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Prof Rajasekhar Balasubramanian has received the PROSE (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) Award in recognition of his contributions to the Global Environmental Outlook – GEO-6: “Healthy Planet, Healthy People”, edited by United Nations Environment, Cambridge University Press. GEO-6 aims to help policymakers achieve the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals, internationally agreed environmental goals and

Assistant Professor He Xiaogang has received the 2020 Editors’ Citation for Excellence Award on 20 May 2021 from American Geophysical Union (AGU), which is the world’s largest community in Earth Sciences. Every year more than 30K scientists attend the AGU fall meeting in San Francisco and among the >60K members, only 0.25% has a chance to receive this

Prof Tan Kiang Hwee and his former PhD student, Dr Akshay Venkateshwaran, have been awarded the Frederick Palmer Prize 2021 by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), UK, for their paper on “Moment redistribution in continuous steel-fibre-reinforced concrete slabs”. The prize is awarded annually to authors from both industry and academia who have produced work

Our heartiest congratulations to Dr Jinbo Chen on receiving the 2021 J. James R. Croes Medal for his paper titled “Calibration of Model Uncertainties for Fixed Steel Offshore Platforms Based on Observed Performance in Gulf of Mexico Hurricanes”. The paper was published in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in June 2020. Dr Jinbo

Our heartiest congratulations to A/Prof Chian Siau Chen, Darren for receiving the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA), Honour Roll 2020. The ATEA is awarded to faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching for the year under review. Faculty members who have won the award three times (since AY 03/04)

Adjunct Professor CHOO Yoo Sang has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Marine and Offshore Engineering by The Joint Branch of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects and The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (Singapore). Prof. Choo has served as the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Chair Professor in National University of Singapore,NUS from

Associate Professor He Jianzhong and her team have developed a new way to treat sewage that is much simpler, cheaper and greener than existing methods. The team found a new strain of bacterium called Thauera sp. strain SND5 that can remove both nitrogen and phosphorus from sewage. This discovery, which was first reported in the

Professor Ng How Yong from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has led the team from EnvironSens Pte Ltd, a NUS start-up company, to win the Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2020 by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) together with PUB Singapore in recognition of their outstanding engineering project, “Microbial Electrochemical Sensor (MES) for

Associate Professor Qian Xudong was awarded Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC) Assessor Award (Gold) and  Assistant Professor Ong Ghim Ping Raymond was awarded the Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC) Assessor Award (Distinguished) on 5 November 2020 for his contributions to the Council’s accreditation programmes. The Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC) is Singapore’s national accreditation body managed by Enterprise

We are proud to be recipients of Public Sector Transformation (PST) Star Partner Award 2020. The nomination was made by Housing & Development Board (HDB) team for the excellent work done by Dr Chew Soon Hoe and his team in NUS on advancing innovation in land reclamation and two joint-study agreements with NUS on innovative

Assoc Professor Simone Fatichi from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been awarded the “Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award” for the hydrology section by American Geophysical Union, AGU in Oct 2020 for his significant contributions to the Science of Hydrology through the understanding and modeling physical and ecosystem processes at the hydrology-biogeosciences-climate interface.

Dr. Du Hongjian, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded the Provost Young Educator Award (PYEA). The award is made based on his proposed specific plans that are explicitly linked to activities that would generate evidence for promotion, within the context of current teaching and local educational priorities. Congratulations to Dr Du !