Calendar of Events

OCTOBER – DECEMBER

Time out at Munchie Monkey

In true entrepreneurial spirit, NUS Students’ Union (NUSSU) embarked on their first business venture with the set up of a food and beverage outlet at Yusof Ishak House, the hub of student life on campus. Called Munchie Monkey, the café is a joint venture with food operator, Spageddies, and is the first student-managed food outlet in Singapore’s tertiary institutions. Earnings from the outlet are channelled towards
funding student activities.

MOU Signing: NUS & NTNU

His Majesty, King Harald V of Norway, witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between NUS President Professor Shih Choon Fong and the Rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Professor Eivind Hiis Hauge. The new agreement charts the next phase of the two universities’ collaboration in areas such as maritime and offshore technology in oil and gas, energy, logistics, materials engineering, geohazards and nanotechnology.

MOU Signing - TLI–AP and Georgia Tech

NUS and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) signed an MOU to kick off the second phase of their collaboration in The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific (TLI-AP). The new five-year partnership will see the development of an even closer-knit relationship between the two universities as together they foster more industry-relevant education and research in areas such as Radio Frequency Identification.

NUS entered into a new Maritime and Port Research Programme when it signed an MOU with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. The new agreement sets out the framework for the establishment of researchbased Maritime Technology Professorships, a maritime industrial attachment programme for NUS students and joint research initiatives.

Celebrating Prof Shih’s entry into NAE

NUS President Professor Shih Choon Fong was formally received into the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as the only Singaporean among its 168 foreign associates. In welcoming Prof Shih to the august body, the citation noted his achievements in the “development of innovative computational methods in non-linear fracture mechanics and for international leadership in engineering”. Prof Shih’s membership also makes him the first Singaporean to be a member of the US National Academies, which is made up of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council and the NAE.