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NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music is establishing a new Centre for Music and Health (CMH). The CMH will be the first of its kind in Singapore and Southeast Asia to develop evidence-based music programmes to support health and well-being, as well as research methods to inform and evaluate the efficacy of such programmes.
Research, Education
Scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at NUS together with clinical researchers from the Cardiovascular Research Institute under the National University Health System discovered how a scaffolding protein responds to mechanical signals, activating biochemical signals to control the differentiation of cardiac muscle cells. This brings scientists a step closer towards uncovering ways to enhance cardiac muscle growth and regeneration.
Research, Impact
PIER71™ (Port Innovation Ecosystem Reimagined @ BLOCK71) − a joint initiative by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and NUS, organised the Grand Final of the 6th edition of the Smart Port Challenge (SPC). MPA and NUS also inked a partnership agreement at the event with the Singapore Shipping Association to enhance their support for PIER71™ start-ups.
Entrepreneurship, Impact
NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Distinguished Professor Henry Yeung has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field by the influential Regional Studies Association (RSA). The annual RSA awards recognise research works that have made an original and outstanding contribution to the analysis of regions and regional issues.
Impact
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The Darwin Online project at NUS published an exceptional manuscript handwritten by Charles Darwin in 1865. To understand this unique document, historian of science Dr John van Wyhe from the NUS Department of Biological Sciences, and founder and Director of Darwin Online, sheds light on the origins of the 157-year-old manuscript, and why Darwin chose to handwrite the selected passage from Origin of Species.
Protecting nature will also help protect human communities, and Singapore can be part of the global movement to tackle the twin planetary crises of climate change and biodiversity extinctions. Audrey Tan, Science Communications and Outreach Lead at the NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, shares her views on why the city-state should take an interest in how the COP27 climate talks could impact biodiversity conservation.