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October 2015                               December 2015                                February 2016

•	Unveiling of The Hive, the               •	Lee Kong Chian School of                   •	Partnership with BAE Systems
  centrepiece of NTU’s new flipped           Medicine launches 5th anniversary            to develop cybersecurity
  classroom learning pedagogy                commemorative book tracing its               solutions
                                             growth
                                                                                        •	Tie-up with Finmeccanica to
                                           •	Launch of NTU’s 5th and 6th satellites       drive aerospace technological
                                             – VELOX-CI, a climate monitoring             advancement
                                             and navigation satellite, and VELOX-
                                             II, the university’s first satellite with  •	Nine new undergraduate
                                             a commercial payload – into space            degree programmes launched
                                                                                          to cater to demand in emerging
                                                                                          industries

                                           2016

November 2015                              January 2016                                 March 2016
•	Global debut of the Nobel Prize                                                       •	Undergraduate team wins six
                                           •	Opening of the North Spine Plaza,
  Series hosted by NTU                       a new lifestyle hub with retail and          awards at the annual Shell
                                             dining options, and interaction and          Eco-marathon Asia – Singapore’s
•	Launch of Sino-Singapore                   performing spaces                            best performance so far
  International Joint Research Institute,
  jointly with partners in Guangzhou,      •	Establishment of NTU-Hyundai               •	19 NTU subjects ranked in
  to advance a wide range                    Urban System Centre to engineer              Quacquarelli Symonds’ global
  of technologies                            sustainable solutions for cities             Top 50, with materials science
                                                                                          at 6th place and electrical
•	NTU tops Quacquarelli Symonds’           •	Two NTU professors named among               and electronic engineering in
  ranking of the world’s best young          the world’s 19 hottest researchers           8th position
  universities again                         by Thomson Reuters – the only two
                                             from an Asian institution to make
                                             the list

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