Science Tours
17 May, Saturday
Join our wide range of tours, covering our key facilities, the Medicine-Science Library, educational spaces and research laboratories!
Please sign up at the Tour Registration Counters outside Lecture Theatre 26 for all tours.
Faculty Tour by NUS Students’ Science Club
This guided tour is led by undergraduate students from our various science academic programmes. The tour brings you around key facilities at the Faculty of Science such as the Medicine-Science Library, our study spaces, the Pitstop, lecture theatres, Student Hub and the Frontier canteen.
Schedule
12 pm - 12.30 pm
12.30 pm - 1 pm
1 pm - 1.30 pm
1.30 pm - 2 pm
2 pm - 2.30 pm
2.30 pm - 3 pm
20 people per tour
General Chemistry Teaching Laboratory and Chemical, Molecular and Materials Analysis Centre (CMMAC)
Catch demonstrations by our students on the isolation of lavender essential oil and the use of a rotatory evaporator at the General Chemistry Teaching Laboratory and visit our state-the-art research facilities at CMMAC.
Schedule
12 pm - 12.45 pm
2.30 pm - 3.15 pm
3.15 pm - 4 pm
30 people per tour
Food Science and Technology Core Facilities and Teaching Laboratories
Visit our state-of-the-art facilities designed specially to support hands-on learning and cutting-edge research. We will showcase our projects and product displays. You will also explore advanced facilities and laboratories, such as those for food engineering, sensory studies, clinical nutrition and biomedical science, chemical analysis, foodomic and safety laboratories.
Schedule
1.30 pm - 2 pm
2 pm - 2.30 pm
20 people per tour
The Centre for Bioimaging Sciences (CBIS)
Think you know what a microscope is? Wait until you see our futuristic machines. Learn how to bend light around obstacles, how to use donuts to see things too small to be seen even by a microscope and what happens when you spin an Archimedean spiral at 10,000 rpm. Get an exclusive peek inside the technology that makes the magic happen and experience the stimulating multidisciplinary atmosphere that will turbocharge your studies and research.
Schedule
11 am - 11.30 am
11.30 am - 12 pm
2 pm - 2.30 pm
2.30 pm – 3 pm
10 people per tour
Special Programme in Science (SPS)
The SPS is a student-oriented programme designed to train our students to better understand and address modern scientific challenges. Our close-knit multidisciplinary community shares a common passion for science, technology and research. Come visit our teaching and discussion spaces, interact with our students and explore the fascinating world of interdisciplinary
science.
Schedule
12.30 pm - 1 pm
1.30 pm - 2 pm
20 people per tour