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.
As a Residential College, residents of Tembusu College live and learn together with their peers under the same roof. Integral to the learning is the University Town College Programme (UTCP) where residents read five Seminar-style Modules over their two year residency. Find out more About the Programme or browse available modules on the left.
Concerned about the workload? Find out How UTCP Fits with your faculty-based degree programme at NUS.
Living and learning together at Tembusu happens as part of our ‘Out-of-Classroom Teaching‘ programme.
Keen to continue residing at the college after completing the UTCP? Find out what lies ahead in the Senior Learning Experience.
Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd is currently Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Institute at Cambridge University. From 1983 onwards he held a Cambridge University Chair in Ancient Philosophy and Science, and from 1989 to his retirement in 2000 he was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. From 1992 to 2002 he was Chairman of the East Asian History of Science Trust, which is the governing body directing the work of the Needham Research Institute.
He is the author of over twenty books and has published over one hundred and forty articles on the history of science, many of which have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Romanian, Polish, Slovenian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. He has lectured at universities in countries all over the world, including France, Italy, Germany, China, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Greece, Belgium, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States.
Sir Geoffrey was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983. He received the Sarton medal in 1987, was elected to a Honorary Fellowship at Kings College Cambridge in 1991, and made an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He was elected to the International Academy for the History of Science in 1997, became an Honorary Fellow at Darwin College in 2000 and received an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Athens in 2003. He was knighted for ‘services to the history of thought’ in 1997, and he received the Kenyon Medal for Classical scholarship from the British Academy in 2007.
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