This page is dedicated to recent and all DBS alumni who are just about to embark on their career journey after graduation, or would like to volunteer their time as a mentor, or simply offer mentorship to our students and graduates. It is a pit-stop for career opportunities and resources related to Biological Sciences and more.
Career Opportunities
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
NUS Lifelong Learning for Alumni
NUS Resilience and Growth Initiative (specifically for those who were conferred their undergraduate degrees in 2020 or 2021)
NUS TalentConnect
Be A Mentor
Make a difference by serving as a role model to your juniors. Through sharing of real-life insights and work experiences with your mentees, you equip them with personal and professional growth as they venture into the workforce. This platform also provides opportunities to develop business contacts, gain access to industry information from experienced and successful alumni who have established themselves in their career.
Offer Internships and Career Sharing Sessions
If your organisation is offering internship opportunities, we extend an invitation for you to share the opportunities for the Department of Biological Sciences undergraduate students.
The internships opportunities aims to provide the exposure for students to the real-world working environment and experience and this would further complement their training we provide them at the department. At the same time, we want to partner with companies to provide invaluable human capital and our students can be part of your organisation’s talent acquisition pipeline.
You may also be invited to share your experiences with students on matters such as what to look out for when choosing a firm for internships, how to structure internships to think about their future careers, what to expect at their internships, what they can do during an internship to make it a good experience for themselves before they embark on their internship opportunities.
Be part of our Admission Interview Panel
We have engaged our alumni to conduct discretionary admissions interviews during our undergraduate admissions held in April/May each year.
As alumni of the Department, having gone through the rigour of our undergraduate programme and established success in your career, we recognise that your experience would be invaluable as you would be able to identify students who can make the cut for the programme. The alumni will be joined by other faculty in the series of interviews. Prior to that, you will be briefed on the interview process.
We sincerely thank our alumni for their invaluable contributions.
Be A Class Ambassador
Class Ambassadors are supported by the department’s Resource Development, Outreach and Alumni Committee to encourage classmates to participate in the following:
- Establish class connections and keep in touch with fellow alumni
- Plan or host class reunion, gatherings and events
We are currently recruiting ambassadors for the following class years:
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s
• 2000s
• 2010s
Give
The Faculty of Science has recently launched a Named Science Merit Scholarship Fund and there are 2 existing funds to which you can consider giving your support to:
- A N Rao Scholarship
- Hew Choy Sin and Hew Choy Leong Scholarships
If you do not wish to support a specific area in the department, you may choose to contribute to the “DBS General Fund” which enables our Head of Department to channel resources to where it is most needed.
Your gift to the Department of Biological Sciences will go a long way to help us meet our priorities—or designated specifically to support academic excellence, financial aid, student life, or sustainability. All gifts, be it donation or in-kind, are greatly appreciated which will be put to good cause in developing our students.
Contact Ms Norizan Selamat | (Tel) 6516 4530 | (Email) dbsnori@nus.edu.sg for more details.