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IABC GOLD QUILL 2015 AWARDS FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATION & MULTI-AUDIENCE COMMUNICATION TOP-DOLLAR ! JOBS MAY-JUN 2017 NO.32 HTHE NTU MAGAZINE ey GOING INTERNATIONAL LANDING THAT DREAM INTERNSHIP EASY CHAT, TOUGH CALL CN YANG SCHOLAR MEETS JC STUDENT MAKING THE CUT SALON OWNERS OF KCUTS Med AND APGUJEONG TELL ALL about NTU’S NEW MEDICALU SCHOOL WIN! ACOUSTIC GUITARS, FACIAL KITS, FOODPANDA VOUCHERS AND MORE. FLIP TO PG 28 NOW! HEY32 cover.indd 01 19/4/17 10:39 AM C 2 FY In BI GO NT FA CO Gr sci TO Sci BL MIS Ha #S A campus that scores Th TH PA on all points. Hig TH Step into the NTU campus and you’ll see why it has been named one of the Top HO Fre 15 Most Beautiful in the World. From The Hive, which generated international Ac buzz last year, to the new mega sports centre opening this year – it is all happening here on the NTU campus. Game for a match? Play on at a first-class KE sports facility which can house a thousand supporters. Besides lush greenery We and stunning architecture, the campus is also a hotspot of the latest technologies con such as driverless vehicles. Ride the next wave at ntu.edu.sg/admissions GE FR Wh can sto pho CON NECT WI TH US ntu.edu.sg/admissions /NTUsg /NTUsg /NTU_sg /NTUsg dig ww IFC & 1 Contents.indd 2 19/4/17 1:07 PM EDITORIAL ADVISORY PANEL CHAIR CONTENTS Prof Kam Chan Hin, Deputy Provost (Education) MEMBERS Prof Kwok Kian Woon, Associate Provost (Student Life) Assoc Prof Valerie Du Toit-Low, Deputy Associate Provost (Residential Education) Prof May Lwin, Associate Dean (Special Projects), College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Gan Rui Yun, Class of 2017 6 Wu GuoYi, Class of 2015 CHIEF EDITOR 24 16 Dr Vivien Chiong EDITOR Eileen Tan ASSISTANT EDITORS Derek Rodriguez 33 Chrystal Chan WRITERS Amin Shah Ang Hui Min Kayce Teo Kwok Pei Fang FYI COVER STORY Lester Kok Lo Tien Yin In and around NTU 2 NTU’S SECOND CAMPUS AT NOVENA Tan Yo-Hinn Doctors’ quarters 6 VIDEO PRODUCER BIG BANG Ei Ei Thei GO FIGURE FEATURES CONTRIBUTORS NTU among the world’s elite 5 NTU OPENS UP Bernard Ng, Class of 2005 Campus life on display 4 Derek Chua, Class of 2011 FACE TO FACE Jasper Yu, Class of 2012 COURSE OF ACTION TOP DRAW Li Haolun, Class of 2007 Tan Ping Hao, Class of 2016 Great opportunities for Top-dollar jobs for fresh grads 13 EDITORIAL CONSULTANT science fans 14 INTERNATIONAL APPEAL Michael Chiang Madrid, Seattle, London… here we come! 16 ART DIRECTOR TOMORROWLAND Chris Foo Science of the times 20 INSIDE OUT DESIGNER Wang Meimei BLIPS IN MY LIFE Profs take the Proust Questionnaire 18 MISSION POSSIBLE Hair-raising success 26 TOP OF THE WORLD HEY! GO GREEN Trio to the summit 21 Share your copy of the magazine, or return it to us and we will recycle it. #SEEINGTHINGS The social media buzz 29 CHANGE-MAKERS s Heal the world, a step at a time 22 THE BIG PICTURE PARTY TIME! PERFECT FIT Highlights of Celebrate NTU! 30 Betrothed to success 24 HEY! is a publication of the Corporate THE BACK PAGE Communications Offi ce, Nanyang Technological University. All rights reserved. ©2017 by Nanyang p HOT SHOT Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Fresh grad rubs shoulders with Singapore 639798. Reproduction in whole or part without permission is prohibited. Academy Award winners 33 T. (65) 6790 5116. F. (65) 6791 8494. Reg No 200604393R Printer: Times Printers Pte Ltd s ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES KEEP IN TOUCH! Y F T L I [email protected] We welcome your ideas, views and youtube facebook twitter linkedin.com/ instagram es contributions. Email us at [email protected] .com/ntusg .com/ntusg .com/ntusg company/ntusg .com/ntu_sg Printed on eco-friendly paper GET MORE FROM CATCH US ON... When you see the icon, you can enjoy exclusive PHOTO MARTIN T stories, videos or COVER BEVERLEY LIM photos on HEY!’s TALENTS HARISH SREE MUHAMMAD FADZIL g digital platforms at Lee Kong Chian School www.hey.ntu.edu.sg of Medicine IFC & 1 Contents.indd 3 19/4/17 1:07 PM REACH YOUR PE K FYI Are you a student aspiring to be your own boss or to lead anA organisation in future? NTU’s new leadership programme, NTU WAT TS PEAK, will give you a leg up. Get an insider’s view of corporate life in the upper echelons of companies like Mediacorp. ON TAP High-achieving second- and third-year NTU undergrads who make it to the programme Is youry classroom too warm or the will be mentored by senior executives librarylibrar too cold? Log on to PowerZee for four weeks, engaging with CEOs and and giveg real-time feedback with top management as they work on real-life just a fewfew taps on your mobile phone. business challenges. This programme is UpdatedUpdated with new featuresfeatures iin March, the app hands users – about grooming leaders for the business includingincluding students and staffstaff – directdi roles in managing energy Olympics. Are you ready to be chosen? consumptionconsumption on camcampus.pus. AchievingAchievin comfortable temperatures is not the onlyonly reward ofof usingusing thethe app. Racking up points for Sw participatingparticipating in challenchallengesges and othero activities ho puts you in the running for prizes, such as the bu hoverboard that was given away in March, and WATCH OUT, R the Bluetooth speaker and e-scooter that will be in given away by the end of April. tr op KEYBOARD W M co WARRIORS ef It’s simple. Don’t put online what you wouldn’t want your future boss to see – it may cost you a plum opportunity. In a study, four NTU students found that more than half of the students they surveyed have posted content on social media that future employers might frown at, such as a binge drinking photo, provocative selfi es or a status update that bad-mouths someone. Their campaign, Your It’s all Keyboard, Your Career, warns students not to harm their future careers with things they RUSSIAN post online. Now where’s that delete button? NTU students want to learn Russian. And their wish is NTU’s command. to me NTU is probably the only local university offering the language as an elective, the latest among 14 language electives that include perennial favourites Korean, Japanese, French and Sign Language. You might even get the chance to travel to the world’s largest country – famous for its tasty borscht – to polish your language skills and open new doors to your future at the same time. 2 MAY-JUN 2017 2-3 FYI.indd 2 19/4/17 4:23 PM CONGRATULATIONS... MAKING A CASE NTU beat a 500-member strong global community to come up tops at The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2017. PROF CHRISTINA SOH, ASSOC PROF SIA SIEW KIEN, DR PETER WEILL K and YVONNE CHONG took the crown when their assessment of DBS Bank’s digital innovation journey NOTHING VENTURED, came away as a category winner NOTHING GAINED in the knowledge, information and communication systems management Mentored by Prof Vijay Sethi, the category. Well done! world’s top business professor in 2013, an NTU team playing the roles of venture capitalists negotiated their way to second place in the Southeast Asian round of the world’s biggest venture capital competition for students. Congrats, VISHWANATH K SREENIVASAN, RISHABH GANERIWALA, DELLA TIAN, ERMAN ZHANG and SHIPRA SHRIMALI for making it to the global fi nals in the US in April. HACK-TRICK HEROES Switching to a faster-moving lane during rush It’s a double triple for a team from hour will get you to your destination quicker BRAND SLAM the SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING but might slow down the cars behind you. Marketing wunderkinds TAY that took part in a supercomputing KUAN YU, LOKE SI HUI and Researchers from NTU have discovered that competition in Salt Lake City, USA. TERENCE HOR beat teams from They competed against 14 other incorporating this human tendency into smart other local universities to be named international teams in a 48-hour traffi c management programmes ironically Brand Challenge Champion in the non-stop challenge and bagged L’Oréal Brandstorm competition. D optimised the fl ow of traffi c in simulations. three wins in three categories. Kudos This is the sixth time a team from the With BMW providing a trove of data from its to these razor-sharp minds! Nanyang Business School has lifted Munich car-sharing fl eet, NTU’s algorithm the national trophy in the prestigious S could be refi ned to help driverless cars navigate contest. Next up: A regional selection SHE’S ALL WRITE that pits them against the best in effi ciently through heavy urban traffi c in future. POOJA NANSI, Asia for a chance to compete in the 35, who teaches global fi nals in Paris, France. creative writing at NTU, has been tasked with inspiring young people to seize the day. As Singapore’s fi rst Youth Poet Ambassador – which includes an honorarium and an $18,000 budget for professional development and public programming – she will help nurture a new generation of budding poets. When JEALOUSY strikes The next time the green-eyed monster strikes, don’t be surprised if you end up looking like a gaudy signboard. An NTU professor has found that jealousy can result in more fl ashy behaviour, such as wearing a brightly- ILLUSTRATION: CHRIS FOO coloured jacket, a handbag with a big logo or a loud pair of sunglasses.