NUS has launched the NUS Centre for Research in Privacy Technologies, a new $12 million research centre funded by the National Research Foundation Singapore aimed at designing and developing technologies to protect the privacy of individuals and organisations in a holistic manner.

Prominent members of the NUS community have been invited to the prestigious World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, to be held from 22 to 25 January.

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.