President Shih honored by former university
University President Choon Fong Shih has been awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he helmed the institution for almost a decade before joining KAUST.
NUS credits President Shih with leading its transformation into an internationally renowned and "highly regarded research university" with an "entrepreneurial dimension".
President Shih was presented the award at the NUS University Awards ceremony in Singapore on Friday April 29, 2011. He said he was both "honored and humbled" to receive the prestigious award.
Serving at NUS since 1997, first as Deputy Vice Chancellor then taking over as President in 2000, he left his native Singapore to take his current position as the Founding President of KAUST in December 2008.