The USP has always valued good teaching. Since 2002, the programme has recognised outstanding teachers with the USP Teaching Award. In October 2014, four USP faculty members were honoured by the USP for their excellent teaching in AY2013/14: Dr Jeremy Arnold, A/P Saif Khan, A/P Barbara Ryan, and A/P Kuldip Singh. You can read about their achievements here, where clicking on each name will bring up a citation.

We are delighted to note that A/P Khan and A/P Singh have also gone on to win the Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (ATEA) at the university level. Announced earlier this month at a ceremony held on 4 May 2015, these university-wide awards were this year handed out to only 55 teachers across NUS for their work in AY2013/14. For A/P Singh, this is his second ATEA, his first having come in 2005 with the Department of Physics. Likewise, A/P Khan first won an ATEA with the Department of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering in 2012, and was lauded this year for his USP teaching.

At the same ceremony, A/P Peter Vail was placed on the ATEA Honour Roll. This recognition is reserved for NUS faculty members who have won three ATEAs, which A/P Vail did from 2012 to 2014.

Congratulations to all our excellent teachers, and we will see everyone — students and professors — back at the USP for a fresh new semester in August!