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NUS-ISS is the technology school of National University of Singapore, specialises in technology education, consultancy, applied research, and career services in the digital sector. It was established in 1981. [1] [2] NUS-ISS offers a range of postgraduate programmes such as Master of Technology and Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis.
NUS has a semester-based modular system for conducting undergraduate courses. It adopts features of the British system, such as small group teaching on top of regular two-hour lectures, and the American system (course credits). NUS has 17 faculties and schools across three campuses, including a music conservatory. [57]
Tommy Koh – Ambassador-at-Large of Singapore and Chairman of the NUS Law Advisory Board; Tony Tan Keng Yam – Seventh President of Singapore and former vice chancellor of the National University of Singapore; Wong Kan Seng – former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore; Vanu Gopala Menon – Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United ...
The Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM), at the National University of Singapore (NUS), is the first centre in Asia dedicated to graphene research. [1] The centre was established under the scientific advice of two Nobel Laureates in physics – Prof Andre Geim and Prof Konstantin Novoselov - who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of graphene. [2]
The NUS NextBus app was introduced in 2012. [7] A driverless bus, dubbed the NUSmart Shuttle, was introduced as a trial in 2019. [8] It carried passengers until April 2020 when the service was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It continued operating without passengers until January 2021. [9]
NUS Press is an academic press in Singapore. It traces its origins to the Singapore University Press, which the University of Singapore established in 1971 as its publishing arm. The press specialises in books and journals that deal with topics on the social sciences and humanities in Asia.
The title of university professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is given to a small number of faculty members for outstanding scholarship and distinguished service to the university. The title was first awarded to Lim Pin in 2000. Presently, there are only six university professors in NUS.
In January 1959, the Government of Singapore and the university commissioned the first major review of the university. Led by Professor S. L. Prescott, the commission reported unfavourably on the administration of the university, library and laboratory facilities, academic staff and terms of employment, research culture, and curriculum.