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NUS has been awarded the WELL Certification at the Gold level by the International WELL Building Institute for its SDE4 building. The building is the first university building in the world to achieve WELL Certified™ Gold, and the first building in Singapore to be conferred this prestigious WELL Certification.

A team of NUS researchers has developed a novel technology that could sensitively and accurately detect and classify cancer cells, as well as determine the disease aggressiveness from the least invasive biopsies. With this new technology called STAMP (Sequence-Topology Assembly for Multiplexed Profiling), comprehensive disease information can be obtained faster, at a much earlier stage […]

Dr Stephen Tay, Senior Lecturer from the Department of Building at NUS School of Design and Environment, has won the Young Green Building Advocate Award under the SGBC-BCA Sustainability Leadership Awards 2019.

The winning projects of the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2019 were presented at the World Engineers Summit (WES) 2019 Conference Dinner held on 29 August 2019 at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre. This year’s six winning projects demonstrated excellence in tackling pressing issues of climate change and urbanisation with technological innovations to […]

NUS students spend a significant amount of their time on campus, so much so that the University often feels like a “second” home where their studies and play have become intertwined. In this second home, how often does the community stop and appreciate the cleaners who are seen pushing their cleaning carts? Do they […]

Associate Professor Praveen Linga from NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering highlights the importance of mitigating carbon dioxide emissions as Singapore begins its post-pandemic recovery, and discusses the future potential of carbon capture technology. Read More

Most of today’s wearable devices are singularly connected to a user’s smartphone and transmit data via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi signals. These waves radiate outwards in all directions and most of the energy is lost to the surrounding area. This drastically reduces the efficiency of the wearable technology as most of its battery life is consumed […]

Huge amounts of water evaporate from water surfaces such as reservoirs and the open sea each day. To address this issue, especially in water scarce areas, researchers from NUS found an innovative way to harvest water from the humid air above water surfaces. The solution lies in a unique zinc-based water-absorbing hydrogel that was developed last […]

Associate Professor Praveen Linga from NUS Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his contribution in the field of chemical sciences. The Royal Society of Chemistry is one of the oldest and most reputed professional bodies headquartered in the United Kingdom. Associate Professor Linga is currently the […]

Rotated at 0.5 rpm, the experimental system on the left shows the hottest (white) part of the ring is fixed at the bottom as it moves. The reference on the right shows the hottest part of the ring moving in conjunction with its motion A ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from NUS Electrical and Computer […]

Doctors may one day be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of severe dementia, and monitor a patient’s response to treatment by doing a simple blood test. This could be made possible using the APEX (Amplified Plasmonic EXosome) system invented by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Designed to […]

NUS has been named the top contributing institution in the world for research on green building projects in a bibliometric review published in prestigious journal Building & Environment, achieving global recognition for its extensive studies in the field.