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The new medical school set up by NTU and Imperial College London receives a S$150m gift from the Lee Foundation, and is named in honour of its late founder, philanthropist Tan Sri Dato Lee Kong Chian. NTU will receive a total of S$400m inclusive of enhanced government matching.
NTU unveils the Yunnan Garden Campus Master Plan, which will shape the university using guiding principles of sustainability and greater interactivity. A new Campus Centre, to be completed in 15 years’ time, will be a hub where students can discuss their projects at cafes, pubs and restaurants, or shop and visit the cinema.
Together with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NTU launches the BeingThere Centre, which will explore sophisticated forms of interactive real-time 3-D communication.
The university announces a makeover of the undergraduate curriculum under the implementation plan of the Blue Ribbon Commission. Students admitted from Academic Year 2011 onwards will enjoy a curriculum offering more breadth, choice and flexibility. The Renaissance Engineering Programme is launched to groom a new generation of well-rounded engineering leaders.
NTU’s Solar Fuels Lab, the first in Asia, opens. It seeks to create efficient and sustainable sources of solar fuel by extracting hydrogen from water using sunlight.
Singapore’s first indigenous micro-satellite, X-SAT, is sent into space. Developed and built by NTU in collaboration with DSO National Laboratories, the satellite relays data to a ground station at the university.
NTU’s newly refurbished Innovation Centre opens its doors. A place for budding entrepreneurs, it offers resources and facilities such as innovation labs, incubation offices, a 108-seat auditorium and a café.
Prof Bertil Andersson is inaugurated as NTU’s third President and the successor to Prof Su Guaning, who helmed NTU for nine years. Prof Andersson was previously Provost of NTU for four years. | 