Sow Chorng Haur was a member of the Academy from 2009 to 2018
“To fuel students’ enthusiasm in the discovery of scientific truths and to nurture students’ creative and innovative spirit in tackling fascinating problems”.
The Physics Professor’s Suitcase of Traveling Science Wonders! March 28, 2023
How to Effectively Engage Students when Teaching Interdisciplinary Modules March 28, 2023
In recent years, the National University of Singapore has been emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary learning as it helps to equip students with various competencies that will enable them to solve problems outside their area of specialisation, thereby preparing them well for the workforce and giving them the flexibility to engage in life-long learning. It is for this reason that the University made it a graduation requirement for students to read a few common interdisciplinary modules.
A Class Of Their Own: Building the future with data March 27, 2023
“It all started in my childhood with Lego blocks. I’ve always liked to build things,” recalls Dr Clayton Miller, as he muses on the beginnings of his fascination with building science. Dr Miller, who is Assistant Professor at the NUS School of Design and Environment, Department of Building, has since rapidly moved from building blocks to buildings.
A Class Of Their Own: Education and the ecosystem March 27, 2023
Mr N. Sivasothi, or “Otterman”, the moniker he adopted early on in his career to relate and educate, is an educator whose teaching is inextricable from his environmental advocacy. The two, in his own words, exist in an “ecosystem” in which every element “feeds into another”. For Mr Sivasothi, academia does not end in theory, and education is unconstrained by classroom time.
A Class Of Their Own: Engineering the self March 27, 2023
“Doing my best for my students—it’s natural. It’s what we should do as ordinary human beings, that’s one thing. And secondly, teaching is a higher calling; this is what any teacher should do.”
With these words, Associate Professor Lakshminarayanan Samavedham of NUS Engineering modestly waves away any semblance of praise for his pedagogical achievements.
A Class Of Their Own:
Inspiring the next
generation of dentists March 27, 2023
NUS Dentistry’s Associate Professor Kelvin Foong led an MOE- funded Programmatic Tertiary Education Research Fund project that utilised eye tracking technology to discern the areas where students tended to focus on when reading X-rays. Real-time feedback was provided and trainee dentists were thus able to more accurately spot problems in the X-rays.
A Class Of Their Own: Passing on the legacy of thinking March 27, 2023
“All teachers are the sum of all other teachers who have ever taught them. And when you’re being taught, you’re not just being taught by me, you’re being taught by all the teachers who ever taught me”
A Class of Their Own: The accidental professor March 27, 2023
For this “accidental professor”, as Professor Jochen Wirtz wryly describes himself, teaching was never part of the plan.
Prof Wirtz, who is Vice Dean for MBA Programmes and Professor of Marketing at NUS Business School, initially began his career as a services marketing consultant in London.
A Class Of Their Own: The lecture as performance art March 27, 2023
What makes a lecture special?
“There’s nothing like a live performance,” says NUS Engineering’s Professor Seah Kar Heng. “My classes are so entertaining they don’t sleep.” And so for one and a half hours, he holds the full attention of
his students, imparting engineering wisdom that many of them remember for years after.
Titian Naluri: Connecting the Past and the Present in Malay Dance March 27, 2023
The values of a culture are embodied (literally and figuratively) in its dance forms and for most societies all over the world, dance is one of the most important expressions of their world view. Dance distils both historical and current cultural values. Societies create dances and through dance and movement forms, gender is defined and illuminated, personal and group identities are forged and political and religious status and aesthetic value are defined at different points of time.