Press Release

Singapore Management University’s (SMU) Centre for Social Responsibility, together with Positive Intentions (PI), a social enterprise that specialises in people development, will jointly host Service Learning Symposium 2014 on Saturday, 15 February 2014 to provide local youths with a platform to enhance their Service Learning skills and exchange ideas and experiences with each other.  Through this platform, the organisers hope to enrich the community service experience of the students so that they can make a greater positive impact in society.

[Singapore, July 15, 2014 (Tuesday)] – The Singapore Management University (SMU) today celebrated its 11^th Commencement ceremony and conferred 2,149 degrees at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre.

This is SMU's largest batch of graduates since its inception in 2000 as Singapore’s first public-funded autonomous university. This year marked a particularly special ceremony as it is the first time all graduates assembled into one ceremony and in a single location.

[Singapore, 9 July 2014] - Research on the Dark Triad; a term used to discuss a trio of socially undesirable personality traits: psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism, has increased exponentially over the last decade.

It is an area of research that has important implications for society as a whole.

[Singapore, 11 November 2014 (Tuesday)] - Leading active investment manager, Threadneedle Investments, today announces the Threadneedle Investment Award 2015 in partnership with Singapore Management University (SMU) and Cass Business School (Cass), part of City University London. The Award issues a challenge to students to assess the value of active portfolio management to investors, with a scholarship prize worth £12,000 going to one outstanding student from each university.

Singapore, 11 May 2010 (Tuesday) – The newly-established Behavioural Sciences Institute (行为科学研究所) (BSI) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) is off to a good start with a S$4.5 million grant from the Civil Service College.

[Chengdu, 24 October 2014 (Friday)] – The Singapore Management University (SMU) and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) have co-organised a forum today to discuss and share perspectives from Singapore and China on pertinent issues related to economic transitions.

[Singapore, 20 October 2014 (Monday)] – The one-year-ahead inflation expectations of Singapore households has inched up to 3.73%, according to the research findings of the latest quarterly survey for Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations (SInDEx) by Singapore Management University (SMU).

[Singapore and Tokyo, 15 October 2014 (Wednesday)] — Fujitsu Limited, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Singapore Management University (SMU) have today signed a Master Research Collaboration Agreement (MRCA) at Fusionopolis.

[Singapore, 15 October 2014 (Wednesday)] - The Singapore Management University (SMU) has announced today the establishment of a new centre of research excellence that focuses on mobile computing security. Funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF), the Secure Mobile Centre is developing efficient and scalable technologies and solutions that strengthen the security of mobile computing systems, applications and services.

Calixto Tay Wei Kiat, our alumni entrepreneur has created a new startup Originally.US, after graduating from SMU IIE.