NEWS
2016 NUS GSS Freshmen Welcome Formal Dinner Update
Dear Graduate Freshmen,
The registration for freshmen welcome dinner is now closed!
Due to overwhelming responses, the successful registrants will be decided through a balloting system. Only successful registrants will be notified via email from Thursday (21 July) onwards.
We appreciate all of you for being passionate about our event and we regret to have only limited seats for the welcome dinner. Do not worry if you are not able to join us this time, we have a series of events planned ahead in the upcoming semester especially for graduate students like you! Do check our facebook and website regularly for news and event updates!
We look forward to meeting you at the dinner and in the upcoming semester!
2016 NUS GSS Freshmen Welcome Formal Dinner
Want to know more about school campus?
Want to make friends from your home faculty?
Want to get useful information from seniors?
A formal dinner to properly welcome new graduate students to our NUS graduates’ family. Come for a night of glitz and glamour. Dress in your best and enjoy a night of good food and wonderful entertainment. Do come early to mingle with new friends and take wacky photos at our photo booth. We promise you that it will be an unforgettable night!
Please register at:
http://nusgss.org/index.php?option=com_content&;view=category&layout=blog&id=14&Itemid=228
NUS 3MT Competition 2016 (2)

1. Energy & Environment
2. Food, Water & Climate Change
3. Population Aging and Global Health
4. Others
- You must be a PhD student who has passed your preliminary qualifying examination and have not passed your thesis defense on 23th September 2016.
Register yourself HERE
- Upload your three-minute video to your Google Drive and email the video link to our Director of Academic Affairs at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
- Winner: $5000 research travel grant + funding and entry into the 2016 Falling Walls Lab Final and Conference in Berlin
- Runner Up: $2000 research travel grant
- People’s Choice: $1000 research travel grant
- Winner: $1000 USD
- Finalists will receive up to $2000 USD to attend the Symposium. Stipend must be used for airfare and lodging only.
- Winner: $2500 USD to visit a U21 university of their choice to benefit their research or on-going career development.
- The Information Session is provided by the GSS to provide interested participants with the rules and criteria of the competition. We will also be explaining the details of the competition and answer any of your questions. We highly advise you to sign up for this session! Date: 20 May 2016Time: 10 AM to 11 AMVenue: YIH Training Room 1Participation is FREE.
- If you have any queries, please write to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2016 NUSGSS Sports Carnival
Dear Graduate Students,
The annual flagship event of GSS is back! The Graduate Student Sports Carnival 2016 is happening on 26th of March, next Saturday!!!
All NUS graduate students, research staff and alumni are welcome to participate in competitive and fun games: badminton, basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, soccer, rock climbing, laser tag and bubble soccer! There are attractive prizes for badminton, basketball, soccer and Ultimate Frisbee winners and there will be a lucky drawat the end of the event as well!
Time: Saturday, 11am-6pm, 26th April
Registration time: 11:00am
Venue: UTown (Registration, Opening ceremony and warm-up at UTown Edu Sports Hall 2)
Prelims (Badminton, Soccer, Frisbee): Friday, 1pm-6pm, 25th March
Register online HERE. Registration for competitive sports will end on Wednesday (23 March).
Note: All sports games in this event are FREE for all NUS graduate students research staff and alumni. All you need to do is just to register online here.
Free Goodies for the first 100 registrations are going to be given away.
Apart from rock climbing, all other games are team games. You may sign up either as a team or an individual for the team games. Individuals or incomplete teams will be randomly assigned members to form a complete team. On-site registration is allowed for laser tag and bubble soccer, but participants slots are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
Important note:
You will need to sign an Indemnity Form in order to participate in this event. The form is attached in this email.
Game details:
For rock climbing, there are three sessions. Number of participants are limited. 24 participants are allowed for each session. The registration is on first-come-first-served basis. The three sessions are:
Session 1: 11:30 am to 12:30 am
Session 2: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Session 3: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
For badminton, there are three categories: mixed doubles, male doubles and individual (both male and female compete together). The Prelims for the badminton event shall happen on Friday(25/03/2016) from 2:00pm to 6:00pm at UTown EduSPorts Hall 1.
For basketball, there will be a male 3vs3 match (3 players + 2 substitutes per team).
For Soccer, there will be five per team(5 players + 2 Substitutes). The prelims shall happen on 25/03/2016 from 1:00pm to 3:30pm.
For Ultimate Frisbee , there will be five per team(5 players + 2 Substitutes) . The prelims shall happen on 26/03/2016 from 3:00pm to 5:30pm
Laser tag and bubble soccer consist of 5 players per team.
For more information, please contact Karthik at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We look forward to seeing you at our Sports Carnival!
If you want to join us as an helper, please register with us through this link.
2016 NUSGSS Postgraduate Movie Night
Dear postgraduate student,
Enjoy a thrilling movie night with us – The Jurassic World (2015)!!!
Jurassic World – a fun blockbuster, that will get you excited to see dinosaurs on the big screen again!!!
Time: 23 March, 6:00 pm
Venue: Auditorium, Shaw Foundation Alumni House, 2nd floor.
Free admission, a buffet will be provided.
Registered ASAP at: http://nusgss.org/index.php?option=com_content&;view=article&id=308:2016-nusgss-postgraduate-movie-night&catid=14&Itemid=228