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Prof Dean Ho, Provost’s Chair Professor at NUS Biomedical Engineering and NUS Pharmacology, Director of NUS SINAPSE (Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology) and member of NUS BIGHEART (Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology) was elected as Fellow of the prestigious US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This is the highest professional distinction for academic […]

14 faculty members have been named in the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers report published by Clarivate Analytics. They are among the 30 researchers from NUS who are in the 2018 report. Five of the 14 Faculty’s researchers, listed in the 2017 report, are among the top again. The annual list of Highly Cited Researchers acknowledges […]

NUS graduates are among the world’s top 10 most employable, according to the latest Global University Employability Ranking. The University has jumped six places to be ranked 10th worldwide and is the only Singapore university to feature among the global top 10, testament to a decade of increasingly strong performance in producing workplace-ready graduates. The […]

Professor Philip Liu, Vice President (Research and Technology) and Distinguished Professor from NUS Civil & Environmental Engineering, received an Honorary Professorship at Tsinghua University in China on 14 October 2018. Pro Liu’s research focuses on Coastal Oceanography and Engineering. He is known for his outstanding achievements and contributions to tsunami and coastal disaster resilience technology. […]

Professor Adekunle Olusola Adeyeye was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives at its September meeting upon the recommendation of the APS Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG). Prof Adeyeye is recognised for his contributions to the synthesis and characterisation of magnetic nanostructures and their applications […]

At this year’s IES (The Institution of Engineers, Singapore) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards, NUS Engineering researchers scored top honours in the following award categories: Applied Research and Development 4-IN-1 Smart Utilities Plant tailored for tropics by National University of Singapore (NUS) & King Abdullah University ofScience and Technology Citation A research breakthrough that paves the […]

Assistant Professor Hans Tan, Deputy Head of the Division of Industrial Design at NUS Design and Environment has been awarded the title of Designer of the Year at the 2018 President*s Design Awards (P*DA).

NUS topped the 2018 Times Higher Education (THE) Asia-Pacific University Rankings consecutively for the second year. The University has achieved the accolade since the category was introduced in 2017. This comes on as more good news as earlier NUS had ranked 11th worldwide and first in Asia in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings […]

THE NUS FSAE team came in at 13th position worldwide (out of 120 teams) at the annual Formula SAE International Challenge held in Michigan, USA (9 to 12 May 2018). It also attained success in the following categories: Rank no.3 for Brake Design Award, presented by Akebono Brake Corporation (Specialty Award) Rank no. 3 for […]

NUS honoured its best in education, research and service at the University Awards 2018 held on 14 May 2018. Among them was Asst Prof Zhao Dan, from NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, who received the Young Researcher Award in recognition of his work in the field of advanced porous materials and membranes. Asst Prof Zhao’s […]

THE NUS team (NUS AR Lab), comprising NGS PhD students, Terence Siew, Miko Chang and He Fan, supervised by Assoc Prof Soh Khim Ong and Prof Andrew Nee from NUS Mechanical Engineering, won the top prize from 147 entries worldwide to clinch the Champion of the 2018 HILTI IT Competition with theme Augmented Reality (AR) […]

TODAY, Dean Chua Kee Chaing presented awards for research, teaching and service excellence to Engineering faculty members at the Faculty’s Awards Ceremony. As benefitting the no-nonsense practical engineers they all are, the event was not a glitzy formal affair but a time to congratulate colleagues, and share in their achievements. This was the first time […]