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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.
Feiyue Tao feared her research would suffer if she accepted a summer internship with Google, but it didn't prevent her from earning a Postgraduate Medal for Academic Excellence,
Gamble pays off as computing standout lands at Google
Rosa Rosmery Soto Ruidias, Carina Li, Ho Yan Or, and Natasha Pegler: the only team thus far to escape a computer science "Escape Room" designed by Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes.
Escape Room unlocks inventive path to learning
An ANU Escape Room aims to teach computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration while having a bit of fun.
The Evolve project team, led by Professor Lachlan Blackhall, at the Engineers Australia Canberra Excellence Project Awards.
Evolve project takes out Engineers Australia Canberra Excellence Project Award
Congratulations to the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program (BSGIP) at The Australian National University (ANU), who along with partner Zepben have recently won this year’s Engineers Australia Canberra Excellence Project Award.
Louise Bardwell with her parents, Susie and Alan, on graduation day, 15 July, 2022.
Humanitarian engineering was her doorway, now it is the key
“Engineering is not just putting up bridges or wiring circuits,” explained Louise Bardwell after teaching a hands-on engineering workshop for high school girls visiting The Australian National Univeristy (ANU).
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