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From upcycling fish scales to celebrating our nonagenarians, learning on the high seas to hosting an electrifying music festival – the NUS community served up many a memorable moment in 2024. Stories shared on NUS News have documented exciting research breakthroughs, featured faces among the NUS community who define excellence in their fields, and captured inspiring accounts of connection, compassion and camaraderie.
Impact
Sustainability is an integral part of the NUS experience, a commitment deeply embedded in hostel life. Alongside campus-wide initiatives such as energy and water conservation, promoting recycling and enhancing biodiversity, NUS students are encouraged to champion eco-friendly practices in their living spaces to do their part for the environment and contribute towards a greener future.
Sustainability
NUS College and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences alumnus Salifian Sulaiman has won the Singapore Rhodes Scholarship this year, becoming Singapore’s 30th Rhodes Scholar. Under the scholarship, Salifian will be pursuing doctoral research in anthropology and migration studies at the University of Oxford in October 2025.
General News
NUS is celebrating NUS' 120th anniversary by kicking off the year with an energising campus amble for a good cause. Join us on 8 February 2025 for the NUS120 Charity Hongbao Walk.
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Distinguished thought leaders, movers and shakers in Singapore and across the globe gather regularly on campus to share their insights and engage in intellectual discourse.
Transformation is a passage for the bold and willing – it can be nudged in the right direction but the motivation must come from within. NUS President Prof Tan Eng Chye who was part of the NUS team that participated in the 19th Gobi Desert Challenge recounted his rewarding experience and the new lessons learnt. Prof Tan also spoke about the university’s role as an institute of higher learning to fuel the motivation for self-transformation.
According to the Survey of Adult Skills, an international study under the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), there is a decline in the literacy scores for both lower-educated and more highly-educated adults in the recent Cycle 2 survey. Assoc Prof (Practice) Terence Ho from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS remarked that this has implications for the competitiveness of Singapore’s workforce and economy, particularly given the importance of human capital to Singapore’s economy.