identity and sense of community through site-specific works that engage with their surroundings, fostering student and community engagement, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations for learning and teaching, and enhancing the campus through public art.

The student-run NUS Pro Bono Group (NUS PBG) recently organised its flagship Pro Bono Awareness Week (PBAW), its first following NUS Law’s move to Kent Ridge at the start of the year. Guided by its mission ‘to inform, to involve, to inspire’, the programme introduced students from across NUS to the role that pro bono work plays in expanding equitable access to justice.

Prospective students turned out in force for the NUS Open House 2026, one of the University’s largest events of the year, with some 21,500 visitors packing University Town on 7 March for a first-hand look at the University’s distinctive academic programmes and its vibrant campus community.

Former Chinese Studies and Chinese Language majors merge into new multidisciplinary Chinese Languages and Cultures major
New Chinese Studies (Bilingual) major also introduced. The new programmes aim to equip students with a well-rounded understanding of Chinese language, literature, history and culture, while preparing them for careers in fields and sectors that value both cultural knowledge and high language proficiency.

With the rapid advancement of technology, sexual harms have gone digital, placing more and more people at risk. In 2023, AWARE Singapore reported a 90 percent jump in cases of online sexual harms from 2021. Such offences include non-consensual image distribution, sextortion, deepfake pornography, and cyberflashing. These alarming statistics were presented by panellists at the Online Sexual Harms in Singapore (OSHSG) Symposium, held on 23 February 2026.

The joint programme leverages world-leading expertise from the Department of Geography and the School of Computing, which are both ranked No.1 in Asia for their respective subjects and in the top ten globally, and the strategic positioning of NUS in Singapore where high-density land utilisations present unique sets of geospatial challenges.