Poetry Festival Singapore is a society funded by the National Arts Council which offers a multilingual, multicultural, and multi-generational platform for poets and poetry enthusiasts in the appreciation of the art of poetry in Singapore. Poetry Festival Singapore also aims to develop the written and spoken word in the island’s four official languages and to […]

A book of poems and illustrations by Dr Lee Tzu Pheng, NUS alumna and former Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, and Senior Lecturer Dr Ho Chee Lick from the Department of Chinese Studies, was recently featured in the Straits Times as one of this year’s top 10 must-read books. Simple […]

As Singapore is a city-state, its high degree of urbanization and population density contribute significantly to carbon dioxide emissions. Singapore’s unique position as a tropical urban island has been the focus of research by Professor Matthias Roth (NUS Department of Geography). His research looks at the shifts in various components of Singapore’s climate such as […]

What was the relationship between government policies and public perceptions of condom use in Singapore during the 1970s through the 1990s? Did you know that in the 1970s, officials in Singapore considered selling contraceptives in slot machines to make them more easily available? Learn about Singapore’s condom debates in ‘The state in sexual life: Public […]

What sorts of privacy management strategies do we use on Facebook? Associate Professor Hichang Cho from the NUS Department of Communications and New Media investigates using samples from Singapore, the United States, and South Korea. Find out as well how conceptions of privacy vary across cultures, and what the consequences of collective privacy management are […]

A new study conducted by Associate Professor Alberto Salvo, Associate Professor Liu Haoming, and Dr He Jiaxu (NUS Department of Economics) on air pollution was featured in The Straits Times. The study, just published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, found that long-term exposure to polluted air adversely affects the productivity of a workforce. […]

In this episode of ‘Why It Matters 2’, host Joshua Lim joins Professor Matthias Roth from the NUS Department of Geography on a study trip, to track the temperature across Singapore. They found that there was a sharp increase of 4°C from Lim Chu Kang to Orchard Road, despite these areas being only 30 minutes […]

Chewing gum is a nuisance for cleaners, but can it be used as a tool of infrastructural sabotage? On the 3rd of January, 1992 chewing gum was banned in Singapore. The ban followed enforcement of restrictions regarding street hawking, fines on littering and spitting, as well as the elimination of farms, policies which were part […]

Hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor Patricia Chen! The NUS Department of Psychology faculty member has been awarded a grant worth S$449,970 from the Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) for a study titled ‘Scalable Mind-set Interventions to Nurture Strategic, Self-Regulated Learners’. The research project can be summarized as follows: In today’s world where learning resources are plentiful […]

Love to showcase your travel photos on Facebook and Instagram? Enjoy following online posts about your friends’ and acquaintances’ journeys? Develop a deeper understanding of the effect of online documentation of travel voluntourism in the developing world through ‘Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media in constructing the ‘Third World’ experience’, a new […]