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New exhibition to drive conversations, ideas to beat the heat
Assistant Professor Peter Ortner and his team presents an analytics software which comes up with ideal layouts for planners, using factors like building height and population density.
‘It starts in schools’: Design thinking skills needed for the future workforce – Singapore’s education ministry
Peicai Secondary School partnered with SUTD to redesign its Applied Learning Programme (ALP) curriculum for students. SUTD was tasked with upskilling the teachers to conduct the programme, and conducted interviews with students to co-develop the new curriculum.
SUTD Faculty Listed Among World’s Top Scientists in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2023
Professor Chua Chee Kai (Associate Provost for Research, and Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor) and Assistant Professor Xiong Zehui (Information Systems Technology and Design) have been named in the prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers™ 2023.
From selling laundry pods to body scrubs, young livestreamers are raking in the dough on TikTok
The connection between a livestream host and viewers is an example of a “parasocial” relationship, a one-sided relationship formed with a media persona, said Assistant Professor Andrew Yee (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences).
Inter-personal Wisdom
In psychology, theory of mind is an important social cognitive skill that involves the ability to think about mental states, including emotions, desires, beliefs and knowledge, and to recognise that other people’s thoughts and beliefs are not necessarily the same as one’s own.
QS Asian University Rankings – NTU and NTU are among the top four while SUTD makes its debut on the list
The QS ranking evaluates institutions based on 11 indicators including the university’s reputation in academia, employer evaluation of the university, faculty-to-student ratio, and average number of citations of papers.
Asia’s top universities: NUS slips to 3rd place, NTU climbs one spot to 4th
In the area of research output, NTU came in second in Asia, based on QS’ measure of scholarly impact, going by citations per paper. NUS is placed third, and the newly ranked Singapore University of Technology and Design ranks 10th in this aspect.
On the rising demand for both traditional and unconventional fertility services in ageing Singapore
Some couples in Singapore are going beyond conventional fertility procedures like IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) in their quest for conception.
Residents can have outsized impact on their community through local action: Social workers
Ordinary citizens can make an outsized impact in their community just by getting involved at a local level, panellists from the social sector said at a dialogue on Monday. The conference was organised by the Tote Board, the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities and the Institute of Policy Studies.
Close to 30% of SUTD faculty are among the top 2% world’s most cited scientists
This ranking is compiled by United State’s Stanford University, and is based on bibliometric information from the international citation database Scopus. In 2022, the list consisted of more than 210,000 researchers from 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields from around the world.
