We had the opportunity to host Prof Michael Szonyi at a small group event, put together at short notice, the evening of June 6.
Prof. Szonyi event recap
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Artist Tour and Talk at The Private Museum – “From Lost Roots to Urban Meadows”
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Group Tour at the Private Museum A small but intimate artist walk through at The Private Museum on May 4 had alumni from Harvard, MIT, Oxbridge, and Stanford in attendance. The two local artists – Madhvi Subrahmanian and Nandita Mukand spent over an hour discussing their work with us, their inspirations and creative processes, and graciously engaged in dialogue with everyone...
TreeTop Walk w/ Columbia Alums
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The recent walk near the Central Catchment Area kicked off with a dim sum lunch at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC). Alumni from Columbia and Harvard mingled over lunch and then had a refreshing hike in the tree tops.
AGM AND ANNUAL DINNER 2019
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HUAAS hosted our AGM and 2nd annual dinner on March 29, 2019, again generously hosted by Resorts World Sentosa at the Equarious Hotel. GOH Tharman. Outgoing President KC Chew and incoming President Rebecca Woo The AGM Underway The 200+ attendees were treated to a sumptuous Chinese dinner, but the highlights were clearly the Guest of Honor – DPM Tharman – who spoke on his views of the...
Young Harvard Alumni: “Many Pathways to Our Dreams”
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The Young Harvard Alumni panel event “Back in Singapore and Following their Passions” brought together a wonderful group of alumni and Prize Book recipients at the iPreciation gallery on the evening of Jan 24, 2019. We were fortunate enough to have Vincent Leow, a pre-eminent Singapore artist, to give a quick walk through and talk of his artwork as well. The panelists shared their different...
Global Networking Night 2019: Connections Made
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Global Networking Night Singapore was organised by the HUAAS and held at SEAR restaurant 45 storeys above Singapore’s Raffles Place financial district.
It was a bustling evening filled with laughter and good cheer. Old acquaintances were renewed and new ones made. Attendees came from all schools across the Harvard campus and we welcomed visiting Harvard students as well.
Professor Karen Thornber Seminar, Nov 13th, 2018
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We hosted a lovely intimate evening discussion on Nov 13th, 2018 with Professor Karen Thornber on her latest research project “Women and leadership in Asia”. Many interesting statistical observations were made and there was lovely debate over whether some of the phenomenon was historically gender-stereo-type based (from all sides) or whether this was self perpetuated or not; and what has been...
Ivy League Ball Singapore 2018
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A very successful inaugural Ivy League Ball in Singapore!! We held our own in both table decorations and the fight song rendition … looking forward to the next one in 2019!
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Innovation in Education. Oct 23, 2018
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HUAAS had a very successful joint panel discussion with the Columbia University Club of Singapore and our gracious hosts the SP Jain School of Global Management. We thank our panelists from Columbia: Brian O’Dwyer, Wendy Goh & Tang T. Heng, and Harvard: CJ Meadows – who collectively provoked and challenged the incumbent concepts of education and proposed different alternative...
Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival for the Kids!!
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Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival for the Kids!!HUAAS VP Rebecca Woo hosted some HUAAS & HBS Club families to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with moon-cake making, bubbles, paper lantern-making and the final lighting of lanterns of all shapes and sizes – dragons, rabbits, pandas, chickens, butterflies – whilst looking for the full moon in the Singapore sky, all the kids left happily...