We caught up with some of our USP alumni and asked them how their work and personal lives have been like during this COVID-19 pandemic. They also share words of encouragement for the USP community. We hope their stories inspire you to meet challenges with positivity, or to be creative and brave in exploring new things in life.
Gwyneth Teo Jue-Ying (Communications & New Media + USP, Class of 2013)
Senior Broadcast Journalist at CNA
Muhammad Nadjad Abdul Rahim (Life Sciences + USP, Class of 2014)
PhD candidate, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS)
Research Director, Cellbae Pte Ltd
Veerappan Swaminathan (Mechanical Engineering + USP, Class of 2011)
Founder and Director, Sustainable Living Lab
Ow Yeong Wai Kit (English Literature + USP, Class of 2013)
Academy Officer at the Academy of Singapore Teachers (AST)
Anne Hwarng (Sociology + USP, Class of 2019)
UX Design Consultant in Madrid, Spain
Isaac Yee (Psychology + USP, Class of 2015)
Senior Manager at Health Promotion Board (HPB); Part of HPB's Swab Ops Working Group
Some of our USP alumni are working tirelessly at the frontlines, displaying acts of courage, selflessness and compassion. Here are our alumni who have stepped up in different capacities to serve the community and make a difference in the battle against COVID-19.
Featured on The AlumNUS magazine (Jul-Sep 2020 Issue)
Dr Zhou Lihan (Biomedical Science + USP, Class of 2007)
Co-founder and CEO, MiRXES
Dr Zhou and his team responded quickly to the government's call to manufacture 100,000 COVID-19 test kits in collaboration with A*STAR. Fortitude, the first COVID-19 test approved in Singapore, is now one of the most widely-deployed tests globally, and is used in more than 20 countries.
Featured on Channel NewsAsia
Pearl Forss (Sociology + USP, Class of 2004)
Senior Producer (Current Affairs), Channel NewsAsia
Pearl produced a documentary, One of Us, on Channel NewsAsia about how foreign workers in Singapore were being infected with COVID-19 and a close-up interview with foreign workers, volunteers and officers from different agencies and different walks of life, all working together to relocate these workers to new and safer housing.
Featured on The Straits Times
Fairoz Ahmad (Sociology + USP, Class of 2006)
Co-founder, Chapter W and Lecturer, Temasek Polytechnic
Fairoz contributed a literary piece titled "Memories Are Water Shaped As Stories" to The Straits Times as part of the #SGCultureAnywhere campaign to inspire and uplift readers as Singapore emerges from the COVID-19 circuit breaker. He is also the author of the short story collection "Interpreter Of Winds (2019)".