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Congratulations to Jessica Weakley, winner of the 2023 Natasha Linard Scholarship for Women in Engineering and Technology.
Linard Scholar designs powerful message for women in tech
Congratulations to the latest recipient of the Natasha Linard Scholarship for Women in Engineering and Technology, undergraduate student Jessica Weakley.
The happiest traveller: from India to ANU
As an undergraduate computing student in Mubai, India, Sagarika Raje was one of only a handful of women in lecture halls filled with men. And at times she suspected her professors favoured the male students.

Ned Cooper became a lawyer because he believed the legal system was "the best point of intervention" to fight for social justice. Confronted with the impacts of software designed to predict future criminals, he shifted his focus to cybernetics.
Cybernetics standout enters digital front in fight for justice
As a boy growing up on his grandparents’ orchard in Armidale, NSW, Ned Cooper got on well with classmates from First Nations communities.

New starters were greeted by student and academic leaders, as well as the newest ANU Solar Racing car, at a 14 Feb. welcoming event.
New starters greeted by academic, student leaders at welcome event
The Australian National University (ANU) welcomed new and returning students this week, highlighted by a kick-off event on the lawn of the Birch Building where new starters had the opportunity to meet academics and student leaders for th
Celebrating our graduating class of 2022
Hundreds of graduating students from the College received their well-deserved degrees, certificates, and diplomas in a Conferring of Awards ceremony at Llewellyn Hall on Tuesday 13 December 2022.

Solomon Jones built a prototype for the “SmartBin” — a skip that reports waste weights in real time — in his garage during the pandemic lockdown in 2021. The world's first Waste Check System is now operating at Questacon.
The coolest thing at Questacon is in the bin
Each year, 7.3 million tonnes of food waste are piled in Australian landfills, where they break down without oxygen, emitting greenhouse gases equivalent to those of the steel industry and the iron ore industry combined.

Childhood dreams led Daishi Adams to enrol in the Co-Lab Honours Grant, tailored to Australian students interested in a career with the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).
From rockets to AI: reaching the unreachable with Co-Lab Honours
“When I was a child, I wanted to build up a rocket and head off to space”, says Daishi Adams.

ANU computing students Jacob Weston-Davis, Amelia Genova, Ethan Miegel, and Philip Caisip share their adventures as open-source coders in a COMP2120 lab session.
Computing project sends "open source ambassadors" to GitHub
Project maintainers on the cloud coding site GitHub may have noticed a recent surge in “open source ambassadors” from ANU.

Only 3 of 60 robots completed both mazes in "Discovering Engineering", an introductory course at ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
ANU robots vs. the maze
Student teams watched with hands clasped in prayer as their robot cars attempted to navigate mazes using sonar sensors to detect and avoid obstructions.