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The Singapore Energy Centre (SgEC) was launched on 31 October 2018, in conjunction with the Singapore International Energy Week 2018 (SIEW). The SgEC, a joint research centre between NUS and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), aims to develop sustainable energy solutions to overcome the global energy challenges of the future. It is a consortium funded […]

Applied Materials, Inc. and NUS jointly launched the Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab on 25 October 2018. The establishment of the S$70 million corporate laboratory is supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF). Mr Heng Swee Keat, Minister for Finance and Chairman of the NRF, was the Guest-of-Honour at the launch ceremony held […]

The Centre of Excellence in Modelling and Simulation for Next Generation Ports (C4NGP) – a collaboration between NUS and the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) – inked MOUs with seven industry and research partners to develop digital twins of next-generation ports and maritime systems at its official opening on 19 October 2018. The signing ceremony was […]

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 […]

Amino acids are essential to life and are produced through microbial cultivation processes such as fermentation, which are costly, time consuming and require extensive separation processes. A new research breakthrough by Assoc Prof Yan Ning from NUS Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and his team is capable of producing a series of amino acids from woody […]

Class of 2018 NUS Engineering alumni Goh Chong Swee, Kuan Jun Ren and Yeo Jun Han have achieved a major step forward – they have created Asia’s first fully solar-powered quadcopter drone! Utilising solar power with no battery or other energy storage on board, their current prototype has flown above 10 metres in test flights […]

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).

Chester Seet has been a Robotics Engineer with the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) for the past five years. Four of those years were spent juggling his full-time role at A*STAR programming industrial robots with lectures, tutorials, assignments and examinations alongside his classmates in the Bachelor […]

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 water-absorbing gel developed by Asst Prof Tan Swee Ching and his team from NUS Materials Science & Engineering could prevent mouldy walls and make waiting at the bus stops during hot days more comfortable.