News of the week
Free Krispy Kreme Donuts in NUS
Krispy Kreme Donuts came over to the central forum at the Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS) on September 20 to give away free donuts to celebrate their opening at Tangs Orchard Vasement 1 on October 12. 4 students were entitled to a box of a dozen donuts.
Source: http://app.youth.sg/Home/Campus.aspx?id=44
WEF: Innnovations crucial for world’s future
NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan moderated the session on “Building Innovation Ecosystems” at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China from 11 to 13 September. The forum focused on “Meeting the Innovation Imperative” and provdied a venue for the New Champion communities to engage with forum members and partners. The session also faciliated exchange between leaders from industry and ket representatives from government, academia, civil society and media.
For more details, visit http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/headlines/1309/wef_16Sep13.php
Tweet of the week
HEFCE @HEFCE
Our annual Corporate Social Responsibility report now published – proud to be involved in #NUS #GreenImpact scheme http://goo.gl/dyRVNu
Instagram photo of the week
credits to @klmnc (Kelman Chiang): We’ll catch #sunsets soon. #nus #latergram
Student group of the week
The Liberal Arts in Singapore – A thought space for the Yale-NUS College Community
At http://yalenusblog.com, it is the first student-driven intellectual exercise in Yale-NUS history. Stay tuned as sixteen of our soon-to-be students share their aspirations for the College, comment on their gap years and all things socio-politico-culture-historical.
Feel free to email austin.shiner@yale-nus.edu.sg or shelagh.mahbubani@yale-nus.edu.sg with questions or comments.
Find out more at their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/yalenuscollege and visit their official website at http://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/.
Curator for next week
Name: Jolena Ang
Biography: Doing a double degree in Science and Law, Jolena is interested in art, sports (namely, soccer) and anything else related to Singapore in general. She also calls herself an amateur iphone-ographer (someone who takes photos with her iphone)
Follow her @ridgefolks and visit http://studentry.sg/the-ridge-rotation-curation-project/ for more information on the Rotation Curation account.
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The Weekly Sunday Roundup is a new initiative brought about by The Ridge Editorial Team to give the NUS community an update of the latest and most interesting news that has happened around NUS. It will be published every Sunday evening.