NUS President Professor Tan Eng Chye was awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton, UK on 13 December.

Three transformational education projects by members of the NUS community were honoured at the latest Reimagine Education Conference & Awards Ceremony organised by the Quacquarelli Symonds World Rankings.

This week in the media, NUS Institute of South Asian Studies Director Professor C. Raja Mohan discussed India-Pakistan relations in light of the new planned Kartarpur Corridor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Visiting Professor Vinod Thomas analysed Singapore’s experience in adapting to climate change, and NUS Business Assistant Professor Adelle Yang looked at how people approach idleness and busyness.

President’s Assistant Professor Loh Huanqian from NUS Physics and the NUS Centre for Quantum Technologies has been awarded the 2018 Physical and Engineering Sciences fellowship by the L’Oréal Singapore For Women in Science National Fellowship programme for her work on the quantum control of ultracold molecules.

A special issue of scientific journal Advanced Materials titled “Multidisciplinary Materials Science at the National University of Singapore” was published in November.

An upcoming conference at the NUS Institute for Mathematical Sciences is bringing together dozens of the world’s most prestigious theoretical physicists and mathematicians to explore the principles behind a Theory of Everything.