ACADEMIA
US Science Envoy Visits Vietnam, Laos & Thailand
U.S. science envoy Dr. Geraldine Richmond is visiting Southeast Asia this week to foster collaborations in the Lower Mekong region.
Kim Yang Hann Receives The 2015 Rossing Prize
Professor Kim Yang Hann from KAIST is the first recipient of the Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education to come from a non-English speaking nation.
NTU Leads Expedition To Assess Tsunami Risks
The month-long expedition to map the sea floor off Sumatra will provide open source data for the prediction of tsunami risks.
£30,000 Boost For UK-China Metabolomics Data Sharing
The UK's Biotechnology and Biological Research Council has committed £30,000 to support training in managing and sharing metabolomics data and analyses.
An All-Asian Top Five For OECD’s Education Rankings
Students from Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have topped the OECD rankings for mathematics and science.
Academia Sinica’s Wong Chi-Huey Receives 2015 Robert Robinson Award
The President of the Academia Sinica, Professor Wong Chi-Huey, has won the 2015 Robert Robinson Award.
ST Engineering & NTU Robotics Lab Backed By US$40 Million Grant
The National Research Foundation of Singapore has awared the ST Engineering-NTU Corporate Lab for advanced robotics and autonomous systems a US$40 million grant.
Wanted: Girls Into Math & Stats
The BHP Billiton Foundation has committed US17.6 million to a program encouraging girls to ‘Choose Maths’.
Singapore & Korea Collaborate On Medtech Education
An extension of the A*STAR-KHIDI MOU signed last year, the SSB-Korea Innovation Partnership will focus on manpower training.
