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🎓🇰🇷안녕하세요!
Talk To Me In Korean (
@ttmik
) Founder & YouTuber Hyunwoo Sun (
@ever4one
) came to NUS for this year’s Talk Concert — organised by the S.Korean Embassy & NUS Centre for Language Studies — to discuss K-dramas, culture, & socio-political history.
#NUSGlobal
#NUSLife
NUS is 8th in the world and 1st in Asia! Holding 11th place for the past five years, NUS rose three places in the latest QS World University Rankings; and is now in the world’s top 10 universities for the first time.
#NUSExcellence
#ShapeTheFuture
JUST IN: 🌞🌑 Watch the solar eclipse at its peak!
Hundreds of students, staff & members of the public from around the region attended an event organised by NUS Physics & NUS Astronomical Society to see the moon cover up to 97% of the sun, leaving a thin 'ring of fire'!
#NUSLife
Fighting the Wuhan virus: Important research breakthrough by
@DukeNUS
& Singapore healthcare partners. They have successfully cultured the
#coronavirus
. It will be used for developing diagnostic methods, potential cures and more.
#NUSImpact
#NUSResearch
Introducing the NUSmart Shuttle: This driverless vehicle is the first autonomous shuttle bus run by a land transport operator in real mixed traffic conditions, alongside regular buses, cars & motorcycles. Road tests at our Kent Ridge Campus start today!
Latest: NUS graduates are 9th most employable in the world as reported in the Global Employability University Ranking & Survey 2024! NUS is among the top two in Asia, and the only Singapore university in the top 10. More at: .
#NUSImpact
“We are sorry for Miss Monica Baey’s distressing experience, which is of extreme concern to the University. We are in the process of reaching out to her to offer our support and assistance...."
Dean of Students' full statement here
NUS graduates are the 9th most employable globally in the latest Global Employability University Ranking and Survey. We are the only Singapore university in the global top 10 & among the top two in Asia.
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#NUSImpact
#NUSExcellence
#ShapeTheFuture
We're aware of the speculation abt a possible confirmed COVID-19 case at NUS. We're in touch with the authorities & will share details when available. In the interim, we have taken additional precautionary measures. The safety & well-being of our community are our top priorities.
NUS has launched its fourth satellite – Galassia-2 – into space! Built by multidisciplinary students from NUS College of Design and Engineering, the 4-kg nanosatellite aims to conduct remote sensing for agriculture and environmental change.
#NUSImpact
Heartiest congratulations to Prof Liu Bin, Prof Hong Wan Jin, and Asst Prof Koh Ming Joo who have been honoured in this year’s Asian Scientist 100 list for their outstanding achievements and ground-breaking discoveries!
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
A S$49m boost for mechanobiology and biomedicine!
@MBIsg
aims to develop novel technologies and therapeutic targets for the treatment of age-related ailments such as infertility, chronical inflammatory diseases, muscle atrophy and cancer.
#NUSImpact
NUS stands strongly against any form of misconduct. The NUS Dentistry student who had caused hurt to his ex-girlfriend in an off-campus incident is currently serving a suspension and is not allowed on campus, pending disciplinary proceedings which are ongoing.
Wife of Japan PM Mr Shinzo Abe, HE Mrs Akie Abe, visited our Dept of Japanese Studies where she learned about our programmes, attended a tea ceremony conducted by the NUS Sado Club, & enjoyed traditional performances by the NUS Koto Ensemble! 🎎🇯🇵🍵
Prof Koh Lian Pin will be appointed Professor of Conservation Science, Technology and Policy at his alma mater in April to lead strategic efforts in growing competencies & evidence-based science against climate change.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
#NUSCares
As he turns 90 years old, renowned historian and University Professor Wang Gungwu sits down with NUS News to talk about his life journey and his relationship with history.
#NUSRespect
#NUSExcellence
#NUSBeyond
NUS has risen in the latest QS World University Rankings. We are ranked 11th globally, placing us in the top one per cent of the world’s best universities. We are also Asia’s and Singapore’s TOP university.
#NUSGlobal
#NUSBeyond
Congrats to NUS Arts & Social Sciences Dr Jack Chia who won the coveted EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2021 for “Monks in Motion, Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea” – the first book to introduce the concept of “South China Sea Buddhism”.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
It hasn’t been an easy year for everyone, but we hope this holiday season brings joy, happiness and good health to all our friends — especially you. Have a Merry Christmas! 🦁☃️🎄🎅🏻❄️
#StaySafeEveryone
🎓🦁WELCOME to NUS:
We’re delighted to host this year’s
@TimesHigherEd
World Academic Summit. Our warmest welcome to global education leaders & friends from all over the world. We hope you have a wonderful and insightful experience here in 🇸🇬 & at our campus.
#NUSGlobal
#THEWAS
NUS Arts & Social Sciences geographer Prof James Sidaway has been conferred the prestigious
@RGS_IBG
2022 Busk Medal for his exceptional contribution to fieldwork, research & knowledge production, primarily from the global South.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
The
@apcrs2023
co-organised by NUS &
@nparksbuzz
saw over 800 participants from almost 40 countries gather to exchange knowledge on coral and marine conservation. 2
#NUSResearch
projects were also awarded grants.
#NUSImpact
LATEST: NUS climbs four places to rank as world's 21st in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022, keeping its spot as 3rd best university in Asia. This is the best showing by Singapore and NUS.
#NUSImpact
#ShapeTheFuture
#NUSGlobal
NUS has been ranked world’s 8th in Computer Science and 10th in Engineering in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 by subject. It also clinched top spot in the Universities for Blockchain rankings by CoinDesk.
#NUSImpact
#NUSGlobal
Tag your friends if you came for the eclipse viewing event at NUS!
Shout-out to our 40 student volunteers who spent their Christmas evening setting up telescopes & shared knowledge on the eclipse, as well as those from around the region who joined us in 🇸🇬.
#NUSLife
#NUSGlobal
Prof Koh Lian Pin, Director of
@NUSCNCS
, will be appointed as Nominated Member of Parliament from 21 January 2021. He will lend his expertise in research and conservation science to inform policy decisions in the fight against
#climatechange
.
#NUSImpact
It's the new year and tomorrow is the start of a new semester! 🦁📚
For now, relax and enjoy this video tour of some of the most scenic spots on our campus.
#WelcomeBackToNUS
#NUSLife
Shoutout to all teaching staff at NUS for your dedication to making this semester a fruitful one for our students! 🎓🦁🍎
#HappyTeachersDay
Check out these lovely heartfelt letters penned by our students Jiaxuan, Syafiq, Natalie and Julian. ♥️
#NUSCares
#NUSLife
Welcome back to 🇸🇬,
@taylorswift13
! 💜Taylor-mania is sweeping this red dot and NUS Teaching Assistant Aimee-Sophia Lim recounts her experience at Swiftposium 2024.
@FASSNews
#NUSResearch
Asst Prof Reza Shokri from
@NUSComputing
and his team has developed an open-source tool known as “Machine Learning Privacy Meter” to help companies determine if their
#AI
services are vulnerable to inference attacks.
#NUSResearch
Just like our fellow Singaporeans, LiNUS is also headed to the polls today to vote for Singapore’s next President. Happy Polling Day and have a fantastic holiday, everyone! 🇸🇬🦁
#NUSLife
Wishing all our friends good health, good luck and much happiness throughout the Year of the Ox! 🍊🧧
#Happy
牛Year
#CNY2021
Have a safe and healthy
#ChineseNewYear
.😊
Congrats to Nishanth, who graduated yesterday!🎓🎉
#NUS2018
He was the 1st S'porean to be crowned Best Male Vocal Carnatic Singer @ the Indian Spirit of Youth Festival, & has been a
@NUSMedicine
Dean’s Lister for 3 years!👨🏾🎓🎤🇮🇳
#NUSGlobal
#NUSBeyond
Five young NUS researchers who have made great achievements in their respective fields have been identified as influential pioneers and visionaries under the 2021 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
Congratulations to the NUS Faculty of Science’s Assoc Prof Koh Ming Joo, who is the first Singaporean to receive the
@Novartis
Early Career Award in Chemistry!
#NUSResearch
#NUSExcellence
.
@NUS_Law
Prof Chen-Wishart shares insights on nurturing legal minds for over three decades. The former
@UniofOxford
law dean now teaches & researches contract law, while mentoring young Asian law academics at NUS.
#ShapeTheFuture
Congratulations to Asst Prof Koh Ming Joo for receving the Young Scientist Award 2022! He was recognised for his research in sustainable base metal catalysis and radical-based chemical technologies that revolutionise chemical synthesis.
#NUSExcellence
NUS retains its place among the world’s 20 best universities in the
@timeshighered
World University Rankings 2024! Congrats & well done to our community of faculty, staff & students in pursuing future-focused education, research and innovation.
#NUSExcellence
#ShapeTheFuture
Happy birthday Singapore! Our students on the NUS Overseas Colleges have ventured thousands of miles away from their homes, interning with start-ups around the world. Still, home is where the heart is & Singapore will always be their home!
#WeAreSingapore
#NDP2019
#NUSGlobal
Celebrating International Mangrove Day! – NUS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences A/P Dan Friess discusses the critical role mangroves play in environmental conservation & what we can do to help save them.
@UNESCO
@FASSNews
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
#NUSCares
NUS is expanding its financial aid for full-time Singaporean undergraduates from low-income households, including full coverage of tuition fees and financial support for living expenses, on-campus stay and overseas programmes.
#ShapeTheFuture
#NUSCares
GOOD NEWS! NUS achieved top 10 placement for 16 of our programmes, according to the 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject announced today.
#NUSExcellence
#NUSImpact
#ShapeTheFuture
Honoured to have Prime Minister
@LeeHsienLoong
visit the St John's Island National Marine Laboratory, which is managed by the NUS Tropical Marine Science Institute. 🌊🐠🔍
More about
#NUSResearch
at the lab at .
#NUSImpact
#NUSCares
Some highlights from my visit to St John's Island & Little Sisters' Island ytdy. We have many dedicated & passionate officers & volunteers whose efforts contribute to the conservation of our marine biodiversity. – LHL
Congratulations to our 32 researchers who are among the world’s most influential scientists! They have demonstrated significant influence in their fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.
#NUSImpact
Researchers from
@NUSEngineering
are harvesting drinking water from the air! They’ve created a ‘smart’ aerogel that collects water molecules from the atmosphere and releases them as liquid water, without any external power source.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
Check out Historical Maps of Singapore, an online resource of maps from 1846 to 2010, digitally converted by
@NUSGeog
and georeferenced to facilitate cross-comparison.
#NUSImpact
Some of the world’s top materials researchers, including Nobel Prize-winning scientist Prof Sir Konstantin Novoselov, are based at NUS and in Singapore, developing innovative, cutting-edge solutions to pressing global challenges.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
After operating for over 30 years, Techno Edge will close today for redevelopment works. Come 2020, there will be a new 1,000-seat Techno Edge with an additional 2 floors for student activities.
Relive the memories of our iconic
#NUSEngineering
canteen:
Founding Dean of our Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Prof Kishore Mahbubani has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his outstanding global achievements!
#NUSRespect
#NUSGlobal
#NUSBeyond
@Mahbubani_K
@LKYSch
Ms Sim Phei Sunn, an NUS alumna, and her fellow mountaineer Ms Vincere Zeng, made history as the first two local women to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain (8,611m). Well done to the both of them!
Researchers from
@NUSCNCS
, in collaboration with ST Engineering Geo-Insights, developed a carbon prospecting dashboard that can help investors identify nature-based projects for high quality carbon credits.
#NUSResearch
#NUSSustainability
And that's a wrap! NUS Commencement for the Class of 2020 and 2021 has come to an end - we've held 89 ceremonies across 24 days.
#NUS2020
#NUS2021
#ShapeTheFuture
Ever been pranked by twins?😆
#NUSLife
is TWICE as nice with Class of 2018 twins, Lim Xin Shan & Xin Xiang, Gayathry & Narmadha Morvil, Lee Jia Qi & Jia Le, and Jesline & Vivien Tang, who shared some of the funniest moments they've had in NUS as a pair in celebration of
#NUS2018
Good luck to our friends who are receiving their A Level results tomorrow! LiNUS is really hoping that it will come through! 🫶🏻
#NUSLife
#ShapeYourFuture
at
#NUSOpenHouse
2023 — find out more and .
Globally renowned Singaporean conservation scientist Prof Koh Lian Pin, Director of
@NUSCNCS
, shares about climate change & what he aims to achieve as as a member of Singapore’s Emerging Stronger Taskforce.
#NUSImpact
#NUSResearch
#NUS115
#ShapingTheFuture
Proceeds from the bond - believed to be the first of its kind among universities in Asia - will finance green projects under NUS’ Green Finance Framework & enable the University to play an active role in shaping a sustainable future.
#NUSCares
#NUSImpact
NUS Presidential Young Professor Filip Biljecki applies geospatial data science techniques to create intelligent maps for planners to view our cities in unprecedented detail, contributing to the design of smarter, greener cities.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
Researchers from
#NUSEngineering
have increased the rate of hydrogenation – an important chemical reaction used in the production of many everyday items – by 5 times! This can lead to higher yields and lower environmental impacts.
#NUSResearch
#NUSImpact
Global TOP 10 for
#engineering
education: NUS is the ONLY university outside the United States and northern Europe listed among the Top 10 universities considered to be global leaders in engineering education.
#NUSBeyond
#NUSGlobal
Read the full message by NUS President Prof Tan Eng Chye at .
Our University's precautionary measures implemented to safeguard our community against the COVID-19 are at .