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A festival-like atmosphere greeted prospective students, including opportunities to interact with a robot, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

22
Mar
2023

Future students greeted by robot, virtual sabers, and AI interface at Open Day 2023

Future engineering, computing, and cybernetics students enjoyed a festival-like atmosphere at ANU Open Day, including interactions with a robot, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

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ANU Escape Room creator Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes is designing new riddles and puzzles for domains outside of advanced computing, such as epidemiology, emergency medicine, and introductory computing. Photo: Tracey Nearmy/ANU

21
Mar
2023

ANU Escape Room opens doors to public

Designed by Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes to foster teambuilding skills and teach concepts in advanced computing, the software for the ANU Escape Room is highly adaptable.

TOTUS team present their ANU Engineering Capstone project
20
Mar
2023

Well done to our latest prize-winning students

Congratulations and well done to the latest group of The Australian National University (ANU) College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics prize winners! Here is a summary of some of the amazing achievements recognised in...

Professor Hanna Kurniawati

Professor Hanna Kurniawati has been appointed as Professorial Chair for System Autonomy, Intelligence, and Decision Making at Australia’s leading space research centre.

17
Mar
2023

Hanna Kurniawati to spearhead Autonomous Systems Research in Australia’s space tech

Congratulations to ANU expert Professor Hanna Kurniawati, who has been appointed as the SmartSat CRC Professorial Chair for System Autonomy, Intelligence, and Decision Making.

Congratulations to Jessica Weakley, winner of the 2023 Natasha Linard Scholarship for Women in Engineering and Technology.

08
Mar
2023

Linard Scholar designs powerful message for women in tech

Congratulations to the latest recipient of the Natasha Linard Scholarship for Women in Engineering and Technology, undergraduate student Jessica Weakley.

International Women's Day
08
Mar
2023

Past, present and future: Who are the women in cybernetics?

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we take a look at why diversity is integral not only in cybernetics, but all innovation for the future.

Sagarika Raje
08
Mar
2023

The happiest traveller: from India to ANU

As an undergraduate computing student in Mubai, India, Sagarika Raje was one of only a handful of women in lecture halls filled with men. And at times she suspected her professors favoured the male students. “It did get quite...

Ned Cooper became a lawyer because he believed the legal system was "the best point of intervention" to fight for social justice. Confronted with the impacts of software designed to predict future criminals, he shifted his focus to cybernetics.

03
Mar
2023

Cybernetics standout enters digital front in fight for justice

As a boy growing up on his grandparents’ orchard in Armidale, NSW, Ned Cooper got on well with classmates from First Nations communities. When he moved with his parents to Sydney, he connected with organisations and communities there....

Professor Michael McRobbie AO and his wife Laurie McRobbie pose with the painting donated to ANU in their honour. 

01
Mar
2023

Michael and Laurie McRobbie visit ANU

ANU hosted distinguished international visitors, Professor Michael McRobbie and his wife Laurie McRobbie on our beautiful campus this week to view a painting received in Michael's honour

A panel featuring the members of the new Aerospace Community of Practice

A panel featuring the members of the new Community of Practice for drone and advanced air mobility research.

16
Feb
2023

Working together to integrate drones in Australian society

A new community is joining forces to coordinate drone research in Australia to ensure drone technologies can be effectively integrated in Australian society.

New starters were greeted by student and academic leaders, as well as the newest ANU Solar Racing car, at a 14 Feb. welcoming event.

15
Feb
2023

New starters greeted by academic, student leaders at welcome event

The Australian National University (ANU) welcomed new and returning students this week, highlighted by a kick-off event on the lawn of the Birch Building where new starters had the opportunity to meet academics and student leaders for...

A new type of solar cell with ultra-high efficiency. Photo: Dr The Duong/ANU

A new type of solar cell with ultra-high efficiency. Photo: Dr The Duong/ANU

10
Feb
2023

New type of solar cell with ultra-high efficiency could bring down the cost of solar energy

A new type of solar cell with ultra-high efficiency could be an important step in bringing down the cost of solar energy.

A proud descendant of the Wuthathi and Zenadth Kes nations, Tyra Petersen says her year on the ANU campus has restored her faith in institutions such as education.

09
Feb
2023

Shaping the Indigenous experience at ANU

A proud descendant of the Wuthathi and Zenadth Kes nations, Tyra Petersen says her year on the ANU campus has restored her faith in institutions such as education.

Professor Andrew Blakers
08
Feb
2023

ANU solar pioneer wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Professor Andrew Blakers has dedicated his career to creating innovative solutions that help tackle climate change.

Kurran Sidhu of the Australian Clean Energy Regulator said the proximity of the federal and ACT governments, and the rapidly growing renewable energy industry in Canberra have created a "perfect nexus" with the ANU School of Engineering.

01
Feb
2023

Studying Renewable Energy at ANU

Canberra is quickly becoming a global hub for renewable energy businesses, and at ANU we’re helping train the next generation. We spoke to recent graduates with ...

ANU has been awarded funding for research into technologies that reduce the cost of solar energy for Australians.

ANU has been awarded funding for research into technologies that reduce the cost of solar energy for Australians.

04
Jan
2023

Cutting the costs of solar

The Australian National University (ANU) has been awarded more than $9 million in funding from the Australian Government for research projects to reduce the cost of solar energy for Australians. The...

Patrick Green, a Fellow at the Bandalang Studio, speaks to the traditions and the history that inform his work.

21
Dec
2022

Introducing the Bandalang Design Studio

The new Bandalang Studio at ANU is honouring Indigenous Knowledge Systems in innovation, design, research and teaching

Professional staff awards 2022

Pip Chan and Breanna Reily (centre) were recognised along with several other professional staff members for contributing to and enhancing the work, reputation and position of the College in 2022.

16
Dec
2022

Award winners celebrated at end of year gathering

Congratulations to all the award nominees, winners and commendations in the 2022 Dean’s Awards for Professional Staff.

14
Dec
2022

Celebrating our graduating class of 2022

Hundreds of graduating students from the College received their well-deserved degrees, certificates, and diplomas in a Conferring of Awards ceremony at Llewellyn Hall on Tuesday 13 December 2022.

Uncle Wally Bell, ANU Chancellor Julie Bishop, and Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell celebrate the refurbished Birch Building and the new School of Cybernetics.

30
Nov
2022

Ribbon cutting launches School of Cybernetics, Birch reopening

The Australian National University (ANU) is celebrating the completion of a significant refurbishment of the Birch Building to support the new and growing School of Cybernetics. Over 200 people from within and beyond ANU and...

Solomon Jones built a prototype for the “SmartBin” — a skip that reports waste weights in real time — in his garage during the pandemic lockdown in 2021. The world's first Waste Check System is now operating at Questacon.

24
Nov
2022

The coolest thing at Questacon is in the bin

Each year, 7.3 million tonnes of food waste are piled in Australian landfills, where they break down without oxygen, emitting greenhouse gases equivalent to those of the steel industry and the iron ore industry combined.  To help...

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