The Journey Continues

Colleges/UniversitiesFebruary 10, 2008 10:55 pm

National University of Singapore


 
NUS is a growing university, with 140 hectares at Kent Ridge, 5 hectares at Bukit Timah, and now another 19 hectares soon across the highway from Kent Ridge at the site of the former Warren golf course. There are also new buildings planned for the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School at Outram Campus. The NUS Campus Master Plan aims to enhance one NUS community through building connectivity across the various locations, and creating spaces for interaction.

 A Growing University

NUS is a growing university, with 140 hectares at Kent Ridge, 5 hectares at Bukit Timah, and now another 19 hectares soon across the highway from Kent Ridge at the site of the former Warren golf course. There are also new buildings planned for the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School at Outram Campus.

The NUS Campus Master Plan aims to enhance one NUS community through building connectivity across the various locations, and creating spaces for interaction.

University Town

Developed from a visionary idea in 2006, the iconic 19-hectare University Town will pioneer an innovative model of learning and teaching integrated into residential colleges, creating a transformative educational experience that will prepare our graduates for a fast changing, globalizing world. The campus is designed to facilitate independent and critical thinking, multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary teaching and learning, cross-cultural communication and international experiences that will help build a global learning community with a strong sense of identity and belonging to NUS. It will also offer the cosmopolitan mix of some 6,000 students more avenues for student leadership and entrepreneurship.

University Town, which will be up by 2010, will host the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), the first research centre within the National Research Foundation’s Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE) as well as the Asia Research Institute.

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My Favorites 2:07 pm

World’s Most Expensive Dessert

 

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — This dessert may be a little too rich for you, but you’re probably not rich enough for it. A Sri Lankan resort is charging $14,500 for what it calls the world’s most expensive dessert, a fruit infused confection complete with a chocolate sculpture and a gigantic gemstone.

“The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence” was created to give visitors at The Fortress resort in the coastal city of Galle a one-of-a-kind experience, said the hotel’s public relations manager, Shalini Perera.

The dessert is a gold leaf Italian cassata flavored with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon enlighten. The dessert is decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt, an age old local fishing practice, and an 80 carat aquamarine stone.

The dessert has to be specially ordered, Perera said. Though the hotel has gotten calls about it from as far away as Japan, she said, no one has yet forked over the money to try it.

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Colleges/Universities 2:05 pm

World’s Scariest Place

 
Auschwitz death camp was in operation from May 1940 until its liberation by Soviet forces in January 1945. It is estimated that 2.1 to 2.5 million people were killed in the gas chambers during that time, of whom 2 million were Jews and the remainder were Poles, Gypsies and Soviet POWs. But this estimate is considered by historians to be strictly a minimum, because the total number of deaths at Auschwitz and its sister camp Birkenau can never really be known.
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