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• A cross-disciplinary team led by Associate Professor
Tan Kok Kiong (Engineering) and Adjunct Professor
Ng Soon Chye (Medicine), working with Embryonics
International, has developed an automated micro
manipulator for Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection.
Their technology is based on a piezo actuator which
enables controlled and precise injection of the sperm
into the egg. The team’s work won the First Prize and
Innovative Award in the TechSource Singapore
Engineering Design Challenge 2005.
• Professor Chia Boon Lock (Medicine) received the
Lee-Foundation-NHG Lifetime Achievement Award
2005 for his significant lifetime contributions to
healthcare in Singapore.
• Echoes of Fall by Dr Ho Chee Kong (Music)
premiered at the Japan-Singapore International
Exchange Composers Concert in Tokyo’s Suntory Hall.
• Associate Professor Tan Kay Chuan and
Ms Nachimuthu Sangeetha (Engineering) won the
Best Paper Award at the 3 rd Asian Network for
Quality Congress and the 19 th Asia Quality
Symposium by Chinese Society for Quality, Taipei.
• The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific received the
Best Education Course Provider award for the fourth
consecutive year at the 2006 Asian Freight and
Supply Chain Awards ceremony.
• At the MIS Asia IT Excellence Awards 2005, the
Centre for Instructional Technology was
adjudged the Best Business Enabler (Education) for
NUScast.
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State of the University 2006
• The Computer Centre’s TCG@NUS (Tera-scale
Campus Grid at NUS) clinched the CIO Award 2006,
beating more than 100 nominations from the public
and private sectors in the region. TCG@NUS is a PC
Grid project that harnesses the idle compute cycles of
campus PCs to create a virtual computer with
tremendous computational power, maximizing the
return of investment as well as significantly reducing
the turnaround time of large scale research
computation and promoting research collaboration.