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As industries seek more sustainable ways to produce ingredients, chemicals and materials, synthetic biology is opening up new routes to make useful compounds by engineering biological systems. The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and NUS have launched a joint laboratory to help turn these research advances into commercially viable products.
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NUS has appointed Professor Teo Chung Piaw as the new Dean for the NUS Business School and Professor Koh Lian Pin as the new Dean for the NUS Faculty of Science. Both appointments will take effect from 1 July 2026.
Education
World Ocean Day is annually celebrated on 8 June to cultivate public interest in the protection, restoration and conservation of our oceans. This year’s theme, “Strong Marine Protected Areas for Our Blue Planet”, calls for a global commitment to create effective Marine Protected Areas that deliver real conservation outcomes.
Research
NUS has received a major gift from Mrs Wai Mei Wen and Mr Chiu Chi Wen of Wen Giving in support of the Health District @ Queenstown (HD@QT). The gift will support HD@QT’s efforts to develop research-informed, community-based solutions that address the evolving health and well-being needs of Singapore’s long-lived population.
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Across the world, households have felt the sting of rising prices. Eurozone consumers now spend roughly one-third more on energy than before the pandemic. In the US, home values have surged by more than 45 per cent since 2020. Globally, food prices have risen faster than overall inflation. It is tempting to call this a global affordability crisis. But is it real?
The deeper national question may no longer simply be: How do we reduce mental health prevalence? It must increasingly be: How do we build a society more capable of well-being? Perhaps this is the next frontier of Singapore’s mental health journey: not only expanding services or reducing distress, but also becoming more deliberately developmental as a society so people and institutions do not merely cope – but flourish.