Tag: -Past Years-

Fellow’s Tea with Vanda Boxing Club

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Jun Talape

Coach Alexis

Coach AJ

3pm, Wednesday

28th October, 2015

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Hosted by Dr. Adam Groves

Please register: dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Want to learn about the “sweet science” aka boxing, without the pain? Would you like the chance to hear a few stories from real boxers? Sign-up for a unique opportunity to meet three bona fide athletes from the coaching team of Singapore’s own, Vanda Boxing Club.

You will meet Jun Talape, former WBC International Featherweight Champ.

Coach Alexis, a veteran amateur boxer, member of the National Boxing Squad for Team Singapore, and podium finisher in the SEA and Commonwealth games.

And last but not least, Coach AJ, an elite level amateur competitor who represents Singapore in overseas tourneys.

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Time to pause

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Time to pause

With Anh Thu Nguyen

Trainer and certified life coach , owner and director at ThreeSixtySkills Pte. Ltd.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 5.30-7pm. Reading Room, Tembusu College.

Hosted by Dr Celine Coderey

Sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

In our busy lives, too often we end up running and running, without knowing where exactly we are heading to, why we are doing it, and what our true desires are anymore.

What would happen if we stopped for a moment? What if we could slow down to breathe, to pause and to look at our lives from different points of view?

Through the help of creative tools and inspirational images, this experiential encounter will guide you into an authentic, interactive and non-judgmental dialogue with other participants, but most importantly, with yourself.

All are welcome – this is also a Special Event for UTC2101 “Time and Life”

tTales: Eco-Wiz & Biologik Fieldtrips

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tTales presents

FIELDTRIPS

(ECO-WIZ & BIOLOGIK)

Food production contributes significantly to climate change, and yet trillions of tons of food are wasyed globally each year.

Join tTales as it goes on a journey to explore how food waste is being tackled in Singapore. Unlike previous events, which took place on campus, students and faculty members will visit two companies (Eco-wiz and VRM Biologik) to understand how food waste are being treated and “recycled”.

tTales will continue its tradition of sharing a book which is Waste: Uncovering the Global food Scandal by intentional award-winning author Tristram Stuart.

Date: 14 October 2015, Wednesday

Time/Venue: 9am at Tembusu Pick-up-point

(The bus will leave promptly at 9:15am and will arrive back on campus before 2pm)

Only 18 seats are available, so hurry and sign-up now!

http://goo.gl/forms/tVuFYsKRVr

Master’s Tea with Prof. Timothy Barnard

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Prof. Timothy Barnard

3pm, Thursday

22nd October 2015

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Please be seated by 2.50pm.

Please sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Tembusu College has declared the Komodo dragon to be the ‘Animal of the Year for AY2015/2016. Come and meet Assoc Prof Timothy P. Barnard to find out about these giant lizards and more.

Timothy P. Barnard is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the environmental and cultural history of island Southeast Asia. He has just finished writing book on the history of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, and is currently working on a social history of the Komodo dragon.

Assoc Prof Barnard has researched on range of topics including state formation in the eighteenth-century Straits of Melaka, Malay identity throughout history, Malay film in the 1950s, and the environmental history of Singapore. His publications include numerous book chapters and articles, as well as the book Multiple Centres of Authority (KITLV,2003) and the edited volumes Contesting Malayness (NUS Press, 2004) and Nature Contained (NUS Press, 2014), which focuses on the environmental history of Singapore.

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Master’s Tea with Mr Lui Tuck Yew

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr Lui Tuck Yew

3pm, Friday

16th October 2015

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Please be seated by 2.50pm.

Please sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Mr Lui Tuck Yew was Minister for Transport from 21 May 2011 to 30 September 2015 and Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts from 1 November 2012 to 20 May 2011.

Prior to joining the Singapore Cabinet, Mr Lui was an SAF (Overseas) scholar, graduating with a degree in Chemistry from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom in 1983. He subsequently served in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), rising to the position of Chief of Navy in 1999. He was appointed Chief Executive of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore on 1 July 2003 and subsequently Chief Executive of the Housing and Development Board (HDB) in June 2005.

In his free time, Mr Lui enjoys travelling, reading cricket baseball and American football.

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Fellow’s Tea with Ms Choo Kah Ying

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Choo Kah Ying

8pm, Wednesday

14th October 2015

Masters Common Lounge,

Third floor, Tembusu Tower

Only 30 seats available!

Please register at : dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Hosted by Dr. Adam Groves

Ms Choo Kah Ying is a writer/educator and a homeschooler of Jean-Sebastien Choo, her autistic son. She is also a former sufferer of manic depression who has recovered from her condition after a challenging 15 years journey. Rising above the odds, she has combined her academic training and life experiences into inspirational and practical books and workshops.

Kah Ying provides on-site consultations to parents in their homes pertaining to autism and manic depression. She has also trained teachers to design and implement the curriculum at a special needs school. Besides consultation and trainings, Kah Ying is also the founder of A Mother’s Wish. Thd social enterprise has the mission of forming a community that provides affordable and lifelong activites for autistic youths and adults with moderate to sereve autism.

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Professor Tommy Koh on Perspectives, 8pm Channel News Asia (30 Sept)

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The final episode of the NUS-CNA Perspectives series, which features Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Chairman, NUS Centre for International Law, will run on Channel NewsAsia (CNA) tonight at 8pm. Prof Koh will be speaking on the topic “Diplomacy of Small States“.

Other panellists include: Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan, Former President of Maldives and Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Her Excellency Berit Basse, Ambassador of Denmark to Singapore; and Mr Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Minister for Planning & Strategic Investment, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.

The University had participated in five previous episodes which were aired on CNA in August and September.

Perspectives, CNA’s flagship discussion programme, features a panel of distinguished experts and leading thinkers from Singapore and beyond who will examine current events with in-depth analyses and provide insightful views and comments.

Source: NUS Corporate Relations

‘I am Ali Wallace’: The Malay Assistant of Alfred Russel Wallace

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The famous naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace collected natural history specimens throughout Southeast Asia from 1854-1862. One of the least known of the players in Wallace’s story is his Malay assistant Ali, from Sarawak. This article combines the surviving evidence to bring Ali and his role in the expedition out of the shadows. Several corrections to traditional accounts are emphasized; these include the fact that Ali was not always a collecting assistant, but at first a cook; Ali did not travel with Wallace for the rest of his voyage, but left him for an entire year; and Ali may have collected the majority of Wallace’s bird specimens. In addition, Ali’s wages and itinerary are reconstructed for the first time. It is concluded that Ali made a major contribution to Wallace’s scientific understanding of the Malay archipelago, not just with new ornithological discoveries like Wallace’s Standard Wing (Semioptera wallacii), but by his contributions of knowledge.

Reference:

2015 “I am Ali Wallace”: The Malay assistant of Alfred Russel Wallace. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Society vol. 88, Part 1, No. 308 (June): 3-31.

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Background image of Tembusu (Fagraea fragrans) flowers and fruits in Leenhouts, P W (1960) Loganiaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. 1, Vol. 6/1, Fig. 6 (CC-BY 4.0).
Background image of Tembusu (Fagraea fragrans) flowers and fruits
in Leenhouts, P W (1960) Loganiaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. 1, Vol. 6/1, Fig. 6 (CC-BY 4.0).