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August – October 2023 Industry visits bring RVRC students to learn about real-world developments on sustainability and workplace readiness. This semester, RVRC visited Golden Cap Farm, a startup growing gourmet mushrooms, on 28 August. Participants learnt how mushrooms contribute to Singapore’s food security and witnessed the process of cultivating mushrooms in a controlled environment. They also sampled […]

The College celebrated the achievements of 17 RVRC students who received the NUS Residential College Scholarships! These scholarships have been awarded to students for their outstanding academic performance. Several proud parents and students’ families were in attendance for the event, in addition to Fellows and Resident Fellows, where scholarships were awarded by College Master A/P

As part of the RVN2001: The Great Extinction: conservation and rewilding course’s final project, Dan Soh Yong Xian, Lo Mei Hui, Yeoh Jun Ting, Sarah Heng Chin Yee, and Brian Chow Wei Xuan proposed a rewilding plan for an under-utilised site in Yishun Park. Initially, the team members were convinced that NParks would ignore their project proposal,

The college is pleased to announce the RVRC Programme Honour Roll 2023. Please join us in congratulating these students from the RVRC Class of 2023 who have been selected for their meritorious academic performance along with contributions to residential and student life. Students listed on the Honour Roll will receive the RVRC Digital badge for ‘Outstanding Performance’,

RVRC Fellow Sadaf Ansari has won multiple teaching awards both as an individual and as a member of a teaching team. She has consistently struck colleagues, in RVRC and beyond, for her thoughtful, reflective, and proactive approach to her teaching and to her students’ experience. She is a caring educator who is highly attentive to students’

Taking a break from the campus after the gruelling mid-terms, 34 RVRC students visited the Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle @ Lor Tawas, home to one of Singapore’s only two traditional wood-fired Dragon Kilns. As part of the RVRC Heritage Immersion series, organised in collaboration with Artelier, students participated in an educational tour of the traditional wood-fired dragon kiln

RV Climate Cafe (RVCC) interest group hosted two dialogues in the 1st half of semester 2. On 26 January, RVCC invited Gavriel Tan from Altimate Nutrition to talk about his food sustainability start-up that uses crickets to make protein bars. Students learned about the urgency to improve food security worldwide alongside the need to destigmatise the consumption of

Exchange students residing at RVRC participated in a specially curated series of walks during October and November 2022 to local heritage conservation zones. Our first visit was to Little India, where students got the chance to experience the resplendent Diwali Street Market and lights along Serangoon Road, participate in the evening prayer ceremony at the Sri Veeramakaliamman

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