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SIX Faculty members have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers in the latest 2017 Highly Cited Researchers report published by Clarivate Analytics.

The nature-inspired robot could one day substitute traditional autonomous underwater vehicles Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created MantaDroid, an aquatic robot that emulates the swimming locomotion of manta rays. The robotic manta ray, which swims at the speed of twice its body length per second and can operate for up to […]

PROFESSOR Philip Liu Li-Fan, Vice President for Research and Technology, as well as a distinguished professor from NUS Civil & Environmental Engineering, was recently presented the inaugural ‘Hamaguchi Award’ for his outstanding achievement and contribution to tsunami and coastal disaster resilience technology. The award presentation took place on 1 November 2017 in Japan. Among his […]

Assistant Professor Chen Po-Yen from NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and his team developed a new technology that can be used to make smart protective clothing material. By integrating elastomer, a natural or synthetic polymer that is highly elastic, with structured two dimensional (2D) material films like graphene oxide, the team’s innovation – a bilayer […]

After five years of research, Professor Wang Chi-Hwa and his team from NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering found a way to turn animal waste into synthesis gas (syngas), a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to produce electricity, and biochar to treat water.

The NUS Greater Good Series “SMART Engineering: Smart City. IOT. Manufacturing” was held at Four Seasons Hotel on 3 October 2017. This is the second year that NUS Engineering has participated in the event which saw a turnout of more than 150 guests. Organised by the NUS Development Office, the Greater Good Series aims to […]

PROFESSOR Lim Chwee Teck from NUS Biomedical Engineering is the first full-time professor to be conferred the NUS Society (NUSS) Professorship. Prof Lim is also the Principal Investigator at the NUS Mechanobiology Institute and Faculty Fellow at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology. “It is such a privilege to be the first Professor from […]

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with three leading pharmaceutical companies to mark the launch of an initiative to develop the country’s pharma manufacturing sector. Named the Pharma Innovation Programme Singapore (PIPS), the initiative involved pioneer partners GSK, MSD International, […]

The Building and Estate Management Alumni Bursary was set up in 2013 for needy undergraduates from NUS Department of Building and Department of Real Estate whose families have experienced unexpected changes financially.

The School of Design & Environment at NUS has signed an MOU with the Saudi Real Estate Institute (SREI) in Riyadh.

To view the video, please click here. THE National University of Singapore (NUS) formally opened its own additive manufacturing centre on 21 July 2017. Mr Amrin Amin, Parliamentary Secretary for Health, launched the Centre at the NAMIC (National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster) Healthcare Summit. Named the NUS Centre for Additive Manufacturing (AM.NUS), the establishment of […]

ASSOCIATE Professor Ho Ghim Wei from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering knows she chose a career in a male-dominated field， but it has never held her back. “I was once told not to waste my time in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industry. That just spurred me to work harder than my male […]