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Dr Wong K S makes $300,000 gift to support new bursary for medical students
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Top undergraduates from NUS and the region get student exchange cum community service experience, thanks to S$850,000 grant from Temasek Foundation. |
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NUS Libraries’ Lat Pau digitisation project has received a boost, thanks to a $30,000 gift from the family of former University librarian Mrs Wang-Chen Hsiu Chin. Lat Pau had been the longest running Chinese daily in pre-war Singapore. |
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Swissco makes a $200,000 gift to set up new bursary fund for medical students. The Swissco International Bursary will benefit two students every year. |
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Leading cancer researcher named Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professor and Director of Cancer Research Centre. Prof Tenen will lead the Cancer Stem Cells Programme which focuses on cancers that affect Singaporeans. |
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Renowned plastic surgeon Dr Khoo Boo Chai (’54) makes a gift of shares valued at $1,064,800 and rare medical books to help set up a surgery resource centre at NUS. The Khoo Boo Chai Athenaeum will help advance medical research in the field of surgery. |
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Thanks to $330,000 in gifts from alumni and legal community, NUS Law students get new scholarships, bursaries and prizes. |
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A gift of $250,000 from World Dental Education Society will support up to 10 dentistry students on the Overseas Enrichment Programme each year. They will get to experience learning in renowned dental schools worldwide. |
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Yong Loo Lin Trust's $25 million gift – in support of scholarships and special projects at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music – will allow the Conservatory to help raise Singapore’s profile as a city of the arts. |
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Duke-NUS Medical School and the Lien Foundation have collaborated to set up Lien Centre for Palliative Care, filling a vacuum in end-of-life knowledge and training that Singapore currently faces. |
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Thanks to the Singapore Medical Association’s (SMA) gift of $186,770 to Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, money worries will be far from the minds of financially-needy medical students as they prepare for their final exams. |
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With more than 40 Woh Hup Bursaries already awarded since 1977, the number only looks set to increase. Woh Hup makes second gift to top up the bursary fund so even more students can benefit. It also makes a gift of $100,000 to set up the Woh Hup Scholarship.
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Ngee Ann Kongsi makes gift of $50,000 to help set up first NUS-wide emergency fund for students who need urgent financial support due to unforeseen circumstances.
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A bursary allowed writer Goh Sin Tub to go to university. More than 50 years later, his story comes full circle, as his widow makes a $150,000 gift to support student bursaries at NUS. |
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The Straits Trading Company Ltd honours late Chairman Howe Yoon Chong with a $250,000 gift to NUS Department of Economics to support student bursaries. The gift will support two bursaries for Academic Year 2009/2010. |
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In a first for NUS, Agilent Technologies has pledged to match dollar-for-dollar gifts made by its staff to NUS.
With the Singapore government matching private sector gifts dollar-for-dollar also, one gift dollar from an Agilent staff member to NUS could increase by four times. |
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ASEAN’s brightest young minds now have an opportunity to influence the region’s policy issues, thanks to Temasek Foundation’s gift of more than $220,000 to support a new fellowship programme at NUS. |
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Goh Foundation gives $6million to groom physician-scientists at Duke-NUS GMS Singapore. The gift will support outstanding local and international students at Singapore’s only graduate medical school. |
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KDF and NUS have signed MOU to collaborate in research on the prevention, treatment and cure of kidney and kidney-related diseases. A KDF-NUS Kidney Research Fund will also be established at NUS. |
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Ground-breaking ceremony for Mochtar Riady Building marks start of new chapter for NUS Business School. The signature building will serve as the new entrance to the School. |
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A son’s last wish to follow in the philanthropic footsteps of his father and brother has resulted in a $600,000 gift to Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. The gift from the late Dr Lim Peng Thiam’s family will support bursaries for financially needy students. |
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Hong Kong philanthropist
Dr Li Ka-shing graces ceremony to name historic building in his honour at Bukit Timah Campus (BTC). The Li Ka Shing Building is one of the three LKY SPP buildings on BTC and sits on a rise overlooking the Botanic Gardens valley. |
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Thanks to a $1.875million gift from Lee Foundation, the Children’s Medical Institute (CMI) under the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSOM) at NUS will get a full-time research and clinical specialist in paediatric infectious diseases. |
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A $1.5million gift from widow of renowned orthopaedics surgeon Prof N Balachandran makes possible new Professorship at YLLSOM. It will be awarded to Paediatric Orthopaedics experts who will help further develop Singapore’s capability in the field. |
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NUS Business School has received a gift of
$21million from Indonesian business conglomerate Lippo Group. The gift will enable it to move a step closer towards realising its aspiration of becoming Asia's top business school. |
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The family of the late Phan Kah Foh has made an endowed gift of $250,000 to NUS’ Faculty of Engineering in his memory, with the aim of supporting eligible civil engineering undergraduates facing financial difficulties. |
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Prof Yuen Chung Kwong gives retirement fund monies of more than $74,000 to School of Computing to reward academic excellence and support needy undergraduates. |
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Shaw Foundation has made a gift of
$5million to Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore to establish the Shaw Foundation Scholars Programme. It will be awarded to the most outstanding students pursuing the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. |
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NUS staff Dr Lee Soo Ann pledges $151,500 to fund the Lee Wan Loke-Sarah Goh Sat Liap Bursary which will support financially needy students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). Dr Lee is also a staunch supporter of Annual Giving. |
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The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS receives $100million gift from Hong Kong entrepreneur and business leader Li Ka-shing to create chair professorships and to fund scholarships. |
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Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore receives
S$80million gift from the Estate of Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat for biomedical research initiatives. In recognition, its signature building on the Outram Campus will be named the "Khoo Teck Puat Building". |
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