NGS Awards Cum White Coat Ceremony 2012

The annual NGS Awards Ceremony, held on 16 Jan ‘12 Mon, 6.30pm—8.30pm, at University Hall Auditorium, enabled us to look back with pride and gratification at some key achievements in the past year.

Three categories of awards were presented, namely the second NGS Teaching Commendation Award, the inaugural NGS Excellent Mentor Award for NGS Faculty Members, and tokens of recognition and celebration for students for the White Coat Ceremony.

The NGS Teaching Commendation Award is NGS’ very own Teaching Excellence award, conferred to outstanding Faculty Members with exceptional achievements in, and contributions to, the education of NGS students. This year’s winners are:

1. Professor Soong Tuck Wah
2. Assoc Professor Gavin Dawe, and
3. Assoc Professor Annett Schirmer

The new NGS Excellent Mentor Award was launched on this occasion. This Award is conferred to NGS Faculty Members who seeks continuously to

1. unlock and develop latent potentials, talents and capacities in their students
2. broaden and challenge them in taking on fresh research challenges
3. cultivate in-depth crossdisciplinary interests and perspectives, and
4. of course, be an unfailing source of counsel, support and encouragement.

The winners are:
1. Professor Lim Chwee Teck
2. Professor Tan Kian Lee
3. Professor David March Virshup, and
4. Assoc Professor Michael Raghunath.

The rest of the Awards Ceremony was dedicated to the White Coat Ceremony for our students. This serves to congratulate and celebrate those who have achieved the key milestone of passing their PhD Pre-qualifying Examination. A total of 72 students received tokens of recognition for their achievements to-date, witnessed by
their research supervisors who were able to be present in the audience.

The celebratory occasion was capped off with the NGS family dinner as Faculty Members, students and admin
staff gathered to catch up with one another. We look forward to another year of promises, achievements, and
progress, and NGS Awards Ceremony 2013.