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Sikhander Singh is NUS Sportsman of the Year 2006 |
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Third year Political Science major, Sikhander Singh, is the 2006 NUS Sportsman of the Year. Sikhander wins this award for his outstanding achievements in the sport of Aquathlon which involves swimming and running, and in helping to create an active and vibrant sports community and teamNUS spirit. Sikhander shares with us, "I faced challenges from people who thought that i could never excel in this sport. Having to balance time between studies and sports was tough, and I sacrificed time with my loved ones and friendss. Often, while my friends were out painting the town red late at night, I would be home asleep so I could wake up early to train."
Sikhander takes a striking pose for the camera. Still the rewards are there. Apart from the Sportsman of the Year Award, he was part of the Singapore contingent for the 24th SEA Games in Thailand in December 2007, competing in a event known as Duathlon which consists of a run leg (10 kilometres), a bike leg (40 kilometres) and another run leg (five kilometres). This grueling race calls for speed and endurance. So what's next for Sikhander? He says that it will be a break from training after this and back to the books for a semester. But not for long! He will be training for the World University Fames in Turkey which takes place during the month of August. We congratulate Sikhander, wish him all the best and look forward to reading about his achievements to come!
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State of ConsterNATION from 24 Hours |
Edgar Liao, a first year M.A. student in the Department of History, won the first prize in this year’s 24-Hour Playwriting Competition organized by established local theatre company, Theatreworks to uncover, develop and nurture young writers. This year’s competition was held in the Pod on the 16th floor of the National Library in Victoria Street where 74 participants had to weave a play within 24 hours incorporating five stimuli, given at intervals, meaningfully and creatively into the script. Edgar’s winning script, A STATE of ConsterNATION, spins a story about how an estranged father-daughter pair is affected by a ‘terrorist’ takeover of the MRT station they were in, with a twist at the end. He won for himself soap products and $600 cash from this year’s sponsor, Aesop, as well as a chance of his play being developed and staged by Theatreworks. This is the first time he has won the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition. During his undergraduate days in the Department of History, he had been awarded the first prize in the Singapore Young Dramatist Awards 2004, and second for the same competition in 2006.
“I'm most elated and pleased to win this year's 24-Hour. In a way, it suggests to me a graduation from the SYDA, TheatreWorks's other annual competition to ferret out and groom young playwriting talent. One day, I hope to be able to graduate from being a playwriting competition participant and winner into a full-fledged playwright. In addition to becoming a historian of course.” |
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FASS Students Win Inaugural Researcher Prizes |
English major, Leslie Lee Meng Cheng and Psychology majors, Jia Lile and Farhan Ali were awarded the Inaugural Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize 2006/2007. They were among 14 individual winners across the University for this award which carried a cash prize of $2,000 each, to be used for further research. The Inaugural Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Prize was launched in academic year 2006-07. This Prize encourages research among undergraduates at NUS by presenting opportunities for them to participate in research while integrating teaching and research at various levels of experience and expertise which allows undergraduates to develop the capacity for discovery through research. This is an annual university-wide competition that is awarded to the best undergraduate researchers in the University. A full list of winners and their research projects can be found here . The call for submissions of projects for consideration in the current academic year is now open. For more details, please click here. |
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Win-Win for all with GIS Internships |
With the launch of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Minor Programme in August 2006, the Department of Geography established half a dozen internship opportunities for students who had finished three essential modules under the Minor. These internships – with Deloitte Petroleum Services, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Asia-Pacific, and DHI Water & Environment – enabled students to apply what they learned in class to various environmental projects and other real world issues. Oh Eng Hwee, who did his internship with DHI Water & Environment, a transnational corporation, shared that it was “an enriching experience in which one can learn about the ways GIS is utilized in a private company. … The cartography module GE2225 was definitely put to good use, and the internship built on what was learnt in the module. Basic ArcMap skills, such as digitizing and georeferencing, were also used”. Most rewarding was the way the internships provided an excellent means for students to be exposed to prospective employers. One of the students, Le Pham Minh Truong, so impressed his bosses at PGS, he has been hired as a permanent staff member! |
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Scholarships and Awards |
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Tea Session with Mayor, Central Singapore District |
| A visit was arranged for the students in SW2103, to the Central CDC for a tea session with Mayor Zainudin Noordin, Central Singapore district on 5 November 2007. The theme of the session was “The Future of Community Bonding”. Grassroots leaders also met with the students during the session. |
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Other Achievements - Southeast Asian Studies Programme |
Mohamed Effendy Bin Abdul Hamid, MA, was awarded a Teaching Assistantship to pursue a PhD in History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, starting in Fall 2007. |
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Muhammad Arafat Bin Mohamad, MA, was awarded the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Anthropology at Harvard University, starting September 2007. |
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Yap Boon Hui, MA, was selected by the Board of Graduate Studies for the prestigious President Graduate Fellowship. She will commence her PhD studies at the Southeast Asian Studies Programme under the supervision of Dr Jan Mrazék beginning January 2008. |
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Suryakenchana Omar, BA (Hons) 1996, a research scholar with the Southeast Asian Studies Programme, was among the recipients of 20 Silver Medallions which were presented to the Malay Youth Literary Association (4PM) for winning the Commonwealth Youth Silver Award 2006/7. Surya is currently Vice-President II of 4PM. |
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NUS Student Achievement Awards 2007
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