By Jeannie Tay Innovation can take many forms. To some Yale-NUS College students, innovation can mean developing new ideas or products for the company they work for or the start-up they founded, while for some, innovation can mean creating change within their student organisations or contributing to the improvement of the Yale-NUS curriculum. Th...
Read more »By Lim Tian Jiao Yale-NUS College’s liberal arts and sciences curriculum seeks to challenge students to step outside of preconceived academic boundaries and approach learning with an open mind, even when the competencies demanded from courses are not directly linked to their supposed area of study or expertise. This mindset proves advantageous t...
Read more »By Bilge Arslan Shania Mustika and Toby Limanto. Image provided by Charmaine Chua. Besides pursuing their academic passions, many Yale-NUS students also take on extra-curricular endeavours. Some of them choose to create their own start-ups in various fields that aim to make a difference to the world around them. Hinggi, which means cloth in Sumb...
Read more »By Wen Kin Lim | Images by Aleithia Low While other students were completing their final week of classes, Betty Pu (Class of 2020) was on a 17-hour flight to California, USA for an entrepreneurship conference at Stanford University. Selected as one of 35 international college students for the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) ...
Read more »By Jeannie Tay | Image by Wayne Xu A new ‘maker space’ for creativity, design, invention and entrepreneurship was launched last month at Yale-NUS College. The Fabrication Studio, or more fondly known as the ‘Fab Lab’, is a space for students who want to do some tinkering for course projects, or explore technological pursuits outside...
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