How Chloe and Zora found their place at ANU

14 Aug 2024

Discover how two talented women from different parts of the world were drawn to the tranquility and academic excellence of Canberra, now pursuing their PhDs with the Pioneering Women Scholarship at ANU....

What’s that sound? A duet of humans and AI in concert

5 Jul 2024

Artificial Intelligence is becoming part of everyday life, but will it have a role in creating music? Dr Charles Martin of the School of Computing has been working with his students and...

‘Timing is immaculate’ for Aerospace in Australia

2 Jul 2024

The first cohort of Aerospace Engineering majors will graduate ANU this month into a dynamic industry spurred by drones, artificial intelligence, and some out of this world opportunities in the space sector....

Computers to fight disease by predicting quantum chemistry

1 Feb 2024

A fortuitous encounter at the Australian National University (ANU) spawned QDX—a new start-up taking the biotech industry by storm

Disaster safehouse looks to Ni-Vanuatu traditional engineering

30 Jan 2024

Bandalang Resident David Nalo is working with ANU experts to design a disaster safe-house in Vanuatu.

Student innovators win McCusker Prize for new, lifesaving technologies

16 Jan 2024

Engineering student Nicholas Bull won a McCusker Prize Humanitarian Engineering for his research on water purification in Timor-Leste. The other prize went to an ANU Computing team deploying AI to battle bushfires....

Systems Engineering is future-fitted engineering

11 Dec 2023

The award-winning Systems Engineering program at ANU is unique in Australia. We asked students, alumni, and academics to explain how and why.

Escape Room garners teaching award, funding to expand

8 Dec 2023

Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes has won a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Education, in part for the Escape Room he designed for teaching computer science. A separate teaching grant will facilitate the...

We tell people how atoms move—an interview with Loong Wang

6 Dec 2023

Loong Wang’s first two tech companies were valued at nearly $2 billion when they were sold. He has founded two more since his 2021 pivot to bio-medical technology.

Beck at COP28: Australia can fuel global energy transition

4 Dec 2023

Dr Fiona Beck and a team of ANU experts have traveled to Dubai for COP28—the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Their message: Australia can fuel the global energy transition by exporting...