In our fast changing world, today's jobs require us to be agile and adaptable. Hence, it is important to learn skills that will help you to develop career resilience – the ability to adapt to changes, deal with stress and move forward, so that you can ace the interviews and excel in your career. Organised by USP Career Services, you will learn how to project your desired image, how to handle challenging situations during an interview or at work, how to manage workplace conflict and how to build positive relationships with colleagues.

Organised by USP Career Services, My Unique Resume Workshop will help students to prepare a resume for application of internship or full-time job, tailor their resume aligning to his or her career inclination and personalise their resume to reflect his or her uniqueness as a USP student.

USP Career Services has invited USP alum Tan Weiqing (Psychology + USP, Class of 2016), currently a Product Manager at PlusMargin, to share more about a career that combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Psychology for non-IT students.

Organised by USP Career Services, this career discovery workshop is for USP students who are exploring their career options.

USP writer-in-residence Miriam Bird Greenberg is organising a movie screening + discussion session every Friday night for the USP community. For this week, Delicatessen by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet will be screened. All are welcome, so bring along your friends and snacks!

In this Meet the Rector session, find out what the role of a Rector is and how the Rector can contribute to your learning journey in USP. Our Rector Ms Euleen Goh will share her life journey and experiences that have shaped her purpose and principles. Over the next few sessions, guest speakers from the corporate, non-profit and public sectors will come and share the challenges they face and how they navigate the fast-changing complex world. Look out for more details soon and encourage your friends to come along too!

From 18 to 22 Sep, USP welcomes a visiting professor, Professor Peter Felten, from Elon University (USA). Prof Felten is a historian with an interest in Teaching and Learning, and Student Life issues. USP community is strongly encouraged to join this conversation with him on student life matters.

The USP Ambassadors team will be sharing in detail what it means to be a USP Ambassador, including event timeline and its training sessions, mini projects, and application details. Application to be a USP Ambassador opens from 24 Aug till 30 Aug. Application details will also be sent via email.

Assoc Prof Bilveer Singh from the NUS Department of Political Science will discuss Salafism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

In this session under The Rector’s Programme (TRP), students can get to engage with Mrs Lim Hwee Hua on the topic of “Managing Surprises in One’s Career”. Mrs Lim is currently the Executive Director of Tembusu Partners. She previously served as a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office for more than 10 years. She will share the challenges in her career, how she manages the surprises in her career and navigates the fast changing world.

Join this informal panel discussion with USP faculty Dr Leung Wing Sze and three invited speakers – Stephanie Chok (Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics), John Gee (Transient Workers Count Too) and Wei Ng (Hagar International, Singapore) as they look at various issues of human trafficking and migrant labour in Singapore.

In this session, A/P Roger Foo will discuss the advances in heart failure treatment and potential areas of contention for these available treatments. Endogenous progenitor-derived cardio myocytes (CMs) in the adult mammalian heart poses a few issues. Together with knockdown of noncoding RNAs, studies reveal targeted inhibition may hold the potential for therapeutic development in cardiac regeneration. A/P Foo is currently Associate Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiology, NUS and NUH. He is also the Senior Investigator of Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS).

Prof Frederik Stjernfelt from Aalborg University at Copenhagen, Denmark will be presenting on “Entangled Roots of Semiotics and Phenomenology: Peirce and Husserl on Realism, Intuition, and Abstraction”. This talk compares approaches of related issues such as realism, signs, intuitive contents, abstraction, diagrams, and the objects of experience, and is part of a broader project to develop realist, phenomenological semiotics relevant to contemporary discussions. Prof Stjernfelt is a Professor at the Department of Communication and Psychology in Aalborg University. His research interests include cognitive semiotics, philosophy of science, the history of ideas, biosemiotics and political philosophy. We encourage the USP community to attend.

Sciences Po is France’s leading university in the social sciences and has been educating decision-makers in the public and private sectors for the past 140 years. As one of USP’s Student Exchange Programme (SEP) partner universities, USP students have the opportunity to spend a semester or year at Sciences Po’s Le Havre campus. Ms Laurence Souloumiac, Director of Sciences Po’s Centre for Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East (APAMO), will provide an overview of Sciences Po and help answer questions from students considering Sciences Po as an exchange destination. The sharing session is particularly useful to 1st and 2nd year students currently exploring their SEP options.