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Members of ANU Rocketry brought their latest rocket, Halo, to help greet new starters on the first day of Orientation Week.
New starters greeted with inspiring words, rocket, courtyard luncheon
Student-led organisations set up stalls — and in one case, a rocket capable of leaving earth's atmosphere — to introduced themselves and welcome new students to ANU.

Thien Truong, PhD was one of 225 graduates of the ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science to participate in the 15 July, 2022 Conferring of Awards ceremony.
Graduates celebrate, reflect at Conferring of Awards ceremony
Graduates of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science gathered at Llewellyn Hall on 15 July to receive diplomas, celebrate achievements, and begin new chapters of their lives. In all, 225 students crossed the stage at...
Medal winners announced at Conferring of Awards ceremony
Congratulations to medal winners Feiyue Tao, who has been awarded the Postgraduate Medal for Academic Excellence, and Edmund Hofflin, who is the University Medal winner for undergraduate studies. Feiyue receives her Masters in Advanced...
The Joyful Fashionista meets TechLauncher
When Serina Bird signed up to be an industry partner in The Australian National University (ANU) TechLauncher program, she was in the process of realising an ambition to build an online shopping community where people of all shapes and...
Solar innovation inspired by corals could help save them
A snorkeler and scuba diver from the age of 5, Dr Juan Felipe Torres traces his love of nature to marine adventures with his parents and brothers off the coast of Colombia...
Electric vehicles pass the remote road test
Electric vehicles can handle the distances required to travel to essential services in remote and regional Australia, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. ...

Computational social science: As a step toward endowing artificial intelligence with moral reasoning capabilities, Josh Nguyen and a team of ANU experts analysed 100,000 threads from the popular web forum Reddit.
Algorithm charts moral culture in 100k dilemmas
Should we sacrifice the life of one person to save the lives of five others? For social scientists, hypothetical dilemmas with stark, life-and-death consequences play an important role in theorising about philosophical...

Dr Kean Fong, Dr Marco Ernst, and Dr Wensheng Liang developed a new bifacial solar cell, which can absorb both direct and reflected solar energy, thanks to funding from the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP). The Albanese government recently announced ACAP will receive $45 million over the next eight years.
$45m injection to electrify innovation in Aussie solar tech
The Australian National University (ANU) will play a critical role in researching and developing cheaper, more efficient and more sustainable solar technologiesthanks to a multi-million dollar cash splash that will ignite a spark in...
Rocketry leader lands at Airbus
The aerospace engineering major was not yet available at The Australian National University (ANU) when Allissa Li graduated in 2019 with a double degree in Science and...
Game changer
School of Computing PhD student Mahsuum Daiiani is seeking your help to understand how video games can engage people around climate change and environmental issues. Mahsuum’s research will use a mixed-method approach —that...

Susruth Nadimpalli (left) and Jaskaran Gulati made the 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 list based on a tech start-up they launched while students at ANU.
Student start-up lands on Forbes 30 Under 30 list
Susruth Nadimpalli and Jaskaran Gulati, cryptocurrency pioneers who met while students at The Australian National University (ANU), have been listed on the...

ANU and Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) executives celebrate the new honours cohort with the Co-Lab managment team.
Co-Lab celebrates Honours Grant recipients
One of the keystone partnerships at The Australian National University (ANU), the ANU ASD Co-Lab, has welcomed and celebrated its inaugural cohort of 2022...
Space nerd gets a boost from new engineering scholarship
Josie Bates felt a bit daunted when she first arrived on The Australian National University (ANU) campus. “Coming to ANU from a rural background,...
TechLauncher projects impress at Technology Showcase
Our student teams presented in-person and virtually at TechLauncher's hybrid ANU Technology Showcase on 24 May 2022.

Tyra Petersen, a proud Wuthathi women from the North Eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula with connections to Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait.
Know our history
This year’s National Reconciliation Week theme is “Be brave. Make change”. We sat down with Tyra Petersen, a proud Wuthathi women from the North Eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula with connections to Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres...
School of Computing to slash energy costs by half
The School of Computing at ANU is set to reduce its energy costs by up to 51 per cent following an agreement with software firm Dug McCloud. The Australian-based company, with physical infrastructure in Western Australia, will deliver...
Securing your vote
For some of us, rolling up to a polling booth to publicly exercise our democratic rights on election day is part of the joy of voting. But with more and more people now electing to cast postal votes — a growing trend that emerged before...
Dr Liu awarded for her ground-breaking research in solar cell technologies
Dr AnYao Liu from the School of Engineering was recently awarded the Ulrich Gösele Young Scientist Award for her pioneering work on removing metallic impurities from silicon solar cells using deposited thin films. “Impurities,...

Foreground, nominee Lavinia Kanagandran, and her family in 2016. Background: nominees Geoff Huston AM and Peter Elford in 1990.
Celebrating 50 years of teaching computer science at ANU
Tonight The Australian National University (ANU) School of Computing will host esteemed members of Australia’s tech community to celebrate 50 years of teaching computer science at...