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A Growing University
NUS is a growing university, with 140 hectares at
Kent Ridge, 5 hectares at Bukit Timah, and now another 19 hectares
soon across the highway from Kent Ridge at the site of the former
Warren golf course. There are also new buildings planned for the Duke-NUS
Graduate Medical School at Outram Campus.
The NUS Campus Master Plan aims to enhance one NUS community through
building connectivity across the various locations, and creating spaces
for interaction.
University Town
Developed from a visionary idea in 2006, the iconic
19-hectare University Town will pioneer an innovative model of learning
and teaching integrated into residential colleges, creating a transformative
educational experience that will prepare our graduates for a fast
changing, globalizing world. The campus is designed to facilitate
independent and critical thinking, multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
teaching and learning, cross-cultural communication and international
experiences that will help build a global learning community with
a strong sense of identity and belonging to NUS. It will also offer
the cosmopolitan mix of some 6,000 students more avenues for student
leadership and entrepreneurship.
University Town, which will be up by 2010, will host the Singapore-MIT
Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), the first research centre
within the National Research Foundation’s Campus for Research Excellence
And Technological Enterprise (CREATE) as well as the Asia Research
Institute.
Building Bridges
University Town will be seamlessly connected to Kent
Ridge Campus via the vehicular and pedestrian bridge across the Ayer
Rajah Expressway. The bridge will symbolise a strategic gateway, not
only by bringing the two campuses physically closer together, but
also to foster a sense of one NUS community through the creation of
interesting and interactive spaces that would promote bonding and
enhance the vibrancy in campus life.
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