Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

🎹 Have you seen this piano before?

You may recognise this Limited Edition Red Steinway Grand Piano from ’s 2015 National Day Parade, where it was played by international pianist Lang Lang.

Presented to NTU by and non-profit The Rice Company Limited during the official reopening of the Nanyang Executive Centre (NEC), the piano is now housed in NEC’s Education Wing Atrium. To mark the occasion, Prof Louis Phee, NTU Vice President (Innovation and Entrepreneurship), performed on the iconic piano. 🎶

The piano will support educational programmes, performances, rehearsals and community engagement activities as NEC brings the arts into campus life and deepens collaborations with NTU’s student clubs.

From the stage to the NTU campus, this piece of Singapore’s arts legacy will continue to inspire the next generation and the community to discover their creativity, express themselves and connect through the arts. ❤️

Read more 👉https://ntu.sg/NECreopening

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Ten years ago, Lee Yi Jia, Tan Jia Min and Martin Loh were three students learning how to make movies as undergraduates.

That friendship became the backbone to We Can Save The World!!!, Singapore's first sci-fi comedy, which had its World Premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival in July 2025. This September, the trio of producers bring their film back to where it began, for a one-day-only screening at Alumni Homecoming 2026.

Bring your loved ones down for this exclusive screening and share a laugh back at your alma mater. Seats are first come, first served on the day.

Register now: https://ntu.sg/alum-homecoming-2026

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What began as a shared job-finding experience among four students has grown into a venture helping other students navigate an often-overlooked part of the .

Pratham Ranjan, Aditya Anand Pramod, Amitbikram Jain and Alok Vernekar experienced firsthand how daunting online assessments can be when applying for internships and jobs. Numerical reasoning, logical reasoning, situational judgement and psychometric assessments can all come before a student even reaches the interview stage.

Seeing a gap in accessible and practical preparation resources, the four friends decided to build forge 💻, a cognitive assessment and platform that helps students practise for these assessments and approach them with greater confidence.

Their journey has been supported by NTU’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Through the Growing Entrepreneurial Talents Innovation Grant, College of Computing and Data Science iLab and the NTU Innovation Port, the team has gained funding, guidance and practical resources to turn their idea into a growing venture.

NTU’s Career & Attachment Office (CAO) has also been part of the team’s journey. Before founding forge, members of the team participated in CAO’s VeNTUre programme, working on real-world industry projects and gaining experience in project scoping, teamwork and solution development.

Today, forge has returned to the programme in a different role, partnering with VeNTUre to provide students with practical work experience. The team has also mentored student teams in software development and marketing.

From seizing opportunities as students to creating them as founders, the forge team is paying it forward – equipping fellow students with the confidence to take on what comes next.

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Scientific research may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of art. These images might change that.

From glowing vortex rings to lab-grown “mini” kidneys, each striking image is the result of researchers working together to investigate questions ranging from disease development to the mysteries of the quantum world.

Their work shows how scientific research can deepen our understanding of complex phenomena while revealing the unexpected beauty of science.

Find out more: https://ntu.sg/HEY65AestheticDiscoveries

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📣 New semester, let’s go! Whether you’re reuniting with your besties, making new friends or discovering something different on campus, there’s plenty to look forward to.

Pick up a copy of the HEY! magazine to stay in the know about campus happenings, fresh finds and tips for the new semester. 📖✨

1️⃣ Grab a copy of HEY! from a campus stand.
2️⃣ 📲 Download the NTU HEY! AR app
iOS: https://apple.co/3vtVlvF
Android: https://ntu.sg/HEYARANDROID
3️⃣ Scan the AR bubbles as you explore the magazine for an AR-mazing reading experience.

🤔📱💻Rethinking screen time: When assessing whether use is problematic, how much time spend on such platforms is only part of the picture.

The key is to look beyond and understand what they do online and how it affects their lives, says James Breeze, Distinguished Fellow at ’s Nanyang Centre for Marketing and Technology at Nanyang Business School.

Sharing his insights with MONEY FM 89.3’s Viewpoint, Mr Breeze, who co-authored an NTU study on young people’s social media use last year, encouraged parents to talk to their children about their online experiences, including who they connect with and whether social media is affecting their mood, relationships, sleep or daily lives.

Find out more: https://ntu.sg/MoneyFM-ScreenTime

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Some evenings, dinner was instant noodles just to keep costs down.

In 2022, Dhanoosh Pooranakumaran left Sri Lanka and arrived at as an undergraduate at the NTU School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, in the middle of his home country's economic crisis. Soon after, a family support arrangement he'd counted on fell through.

In that uncertainty, he made himself a promise: not just to survive, but to thrive, and one day help others do the same.

He did. As President of NTU's Machine Learning and Data Analytics lab, he helped grow Deep Learning Week into one of Singapore's largest student-run AI hackathons.

At this year's Koh Boon Hwee Scholars and Teacher Honouree Session Reception, Dhanoosh, a 2026 Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award recipient, looked back on the people who made it possible, from his mathematics teacher in Sri Lanka to his mentor at NTU, Dr S Supraja, who was once also a Koh Boon Hwee Scholar. With her guidance and encouragement, he is now pursuing a PhD.

He said: "I arrived here uncertain of many things. But I leave certain of one, that no one succeeds alone."

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