New scholarship and prize, named after eminent NUS alumnus and former faculty member, Dr Maurice Baker, will reward outstanding student talent at the Department of Engligh Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Set up through gifts from former students and supporters, the Maurice Baker Scholarship and Maurice Baker Prize will go towards deserving postgraduate and undergraduate students in the Department respectively.

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering is raising S$15,000 to set up a prize and medal to reward outstanding students. It will be named after the late Prof P R Krishnaswamy, who taught and inspired many students over his 26-year career at NUS.

Five internationally leading experts in their fields were formally conferred the titles of NUS Centennial and Distinguished Professors at a dinner on 13 November 2009. The Professorships, three named in honour of the generosity of key donors to the University, recognises the achievements of each faculty member in advancing knowledge in their areas of research.

Psychologist Dr Jonathan Marshall shares a real-life case study of "Harvey Two-face", a patient suffering from depression and how combining ancient meditation techniques with modern psychotherapy can be helpful.

Dr Alan Wallace, renowned scholar of Buddhism and Founding President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, shared the Buddhist way to building mental resilience in the NUS Lunchtime Forum.

The third NUS Breakfast Club features the Former President of Mexico, Prof Ernesto Zedillo Ponce De León. He is the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Professor in the field of international economics and politics at Yale University. This dialogue with Prof Zedillo is chaired by Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.