In the media this week, members of the NUS community discussed Singapore’s flood management, the future of service robots and the US trade deficit with India.

Twenty three medical, nursing and social work students travelled to Vietnam and China as part of the inaugural healthcare Study Trips for Engagement and EnRichment programme, organised by the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine where they learnt about the healthcare challenges faced by the communities there and how they are overcome.

NUS scientists have found a way to harness machine learning to uncover new insights into the cellular architecture of the human brain, which may offer novel insights into the development, and potential treatment, of various neurological disorders. 

While analysing the diversity of filoviruses in Rousettus bats in China, Duke-NUS Medical School researchers helped to discover, identify and characterise a new genus of the virus in one of the bats.

The second edition of Makerthon, held on 7 January, saw 14 multidisciplinary NUS student teams put their creativity and teamwork to the test and develop novel and innovative projects aimed to help children with physical or mental disabilities.

In the media this week, Year 4 History student Ng Qi Siang from Yale-NUS College spoke about the fractures within Malaysia’s Pakatan Harapan government, Associate Professor Goh Puay Guan from NUS Business shared lessons learnt from the bike-sharing sector, and Adjunct Assistant Professor Wilson Wong from the NUS Food Science and Technology Programme offered readers expert gardening advice.