Six ANU researchers elected to the Australian Academy of Science
23 May 2024
Professor Kylie Catchpole and Professor Andrew Blakers from the ANU School of Engineering have been elected to the Australian Academy of Science.
Emeritus Professor Richard Hartley elected Fellow of the Royal Society
17 May 2024
Emeritus Professor Richard Hartley FAA FRS has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Engineers race to bolster water security as planet warms
1 May 2024
Shuqi Xu and her PhD supervisor Dr Juan Felipe Torres combine passions for humanitarian engineering and scientific discovery in their work on thermodiffusive desalination — an energy-efficient method for removing salt from...
Astrocomputing detectives uncover planet-eating stars
21 Mar 2024
New research substantiates the mind-bending astrophysics behind the Netflix sci-fi saga Three-Body Problem and solves an interstellar murder mystery billions of years in the making.
Disaster safehouse looks to Ni-Vanuatu traditional engineering
30 Jan 2024
Bandalang Resident David Nalo is working with ANU experts to design a disaster safe-house in Vanuatu.
Student innovators win McCusker Prize for new, lifesaving technologies
16 Jan 2024
Engineering student Nicholas Bull won a McCusker Prize Humanitarian Engineering for his research on water purification in Timor-Leste. The other prize went to an ANU Computing team deploying AI to battle bushfires....
Systems Engineering is future-fitted engineering
11 Dec 2023
The award-winning Systems Engineering program at ANU is unique in Australia. We asked students, alumni, and academics to explain how and why.
Escape Room garners teaching award, funding to expand
8 Dec 2023
Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes has won a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Education, in part for the Escape Room he designed for teaching computer science. A separate teaching grant will facilitate the...
We tell people how atoms move—an interview with Loong Wang
6 Dec 2023
Loong Wang’s first two tech companies were valued at nearly $2 billion when they were sold. He has founded two more since his 2021 pivot to bio-medical technology.
Beck at COP28: Australia can fuel global energy transition
4 Dec 2023
Dr Fiona Beck and a team of ANU experts have traveled to Dubai for COP28—the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Their message: Australia can fuel the global energy transition by exporting...