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KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISE ACCOLADES NUS MBA maintains 23rd placing in the world NUS Business School’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme has once again been placed 23rd in the world by the closely watched Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Rankings 2012. It has retained this spot, the highest ranking attained by a Singapore university, for the second year running. The School also achieved exceptional results in several categories. Post-MBA salaries of its graduates increased by 185% over pre-MBA salaries, showing the high value derived from this MBA. The School also maintained its 9th placing globally for its graduates’ international mobility, which reflects worldwide demand from employers for NUS MBA graduates. Said the School’s Dean, Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor Bernard Yeung: “These rankings are a recognition that the NUS Business School continues to meet the needs of our students and employers, while providing a rigorous education. We shall continue to strive to be a business school that produces impactful ideas, graduates who are well-received, and allrounded business leaders with an understanding and appreciation of Asia.” The NUS Executive MBA also fared well in the FT Rankings, with the School’s Asia-Pacific EMBA ranked 19th and its double degree with the University of California Los Angeles at 9th place. Business students ace case competitions NUS Business School had multiple reasons to celebrate, with successive wins clinched by its student teams at recent case competitions. Undergraduates Lin Xun, Peh Che Min, Endi Asmira and Goh Aik Joon formed a formidable team against the other participants from 11 internationally renowned business schools vying for the University of Auckland’s Champions Trophy in February 2012. The foursome from NUS came in first in all four rounds of the competition and finally took home the winning trophy. Garnering the most votes from the audience, they also received the People’s Choice Award. Their win was exceptional as the participating teams had all clinched top awards at various international case competitions, which qualified them for the event. The NUS team had won the Copenhagen Business School Case Competition and finished among the top three in the Scotiabank and NUS-DBS International Case Competitions. Winning this Champions Trophy thus made the team the winner of winners! Student teams representing NUS Business School at the fifth University Investment Research Competition and CaseIT 2012 also did extremely well. Team REI, comprising Alvin Lim, Amanda Lai, Chong Li Yue, Mervyn Yee and Timothy Koh, emerged as the national champion for the former event, last won by NUS too. Each team member received a CFA scholarship and an opportunity to participate in the Asia-Pacific Regional Finals in Hong Kong. Business students Kenneth Heng and Yuan Yi, together with Aalok Chhabria from the School of Computing, also did NUS proud as the first runners-up in Case IT 2012. Held in Canada, CaseIT is an annual competition with a strong Management Information Systems focus, designed to find the best and brightest in strategic IT case analysis. (From left) Goh Aik Joon, Prof Sai Yayavaram (faculty advisor), Lin Xun, Peh Che Min and Endi Asmira bearing the Champions Trophy and the People’s Choice Award (far right) 4
NUSNNI Director receives prestigious George E Pake Prize Professor Thirumalai Venkatesan, Director of the NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative and NanoCore, has been awarded the 2012 George E Pake Prize from the American Physical Society (APS). He received this prize at the APS March 2012 meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, US, in recognition of his exemplary scientific career in research, industrial leadership, and guidance of new generations of physicist in the creation of new ventures by innovation. ACCOLADES Among the world’s top 100 most cited physicists, Prof Venkatesan has published over 500 papers in the field of oxide films and hetero structures. He is well-known as a pioneer in oxide electronics and inventor of the pulsed laser deposition process. Neocera, a company he founded in 1989, is now recognised globally for PLD systems and magnetic field imaging magma systems. He has also helped many of his students and researchers to set up companies. Prof Venkatesan (left) receiving the prize certificate from Stanford University Professor Robert Byer, Chairman of the APS Prize Committee Endowed by the Xerox Corporation in 1983, the George E Pake Prize was established to recognise and encourage outstanding physicists for their research accomplishments and leadership in developing the industry. Among its recipients were many highly acclaimed physicists, including Nobel Laureate and former Bell Labs President Arno Allan Penzias. • Provost’s Chair Professor Deng Yongheng, also NUS Institute of Real Estate Studies Director, was elected the Second Vice President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). AREUEA is the world’s leading academic association in the field of real estate finance and urban economics. Prof Deng is the first Asian Second Vice President of AREUEA Prof Deng is the first person outside of North America to assume this position in the 48 years of AREUEA’s history. This election reflected growing awareness of Asia as a new global economic centre as well as a recognition of NUS’ leading role in real estate education, finance and urban economics research. Said Prof Deng: “This is a challenging period for the global economy and real estate markets, and I look forward to raising greater international interest on vital issues relating to real estate and urban development in Asia and around the world. The next few years will be a time of major paradigm shifts as the world explores new models of growth, development and sustainability. I hope a multidisciplinary approach, which NUS excels in, would offer distinctive insights into matters of such great complexity.” • Mechanobiology Institute Director Michael Sheetz, Distinguished Professor at the NUS Department of Biological Sciences and William R Kenan Junior Professor at Columbia University, will be presented with the 11th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences at Rockefeller University, New York, in April 2012. He will be sharing the award with Professor James Spudich from Stanford University and Professor Ronald Vale from University of California, San Francisco. The threesome were recognised for explaining how cargo is moved by molecular motors along two different systems of tracks within cells. The Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Prof Sheetz received the recognises contributions prestigious Wiley Prize in that have opened new Biomedical Sciences fields of research or advanced novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline. Five Nobel Prize winners for Physiology or Medicine are among its distinguished list of past recipients. • NUS Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Information Systems Bernard Tan received the coveted Fellow Award from the Association for Information Systems based in Georgia, US. He was honoured for his high professional and personal integrity. Prof Tan is also a Distinguished Honorary Professor at Fudan University and guest professor at Renmin University in China. MARCH 2012 5
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