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When you see the icon, you can enjoy exclusive stories, videos or photos via the desktop, mobile and tablet versions of HEY! Online at www.hey.ntu.edu.sg. Hey 23_FA_TP.indd 1 15/7/15 8:37 am Fresh spins on The buzz around motoring You’ve seen it on this issue’s cover – the eye-catching NTU’s newThe learning hub (above), Hivedesigned by British designer BMW i8 hybrid sports car with swan-wing doors Thomas Heatherwick, is creating more than a buzz in the design (above left). Not just eye candy, this and the all-electric world. Its innovative sustainability features are a boost to BMW i3 are being used in NTU’s joint research with NTU’s green campus, which is now placed 3rd in DesignCurial’s the BMW Group to fi nd electromobility solutions for list of the world’s 10 best green universities. The picturesque tropical cities. Think cars that can highlight where the building is also a fi nalist in November’s World Architecture empty parking lots are or that can go further on one Festival Awards. NTU previously made the list of the top 15 most charge of their battery in future – exciting projects beautiful universities in the world by Travel + Leisure magazine. going on at the Future Mobility Research Lab on And the name chosen for this piece of unique architecture? campus, set up by NTU and the BMW Group. Excuse me, Among the many unusual names that HEY! readers suggested, The Hive stood out for its simplicity and popularity. Congrats to can I apply to take the i8 for a spin around campus? those who helped name it. You’ve won a Clinique hamper worth $200 for your creativity. We’ll be in touch very soon. Look ma. no pills It gels with what we know about babies and pill-swallowing. Asst Prof Xu Chenjie from the School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering won a grant funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop antibiotics in a gel form for infants in rural countries suff ering from pneumonia. The gel can be squeezed out of a tube, so there’s no need to swallow the pills or drink water that could be unclean. For all the pill-swallowing haters out there, this could be the light at the end of the tunnel you’ve been waiting for. 2 Hey 23_FA_TP.indd 2 15/7/15 8:39 am CONGRATULATIONS... Shooting star It’s offi cial – NTU is top in research in Singapore. In Nature Index 2015 Global – a ranking of high-quality science research from global institutions – NTU ranked 40th in the world and fi rst in Singapore. The university also outclassed the likes of Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge Universities in chemistry, and Cornell University and Imperial College London in physical sciences. And in the latest ranking of Asian universities by Quacquarelli HEARTFELT WIN Symonds, NTU leapt to 4th place, up from 7th last year. For helping the blind and the deaf, these NTU students walked home with the fi rst prize in the 2015 Enactus National Championships. They will represent Singapore at the Enactus world cup in the South African city of Johannesburg in October. Squid BUDDINGBUDDING FILMMAKERSFILMMAKERS pro NTU nailed the scene on the fi rst take at the inaugural National Youth Film Awards, grabbing 25 nominations out of 47 fi lms quo from nine institutes of higher learning. A jury board consisting of big names in the industry such as Jack Neo and Royston Tan will select the winners, which will be announced at a ceremony in August. The latest in knee replacement may just be a joint venture between Meanwhile, NTU alum Priscilla Ang is the man and squid. 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HEY! peeks into the exciting world that awaits you by Chrystal Chan, Derek Rodriguez, Ang Huimin and Aaron Corbett PHOTOS: LI HAOLUN, MARK TEO, SAM CHIN MARK TEO, LI HAOLUN, PHOTOS: 4 Hey 23_FA_TP.indd 4 15/7/15 8:40 am EXTRA Conversations in a car: NTU grads reminisce about their uni days on NTUsg YouTube The igh h r No stopping him flye JEROME TAN BUSINESS Taking a year off university to pursue multiple WHAT UNIVERSITY LIFE IS internships at companies like HSBC and private In the summer of my fi rst year, I attended a equity powerhouse Apollo paid off for Dean’s lister cultural exchange in Tianjin. Th at’s perhaps my and one-time Abercrombie & Fitch model Jerome fondest memory of my time in university – a Tan.