Every year, the Faculty of Arts and Social Science holds the FASS Awards Ceremony to celebrate the academic excellence of the best performing Undergraduate and Graduate students in the past year. This year’s Ceremony was on 20th August 2016 in UTown Auditorium 2, Stephen Riady Center.
Students hailing from our very own Philosophy Department did exceptionally well in In Academic Year 2015/2016. In her opening address, the Dean Professor Brenda Yeoh made special mention of Bernadette Chin. Bernadette was selected to be the valedictorian speaker for the graduating batch of 2016 on account of her truly exceptional achievements and the numerous accolades she collected. She has since enrolled back in the Department’s Masters Programme. 
This year, the FASS Awards Ceremony also included the FASS Student Leadership Award (FSLA). The FSLA is a special award given to students who, beyond academic excellence, contributed to the faculty and society. In 2015/16, a group of philosophy majors started a Peer Mentoring Programme to organize essay-clinics for new philosophy students, students from other departments and faculties with an interest in philosophy and the humanities. Their efforts not only fostered stronger ties among the Philosophy majors, it also help reached out to the wider NUS community. For this initiative, they were awarded the FSLA Group Award.
Here is a list of awardees from the Philosophy Department:
Graduate Students Teaching Award
Cai Xian Hui Nicholas
Li Qing Yi
FASS Scholarship in Buddhist Studies
David Premsharan S/O R Mohanadas
Hochstadt Scholarship in the Humanities
Will Zhang Chen
Ian and Peony Ferguson Scholarship
Aloysius Chan Jun Hao
Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal (Overall)/Rachel Meyer Book Prize/Special Book Prize – Philosophy/Daiwa Prize
Bernadette Chin Siew Hui
NTUC Medal/ Philosophy Book Prize
Yap Pei Ling Rachael
FSLA Group Award
Philosophy Peer Mentors
Dean’s Scholar List, Semester 1
Yap Pei Ling Rachael
Dean’s Scholar List, Semester 2
Aloysius Chan Jun Hao
Bernadette Chin Siew Hui
Rei Lim
Marcus Wee Rui Zheng
Muhammad Lutfi Bin Mohamed Shoufi
San Weng Kin
Yap Pei Ling Rachael
Yip Zhen Yuan Brandon
Will Zhang Chen
(Prepared by Jeremy Huang, with input from A/P Loy Hui Chieh)