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Thirty-two NUS researchers have been placed among some of the world’s most highly cited researchers, according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2021 List published by data analytics firm Clarivate. The highly-anticipated annual list, comprising 6,602 researchers from more than 70 countries and regions across the globe this year, identifies researchers who have demonstrated significant influence

SINGAPORE -Three National University of Singapore students who invented a glaucoma screening device have beaten more than 2,000 entries from around the world to win the international James Dyson Award this year. The invention, aptly named Hopes (Home Eye Pressure E-skin Sensor), is a glove that uses sensor technology and artificial intelligence to enable patients to

The National University of Singapore has retained the top position in this year’s QS World University Rankings Asia The 2022 QS World University Rankings Asia are now live, with the National University of Singapore (NUS) maintaining a tight grip on the top spot for the fourth year running.   This year, the university has been awarded perfect scores for its academic reputation, for its proportion of international faculty and for the extent of its research collaboration with institutions across the globe.  NUS also achieved

The Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science Engineering Programme was awarded re-accreditation for students graduating from the programme from AY 2020/2021 to 2024/2025 by the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) in 2021 October. The re-accreditation is conducted every five years by IES to certify the MSE programme at NUS in satisfying the academic requirements for

SINGAPORE – A new centre – the first of its kind in the world – that will focus on research of functional intelligent materials used to develop things like artificial organs, opened on Thursday (Oct 7) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). With $200 million in funding over the next 10 years provided by

  The National University of Singapore (NUS) has launched the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM) – the world’s first institute dedicated to the design, synthesis, and application of Functional Intelligent Materials (FIMs). Co-directed by Nobel-Prize-winning materials scientist Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov and Distinguished Professor Antonio Castro Neto, I-FIM will be the sixth research centre

NUS Engineering organised the “Women in NUS Engineering” event on Wednesday, September 8th, a hybrid live and online webinar event that brought together several of our most distinguished Engineering alumni to share their experiences with fellow alumni, NUS staff and students. Guest of Honour Mr Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for Social and Family Development (Distinguished Engineering Alumni

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has risen four places to emerge 21st in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022. This is the best showing by NUS, and Singapore, since the rankings started in 2010. The University also retains its position as the third best university in Asia. The University of

A team from NUS Engineering has been selected as the national winner of the annual James Dyson Award, for their design for an easy to use at home glaucoma test. The winning design, called HOPES (Home Eye Pressure E-skin Sensor), is a wearable biomedical device that uses advanced patent pending sensor technology and artificial intelligence

Assistant Professor Pieremanuele (Piero) Canepa from NUS Materials Science and Engineering has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, in recognition of his work in the field of Computational Materials Science. Asst. Prof. Canepa, leads the Canepa Research Laboratory at NUS which leverages the power of supercomputers and advanced simulation algorithms to push the boundaries in the

  A new class of intelligent material that could be used in a range of applications from drug delivery to energy storage has been developed by NUS researchers, led by Professor Antonio Castro Neto, (Dept of Materials Science & Engineering). The intelligent material dubbed “2D-electrolytes” is just one atom thick and as with other intelligent

  Metals are some of the most widely used materials in the world, found in everything from cookware to computers. Every day metal waste is produced, from scrap metal in manufacturing to metal content in discarded old electronics. As a step towards mitigating the environmental impact of metal waste, a research team at NUS Engineering