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.

Organised by Cinnamon Conversation and initiated by students, this is a series of informal and relaxed conversations over dinner, between a prof/guest and 4 to 6 students on a topic that the prof/guest is interested in.

Ms Liang-Lin is currently Managing Director of Templebridge Investments. She was the president of the Singapore Committee for UN Women and a board member of women advocacy groups like Singapore Council of Women’s Organizations (SCWO) and BoardAgender — learn more about her here.

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.