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Impact is central to everything we do at NUS, inspiring and informing our work, goals and strategies. The University’s latest impact report takes a thoughtful look at how our community has helped shape future talent, solutions and society from 2019 to 2023.
Impact
The LRF Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS, together with the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at SUTD and the Environmental Behavioural Sciences and Economics Research Unit of the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, launched the “Getting to Net Zero: Knowledge and Perceptions in Singapore” report, which sheds light on Singaporeans’ understanding towards the nation’s Net Zero targets and its associated policies, as well as the actions they intend to take to support the Net Zero target.
Sustainability
NUS teams behind the interdisciplinary initiative “Managing Aggression using Immersive Content (MAGIC) – A Blended Learning Experience using Virtual Reality” and the NUS Business School’s Executive MBA-Chinese Programme took home the “Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year” award and the “International Strategy of the Year” award respectively at the recent Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia.
General News
In the Martial Arts in Southeast Asia course at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, students get to unleash their inner warrior spirit by immersing themselves in the diversity of cultures embedded in the region. Conducted by Dr Mohamed Effendy from the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, and with guidance from professional trainers, they hone basic techniques in silat and other martial art forms practised in the region.
Education
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“At NUS, we are moving boldly — and concertedly — to expand tomorrow's frontiers. We believe that we have the power to shape the future, for the better.”
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Land planning recognises the need to respond to change, transition, and even decline. Prof Sing Tien Foo, Provost’s Chair Prof from the Department of Real Estate at NUS Business School comments that the tension between erecting private playgrounds for the affluent and foreign visitors, which generate jobs and economic value, versus using recreational land for open public spaces for ordinary Singaporeans highlights the difficult balancing act that Singapore’s recreational land faces.
Nobody likes to get sick, whether from a relatively mild common cold or a potentially more serious condition like malaria. But sometimes, it may be quite rational and even laudable for someone to volunteer to be deliberately exposed to an infectious disease - if not for one’s own sake, then for the sake of science, write researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.
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