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Engineering graduate wins top ANU student prize
An engineering graduate with a passion for reaching out to school students has won the University's most prestigious prize for undergraduates, the Tillyard prize. Samantha Cheah's passion found an outlet in the Robogals program...
ANU researcher achieves world's highest solar cell efficiency for low-grade silicon
The price of Photovoltaics modules has drastically decreased during the last decade, however further cost reductions are now increasingly hard. The key problem with such modules is that it is based on hyper-pure silicon called “...
Hassan Hijazi wins 2015 "Rising Star" award in Operations Research
Dr Hassan Hijazi from the Research School of Computer Science has been recently awarded the 2015 "Rising Star" award from the ...
Winning design connecting the community with virtual reality platform
A team of four ANU students known as “The Normans” (Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor, Leana Copeland, Chris Chow, and Kirsty Nitschke) won first place in the OzCHI 2015 Student Design Challenge (OzCHI24...
ANU tops the nation for research excellence
The Australian National University (ANU) leads the nation in research excellence, boosting its reputation for world-class research in the latest Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) results. The ERA results found 95 per...
Alumnus wins inaugural engineering medal
ANU Alumnus and Chief Technology Officer of Canberra-based firm Reposit Power, Lachlan Blackhall, has been chosen as the first recipient of ...
The 25th Anniversary of the Bachelor of Engineering
The 25th anniversary of the Bachelor of Engineering celebrations over the weekend were a huge success, with over 100 alumni attending the events, and each graduating year, 1994 to 2015 represented. For photos from the...
Volunteers wanted for solar energy study
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are looking for volunteers across the ACT who have solar panels on their roof to take part in a new study. An estimated 50 MW of the total 80 MW capacity of solar power in...
ANU graduates the nation’s most employable
Graduates from The Australian National University (ANU) have been named the most employable in the nation. ANU is Australia's top university for getting a job for the third year in a row in the latest Global Employability...
Computing students smoke competition in bush fire data mining competition win
Two ANU computing students have recently taken out the Australian Data Mining 2015 student competition. With a first place prize of $2500.00 the competition was fierce, but the strong computing...
ANU Computing students present new ideas for innovation
The next generation of software developers and entrepreneurs from ANU have presented high technology projects to potential investors and industry partners at the TechLauncher showcase. One of 20 new projects, ...
Andres Cuevas awarded Becquerel Prize in Hamburg Germany
Professor Andrés Cuevas has been awarded the 2015 Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics. The award recognises his scientific merits in the development and characterisation of silicon solar cells, the most common...
Engineering student recognised for excellence in business innovation
Samaneh Movassaghi, Engineering PhD candidate has recently been recognized for cutting edge research on wearable networks (wearables). Samaneh is selected as one of the top seven researchers across Australia’s leading research...
Recognition for student rugby league star
Second year engineering student Lachlan Lewis has received national recognition for juggling life as a student along with a busy schedule as a rising star with the Canberra Raiders Under 20's rugby league side. The five-eighth...
Engineering student conquers Ivy League summer school
With an MIT dorm room overlooking the Charles River and the Boston city skyline; it’s not hard to see why engineering student Avinash Upadhya has returned from the recent Harvard...
Comeback kid wins 2015 ANU 3MT final
The College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) has cleaned up at the 2015 ANU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, after two CECS students took out the crown and People's Choice awards. Final year Biomaterial...
Breath testing… for disease!
Imagine the possibility of testing for a disease using just a single puff of breath… sounds almost like science fiction, but this is the subject of PhD student Noushin Nasiri’s research that she will be presenting at the...
Kiara's intoxicating talk proves the right mix for 3MT College heat
Kiara Bruggeman, Engineering PhD student has again taken out first place, in the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science 2015 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The competition saw students from the both the Research...
ANU Researchers win best paper at high performance computing conference
Joint efforts between the Research School of Computer Science and the Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI) at the Australian National University have just been awarded Outstanding Paper at a recent High Performance Computing conference...
