Highlights
SUTD Launches World’s First Bilingual Game App Aimed at Staving Off Dementia
Move over Super Mario and Candy Crush, Ami is set to take the game world by storm – for the mature audiences at least. Ami operates on the scientific hypothesis that bilingualism or multilingualism has positive effects on the cognitive abilities of the elderly.
Bilingualism as a catalyst for social development in children
Through this research, Assoc Prof Yow aims to develop ideas on ways to embrace language diversity, with the ultimate goal of harnessing the advantages of bilingualism to improve the developmental and educational outcomes for children from all walks of life.
HASS announces co-winners for 2022 Digital Humanities Award
The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) cluster at SUTD is pleased to announce the 2022 co-winners of the Digital Humanities Award.
Students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul receive excellent review for their online repository project on the Japanese Army Occupation during World War II
As their final project for the course 02.126 Southeast Asia under Japan: Motives, Memoirs, and Media, students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul designed a voluminous online repository for primary and secondary sources related to studying the occupation of Southeast Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
How do children learn to trust an adult’s non-verbal cues?
In judging a communicator’s trustworthiness, children consider their track record of accuracy and degree of access to knowledge, find SUTD researchers.
Are tech-savvy millennials safe from technological disruptions in their careers?
A unique exploration of millennials’ vulnerabilities to work disruptions and how we can create better career futures.
Catering to the various appetites of technology adoption in Singapore’s food centres
SUTD study shows that involving hawkers and food stall owners early in the technology implementation process is key to quicker technology adoption at their workplaces.
Student Huang Qiuhong’s article on Endau Settlement published in Emory Journal of Asian Studies
We interviewed student Huang Qiuhong who published her article “The Japanese Occupation of Singapore: Examining the Success of the Endau Settlement” in the Emory Journal of Asian Studies.
ISTD Senior Caleb Lee’s Short Film “The Broken Circuit” is an Official Selection for the Essex DocFest
Graduating ISTD Senior Caleb Lee has been receiving some recognition for his short film, “The Broken Circuit”, a moving, personal account of how he experienced the ‘circuit breaker’ – Singapore’s nationwide lockdown of two months to contain the spread of Covid-19.
HASS’ students’ paper accepted for presentation at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP) 2020 (postponed to 2021)
Four SUTD students who took Associate Professor Yow Wei Quin’s course 02.218 Introduction to Psychology in 2019 submitted a research paper to the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP) in 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to covid-19). Their paper has been accepted for presentation!