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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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