HEXperience of a lifetime – unveiling innovative student startups
10 Apr 2024
Earlier this year, a group of ANU students travelled to HEX International Singapore, a two-week immersive program for idea-stage founders to refine their start-up ideas and learn from leaders in business, social...
Natasha Linard scholarship recipients on engineering, leadership and women in STEM
26 Mar 2024
Growing up on a farm, Nikki Ballinger’s interest in engineering began at an early age - helping her dad out fixing machinery and learning how to weld and do woodwork. “I didn’t...
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.
What do playdough and video games have in common? Ask Dr Penny Kyburz!
13 Mar 2024
When you think of creating video games, what comes to mind? Using playdough and creating prototypes out of paper? Associate Professor Penny Kyburz is bringing a unique flair of creativity and innovation...
Future engineers shine at Capstone showcase
4 Mar 2024
Autonomous sensors that detect pollution in our rivers, a tracking device for dogs deployed in search and rescue operations, and a beam of light that can transmit data; these are just some...
Teaching with respect, engagement and mindfulness - an award-winning formula
22 Feb 2024
Dr Nicolò Malagutti has been recognised with two Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education — one as an individual educator and one as part of the Systems Engineering teaching team at the...
Computers to fight disease by predicting quantum chemistry
1 Feb 2024
A fortuitous encounter at the Australian National University (ANU) spawned QDX—a new start-up taking the biotech industry by storm
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.