| The Singapore campus is strategically located in the heart of the hospitality industry's most exciting and fastest growing area of the world. The beautiful 200-ha NTU Yunnan Garden main campus is nestled in the south-western part of the country some 25km from the city centre. On campus grounds laid out by the world famous architect Kenzo Tange, there are six tennis courts, an archery range, swimming and diving pools, basketball, tennis, squash, volleyball sepak takraw and futsal courts, a running track, fields for playing soccer, cricket, softball or rugby, a bouldering wall, and fitness gymnasiums. NanyangConnect is an interesting website to help campus newbies sink roots and find their feet in the "Nanyang region" and even provide notes on Singapore. Admire the 1950's unique architecture of NTU's Chinese Heritage Centre building - now a gazetted National Monument - which is the first organization to specialize in the study of Chinese communities outside China, from New York to Thailand. Housed in the former Nanyang University's historic Administration Block, the original university is itself resonant with the landmark inauguration of the first and only Chinese-language university outside China, founded by the overseas Chinese. |
| The 745-acre Cornell campus sits on a hilltop bracketed by wooded trails and gorges with their enclosed creeks, overlooking the city of Ithaca and Cayuga Lake. Located at the southern tip of the largest of New York's Finger Lakes—and in the heart of the Finger Lakes wine-producing region - Ithaca is a surprisingly lively and sometimes rambunctious little city with more commerce than you would expect. There are historic buildings and districts, a wide variety of ethnic restaurants, art film and first-run cinemas, and an assortment of local bookstores, art galleries, and craft and specialty shops. Two public parks adjoin the lake's southern basin, and there is a reliable public-transportation system. As a graduate student with limited spare time, you would not be unusual in taking pleasure in the proximity of the campus to the lake, parks, and other recreation areas. Enthusiasts may literally step out the door, in running shoes or on cross-country skis, and onto sylvan paths. A short distance away is the Finger Lakes National Forest. Buttermilk Falls, Robert H. Treman, and Taughannock Falls state parks all provide many picnic spots and trails, scenic views, glens, waterfalls, cross-country skiing, and swimming areas. Watkins Glen at the southern end of nearby Seneca Lake is noted for its trails, waterfalls, and auto racing, and nearby Greek Peak is a center for downhill and cross-country skiing. On campus, there are more than thirty outdoor tennis courts, an eighteen-hole championship golf course designed by Cornell alumnus Robert Trent Jones, two swimming pools, squash courts, an indoor track, an equestrian center, the largest indoor rock-climbing wall on the East Coast, fitness clubs, and gymnasiums. Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is one of country's leading university art museums. And the university's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts presents theatre and dance productions in which students perform alongside professionals. Some of the leading orchestras of the world and many of the renowned soloists come to perform in Ithaca. A wide variety of other entertainers, including nationally recognized touring bands and comedians, perform on campus.
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