Seen and heard this week

At the 8th Association of Pacific Rim Research Universities Population Ageing Conference on 11 Oct, Professor Angelique Chan, Executive Director at the Centre for Ageing Research and Education at Duke-NUS Medical School spoke about psychological resilience — the ability to bounce back from adversity — as the key to a longer life expectancy. Read more of Prof Chan’s comments in this Channel NewsAsia Online report to find out four things Singaporeans can do to live a happier, longer life.

In the current affairs magazine The Diplomat, Professor Robert Kamei, Director of the Institute for the Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology at NUS, wrote about how Singapore encourages lifelong learning and workforce resilience, and highlighted how NUS is stepping up to meet the demands of a changing world economy.

In a BBC story on 13 October on the next-generation internet, Assistant Professor Joseph Fitzsimons, a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at NUS gave his expert views about the possibilities and challenges of light-based quantum networks.

Read more about the NUS community in the news.