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Formal Dinner 2024: Oscar’s Big Birthday Celebration

Residential College 4 staff, faculty, and residents, dressed in their best formal attire, gathered to celebrate the end of a fulfilling academic year with heartwarming speeches and captivating performances by the college’s talented residents. The Farewell Formal Dinner of AY2023/24 was held on 17 April 2024 with the theme “Oscar’s Big Birthday Celebration”.

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[Perspectives] The NUS Student Entrepreneurship Voyage

On 4 April 2024, Residential College 4 (RC4) had the privilege of having two distinguished entrepreneurs from The HANGAR by NUS Enterprise – Daryl Lim of Augmentus and Qi Herng Kong of Moonbeam Co. This session provided an invaluable opportunity for RC4 residents to gain insights into the journeys of these founders and gain inspiration for their own entrepreneurial endeavours.

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[Perspectives] The Reality of Navigating Wicked Problems in Public Policy

On November 7, “Perspectives” hosted government officers Mingjing Lim from the Ministry of Finance and Jian Wei Heng from the National Climate Change Secretariat. Their talk provided a snapshot of Singapore’s approach to environmental goals and healthcare improvements, examining the practicalities and hurdles in adopting complexity science within the civil service.

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[Perspectives] RC4 STEER Himalaya Forum

The STEER-Himalaya Forum brought together previous cohorts of the RC4 STEER Himalaya program, fresh candidates, experts from the region and the Associate Vice President of NUS-GRO. The RC4 STEER team demonstrated how fieldwork and Systems Thinking can be blended to co-create knowledge targeting mutual learning among students, educators, and community development practitioners.

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[Perspectives] Transitions in Discipline

On 22nd August 2023, RC4 alumnus, Ryan Tan, engaged students and fellows on the topic of “taking interdisciplinary beyond the classroom”. He connected his experiences from Singapore to his first year in the Graduate Program on Engineering and Policy at TU Delft in the Netherlands to demonstrate how interdisciplinary thinking can be used to reflect on life, create social purpose, and explore policy issues.

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