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| 6 | The Faculty of Law commemorated 50 years of
formal legal education with a gala dinner attended by Guest-of-Honour, the Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong, alumnus of the Faculty’s pioneer Class of 1961. |
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| 7 | The NUS Students’ Union Volunteer Action Committee’s (NVAC) collage display of some 5,000 photographs entered the Singapore Book of Records as the “Largest Charity Collage”. Titled “The Big Picture”, the collage portrayed acts of charity to signify joint community work efforts in Singapore. |
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| 8 | A dedication ceremony was held for a building at the Bukit Timah campus, which was named after
Hong Kong business leader Dr Li Ka-shing, in recognition of a $100 million gift to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. |
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| 9 | Prof Shih Choon Fong was awarded the Chief Executive Leadership Award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) at the launch of its operations in Singapore, with a new headquarters for the Asia-Pacific region at NUS. He is the first leader from an Asia-Pacific educational institution to receive the prestigious award. |
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| 10 | Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave a talk on “Singapore and Beyond” at the annual Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum, organised by the NUS Students Political Association |
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| 11 | The National University Health System was established with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry and the National University Hospital being repositioned under a common governance to enhance capabilities in education, research and clinical care for the advancement of academic medicine in Singapore. Two new national centres were also created – the National University Cancer Institute and the National University Heart Centre. |
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