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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.
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.
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 i

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 School of Computing will host esteemed members of Australia’s tech community to celebrate 50 years of teaching computer science at ANU.
PhD research sets world record for solar-to-hydrogen efficiency
Even as power grids and passenger vehicles transition to renewable energy, the fact remains that one third the world’s CO2 emission comes from more energy-intensive industries
NASA stops at ANU on way to moon and Mars
Badri Younes, a NASA engineer serving as Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) and SCaN Program Manager, spoke at the Birch Innovation Space about his job building next generation technologies to s
Managing disease with smart technologies
Imagine if your smart watch could monitor chronic health conditions such as heart disease and relay that information securely to your doctor? The idea that data captured by genomics, sensors, and wearable technologies could one day lead to affordable, patient-friendly disease monitoring and management systems is part of the grand challenge facing Dr Elena Daskalaki and other computer scientists at ANU.
Australia can lower CO2 emissions in Asia Pacific by 8.6%
Australia could drastically lower carbon emissions in the Asia-Pacific region by exporting zero-carbon commodities such as electricity, green hydrogen and green metals, according to new research by experts at The Australian National Univ