NUS Social Work Associate Professorial Fellow and lifelong champion of social work Mrs Ann Elizabeth Wee passed away on 11 December. She was 93.

A new study from NUS Sociology has found that consistent and frequent tea-drinking was associated with significantly less depressive symptoms for males in China between 65-79 years old.

These beautiful artistic crystals resulted when NUS Chemistry researchers recrystallised an organic compound under different conditions. They also obtained the usual straight crystals in addition to flexible crystals.

A team of five students from the NUS Risk Management Institute — Liang Zhihui, Xiao Chao, Jiang  Zerui, Zhou  Bingyu, and Luo Jiarong — took the third prize at the finale of the UBS Quant Hackathon held in November.

A team of researchers from NUS developed a hydrogel which, when combined with some chemicals and a thin carbon mesh, can absorb water vapour from the air and break it down into hydrogen and oxygen molecules, lowering the humidity in a room.

An efficient method of plant protein extraction catapulted Associate Professor Huang Dejian from NUS Food Science and Technology onto a start-up journey. Together with entrepreneur Ms Florence Leong, he co-founded KosmodeHealth Singapore which aims to disrupt the food and biomedical industries through its low-cost plant protein extraction method.