The late Professor Syed Hussein Alatas, internationally renowned Malaysian social scientist and public intellectual, was honoured on 17 September at the Second Syed Hussein Alatas Memorial Lecture.

One of the world’s first tropical mass engineered timber façades has been pioneered by the NUS School of Design and Environment (SDE). The façade is mounted on the SDE test-bedding frame to examine dehydration behaviours of the permeable (right) and impermeable (left) configurations.

Minister for Education Mr Ong Ye Kung visited the WIL@NUS Corporate Laboratory, where he sampled healthy but tasty treats and observed advances in the bio-production of industrial enzymes and biochemicals.

This corallimorpharian (Corynactis sp.) with tentacles and mouth protruding was found at Pulau Ubin as part of a study to establish the diversity and distribution of corallimorpharians in Singapore.

NUS President Professor Tan Eng Chye was invited to the 2019 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, hosted in partnership with ETH Zurich. The sixth annual summit delivered a range of thought-provoking keynote sessions and panel debates from the world’s most innovative thinkers.

A study led by NUS Psychological Medicine Assistant Professor Feng Lei found that drinking tea at least four times a week may have a protective effect against age-related decline in brain organisation.