It’s Week 1 of the new semester! Welcome back to school (and a big hello to you, freshies)! 👋😊🥳
Oh! Did you know that NUS provides free and licensed software downloads to our student body? 🤩🤩
This includes your essentials like Office 365 Professional Plus, access to the Autodesk Student Community Portal with free, full (watermarked) versions of Autodesk software for academic use, EndNote to manage your bibliographies and citations and many more!
➡ Visit our website for more details on software for students here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/services/software_and_os/software/software-student/
💡 Don’t forget to share this message with your classmates and friends who will find it useful too! 📩🙌
Oh! Did you know that NUS provides free and licensed software downloads to our student body? 🤩🤩
This includes your essentials like Office 365 Professional Plus, access to the Autodesk Student Community Portal with free, full (watermarked) versions of Autodesk software for academic use, EndNote to manage your bibliographies and citations and many more!
➡ Visit our website for more details on software for students here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/services/software_and_os/software/software-student/
💡 Don’t forget to share this message with your classmates and friends who will find it useful too! 📩🙌
We are proud to celebrate the achievements of 17 of our NUS IT colleagues who have been honoured at the National Day Awards 2021! 🥳👏
The National Day Awards recognise various forms of merit and service to Singapore, and are awarded by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Heartiest congratulations once again to our recipients for their endless pursuit of excellence and devotion to duty! We are incredibly proud of you and wish you continued success here at NUS IT. 🙌🎉
Read more about our National Day Awards 2021 recipients here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/nus-it-national-day-awards-2021/
The National Day Awards recognise various forms of merit and service to Singapore, and are awarded by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Heartiest congratulations once again to our recipients for their endless pursuit of excellence and devotion to duty! We are incredibly proud of you and wish you continued success here at NUS IT. 🙌🎉
Read more about our National Day Awards 2021 recipients here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/nus-it-national-day-awards-2021/
Last Friday, we at NUS IT had our very own National Day event to celebrate our Singapore Spirit! 🙌🤩
Our Fun Club members led us in an exciting variety of National Day-themed games and trivia, as well as the singing of our National Anthem. 👏
We also had a National Day Selfie contest, as well as a competition to showcase our dancing skills with the much-hyped NDP Dance to the NDP Theme Song for 2021, The Road Ahead. 🕺
Last but not least, we had an amazing virtual fireworks show to end our NDP celebrations! 🎆🎇
Thank you NUS IT Fun Club for the meaningful opportunity to take part in festivities together! 🥳🎉
Our Fun Club members led us in an exciting variety of National Day-themed games and trivia, as well as the singing of our National Anthem. 👏
We also had a National Day Selfie contest, as well as a competition to showcase our dancing skills with the much-hyped NDP Dance to the NDP Theme Song for 2021, The Road Ahead. 🕺
Last but not least, we had an amazing virtual fireworks show to end our NDP celebrations! 🎆🎇
Thank you NUS IT Fun Club for the meaningful opportunity to take part in festivities together! 🥳🎉
We are proud to announce that we are a finalist at the iCXA (International Customer Experience Awards) 2021 held by Awards International Ltd in the category “Business Change and Transformation - over 10,000 employees”.
Our submission, the NUS IT Shared Service Staff Professionalisation transformation initiative, comprised a multi-pronged strategy that optimised and centralised our IT services.
A big thank you to our team members who have redefined the IT service experience for the NUS community! 🎉🎉🥳🥳
Find out more about our transformation initiative here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/nus-it-finalist-international-customer-experience-awards-2021/
Our submission, the NUS IT Shared Service Staff Professionalisation transformation initiative, comprised a multi-pronged strategy that optimised and centralised our IT services.
A big thank you to our team members who have redefined the IT service experience for the NUS community! 🎉🎉🥳🥳
Find out more about our transformation initiative here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/nus-it-finalist-international-customer-experience-awards-2021/
We’re kicking off our #NUSITResources series, where you’ll find all the different IT tips and tricks to improve your campus life at NUS! 🤩
Ever wanted to personalise your NUS email? NUS FriendlyMail allows you to customise your email so that recipients will receive emails from your new FriendlyMail address instead of your old one. Best of all, there is no need to set email redirection or auto-forwarding as both emails belong to the same mailbox! 🎉
➡ Visit our website for more details on NUS FriendlyMail here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/services/communications/nusmail/friendlymail/
💡 Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and fellow colleagues who will find it useful too! 📩🙌
Ever wanted to personalise your NUS email? NUS FriendlyMail allows you to customise your email so that recipients will receive emails from your new FriendlyMail address instead of your old one. Best of all, there is no need to set email redirection or auto-forwarding as both emails belong to the same mailbox! 🎉
➡ Visit our website for more details on NUS FriendlyMail here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/services/communications/nusmail/friendlymail/
💡 Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and fellow colleagues who will find it useful too! 📩🙌
Did you know that NUS IT (previously known as NUS Computer Centre) was the birthplace of the Internet in Singapore all the way back in 1990? 🤯
While the Internet in Singapore was largely and publicly made available through the telco SingTel back in 1994, the technology behind it was in fact, implemented and made possible through the effort of many in NUS. 👏🤩
➡ Read more about how we brought the Internet into Singapore here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/achievements/2020-achievements/nus-it-and-the-origins-of-internet-in-singapore/
While the Internet in Singapore was largely and publicly made available through the telco SingTel back in 1994, the technology behind it was in fact, implemented and made possible through the effort of many in NUS. 👏🤩
➡ Read more about how we brought the Internet into Singapore here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/achievements/2020-achievements/nus-it-and-the-origins-of-internet-in-singapore/
In an exciting collaboration with NUS Chemistry, NUS IT is developing a digital chemistry boardgame to engage students via game-based learning! 🙌
This boardgame provides a fun learning experience for students to reinforce their knowledge in organic chemistry while combating physical learning restraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
➡️ Learn more about ChemPOV in our Media & Learning article here: https://media-and-learning.eu/type/featured-articles/chempov-a-multi-player-digital-boardgame-from-singapore-that-supports-more-engaging-learning
Thank you NUS Chemistry colleagues and Media & Learning for the feature! 👏
More details on this research collaboration will be revealed soon, stay tuned!
This boardgame provides a fun learning experience for students to reinforce their knowledge in organic chemistry while combating physical learning restraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
➡️ Learn more about ChemPOV in our Media & Learning article here: https://media-and-learning.eu/type/featured-articles/chempov-a-multi-player-digital-boardgame-from-singapore-that-supports-more-engaging-learning
Thank you NUS Chemistry colleagues and Media & Learning for the feature! 👏
More details on this research collaboration will be revealed soon, stay tuned!
Did you know that NUS IT was a pioneering partner in setting up Singapore’s national Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) back in 1997? 👏
Together with the then Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), in collaboration with NUS, SingCERT was established to facilitate the detection, resolution and prevention of security-related incidents on the Internet.
Today, under the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, SingCERT continues to respond to cybersecurity incidents for its Singapore constituents. 🙌
Together with the then Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), in collaboration with NUS, SingCERT was established to facilitate the detection, resolution and prevention of security-related incidents on the Internet.
Today, under the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, SingCERT continues to respond to cybersecurity incidents for its Singapore constituents. 🙌
On the 14th of September, NUS IT was invited to speak at Microsoft’s EduDay Webinar on “Automating repetitive tasks with Microsoft 365 tools” 🎉🎉
Representing the NUS IT team, which won second place at the Microsoft Power Apps Hackathon Competition, Mr Tan Keok Tay spoke about our hackathon experience and the project.
We are grateful to Microsoft for the opportunity to share our expertise, as well as to learn from others at the hackathon and webinar.
Once again, congratulations to our team members who have done us proud! 👏👏
Representing the NUS IT team, which won second place at the Microsoft Power Apps Hackathon Competition, Mr Tan Keok Tay spoke about our hackathon experience and the project.
We are grateful to Microsoft for the opportunity to share our expertise, as well as to learn from others at the hackathon and webinar.
Once again, congratulations to our team members who have done us proud! 👏👏
We are proud to announce that our Chief Information Technology Officer, Ms Tan Shui-Min, has been shortlisted for CIO of the Year at the Women in IT Asia Awards 2021!
This award recognises a female CIO who has demonstrated innovation and IT excellence.
A big thank you to the Women in IT Awards and congratulations to Ms Tan Shui-Min! 🎉🎉🥳🥳
Find out more about the awards shortlist here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/tan-shui-min-nus-women-in-it-awards-cio-of-the-year/
This award recognises a female CIO who has demonstrated innovation and IT excellence.
A big thank you to the Women in IT Awards and congratulations to Ms Tan Shui-Min! 🎉🎉🥳🥳
Find out more about the awards shortlist here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/tan-shui-min-nus-women-in-it-awards-cio-of-the-year/
Need a tool to create surveys, collect data, conduct polls, make registration forms and so on and so forth? Check out Qualtrics, a web-based survey solution available free for use by the NUS Community! 👍😊
Qualtrics is a collaborative platform with a variety of data collection options for your every need. It features analytic tools, an option to download your data into Excel and SPSS as well as generate reports.
Best of all, NUS IT’s Digital Enablement Team has created Qualtrics guides and workshop recordings for all NUS staff and students to help you get started and learn about the platform! 🎉
➡ Visit our Digital Enablement Portal (NUS VPN required) for more details on Qualtrics here: https://ss.nus.edu.sg/digital-enablement/surveys
💡 Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and fellow colleagues who will find it useful too! 📩🙌
Qualtrics is a collaborative platform with a variety of data collection options for your every need. It features analytic tools, an option to download your data into Excel and SPSS as well as generate reports.
Best of all, NUS IT’s Digital Enablement Team has created Qualtrics guides and workshop recordings for all NUS staff and students to help you get started and learn about the platform! 🎉
➡ Visit our Digital Enablement Portal (NUS VPN required) for more details on Qualtrics here: https://ss.nus.edu.sg/digital-enablement/surveys
💡 Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and fellow colleagues who will find it useful too! 📩🙌
Did you know that NUS IT was the leader in rolling out Wi-Fi roaming among Singapore’s Institutes of Higher Learning all the way back in 2004? 🤯💯
NUS IT established the first Wi-Fi roaming zone among several IHL-CIO forum members, enabling seamless wireless access to the IT resources offered by home institutes when students move from one campus to another. 📶🙌
2004 was also the year NUS IT implemented full wireless coverage for the entire NUS campus. It offered the highest performance at 54 Mbps with 1,000 wireless base stations, deployed in over 100 buildings for a strong user population of 32,000. This was one of the first large-scale deployments of 802.11g-enabled wireless networks in Asia Pacific.
NUS IT established the first Wi-Fi roaming zone among several IHL-CIO forum members, enabling seamless wireless access to the IT resources offered by home institutes when students move from one campus to another. 📶🙌
2004 was also the year NUS IT implemented full wireless coverage for the entire NUS campus. It offered the highest performance at 54 Mbps with 1,000 wireless base stations, deployed in over 100 buildings for a strong user population of 32,000. This was one of the first large-scale deployments of 802.11g-enabled wireless networks in Asia Pacific.
In 2019, NUS IT began work on the creation of a one-stop mobile app for the NUS community. When COVID-19 hit, the first version of uNivUS enabled NUS to efficiently respond to the University’s safe management measures.
As the COVID-19 situation stabilised, the uNivUS App Development Project Team, a joint effort by the NUS Organisational Excellence Transformation Unit and NUS IT, resumed work on turning uNivUS into a unified mobile platform for the NUS community. 👏
Read on to find out how the uNivUS App Development Project Team united to transform uNivUS here: https://www.nus.edu.sg/inside-nus/stories/uniting-with-univus
As the COVID-19 situation stabilised, the uNivUS App Development Project Team, a joint effort by the NUS Organisational Excellence Transformation Unit and NUS IT, resumed work on turning uNivUS into a unified mobile platform for the NUS community. 👏
Read on to find out how the uNivUS App Development Project Team united to transform uNivUS here: https://www.nus.edu.sg/inside-nus/stories/uniting-with-univus
On 26th September 2021, our NUS IT Management Team embarked on a gruelling and tiring 3km run, under the RunNUS 2021 event hosted by our NUS Students' Sports Club (NUSSSC), to raise funds for the Disabled People’s Association (DPA) and Singapore Disability Sports Council (SDSC).
The event was logistically supported by our very own Fun Club (NUS IT’s Staff Welfare Committee) to aid the management team on their journey. 🏃🏻♂🏃🏻♀
Equipped with their running gear, sunblock, sunglasses and lots of love and support from the entire department, our Management Team led the way to raise $5,678 for charity - way past our original target! 👏
A huge thanks to everybody in NUS IT and kudos to our Management Team! We are so thrilled to have been able to contribute to this meaningful cause. 🎉
Read more about our RunNUS experience here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/achievements/2021-achievements/nus-it-runnus-charity-2021/
The event was logistically supported by our very own Fun Club (NUS IT’s Staff Welfare Committee) to aid the management team on their journey. 🏃🏻♂🏃🏻♀
Equipped with their running gear, sunblock, sunglasses and lots of love and support from the entire department, our Management Team led the way to raise $5,678 for charity - way past our original target! 👏
A huge thanks to everybody in NUS IT and kudos to our Management Team! We are so thrilled to have been able to contribute to this meaningful cause. 🎉
Read more about our RunNUS experience here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/achievements/2021-achievements/nus-it-runnus-charity-2021/
On the 6th of October, NUS IT was invited to participate in Jicara Media's IT Infrastructure Frontiers 2021 Panel “IT Infrastructure for the New Era of Work”. 🚀
Our Director for Infrastructure, Mr Ng Tiong Beng, shared about the University’s strategy to meet the changing needs of the COVID-19 pandemic and the reliable and secure connectivity infrastructure such as VPN, authentication services and border network infrastructure critical in enabling NUS staff and students to teach and learn remotely.
Congratulations and many thanks to Mr Ng Tiong Beng and the other insightful panellists for their enriching sharing! 👏
We are grateful to Jicara Media for the opportunity to share our expertise, as well as the fruitful discussion with Mr Dickie Widjaja (Investree) and Vinodh Balasubramanian (GlobalFoundries) moderated by Rahul Joshi (Frontier Enterprise).
Read more about the panel here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/events/2021-events/nus-it-it-infrastructure-frontiers-2021-cloud-security/
Our Director for Infrastructure, Mr Ng Tiong Beng, shared about the University’s strategy to meet the changing needs of the COVID-19 pandemic and the reliable and secure connectivity infrastructure such as VPN, authentication services and border network infrastructure critical in enabling NUS staff and students to teach and learn remotely.
Congratulations and many thanks to Mr Ng Tiong Beng and the other insightful panellists for their enriching sharing! 👏
We are grateful to Jicara Media for the opportunity to share our expertise, as well as the fruitful discussion with Mr Dickie Widjaja (Investree) and Vinodh Balasubramanian (GlobalFoundries) moderated by Rahul Joshi (Frontier Enterprise).
Read more about the panel here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/events/2021-events/nus-it-it-infrastructure-frontiers-2021-cloud-security/
🚨 Applications for our NUS IT Internship Programme 2021/22 in December and January are officially open! 🚨
5 projects are now available for interested students to apply, and this includes 2 Advanced Technology Attachment Programme (ATAP) programmes for School of Computing (SoC) students! 👏
Our #NUSITInterns dive deep into the IT landscape of NUS and are enriched with knowledge and skillsets that are not covered in the classroom. Join us and get first-hand experience working with real-world problems here at NUS IT!
Kickstart your career with NUS IT today! 🚀
For more information on the projects, visit our NUS IT Instagram page (@nus_it on Instagram)
➡ View the postings and apply on NUS TalentConnect here: https://nus-csm.symplicity.com/students/app/employers/e88a5f4790a193b7ddc5591f377216e6/overview
Applications for Winter Internship 2021 and Advanced Technology Attachment Programme (ATAP) projects will close on 30 November 2021 and 12 November 2021 respectively.
5 projects are now available for interested students to apply, and this includes 2 Advanced Technology Attachment Programme (ATAP) programmes for School of Computing (SoC) students! 👏
Our #NUSITInterns dive deep into the IT landscape of NUS and are enriched with knowledge and skillsets that are not covered in the classroom. Join us and get first-hand experience working with real-world problems here at NUS IT!
Kickstart your career with NUS IT today! 🚀
For more information on the projects, visit our NUS IT Instagram page (@nus_it on Instagram)
➡ View the postings and apply on NUS TalentConnect here: https://nus-csm.symplicity.com/students/app/employers/e88a5f4790a193b7ddc5591f377216e6/overview
Applications for Winter Internship 2021 and Advanced Technology Attachment Programme (ATAP) projects will close on 30 November 2021 and 12 November 2021 respectively.
Forwarded from NUS News
The prestigious SG100 Women in Tech List 2021 includes 36 female NUS staff, students, and alumni who have made significant contributions to the tech industry, while 2 rising stars have been named in the “Girls in Tech” category. 💻
Among them are NUS Computing’s Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli, NUS Nursing alumna Ms Maybelline Ooi, NUS Research Fellow and alumna Dr Kirthika Senthil Kumar from the NUS N.1 Institute for Health, and NUS’ Chief Information Technology Officer, Ms Tan Shui-Min.
👏 Congratulations to these inspiring ladies! Read more about them here: https://nus.edu/3lUjQOs
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Among them are NUS Computing’s Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli, NUS Nursing alumna Ms Maybelline Ooi, NUS Research Fellow and alumna Dr Kirthika Senthil Kumar from the NUS N.1 Institute for Health, and NUS’ Chief Information Technology Officer, Ms Tan Shui-Min.
👏 Congratulations to these inspiring ladies! Read more about them here: https://nus.edu/3lUjQOs
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We are proud to announce that our Chief Information Technology Officer, Ms Tan Shui-Min, has been honoured on the Singapore 100 Women in Tech List 2021! 🎉
This award recognises women in tech who display resolute dedication and compassion. Through their substantial achievements, they lead and influence countless others to carve their own unique paths through technology.
The SG100WIT List was announced at Singapore Computer Society’s VTECH³ FORUM 2021, organised in partnership with IMDA and SG Women in Tech on 15th October 2021 with Ms Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-In-Charge of Smart Nation and Cybersecurity, as the guest-of-honour.
A big thank you to the Singapore Computer Society and congratulations to Ms Tan Shui-Min! 🎉🎉🥳🥳
Find out more about this prestigious SG100WIT achievement here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/tan-shui-min-nus-sg100wit-singapore-100-women-in-tech-list-2021/
This award recognises women in tech who display resolute dedication and compassion. Through their substantial achievements, they lead and influence countless others to carve their own unique paths through technology.
The SG100WIT List was announced at Singapore Computer Society’s VTECH³ FORUM 2021, organised in partnership with IMDA and SG Women in Tech on 15th October 2021 with Ms Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-In-Charge of Smart Nation and Cybersecurity, as the guest-of-honour.
A big thank you to the Singapore Computer Society and congratulations to Ms Tan Shui-Min! 🎉🎉🥳🥳
Find out more about this prestigious SG100WIT achievement here: https://nusit.nus.edu.sg/awards/2021-awards/tan-shui-min-nus-sg100wit-singapore-100-women-in-tech-list-2021/
We are proud to announce that our NUS EMART team (formed by NUS Department of Psychological Medicine, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies and NUS IT) has won the Grand Prize in the Medical Education Grand Innovation Challenge (MEGIC)!
MEGIC is an NUS Medicine initiative to drive innovation in medical education and to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. It aims to encourage educators, students and admin staff to identify gaps and opportunities to enhance teaching effectiveness, and to subsequently develop creative solutions.
This innovation challenge was issued at the beginning of 2021 and the participants spent months working. Despite the restriction arising from WFH, our EMART team persevere and managed to create their MAGIC (Managing Aggression using Immersive Content) which managed to capture the attention of the MEGIC judges
A big thank you congratulations to all our colleagues in the EMART Team 🎉🎉🥳🥳
#NUSIT #NUS_IT #YLLSOM #VR #virtualreality #education #hackathon
MEGIC is an NUS Medicine initiative to drive innovation in medical education and to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. It aims to encourage educators, students and admin staff to identify gaps and opportunities to enhance teaching effectiveness, and to subsequently develop creative solutions.
This innovation challenge was issued at the beginning of 2021 and the participants spent months working. Despite the restriction arising from WFH, our EMART team persevere and managed to create their MAGIC (Managing Aggression using Immersive Content) which managed to capture the attention of the MEGIC judges
A big thank you congratulations to all our colleagues in the EMART Team 🎉🎉🥳🥳
#NUSIT #NUS_IT #YLLSOM #VR #virtualreality #education #hackathon