Tag: 2014

Voyage the Singapore Science Centre’s exhibition, Island Adventurer

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Voyage the Singapore Science Centre

10am – 1pm, Friday

26th September 2014

Bus leaves Tembusu drop-off point at 10am sharp.

Registration is compulsory.

Please register at: dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io by 16 Sep 2014

Join Professor Tommy Koh and Dr John van Wyhe for a special tour of the Singapore Science Centre’s exhibition Island Adventure: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Quest for the Origin of Species! This exhibition, curated by Dr van Wyhe, is about the life of great naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, his voyage to the Malay Archipelago and his discovery of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

Tembusu Vertical Marathon

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PROGRAMME:

General Information

Eligibility: Participants must be above the age of 18 years as of 19th September 2014
Categories: Men’s Open, Women’s Open, Men Non-NUS, Women Non-NUS
Date: 19th September 2014, registration starts at 1700H
Payment: Secure credit card payment via Visa / MasterCard / Diners Club International Credit Cards

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

Student’s Tea with Ms. Pooja Nansi

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Tembusu College Student’s Tea

Ms. Pooja Nansi

7.30pm, Thursday

18th September 2014

Level 1 Common Lounge

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Pooja Nansi is an educator and poet who believes in the power that speech and performance can lead to the written word.Her first collection of poetry “Stiletto Scars” was published in 2007 at the Singapore Writer’s Festival. She has performed and conducted workshops in several educational institutes both locally and abroad such as Kuala Lumpur and London, with individuals of different ages to try and make poetry projects such as “Speechless” with the British Council, where she worked in conjunction with poets from London, Ireland, Taiwan, The Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam and engaged in a month long tour of the UK to explore issues surrounding freedom of speech. She is most passionate about using poetry a a platform to raise awareness about issues close to her heart and her favourite description of herself is attributed to Filipino poet Siege Malvar who called her a “poetry and pumps diva”,

Fellow’s Tea with Mr Elvis Hoxhaj

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Mr. Elvis Hoxhaj

3.30pm, Monday

29th September 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Hosted by Dr. Catelijne Coopmans

Mr. Elvis Hoxhaj is one of the leading activists in the LGBT movement in Albania, a movement whose emancipatory politics have made it one of the pioneers in Europe because of its strong focus on awareness raising through education and art. Mr Hoxhaj has also participated in, and managed, several international human rights projects in collaboration with the Council of Europe, United Nations, and the Swedish Institute. He’ll be happy to talk with you, among other things, about the human rights situation for LBT people in Albania as well as the Balkans in general, and to discuss innovative methods of activism that rely on creativity.

Photos taken may be used for Tembusu publicity materials

Fellow’s Tea with Mr Anthony Tan

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Mr Anthony Tan

4pm, Tuesday

30th September 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Hosted by Dr Kelvin Pang & Dr Kuan

Anthony is currently Deputy Secretary (Policy) at the Ministry of Health and concurrently Special Assistant to Mr Lee Kuan Yew. A career bureaucrat, he has served in various capacities prior to his current role.

He graduated from NUS in 1997 with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Political Science. He also attended the Stanford Sloan Programme in 2005.

Anthony will be sharing his experience in healthcare, especially the challenges in negotiating key healthcare policies such as Medishield Life and Pioneer Generation Packages with the various stakeholders. Come prepared with your question and session of frank sharing and exchanges!

More information at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

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Fellow’s Tea with Mr Bernard Harrison

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr. Bernard Harrison

5pm, Thursday

25th September 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Hosted by Ms. Bertha Henson

Bernard has been in the zoo business for 38 years, hi last zoo position being CEO of Wildlife Reserves Singapore(WRS), one of the finest and most profitable, zoological institutions in the world which operates the Singapore Zoological Gardens, Night Safari, Jurong Bird Park and River Safari. He resigned in 2002 to set up Bernard Harrison and Friends Ltd, a specialist design company focusing on the Development and sustainable operation of zoological and botanic gardens, national parks and eco-tourism attractions.

Bernard did his undergraduate studies in animal behaviour and has a Master’s Degree in zoo planning. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, South East Asian Zoos Association, for his work with the organization over the past 20 years; American Creativity Association’s Champion of Creativity Award in 2008 for his work on developing the unique concept of the Night Safari; and the Outstanding Science Alumni Award from the National University of Singapore in 2007 for his work at Wildlife Reserves Singapore.

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Fellow’s Tea with Dr Leo Mariani

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Leo Mariani

4.30pm, Monday

8th September 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Leo Mariani is an anthropologist . He holds a PhD from the University of Paris Descartes-Sorbonnes and is currently a F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liege (Belgium). He is now in ARI-NUS as a visiting fellow for three months. He is the author of a book and several articles on Lao and Cambodian interplays. In between, he encountered a fascinating fruit: the durian. His current research thus focuses on sensory(especially olfaction) and emotional issues(especially disgust), with a comparative scope.

“I would say that the durian divides mankind into two categories”, the anthropologist Jacques Dournes claimed, those who hate it and those who love it. For Dournes, cultural relativity is the key to the problem as taste and smell result from habituation. I attempt to show that this explanation is clearly insufficient. Drawing from historical and contemporary sources (from the 16th to the 21st century), I discuss what one could call the modernization process of the durian. Put differently, I focus on the naturalization of the fruit’s smell and on the symmetrical culturalization of its taste. Concretely, this paper is the story of an encounter between Westerners and the durian. It recounts the trajectory from the fruit’s discovery by the first explorers of Southeast Asia, to the efforts that those who followed exerted to contextualize it within wider conceptions of living organisms on the one hand, and Asian otherness on the other hand.

CELC Writing Unit OPEN HOUSE

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CELC WRITING UNIT OPEN HOUSE

4th and 5th August 2014

9am to 4pm

#02-16 Education Resource Centre (ERC)

  • Meet our friendly lecturers and learn more about the various Ideas & Exposition topics.
  • Appeal for an I&E module.
  • Gather useful library resources that will help you write your I&E papers in the near future.
  • Tour the Writing Unit facilities: Writing Communication Hubs (WCH) and Study Area.

All CAPT and Tembusu students are welcome.

For enquiries, please email: IEM Enquiries or elcbox63@nus.edu.sg

Fellow’s Tea with Ms Noor Azura Zuhairah Bte Abdul Aziz

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Ms Noor Azura Zuhairah Bte Abdul Aziz

4.30pm, Thursday

21st August 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Azura was a senior student at Tembusu College in 2011-2012, and was part of the pilot class for the senior seminar ‘Biomedicine and Singapore Society’. Upon graduating from NUS with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in chemistry, she embarked on an internship of 11/2 years with the Division of Human Health (NAHU) at the International Atomic Energy Agency, an international organization under the United Nations that promotes the peaceful use of nuclear energy. There, Azura was part of a team that coordinated two major projects related to education, communication, and interactions between science, technology and society, in the Fukushima nuclear accident recovery efforts. Under the direct supervision of the Director of NAHU, Rethy Chhem, Azura assisted in the organization of conferences and technical meetings, and co-authored two chapters of the book Radiation Disaster Medicine – Perspective from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, which was published in 2013. Throughout the internship, she also worked closely with Associate Professor Gregory Clancey, the Master of Tembusu College. Azura has just ended her internship and is back in Singapore for a few weeks before she will go on to pursue a Master’s in Drug Discovery and Development at University College London, UK in September.

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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).