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Research and Interdisciplinary Centres Research activities in NTU As a research-intensive university with globally acknowledged strengths in science and engineering, research and development (R&D) forms an important part of the University’s activities. NTU conducts R&D works and prioritises its focus areas to galvanise its resources towards areas where the University have particular strengths in, and which are aligned with the national strategic thrusts. NTU also promotes science and technology at the highest level through the endowed Institute of Advanced Studies, which regularly flies in Nobel laureates and other eminent scientists to enrich the life and work of the university community. NTU has made great strides in its journey towards research intensity and has become increasingly successful in gaining external peer-reviewed competitive funding, with dramatic increases in the number, range and value of grants awarded. NTU is also actively looking for strong support from major corporations and industry leaders, in terms of both research funding and partnerships. There has been a sharp rise in the amount of competitive grants awarded to the University in the past four years, from awards of S$57.6million in FY05, S$68million in FY06, S$123million in FY07, increasing to S$169.6million in FY08. The most significant milestone of NTU’s success in competitive research grants is the award by the Ministry of Education (MOE) for its first Research Centre of Excellence (RCE) - the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS). This award marks a big step forward for NTU in our efforts to become a world-class research-intensive university. Not only does the RCE bring influential and accomplished researchers to NTU to help propel research to a higher level, it also introduces the earth and environmental sciences to the University portfolio. For this, MOE provided funds totalling $150 million over 10 years to support the running of the Centre. The RCE is helmed by world-famous seismologist, Kerry Sieh and joined by Paul Tapponnier, a world-leading tectonicist from the University of Paris, and Chris Newhall, formerly from the US Geological Survey and the foremost authority on Southeast Asian volcanology. To sustain the enhanced research intensity, the University is strengthening its excellent pool of faculty by recruiting top calibre scientists and technologists from around the World. NTU has also been very successful in attracting the World’s best young researchers through the Nanyang Assistant Professorship (NAP) and Nanyang Post-doctoral scheme respectively. These two schemes are the latest initiatives set up to recruit top researchers from around the world for them to play leading roles in the University’s new wave of multi-disciplinary and integrative research. Additionally, the University has taken large strides in several directions to benchmark itself and compete at a World level by introducing robust internal processes for high quality assessment, establishing a number of pan-university and key strategic initiatives, providing some of the best research infrastructures available to support its drive towards producing world-class research as well as committing to the highest standards of ethical behaviour in carrying out our research. We have established the NTU Research Integrity Policy and Procedures in early 2008 and now in the process of setting up of an Institutional Review Board for all research activities involving human research participants and human biological materials. The University is developing active partnerships and networks of leading research intensive universities with renewed emphasis on innovation, especially through partnerships with leading technologically based multi-national companies.
Research Centre of Excellence Earth Observatory of Singapore
Members of NEWRI are as follow:
Energy Research Initiatives at NTU (ERIAN) Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) Asia Research Centre (ARC) Joint Research Entities CNRS International – NTU – Thales Research Alliance (CINTRA)
Electromagnetic Effects Research Laboratory (EMERL)
College of Engineering
Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems (CHiPES) College of Business (NBS) Centre for Leadership & Cultural Intelligence (CLCI) Information Management Research Centre (IMARC) School Research Centres
College of Engineering
Centre for Advanced Information Systems (CAIS) Centre for Advanced Media Technology (CAMTech) Centre for Biotechnology (CBT) Centre for Chiral and Pharmaceutical Engineering (CCPE) Centre for Computational Engineering (CCE) Centre for Computational Intelligence (C2i) Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (CHFE) Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (CHFE) Centre for Information Security (CIS) Emerging Research Lab (ER Lab) Energy Research Group Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) Interaction and Entertainment Research Centre (IERC) LIEN Institute for the Environment (LIFE) Microelectronics Centre (MEC) Parallel & Distributed Computing Centre (PDCC) Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology
(PEN) Centre College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences College of Science Drug Discovery Centre (DDC) College of Business (NBS) Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law (CAPTEL) Centre for Accounting & Auditing Research (CAAR)
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