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.
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...
ANU experts to power path to all-electric ACT
1 Dec 2023
A map to guide the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)’s transition to an all-electric economy will be developed by experts at The Australian National University (ANU).