USC invites all USP students, profs and staff to the AY2018/19 End-of-Semester Dinner themed Mad Mismatch. The evening will feature special performances by USP students, games, as well as a special video montage. Dress code: Come in your most mismatched outfit

Organised by Love, USP, this student-led event will discuss how you can exercise self-care while being an emotional support to your friends. This closed-door dialogue allows students to: 1) share about the difficulties they faced, in a safe and comfortable space; 2) discuss potential solutions on managing one's own emotional boundaries, recognising your own feelings and communicating them sensitively, and 3) other ways of caring for oneself while caring for others.

As part of this week’s Mental Health week, NUS Mental Health Wing, a student-led initiative, is organising a night of open conversations and heartfelt sharing about students' stressors, worries and hopes over desserts in an informal candid setting. This event is supported by USP and NUS Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Centre.

In collaboration with Checkpoint Theatre, USP Career Services invited USP alum Lucas Ho (English Literature + USP, Class of 2009) to speak to USP students, and share about his life journey from civil servant to professional playwright and theatre-maker. He will also share about the lessons he has picked up along the way from working in the arts, and how they apply outside of the theatre. This session will be useful not only for aspiring writers looking to continue their craft after graduation, but for anyone considering less conventional career paths. Checkpoint Theatre is a theatre company set up by Huzir Sulaiman (USP adjunct faculty) and Claire Wong to develop local writing and theatre. You may read more about USP alums in the Singapore theatre scene in this USP Highlights story.

USP Visiting Professor, Prof Willerboordse, will be conducting two talks on Bitcoin. We strongly encouraged USP community to join these interesting sessions. 1st talk: Why Polar Bears Hate Bitcoin This talk gives an overview of Bitcoin, how it works and the possibly ground-breakingte chnology it is based on, and explains why, if polar bears would know about them, they’d really dislike them. Technical details will be discussed in the second talk on 22 Oct.  Read the abstract HERE.

This is a special game organised by the USP Residential Assistants (RAs) for all USP students to come together to have fun and bond.

USP will offer a new study trip to Aceh, Indonesia in June 2019. Initiated and led by two USP alums, Nursyazwani (History + USP, Class of 2013) and Amos Hor (Political Science + Economics + USP, Class of 2014), the programme will focus on peacebuilding, activism and humanitarianism.  *As above timing clashes with USS, we have arranged a separate info session on the same day for Year 1 students interested in the programme: Time: 5.30pm – 6.30pm

Initiated by two USP alums, "Coffee Shop Talk in Aceh" will explore peace-building, activism and humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh has experienced a combination of: civil war; a destructive tsunami; one of the largest international humanitarian responses for tsunami victims; an influx of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees; a province-wide network of human rights activists; and 13 years of peace. The trip will involve learning from a ground-up perspective – focusing on those who have fought in the civil war, advocated for human rights and are helping to rebuild Aceh. The two-week programme will take place in June 2019. USP alum Nursyazwani (History + USP, Class of 2013), will provide further information to give an overview of the programme, its objectives and to answer any questions. Students interested in the programme are encouraged to attend. Applications for ‘Coffee Shop Talk in Aceh’ will open in December 2018.

Held annually, this award presentation-cum-dinner event will celebrate the following achievements in USP for AY2017/18: • USP Honour Roll • USP Senior Honour Roll • President’s Honour Roll • Programme Recognition Awards • USP Teaching Excellence Awards • Long Service Award

USP Visiting Professor, Prof Willerboordse, will be conducting two talks on Bitcoin. We strongly encouraged USP community to join these interesting sessions. Mon, 22 Oct (2nd talk) > Bitcoin: Chaining the World Block by Block Following the 1st talk on 15 Oct, this talk explains in reasonable detail how bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology work. The objective is to discuss the technological ingredients that go into the blockchain, its most well-known implementation – bitcoin – and the possible ramications for the wider financial industry. Read the abstract HERE.

The Sessions invites Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs, for a chat and lively discussion with USP students on Singapore’s bilateral relations with the major powers and our immediate neighbours, as well as how we can navigate turbulent waters of world politics today.

Organised by Love, USP, this event is a collaboration with SoSD, a non-profit organisation striving to change the plight of street dogs in Singapore. The volunteers from SoSD will bring along their canine pals and share about the roles we can play in changing perceptions about how homeless animals are regarded in Singapore.

Join this conversation with USP faculty Dr Leung Wing Sze and two invited speakers – Mr Jevon Ng (a social worker with the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics) and Mr Zakir Hossain Khokon (a construction supervisor and freelance journalist) – as they look at various issues of migrant labour in Singapore. Mr Zakir, also the winner of the 2014 and 2015 Migrant Worker Poetry Contest in Singapore, will read some of his poems during the session. Everyone in USP is invited.