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SMU won ‘Best Host for International Students Studying in Singapore’ in the 2009 Singapore Education Awards, a prestigious accolade by the Singapore Tourism Board to recognise educational institutions for commendable efforts in assimilating international students into the Singapore community.
The International Students’ Unit at the Office of Student Life bridges the SMU community and international students by deepening interaction and promoting integration, ensuring they have an enriching time during their studies in SMU. Little touches such as city tours for international freshmen, orientation booklets ‘Not the Stuffy Guide’ and ‘My Buddy is Lost Again’, Host Family and Buddy Programme for foreign students to experience a home-away-from-home and tea reception to meet with President Howard Hunter and senior university management go a long way to bringing them closer into the fold. |
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| Ms Bernadette Toh, Director of Student Life at SMU receiving award from Mr Edmund Chua, Assistant Chief Executive, Destination Experience Group, Singapore Tourism Board |
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A group of SMU undergraduates has been conferred the titles ‘Sons and Daughters’ of the Municipality of Concepcion in the Philippines by its Mayor, the Honorable Elizabeth T. Salcedo, making them honorary citizens and ambassadors of the municipality.
They were recognised for their voluntary community service in reconstructing the municipal library and part of the Roberto H. Tirol National High School. The group also taught basic Mandarin classes. Their other efforts include setting up the municipality’s first wireless Internet hotspot in its tourism office.
Project Touch is an overseas community service expedition to the Philippines comprising 24 SMU undergraduates led by SMU freshmen Kelvin Keegan Chong Yeow Wei and Low Si Han.. ser into the fold. |
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| SMU undergraduates celebrating, with their Filipino hosts, the completion of the building and
painting of a wall |
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SMU accountancy graduate Shereen Aziz-Williams becomes the first Singaporean to be recognised in the United Kingdom for her work in supporting minority communities and encouraging racial harmony and inter-faith understanding in the UK. Shereen received the Uthman Dan Fodio Award for Excellence in Community Development in March 2009 during the Muslim News Excellence Awards – a nine-year-old event which recognises the very best of Muslim contribution to British society.
The 26-year-old young woman moved to Wales after she graduated from SMU in 2005 and married a Welshman. Today, she is Director of the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations and is commended for having secured over £1.5 million in grant funding for Muslim and other community organisations. She is also a presenter on Radio Salaam Shalom, the first online Muslim Jewish community radio station in the UK. |
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| Shereen with a fellow Welshman in her involvement as member of the Executive Committee for the All Wales Convention |
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| Second-year law undergraduate Eunice Lim Shu Xian clinched the Ali & Sons award at the Education Without Borders 2009 Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for her paper and presentation: Water Crisis – A Nation’s Challenge, A Global Concern, A Regional Solution. Eunice was among 36 students from top universities including Harvard, Oxford and Tsinghua selected to speak at this
global conference. The only SMU representative, she introduced Singapore’s NEWater technology to conference delegates and is the only Singaporean to win a prize at the event. |
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| Eunice receiving her award from Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium |
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