14 July 2015

Ms Nur’Izzah Mohamad Afandi, 23, has become the first recipient of the Malay Heritage Foundation (MHF) Prize.

Borne out of a $15,000 gift by the Malay Heritage Foundation (MHF) to the National University of Singapore, the new MHF prize comprises of a cash award of $1,000, and is awarded to the top honours student from the department of Malay studies at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

In a previous internship under the MHF Internship Programme for Online Journalism and Multimedia Publishing, Ms Nur’Izzah had also produced three articles on several aspects of Malay customs and cultural traditions, such as the topics of traditional Malay medicine and Malay wedding gifts.