Staff Awards
Staff Awards
Welcome to the Staff Awards website, where we recognise and celebrate the achievements of our faculty and staff. If you wish to share any prizes or awards received, new appointments or memberships in prestigious boards or societies, and other notable achievements in the last six months, we would love to hear from you.
Knighthood for NUS Distinguished Visiting Prof Anthony Cheetham
NUS Distinguished Visiting Professor Anthony Cheetham has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, after being named in the Queen’s 2020 New Year Honours List as a Knight Bachelor — an honour that means he will receive the title of “Sir”. Prof Sir Anthony was recognised for “services to material chemistry, to UK science and to global outreach”.
Maths prof Shen Zuowei elected to the World Academy of Science
NUS Science Dean and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor Shen Zuowei has been elected as a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a global science academy for the advancement of sciences in developing countries based in Trieste, Italy.
Prof Shen is a mathematics professor of international renown. He was nominated for his fundamental contributions to wavelet and Gabor frame theory and their applications.
MBI principal investigator to join inaugural class of EMBO Global Investigators
Assistant Professor Timothy Saunders, Principal Investigator at the Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, NUS has been selected to join the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Global Investigator Network.
This new EMBO programme, launched in 2019, aims to identify and support the next generation of scientific leaders who have started their laboratories in EMBC (“European Molecular Biology Conference”) Associate Member States (currently India and Singapore), or in a country or territory covered by a cooperation agreement with EMBC (currently Chile and Taiwan). This inaugural class of nine EMBO Global Investigators are distributed across all four of these countries or territories.
NUS accorded joint PEP Best Suggestion Award
NUS was presented with the PEP Best Suggestion Award at the Pro-Enterprise Panel – Singapore Business Federation (PEP-SBF) Awards 2019 ceremony on 26 Nov 2019.
This accolade recognises the collaborative work between NUS, Nanyang Technological University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and National Environment Agency, in reviewing the licensing requirements for users of confocal microscopes.
NUS was presented with the PEP Best Suggestion Award at the Pro-Enterprise Panel – Singapore Business Federation (PEP-SBF) Awards 2019 ceremony on 26 Nov 2019.
This accolade recognises the collaborative work between NUS, Nanyang Technological University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and National Environment Agency, in reviewing the licensing requirements for users of confocal microscopes. Confocal microscopes are special microscopes that use a laser for illumination instead of visible light. Some of these microscopes contain high powered lasers which require users to be licensed. While the microscopes have high powered lasers, laser emission level at the point where the user may be exposed to is below the regulatory limit. After establishing a series of safeguards, users no longer need to apply for user licence, resulting in cost-savings of more than $100,000 annually and time-savings.
The PEP Best Suggestion Award honours private sector individuals and businesses which have contributed feedback and suggestions to the PEP, leading to significant improvements in the business operating environment.
Photo: Dr Peck Thian Guan, Director of OSHE (third from left) with Mr Leo Yip, Chairman, PEP and Head of Civil Service (centre); Dr Felix Margadant, Senior Research Fellow, MBI (third from right); Ms Zhou Qian, Safety & Health Manager, OSHE (second from right); and Mr Jedison Ong, Associate Director, OSHE (extreme right)
Prof Jochen Wirtz (centre) with the Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions Award
Business prof wins the Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions Award
Professor Jochen Wirtz from NUS Business School was presented with the “Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award” recently by the American Marketing Association Services Special Interest Group (SERVSIG). The award, which is presented annually by SERVSIG, recognises the individual whose teaching, research and service have had the greatest long-term impact on the development of the services discipline. Contributions to the services discipline should be significant, frequent, and include recent contributions.
NUS RRT receives Outstanding CERT Award 2019
The NUS Rapid Response Team (RRT) had a rare moment of stepping into the limelight when they received the Outstanding Company Emergency Response Team (CERT) Award from Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister of Manpower and Second Minister for Home Affairs at the annual Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) parade on 23 Nov 2019.
The team was accorded the award in recognition for their swift response to a fire outbreak at a laboratory building on campus in March 2019, where over 1,000 people were evacuated.
The NUS Rapid Response Team (RRT) had a rare moment of stepping into the limelight when they received the Outstanding Company Emergency Response Team (CERT) Award from Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister of Manpower and Second Minister for Home Affairs at the annual Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) parade on 23 Nov 2019.
The team was accorded the award in recognition for their swift response to a fire outbreak at a laboratory building on campus in March 2019, where over 1,000 people were evacuated.
NUS was among 12 companies including Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resorts, Singapore Expo, PSA Singapore (Pasir Panjang Container Terminal Building), PSA Corporation Limited (Keppel Distripark and PSA Keppel Terminal), Shell Eastern Petroleum and ExxonMobile Asia Pacific, which received the 2019 CERT Award.
NUS RRT was established in 2015 under the Office of Campus Security to provide quick response to fire incidents within NUS. The RRT was subsequently moved to the Emergency Management Division at the Office of Safety, Health and Environment in 2018.
Photo (from left): Yam Guan Shyh (Deputy Director/Head, Emergency Management Division, OSHE), Wong Kwok Yew (Manager), Sa'Aid Bin Abdul Rahman Bahajj (RRT member), Muhammad Shakeel Bin Mohamed I (RRT member), Mohammed Khoirul Bin Mohd Noor (Assistant Manager), Mohammad Fazulee Bin Abdul Rahman (Associate Director), Ravindran s/o Sockalingam (Senior Associate Director)