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News & Events
Almost every week, members of Tembusu College are invited to meet and chat with guests - both local and international - through a variety of hosted events. There is a huge diversity of backgrounds amongst our visitors, who range from politicians to diplomats, artists, writers, poets, and academics. Select an event category on the left to find out more.
Our events and members of our community are also frequently featured by the Press and Media. Visit the Newsroom to read the reports.
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Ethos
Tembusu College’s motto The Home of Possibilities, means we value the development of each individual according to her or his own path through life. At the same time we are a learning community, which seeks to give students an intense experience in a nurturing environment. The college administers (and awards certificates for) the prestigious University Town College Programme (UTCP), which augments students’ regular degree programmes by emphasising breadth, critical thinking, and exposure to inter-disciplinary thinking. Our curriculum includes both seminars and out-of-classroom learning experiences.
The college is not themed. Diversity is an important part of our ethos, and we offer learning opportunities across a broad spectrum of interests. We do, however, have particular areas of strength, which are reflected in the backgrounds of our faculty.
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Education
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College Life
A home away from home, the Tembusu College community is 21 storeys of collegiate spirit known for its friendly and welcoming culture.
Wake up or wind down through casual conversations with your Fellows and peers over meals at the Dining Hall. Sweat it out over sports at the Multi Purpose Hall. Huddle with like-minded individuals at one of the many Student-run Interest Groups & Student-Initiated Projects or start your own. Let loose or let your creativity flow in the well furnished Student Spaces. Be our Student Partners and contribute to the College community.
Need career advice? Stressed? Need help on personal issues? Or simply want catch up with friendly members of our Residential Team? We're here for you.
Tembusu College is much more than a home; it's a Home of Possibilities.
Dr John Wee
Fellow
Tembusu College
National University of Singapore
Tembusu College, National University of Singapore
john.wee@nus.edu.sg
John is a historian of early science, medicine, and mathematics, author of Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary (2019), and editor of essays on Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman medicine in The Comparable Body (2017). He served on the advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine project at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. John publishes on wide-ranging subjects, including historical commentaries on scientific and literary texts; the compartmentalization of knowledge in scribal curricula, canons, and professions; the Hippocratic writings; and the mapping of time, stars and planets, and the zodiac. Particularly through exemplars in medicine and astronomy, he explores our ways of seeing and knowing, the hermeneutics of scientific and philosophical language, as well as intersections among science, literature, and visual art.
John graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. (distinction) in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and an M.A. in History (Classical Greece). He knows more than a dozen ancient and modern languages, and studied the original texts of the world’s earliest classics in literature and philosophy. He was a Samuel K. Bushnell Fellow and awarded the William J. Horwitz Prize at Yale, a Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg Scholar at Heidelberg University, and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow and then on faculty at the University of Chicago.
