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Hello Everyone!
AIESEC Singapore is calling for applications to their 2009 Sustainability Projects.
AIESEC Oversea Project is a special project that provides excellent opportunities for local university students to undergo short term overseas internships in the countries having similar projects. Under BEADS project, the students will work on HIV/AIDS related project, and for SFC, the students will be engaged in sustainability related projects.
For more information, please click on the PDF below.
We recently introduced Prof Jean Yeung as a new member of the department. Jean, who is at the forefront of research in social demography, also holds a joint appointment with the Asia Research Institute. In the spirit of academic and intellectual exchange, she would like to share a soon-to-be-published paper.
Jean Yeung has almost 20 years of university teaching and research experience up her sleeve. She joined the department and ARI last year (summer) and started working on her project on demographic surveys in China and India. Couched on the fact that these two countries have become the recent boom towns, the study, according to her, will take advantage of her previous experience in studying families and incomes across the United States. Previously, she worked at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and transferred to New York University later on.
Bubble Burst!
February 10, 2009 in Commentary | by vagabondmeanderings | 1 comment
This was posted in our class blog for SC 6192 (Social Theory) as part of our commentary on the topics discussed during the 4th week of the semester. Comments are most welcome!
-Janssen, Fiona, & Johan
In one of those random nights when you meet up with your friends and have dinner and drinks afterwards, Fiona, Janssen, Johan, Weida, and Mel decided to go to get cozy in a conspicuous place – a playground right next to Fiona’s block (which had a police post at the void deck). Now who would ever have 3 bottles of Dutch beer in a children’s playground (next to the cops’ nest) while watching an old Schwarzenegger movie titled “Kindergarten Cop” at around 2145h. It takes 5 crazy soci grad students, we would surmise (composition: 3 Singaporean-Chinese [according to their ICs, 1 ang moh [with no ID whatsoever], and a Filipino who happened to have his social security card with him).
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