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Good News — Nov 2021
"Out of the blue," Shafin Rahman wins prestigious Crawford Prize
Dr Shafin Rahman has been awarded the J.G. Crawford Prize for his PhD thesis on ways to empower computer vision to interpret unseen objects and new visual information without assistance from humans.
Hydrogen micro-bubbles join fight against climate change
The Australian Research Council (ARC) recently announced a $654,642 grant to empower a team of researchers at ANU to continue development of high-density hydrogen storage.
Blazing trails, building new networks for women in STEM
Tegan Clark came up with the idea for the first Women in STEM leadership conference during the 2020 lockdown as she contemplated her past and future at ANU.
Undergrad prize winners score wins for the environment as well
In 2020, Young Engineers Australia (YEA) invited students in Victoria to compete for prestige and prize money in the first YEA Case Competition.
Explaining fridges and Cybernetics
Have you ever stopped to think how your fridge works, in one of those (inumerous) times you opened the door looking for a snack?
International projects inspire embrace of Humanitarian engineering minor
This year, the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences will award the Humanitarian Engineering minor to its first recipients.
Supercomputing world record opens new frontiers for energy, medicine, nanotechnology
Dr Giuseppe Barca and his team have set a new world record for quantum chemical calculations, using a supercomputer to predict the chemical reactions and physical properties of molecular systems with tens of thousands of atoms.
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