2015 Pre-Master Program III

National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as NUSRI) was founded on 15 November, 2010. It is the research institute registered under Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Committee (SIPAC) but operated and managed by NUS as a non-profit organization with independent legal identity.

NURSI runs the Pre-Master Program since 2013. This program is mainly for the outstanding seniors and graduating students fromcolleges and universities. There are pre-master courses for students and after then excellent students will be elected to National University of Singapore for their graduate study. During one year’s study in China, foundation courses will be taught by famous professors from National University of Singapore. Students need to complete the courses and the score will be the important reference for admission to NUS’s Master program. Followed by one or two years’ study in NUS for students who meet the admission.

In 2014, the program plans to have 50 students. All students are welcomed to apply for the program.

Please refer to the Chinese version for more details. 

2014 Summer Internship Program In Computing I

NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI) will be inviting all the outstanding junior students from colleges and universities to participate in this wonderful program. The program will last 4 weeks. Sutdents will complete the project Mobile Programming Development after study 4 weeks in NUS, Singapore. Short learning experience overseas will make students know and adapt the new different environments. It will be a good preparation for their further study overseas.

Please refer to the Chinese version for more details.

2015 Summer Internship Program In Computing II

NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI) will be inviting all the outstanding junior students from colleges and universities to participate in this wonderful program. The program will last 5 weeks. Sutdents will complete the project Mobile Programming Development after study 4 weeks in NUS, Singapore.

In 2015, the program plans to have 150 students. All students are welcomed to apply for the program.

Please refer to the Chinese version for more details.

Managed by the NUS Business School, the China Business Centre aims to be a world-class resource centre and a leading platform for China business research and education. The Centre will engage in a wide spectrum of activities to facilitate teaching and research with China themes, encourage dialogue between scholars and practitioners and groom business leaders and senior executives in China-related business areas.

The Centre will conduct extensive studies on management challenges and issues facing businesses in China, case studies on business strategies in China, and training programmes that provide business leaders with China contextual knowledge and global insights. Some exciting research initiatives to be spearheaded by the China Business Centre include the establishment of a local centre for financial research, China-related databases and indices that are jointly developed with local partners, as well as a centre for post-doctoral business research.

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The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) Suzhou Centre will leverage on the resources of the Suzhou Industrial Park to integrate itself into the Chinese environment through education and research.

This new Centre is expected to play a significant role in supporting the social, economic and public management transition in China. It aims to offer advanced public administration degree programmes that systematically combines theory and practice. It will also provide short-term training courses focusing on social management, urbanisation, modernisation of governance system, environmental and water resources management, sustainable development and other topics.

The Centre also plans to conduct studies on innovations in local government and experiences and lessons related to public governance. In addition, it will provide opportunities for LKY School students to immerse in China to gain a better understanding of the country’s development and its public policy.

Jointly set up by NUS Institute of Real Estate Studies (IRES) and Global Logistic Properties (GLP), one of the world’s leading providers of modern logistics facilities, this new Centre is committed to research and the education of leaders in both the public and private sectors in China. The Centre will plan and organise thought leadership activities that will engage and prepare policymakers and industry leaders in China for the complex challenges of tomorrow. In so doing, it will offer a multi-stakeholder platform in analysing and strategising issues in urbanisation, logistics and other related sectors.

Singapore-China (Suzhou) Innovation Centre is set up by SIPAC in 2014 to promote technology and entrepreneurship exchange between Singapore and China. The Centre was officially opened on Oct 27, 2014 by Cao Jianlin, China Vice Minister of Science and Technology and Lee Yi Shyan, Singapore Senior Minister for Trade, Industry and National Development. The opening was witnessed by China Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli and Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean. Under this Centre, NUSRI has set up 3 platforms that promote technology commercialisation, incubation of new technology startups and a practitioner based IP Academy. The platforms will focus on 1) international technology exchange and commercialisation; 2) to be the preferred Launchpad for international tech startups into the China market; and 3) a platform for training and exchange in best practices in IP and Technology Management knowhow from around the world.

Three new centres established at NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute to focus on China’s business landscape, public policy and urban issues

The National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced the set up of three new centres within the NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI), further expanding and deepening its research and education initiatives in China. The new centres are: NUS Business School China Business Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Suzhou Centre and Institute of Real Estate Studies (IRES) Global Logistic Properties Research Centre.

The three new centres will conduct research on China business management, innovation in social management, industrial economic research with Chinese characteristics as well as other topical issues that are relevant to China’s social development. Studies conducted at these centres will enhance the overall know-how, capacity and capability of the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) in managing issues relating to public administration, commerce, finance, real estate economics and urbanisation.

NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan and Mr Yang Zhiping, Director of Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Committee, signed a Framework Agreement this afternoon to formalise the strategic collaboration between the three new centres and the Suzhou Industrial Park. It was witnessed by Mr Teo Chee Hean, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs, and Mr Zhang Gaoli, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China.

Prof Tan said, “NUS is delighted to take our collaboration with SIP to a new level with the introduction of three new research centres in the NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI). Since its establishment in 2011, NUSRI has made excellent progress. The three new Centres will enable NUSRI to integrate its academic resources and broaden its spectrum of research to include public policy, business and urban issues. This is in line with NUSRI’s commitment to conduct high impact research and quality education programmes that will contribute towards the progress of SIP and Suzhou City, further advancing cooperation between Singapore and China.”

NUSRI, jointly set up by NUS and SIP, is the first research centre in China borne out of international collaboration. Within a short span of three years, NUSRI has successfully launched over 30 research projects, attracted more than 40 internationally renowned scholars, conducted training for more than 1,000 participants. It is currently also incubating 14 startups. NUSRI has also established itself as an important platform for international academic exchange and technology transfer between China and Singapore.

NUSRI GENERAL LABORATORY SAFETY POLICY  [PDF]

NUSRI LABORATORY CHEMICAL SAFETY MANUAL [PDF]

Safety Management Committee:

Dr. Xie Xianning

Mr Pan Guangyao: 62997817, 15050870666, guangyao.pan@nusri.cn

Ms Song Jing: 62997209, 18862195850, jing.song@nusri.cn

Attending Safety Training Programme in NUS

NUSRI Safety Management Committee is the functional unit responsible for NUSRI research safety issues such as compiling safety measures and enforcing the implementation of safety precautions, etc. As part of its staff development activities, the Committee recently sent its key member to National University of Singapore (NUS) for a week-long safety training programme. The objective is for the staff to obtain a comprehensive and updated training on the safety management system of NUS.

In the training period of 5 – 9 Jan. 2015, the staff was fully exposed to the intensive programmes conducted by safety experts of Office of Safety Health & Environment (OSHE) at NUS. The programmes included training sessions on chemical safety, radiation safety and biosafety. It also encompassed safety issues related to field trip and lab certification and audit. The NUSRI safety staff then had the chance to visit some of the NUS labs and got a first-hand experience in NUS lab safety culture and practices.

The training at NUS OSHE is instructive and fruitful: it broadened the knowledge scope and deepened the understanding of NUSRI staff in the area of safety management; it updated NUSRI staff of the latest safety policies and requirements; and it improved the professional and executive ability of NUSRI staff in safety management.

A photo of NUSRI trainee with NUS OSHE trainers

NUSRI International Student Immersion Programme

–Apeejay Education Society (January 2015)

National University of Singapore (Suzhou) Research Institute in Suzhou, China, welcomed its inaugural batch of international exchange students from India this year on 15 January 2015.

Under the theme of “Chinese Economics and Culture”, the delegation of 29 students and faculty members from the Apeejay Education Society (comprising the Apeejay College of Fine Arts, the Apeejay Institute of Design, and the Apeejay Stya University) of New Delhi, India, are in NUSRI for a 2-week immersion programme.

In their 2 weeks in Suzhou, our guests from the Apeejay Education Society will have the opportunity to appreciate first-hand China’s rapid economic development, and explore Suzhou’s rich cultural heritage.

Students will be attending NUSRI seminars on, among others, “Urbanization in China”, and “Tapping into China’s e-Marketplace”. To stimulate new interest in academic coursework and encourage students to develop interdisciplinary perspectives, NUSRI has also arranged for visits to well-known companies in Suzhou, such as ASUS and NCS. Students will thus gain valuable insights into how multinational corporations in Suzhou work hand in hand with local Chinese startups in a symbiotic ecosystem. It will certainly be an eye-opening and intellectually stimulating experience for our guests from Apeejay Education Society.

Our guests from Apeejay Education Society will also get to bask in the cultural ambience of Suzhou in their 2 weeks here. Students will look forward to workshops on traditional Chinese arts and craft, including traditional Chinese paper cutting and calligraphy. Visits to scenic spots, such as the Humble Administrator’s Garden and Tiger Hill, will also be incorporated into the immersion programme.

Suzhou is a historic city with an alluring oriental mystique, home to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Looking forward, NUSRI will continue to organize such immersion programmes, for students from around the globe to witness for themselves the development China as an economic dragon, and savour the sublime beauty of Suzhou.

New Progress in Lanthanide-doped Upconversion Materials

 Photon upconversion is an anti-Stokes emission process in which the sequential absorption of two or more photons leads to the emission of light at a shorter wavelength than the excitation wavelength. This process was first observed by Auzel in 1966 and attracted worldwide interests. Upconversion can only occur in materials with more than one metastable excited state, in which multiphonon relaxation processes are not predominant. Indeed, upconversion is an optical phenomenon most commonly observed in materials containing lanthanide ions since the electrons at 4f or 5f sublevels are shielded by the outer 5s, 5p, 5d orbitals and the electron-phonon interaction is reduced and multiphonon relaxation processes are less competitive in lanthanides.

Prof. Liu Xiaogang from Center for Functional Materials at NUSRI, has been devoted to Lanthanide-doped upconversion materials (e.g. Nanotechnology, 25, 2014, 482001). Recently, they reported the synthesis of luminescent crystals based on hexagonal-phase NaYF₄ upconversion microrods (e.g. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 2014, 4893-4896). In this work, the synthetic procedure involves an epitaxial end-on growth of upconversion nanocrystals comprising different lanthanide activators onto the NaYF₄ microrods. Importantly, the end-on growth method using one-dimensional microrods as the template enables facile multicolor tuning in a single crystal, which is inaccessible in conventional upconversion nanoparticles. They demonstrate the use of these optical materials as barcodes for security inking and cell tracking applications.

The group also described the detailed experimental procedure for synthesizing core-shell naGdF₄ nanoparticles that incorporate lanthanide ions into different layers for efficiently converting a single-wavelength, near-IR excitation into a tunable visible emission (e.g. Nature Protocols, 9(7), 2014, 1634-1644). These nanoparticles can then be used as luminescent probes in biological samples, in 3D displays, in solar energy conversion and in photodynamic therapy.

Images of Lanthanide-doped Upconversion Materials

NUSRI filed 10 patent applications in 2014

NUS Business School China Business Centre Successfully Concluded 2014/15 Accounting Winter Research Camp at NUSRI

On 24 January, NUS Business School China Business Centre successfully concluded its 2014/15 Accounting Winter Research Camp at NUSRI. The topic of the camp is “The Impact of Regulatory Reforms on Corporate Behaviors”. There are over 30 professors and students from China, Singapore and Korea attended this camp.

The speakers of the camp are all from world first class universities, include Prof. Oliver Zhen Li, NUS Business School, Prof. Chen Donghua, Nanjing University Business School, Prof Kim Jeong Bon, City University of Hong Kong, Prof Bok Baik, Seoul National University.

OVERVIEW

NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI) will be inviting undergraduates from all over the world to participate in an exciting 2-week programme in Summer 2015. A series of lectures, activities, and company visits will allow students to deepen their understanding of China, particularly with respect to its booming economy. Get ready to discover an incredible array of historical and cultural attractions in a place where skyscrapers coexist with beautifully preserved old town. Besides classroom lessons, students will also be able to observe the economic development of Suzhou and learn more about Chinese culture through visits to both industrial and historical sites.

Suzhou, winner of the 2014 Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, is recognised as the UNESCO heritage site and referred as the “Oriental Venice”. Modern Suzhou, as one of the most prosperous cities in China, is home to many aspiring entrepreneurs. NUSRI (www.nusri.cn) is the first overseas research institute of NUS that is located within Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). With the unrevealing of its new building in 2013, NUSRI has received groups of students from NUS and overseas universities. For information on past programmes organised by NUSRI, please visit http://www.nusri.cn/edu/.

PROGRAMME TAKEAWAY

You will learn about the major aspects of China’s economy and how it influences the development of businesses. Topics include an overview of China’s economy, urbanization, E-marketing, entrepreneurship, Doing business in China and many more. NUSRI also takes the learning out of class by organizing company visits which will help students understand China’s economic environment. Being one of the cradles of world civilization, China has an extremely rich and long culture heritage and students will have opportunities to learn and appreciate this. Please refer to Annex 1 for the detailed timetable.

PROGRAMME CREDITS

NUS students will get 2MC under CP3109 Overseas Exploratory Project upon successful completion of the programme. A report is required within two weeks after the programme. For non-NUS participants, please check with the International Relation Office (or equivalent department) of your home university for credit mapping/transferring details.

Requirements of the report are as follow:

10 to 15 pages, double sided, single spacing, Arial, font size 12. (Note that photos could only take up at most 4 full pages.) Suggested structure of the report:

• Summary:  half to 1 page
• Introduction: half to 1 page
• Main content: should include some personal experiences
• Conclusion: at least half of the page.

PROGRAMME COST

The programme fee is S$1088 and includes the following:

• Double occupancy lodging throughout the programme
• Transport for planned activities
• Activities in Suzhou and Hangzhou
• Meals during major occasions

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Application (Deadline: 15 April 2015)

• For NUS student, please apply through NUS OPAS by 15 April 2015;
• For non-NUS student, please apply directly via here by 15 April 2015.
• Admission letters will be issued within 2 weeks of your application submission
• Payment will need to be made to NUSRI within 2 weeks of receiving the admission letter

Pre-departure

• Student to apply for visa with the Invitation Letter provided by NUSRI if needed. (Singaporean passport holders do not have to apply for visa if the stay in China is within 15 days)
• Student to provide flight information

For further queries, please email nusri@nus.edu.sg or education@nusri.cn.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS

Amalina Bte Abdul Nasir (School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University)

2014 Winter Programme Participant

“Going aboard on this Winter Program is a decision I will never regret. Years from now, I will look back and smile through all the sentimental memories and amazing experience through the whole two weeks.”

Gabriella Redgment (Business School, University of Western Australia)

2014 Winter Programme Participant

 “This opportunity to study abroad in Suzhou, China has been the best experience of my undergraduate degree so far, as I have been pushed out of my comfort zone discovering a new culture; I believe this has furthered my growth on an academic and personal level.”