We would like to express our heartfelt congratulations to all six recipients of the Nanyang Education Award 2020. Well done and keep up the good work.
Congratulations to the recipients of the Nanyang Education Award 2019!
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Approaching New Frontiers in Fungi Research
Working under Assistant Professor Marek Mutwil, a group of twenty-three SBS students from the module BS1009 have built and launched www.fungi.guru, a new informational resource for studying fungi.
Meet Kow Zi Shan, CoS Science Communications Trainee
In this interview, we speak to Kow Zi Shan, a former science communications #SGUnited Trainee with the College of Science and alumna of the Asian School of the Environment. Now embarking on a new journey as a Transmedia Science Writer with the Singapore Science Centre, she recounts her experience during her short but meaningful time as part of the communications team in CoS.
Unravelling Uromodulin: On the helical reconstruction of proteins
As part of a team of researchers, Assistant Professor Wu Bin and PhD student Xu Chenrui of the School of Biological Sciences and the Institute of Structural Biology, have made a landmark discovery, mapping the three-dimensional atomic structure of the protein uromodulin for the first time.
ASE student Chai Min Wei winner of NTU PEAK best ideation award
Congratulations to ASE student Chai Min Wei, a final year geoscience student who recently took part in NTU Peak, and was part of the team awarded Best Ideation.
CoS faculty named amongst world’s most highly cited researchers
The College of Science celebrates the faculty members who have been named to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list.
Wastewater, COVID-19’s Canary in a Coal Mine
For the last several months, Associate Professor Janelle Thompson, a Principal Investigator at the Asian School of the Environment and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, has been leading a team of scientists in conducting a survey of wastewater surveillance approaches to aid in COVID-19 epidemiology.
ASE faculty awarded project approval under Joint Genome Institute’s Community Science Program
The Joint Genome Institute’s (JGI) highly competitive Community Science Program has recently awarded project approval to Assistant Professor Adriana Lopes dos Santos of the Asian School of the Environment (ASE) for a new research venture on unicellular green algae.
A Question of Nature or Nurture: how early-life stress can be mitigated by environmental enrichment
In their latest research, Assistant Professor Rupshi Mitra, Dr Akshaya Hegde and Shruti Suresh of Team Resilieo delve into the applications of environmental enrichment as a curative approach.
Strength in Numbers: Research Amidst a Pandemic
With the help of several computers, the internet, and 285 undergraduate students, Assistant Professor Marek Mutwil’s data-sequencing project has opened up a whole new realm of possibilities in the field of antibiotic research.