Congratulations to Residential College 4 alumni Teo Jia Xin (College of Design and Engineering, Class of 2026) on being awarded the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) Medal for Outstanding Achievement. The NUSS Medal is awarded annually to recognise one graduating student from each faculty for exceptional all-round achievements.

Residential College 4 Alumni, Kang Yue Tong (School of Business) has recently been recognised with the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize for her honours dissertation, Systems Modelling Indigenous Heuristics and its Influence on Sourcing Policies in Southeast Asia.

It's a Tuesday evening, and instead of slumped shoulders and furrowed brows, our classroom looks more like a quiet studio. Yoga mats line the floor. Students lie still, eyes closed, breathing slowly as a soft guiding voice plays from the speaker at the front of the room. This is not a wellness retreat. It is part of a weekly module called "Sleep Health: A Holistic Approach to Well-being"- one of the most unexpectedly transformative modules I have taken at RC4.

The usually quiet corners of RC4 slowly transformed into a space filled with guitar riffs, laughter, off-key harmonies and the kind of spontaneous energy that only live music can create. Music Night, organised by students for students, turned out to be less of a polished concert and more of a communal jam session - and that was exactly what made it memorable.

RC4 Puppets greeted the college for the very first time at Slumber Party with their debut performance ‘Trick or Treat!’. As part of a Senior Retention (SR) Project, the Halloween comedy skit was met with enthusiastic responses from the audience. The project had been quietly taking shape for months before that night. It started in the summer of 2025, when the team's creative lead, Charlie, caught a puppet show at the George Town Festival while travelling in Penang.