Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant threat to public health. Resistance occurs when bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites undergo genetic changes that protect them from the effects of antimicrobial agents. For example, proteins targeted by antimicrobial agents may undergo changes that essentially ‘hide’ them from the antimicrobial agents. Alternatively, the microbes will develop protective or

Plastic is not just a convenience of everyday life. It has quietly become one of our greatest environmental challenges. Among its insidious forms, microplastics (tiny plastic fragments less than 5 mm in size) are emerging as a pervasive pollutant, found not only in our rivers, oceans and soils but in the water we drink, the

Prof. Jiangyong Hu, Director of the Center for Water Research at the National University of Singapore, was awarded Galaxy Award for Outstanding Organizational Partner by IUVA in this Sept. 2025 at IUVA World Congress in Lisbon, owning to her great efforts in advancing UV science and fostering regional and global partnership as a global leader

CWR researchers attended the 31st Joint KAIST-KU-NTU-NUS (KKNN) Symposium on Environmental Engineering, held on 3-5 September 2025 in Kyoto, Japan. Mr Sui Muhong was awarded the Best Oral Presentation. Mr Zhao Chendong and Ms Kho Jia Hui received the Best Poster Presentation Award.

CWR researcher, Ms Kho Jia Hui, won the Best Poster Award in 2025 IUVA Asian Pacific Regional Symposium held on 7-8 July 2025 in Singapore.

We are pleased to share that several of our distinguished alumni have received the ACES Young Consulting Engineer of the Year 2025 Award in recognition of their outstanding contributions and achievements as young consulting engineers in Singapore. This prestigious award underscores the significant impact our alumni continue to have on the engineering community. Their accomplishments

Together with NERI, we were delighted to host an inspiring seminar featuring Asst Prof Jin Xue from the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University, and chaired by Prof Hu Jiangyong, NERI Deputy Director and Director of Centre for Water Research, on 10 July 2025. Titled “Sustainable Resources Recovery for Climate-Resilient

The 2025 S3 Sustainability Forum, jointly organised by Fudan University, the National University of Singapore, and Korea University, was held in Shanghai in May 2025. As a strategic collaboration among three universities founded in 1905, the S3 Forum aims to promote interdisciplinary research and education on sustainability. This year’s forum centred around the theme “AI

Prof Quek Ser Tong has been conferred the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR) Distinguished Research Award 2025, presented at the International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR) held at the University of Southern California from 1-5 June 2025. The award is conferred every 4 years, each time (recent years) with up