Six NUS students’ short and final assignments from NM5211 Serious Games & Learning Media including CNM’s John Yap Yin Gwee, Cao Yuanying and Rosalie Hooi Chet Yeu, School of Computing’s Tan Jian Wei and Eugene Seah Zhu En, and Charles Pang T-Howe from Engineering, received awards on 6 December 2009 at “Shooot Fiesta 2009” in Singapore, Asia’s first award ceremony for 3-D videos filmed on gaming and virtual-world platforms. The machinima film called “The Homecoming” created as part of the final assignment (using a theme of Baba House, NUS Museum) is a short story about a Peranakan woman returning from abroad to her roots, won “Best Long Machinima (school)”. The machinima film created for a short assignment entitled “Smoking is ‘Good'” is a humorous short film about the dangers of smoking, won “Best TVC award (school)”. Dr. Timothy Marsh, CNM developed and taught NM5211 Serious Games & Learning Media. Both machinima films can now be viewed publicly in online videos from NUSCAST at http://www.youtube.com/nuscast.
Month: January 2010
FASS Awards Ceremony 2009
The FASS Awards Ceremony held in LT8 on 14 August 2009 was a celebration of excellence, service and dedication. Alumni who served on the Financial Aid, Bursary and Scholarship Committee were honoured with a special gift from the Faculty.
The night also recognised the dedicated service of FASS staff who had served the University for a period of 10 to 40 years. One of them was our Dean, Professor Tan Tai Yong, who has been with us for 25 years. We also want to congratulate him on his National Day Award – The Public Administration Medal (Silver)!
Finally, proud parents, relatives and friends saw their loved one receive the fruits of their achievements. These are students who had done exceptionally well in the academics, winning medals, book prizes or a coveted place on the Dean’s list.
The lovely evening ended with an entertaining performance by the NUS Wind Symphony and a delicious dinner spread.
Again, we salute all recipients of these awards. You are truly outstanding!
Social Work students awarded FRF
Congratulations to Nagoor Mohideen Fatimah and Tang Chyi Yueh from the Department of Social Work, who were awarded the Family Research Fund (FRF) by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) for their research entitled “Impact of senior volunteering on volunteers and their family members in Singaporean context”. The project aims to identify benefits and strains as a result of senior volunteering, as perceived by the senior volunteers and their family members. It studies the relationship between the socio-demographics and individual capacity characteristics of the senior volunteers and the perceived benefits and strains from volunteering, and the association of the benefits and strains from senior volunteering with family functioning.
To encourage interest in family research and foster quality research on family trends and issues in Singapore, the FRF is open to all undergraduates (Honours/equivalent), postgraduates and academic researchers at recognised universities (NUS, NTU, SMU and UniSIM) and affiliated research centres in Singapore.
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Congratulations to Prof Brenda Yeoh
Congratulations to FASS Dean Professor Brenda Yeoh for her appointment to the Ramphal Commission on Migration and Development.
From October 2009, Professor Brenda Yeoh has been appointed for two years to the Ramphal Commission on Migration and Development, one of the first two Commissions, on international policy issues of particular interest to the Commonwealth, which are being promoted by the Ramphal Centre in London. Other Commissioners include the Hon P J Patterson of Jamaica (chairman), Ambassador Farooq Sobhan of Bangladesh, and ex-President Vasiliou of Cyprus.
The Ramphal Centre was registered as a UK charity and non-profit company in 2007, to honour the contribution of Sir Shridath Ramphal, Commonwealth Secretary-General, 1975-1990. The Ramphal Centre has 22 distinguished Patrons (including Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew) of the Ramphal Centre and is served by a Centre Committee in London, and two Trustees.