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On 18 October 2022, RVRC was privileged to host a panel talk on “What Makes Singapore ‘Singapore’?” for RVC1000 students. Three distinguished speakers made up the panel: Mr Steven Chia from Channel NewsAsia, Mr Malminderjit Singh from Hume Brophy, and Associate Professor Elmie Nekmat from NUS. Held at the University Hall Auditorium, the panel spoke…

On 20 September 2022, RV Climate Café (RVCC) invited students to participate on a journey to Kin Yan Agrotech, Singapore’s largest wheatgrass and mushroom farm. RV students went on a guided tour to learn about Singapore’s local food production and Agritech scene, which will enable Singapore to meet 30% of its nutritional needs by 2030. Kin Yan…

RVRC hosted the Teaching and Learning at Residential Colleges Colloquium 2022 (TLRC 2022) on 22nd September. The annual colloquium is a collaboration amongst the NUS Residential Colleges. TLRC 2022 aimed to provide a platform through which educators and students of Residential Colleges (RCs) at NUS can share their teaching, living, and learning experiences in RCs, engage in scholarly conversations centred on teaching and learning practices in RCs, and discuss their…

Learning to Learn: The World as Our Classroom. The college came together as an academic community on 19 Sept for the RVRC Symposium to see and hear the interesting, thoughtful, and original work that our students have completed in AY21/22 under the supervision of RVRC faculty. The symposium also provided a learner-centric platform for students to reflect…

RV FoRestore organised a tree planting session on 3rd September, as part of the NUS Cares initiative. NUS Cares is a university-wide movement encouraging the NUS community to volunteer in initiatives that give back to society. Under the guidance of forest ecologist and Honorary RVRC Fellow Dr Chua Siew Chin, RVRC FoRestore raises awareness of Singapore…

The first Kayak and Clean trip was organised by RV CIP IG on 5 September 2022 when 21 RVRC students went with Fellow Eunice on a 7.5km kayaking trip from Pasir Ris to Pulau Ubin to clean the mangroves and waterways. With Kayakasia as their partner, the students learnt how to kayak before eventually setting out on…

A group of RVRC students came together to form RV XinChao, which is a self-initiated overseas community involvement project in partnership with a Vietnamese non-profit organisation, Evo Vietnam Group (EVG). With support from the National Youth Council Youth Expedition Project and RVRC, the team recently completed their five-day virtual classes with a group of children aged between 9-15…

On 23rd August, RVRC hosted 3 RVRC Alumni for an evening of sharing and networking with a number of current RVRC students. Today Wee Li Shuen, is a Client Account Coordinator at Twitter, Samuel Ong is engaged as a Cybersecurity consultant at PayPal, and Benn Tay works as a Software Engineer at Grab. The evening…

The URA is Singapore’s land use planning authority that works towards creating a vibrant and sustainable city using a forward-looking planning framework incorporating economic, social, and environmental considerations. Participating students on the Industry Visit on 16th August enjoyed a guided tour of the Singapore City Gallery, led by a volunteer docent. The tour enabled students…

RVRC kick-started the academic year with an industry visit to Innovate 360 Innovation Hub held on 12th August 2022. Innovate 360 is Singapore’s first food accelerator with facilities recognised as a technical partner by Asia Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) Policy Partnership on food security. Today it helps and supports more than 50 food startups in deep tech, agri-tech, sustainability, and consumer packaged goods. Organised…