Tag: 2015

Student’s Tea with Mr. David Pong

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Tembusu College Student’s Tea

Mr. David Pong

Date: Monday, 13th April 2015

Time: 7.30 pm

Common Lounge

Only 30 seats available!

Register http://tinyurl.com/tDavidPong

David Pong is the co-founder and CEO of Wateroam, a water innovation social enterprise that aims to bring simple, portable & durable solutions for the benefit of mankind. Wateroam is the provider of highly durable water filtration systems that help affected people in post-disaster sites and rural communities obtain clean and safe drinking water.

The social enterprise has recently clinched the top award at the 2014 Singapore Humanitarian Water Filtration Design Competition, and the Rising Hydropreneur Star award at the Singapore International Water Week 2014. Wateroam has also provided products through various NGOs that were deployed in Malaysia in January 2015 as part of flood relief efforts. Since March 2015, Wateroam has been inducted as a qualifying company in the Young Social Entrepreneur (YSE) programme run by the Singapore International Foundation.

David graduated from NUS Business School in 2014 with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Second Class (Upper) Honors, Major in Finance, Minor in Real Estate. As an undergraduate student, he led his team in the NUS-Shell Business Case Competition 2011, becoming the Champion Team and Best Speaker award, and co-founded KWIX, which clinched the Top Pitch Award and the 2nd Runner Up award at the 2013 Startup@Singapore Business Competition.

HCT Finance Workshop

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TEMBUSU COMMON LOUNGE

21 APRIL

7PM-8:30PM

A Workshop for the Financially Curious

STRUCTURING YOUR FIRST INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO

We will be inviting a reputable Wealth Manager from a leading Financial Institution to advise you on your first investment portfolio.

Register: http://tinyurl.com/hct-investment

Celebrating 50 Years of Diplomatic Relations between India and Singapore

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PROGRAMME:
6.50pm: All to be seated in Tembusu College Multi-purpose Hall
7.00pm: Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey, Master of Tembusu College, will introduce the Tembusu Forum
7.05pm: Prof Tommy Koh, Rector of Tembusu College, will introduce the topic and speakers
7.15pm: Professor Tan Tai Yong
7.30pm: High Commissioner Vijay Thakur Singh
7.45pm: Mr Jonathan Tow
8.00pm: Question & Answer session with students
9.00pm: End of forum

Brief Biography of Speakers:

HE Ms. Vijay Thakur Singh is the High Commissioner of India to Singapore. Prior to her current appointment, she served as Joint Secretary in the National Security Council Secretariat (from September 2012 to June 2013), Joint Secretary to the President of India (August 2007 till August 2012), Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of India, Madrid (February 2006 to August 2007), Counsellor in the Embassy of India in Kabul (September 2003 to November 2005), Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York (June 2000 to July 2003), Director in the UN Division in the Ministry of External Affairs (January 2000 to June 2000), and as Director, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary in the Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran Division in the Ministry of External Affairs (April 1989 to December 1999). Ms. Singh has also served as Third Secretary in the Embassy of India, Madrid (December 1986 to March 1989).

Ms. Singh who was born on 18th September 1960 is married. Her mother tongue is Hindi; she also speaks Spanish and French. Her educational qualification is an MA in Economics and Bachelor of Laws.

For the forum, High Commissioner Thakur Singh will be speaking on India-Singapore relations as they have evolved and the potential in future.

Professor Tan Tai Yong is a historian and currently Executive Vice President (Academic Affairs) of Yale-NUS College. Prior to this, he was Vice Provost (Student Life) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2010 to 2014.

Professor Tan is concurrently Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), a NUS-based research institute that is dedicated to research on contemporary India and the countries in the South Asian region. He is also a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP).

Professor Tan has written extensively on South Asian history as well as on Southeast Asia and Singapore. His recent books include Singapore – A 700 Year History (2009), Creating ‘Greater Malaysia’: Decolonisation and the Politics of Merger (2008); Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia: A Reader (co-edited, 2007); The Garrison State (2005), The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia (co-authored, 2000) and The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on De-colonisation (co-edited, 2003).

For the forum, Professor Tan will show that the links between India and Singapore are far deeper than the 50 years of diplomatic relations that the two countries are celebrating this year. Despite the strong historical ties between the two countries, linked for by heritage, culture and people, what does their current contexts and vastly different circumstances augur for their future? Does India matter to Singapore, and vice versa?

Mr Jonathan Tow is Acting Director-General of the South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Directorate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to this appointment, he was Deputy High Commissioner at the Singapore High Commission in New Delhi from 2011 to 2014.

Mr Tow graduated from the National University of Singapore with a BA (Hons) in History in 1996. In 2005, he obtained an MA (with honors) in Security Studies from Georgetown University on a Fulbright Scholarship and attended the Beijing Language and Culture University in 2006.

Mr Tow joined the Singapore Civil Service in 1996 and has held various research and management appointments in the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2007 to 2010, he served as First Secretary (Political) at the Singapore Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Mr Tow will be sharing the Government of Singapore’s perspective on our relations with India during the forum.

Student’s Tea with Ms Vanessa Ho

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Tembusu College Student’s Tea with Vanessa Ho

6:30 pm, Tuesday

3rd March 2015

Common Lounge

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

About Vanessa Ho

Vanessa Ho, the coordinator of Project X, a social advocating sex workers’ rights in Singapore, believes that if people can speak about sex, gender and sexuality in open and in non-judgemental ways, society will become a safe place for everyone. Along with Project X,

she was a pioneer in bringing the international SlutWalk movement to Singapore and she has been very instrumental in upholding the rights of the LGBT community. Educated in UK, Vanessa has been awarded AWARE’s Young Activist of the year in 2014 for being an indefatigable advocate on critical issues that often get little attention, and for her amazing passion for equality across the board in Singapore.

Highlights:

Vanessa intends to start with a documentary screening and have discussion session regarding the following topics:

-Clarify the legality of sex work in Singapore

-The Issue faced by sex workers

-Sharing some stories based on the people Project X meets and interacts with.

Come join Vanessa and feel free to ask her question about the life of sex workers in Singapore

Fellow’s Tea with Dr Phillip Iau

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Fellow’s Tea

(Special Event for SSU2000)

Dr Phillip Lau

5pm, Tuesday

10th Mar 2015

Masters Common Lounge

Level 3, Tembusu College

Refreshments will be served

Hosted by A/P Lina Lim

Sign up at https://tembusu.nus.edu.sg/

Dr Phillip lau is the Head & Senior Consultant of the Division of General Surgery and Head, Breast & Trauma Services at the Department of Surgery, NUH. He helped form the Asian Hereditary Breast Cancer Association and the Asian Breast Disease Association, and hopes to to find Asian solutions for Asian problems in breast cancer and wants to spread awareness of breast cancer and its risks.

In his first 6 month in Singapore, his colleague Mikael Hartman saw more advanced breast cancer cases and deaths in Asia than his last 10 years in Sweden. When he mentioned this to Phillip, they both decided: “It doesn’t have to be like this”.

Phillip and Mikael decided to do The Long Ride, journeying 23,000km across 17 countries on our trusty motorcycles from Singapore to Sweden to:

+ Raise awareness about breast cancer to the people we meet

+Find out what problems they face in treating and reducing deaths from breast cancer

+Raise fund for Asian Breast Cancer Research Fund

+Find the “Face of Breast Cancer in Asia

http://longridess.com/

Student’s Tea with Mr. Alvin Tan

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Tembusu College Student’s Tea

Alvin Tan, Goldman Sachs Facebook

12 March 2015, Thursday

4pm onwards, Common Lounge

Sign up at Tembusu College website now! (20 seats available only)

More about Alvin:

Alvin has had a career spanning the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

He is currently an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, where he helps plan and execute the Firm’s business strategy in Asia.

Before Joining Goldman, he worked at the United Nations Secretary-General’s Office in New York where he helped execute projects related to humanitarian aid, technology, climate change and diplomacy.

He has also served in various functions in Singapore’s Ministry of Defence,

Including as a counter-terrorism analyst, a defence diplomat and a tank platoon commander.

Alvin has also served in non-profit organizations such as Oxfam, Solomon’s Porch, Magic Bus International and the Tan Kah Kee foundation in Singapore. He has also been an active grassroots volunteer in Chinatown since 2015, where he helps plan and execute initiatives that benefit the poor and elderly.

Alvin has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Sydney University, and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Alvin will be joining Facebook in May 2015 to help them build a regional public policy team.

Student’s Tea with Mr. Matthew Spacie

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Tembusu college student’s tea

Matthew Spacie Founder and Chairman Magic Bus India

4th March 2015

4:00pm, Wednesday

Common Lounge

Sign up through Tembusu or CSC website!

More about Mr Matthew Spacie:

In 1999, Matthew established Magic Bus, and he has grown the organisation from volunteers conduction informal rugby sessions and one-off outdoor camps for disadvantaged children, into Asia’s largest non-profit mentoring organisation working in the area of youth and livelihood empowerment reaching out to more than 300,000 underprivileged children and youths on a weekly basis across 19 states in India with offices in U.S., U.K., Singapore and Germany.

Formerly Chief Operating Officer of Cox and Kings and Founder of Cleartrip.com, Matthew comes with extensive experience in senior positions within the corporate sectors and an intuitive understanding of the needs of the development sector.

Matthew has been elected an Ashoka Fellow, a TED Fellow and an ACSEP Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (ACSEP) Fellow. In 2007, he was awarded an MBE for services to children in the Commonwealth. He also serves on the board of number of non-profits

Highlights:

Join Matthew in an insightful and inspiring discussion about how social innovations and human development initiatives like Magic Bus are key to solving major challenges the world is facing today. He will also share his experience of having served in senior positions in both private and non- profit sector.Magic Bus is also established itself in the international landscape and hear directly from Matthew about how Magic Bus works with more than 50 corporate companies like BMW, J.P. Morgan and many others, including the United Nations to archieve her vision.

Fellow’s Tea with A/Prof Loh Ai Poh

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

A/Prof Loh Ai Poh

4.30pm, Monday

16th March 2015

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 Kuan & Lee Chee Yann

A/Prof Loh is currently the Director of the Design-Centric Programme at the Faculty of Engineering and the former Deputy Head for undergraduate programmes at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical, First Class Honours) degree from the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur in 1983, and her Doctor of Philosophy in Control from Oxford University, in 1986.

Her postgraduate work was made possible by a scholarship from the Kuok Founding. From 1986-1989, she was with the University of Auckland, New Zealand, first with a postdoctoral fellowship followed by lectureship. She has been a lecturer at NUS since 1989. From 1994 to 1997, she spent 3 years at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as a visiting lecturer.

Her research interests are mainly in the areas of rely feedback systems, nonlinear control, auto-tuning and fault detection.

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

Photos taken may be used for Tembusu publicity material.

Master’s Tea with Prof. François Amar

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Prof François Amar

3pm, MOnday

30th March 2015

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshment will be served.

Please be seated by 2.50pm.

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

François Amar is Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Honors College at the University of Maine, USA. He is that rare breed of cat with a passion for science and the liberal arts. His strong interest in interdisciplinary education set him on the path to becoming Dean of a college not unlike Tembusu, featuring discussion-based classes and a supportive environment for students’ individual development. Prof amar is currently fostering undergraduate research clusters and community-engages research at the Honors College. He is also started collaborating with Tembusu through faculty- and student-exchanges. Besides his work as Dean and his research in theoretical chemistry, Prof Amar has been working to advance science education with a recent study exploring the role of gesture in students’ thinking and communicating about chemistry.

Photo taken may be used for Tembusu publicity materials

Intercollegiate Debates Final: Thursday 12th February.

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THE FINAL

The final of the fourth annual University Town InterCollegiate Provost’s Challenge Shield will take place on Thursday 12th February at 7.15 p.m. in the Global Learning Room at the Stephen Riady Centre (close to the Guardian pharmacy).

The two Yale-NUS teams will compete for the trophy, debating the motion: This house believes that companies like Marvel and DC that create alternative universes must actively challenge societal constructs of gender identity.