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The Institute of Systems Science at NUS has launched its new building, with double the capacity of classrooms and staff offices and state-of-the-art teaching technology. It also announced that it will work with nine new industry partners to build digital capabilities among their staff.
Education
In the middle of a busy semester in early 2020, the typically buzzing campus became unusually silent. COVID-19 had forced the University’s more than 40,000 students and over 12,000 staff to stay at home. Find out how NUS has adapted, and how COVID-19 has in fact paved the way for new opportunities.
Community
The next time you visit East Coast Lagoon Food Village, you’ll be able to use a phone charging station that is powered by food waste. It’s all thanks to an NUS-developed system that uses microbes to break down trimmings and scraps to produce biogas for electricity.
Sustainability
Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Director of the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) at NUS, has been named Asia’s most influential scientist by Chinese business magazine Fortune Times.
Research
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The trampoline metaphor provides the best conceptual model for resilience and social cohesion, both crucial for the post-pandemic recovery, writes Professor Danny Quah, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS.
With artificial intelligence pervading every part of life and chatbots available round the clock, will there still be a place for psychiatrists? Adjunct Professor Chong Siow Ann from the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, who is also Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health, discusses the rise of AI in mental health care.