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Accolades

  • Congratulations to the following National Day Awards 2010:The Long Service Medal recipients: Prof Lim Hock and Prof Tan Tiong Gie, Bernard.
  • Congratulations to Prof Mark B H Breese for his appointment as the Director of the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source starting from 1st July 2010.
  • Congratulations to the following colleagues for receiving the University Awards 2010 :
    Assoc. Prof. Phil Chan - Outstanding Educator Award
    Prof. Ong Chong Kim - Outstanding Researcher Award
    Assoc. Prof. Dagomir Kaszlikowski - Young Researcher Award.
  • Congratulations to Dr Yang Nuo and Yao Dong who work in the group headed by Prof Li Baowen for achieving the great and prestigious “2009 National Excellent (Self-financed) Overseas Chinese Ph. D Student Award” of the People’s Republic of China. Click here for more information. (Drs. Zhu Yanwu, Zhang Tian Hui, Dai Liang who worked in the group of Prof Liu Xiang-Yang had received the same award in the previous years.)
  • Congratulations to A/Prof Sow Chorng Haur who has mentored the winning school projects at the recent Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2010. Click here for more information.
  • Our heartiest congratulations go to the following staff for receiving the NUS Quality Service Awards at the NUS Excellence Day 2009/10, held on 11 March in UCC.
    Service Champion: Madam Tay Bee Hwee
    Service Achiever: Mrs Lee Soo Mien, Mr Teo Hoon Hwee and Mr Ben Kek Chun Peng. The NUS Quality Service Award was introduced in 2001 to recognize distinguished and exemplary service rendered by staff. More information about the award can be found here .
  • Congratulations to Dr Tan Meng Chwan for being invited to join the editorial boards of International Journal of Modern Physics A and Modern Physics Letters A.
  • The Department is honoured to share the double joys of Prof Peter Hanggi for making it to the list of highly cited authors at ISIhighlyCited.com and for being the Outstanding Referee of the American Physics Society (APS) Journals.
  • Congratulations to Dr Barbaros Oezyilmaz for winning the inaugural SMF-NUS Research Horizons Award. Click here for more information.
  • Congratulations to Adj/Prof K K Phua for being elected as a Fellow of of American Physical Society (APS) in December 2009. Adj/Prof Phua is a theoretical high energy physicist. Besides his contributions in many profound academic activities, he has also excelled in public administration and entrepreneurship. Click here for more information.

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China Immersion Trip, CHIP 2010

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