Communicating complex ideas, in just three minutes: our 2025 3MT candidates
9 Jul 2025
Imagine condensing an 80,000-word thesis into a three-minute presentation. That’s exactly the challenge faced by PhD students in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the recent College final.
Celebrating women in engineering at ANU
23 Jun 2025
On International Women in Engineering Day, we honour and celebrate the women reshaping the world through engineering.
ANU students take on rural Australia ahead of the World Solar Challenge
8 May 2025
Does building a solar-powered vehicle from scratch sound complicated? Try driving it across the country with 40 university students to host workshops for schoolkids.
A cultural policy will protect Australian democracy
15 Apr 2025
In a cost-of-living crisis, the arts is often one of the first sectors on the financial chopping block. But with rising global authoritarianism, support for the arts is exactly what we need....
2025 National Indigenous Engineering Autumn School
15 Apr 2025
Indigenous high school students travelled from all corners of the continent to spend a week on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country for the National Indigenous Engineering Autumn School and learn about the engineering...
Birds with backpacks released on Phillip Island
10 Apr 2025
Twenty-four bush stone-curlews will be reintroduced to the wild on Phillip Island (Milawul) as part of a landmark project involving researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) to help the species regain...
Exploring uncharted depths at ANU Game Jam
8 Apr 2025
ANU students take the express lane as they fast-track their game development skills in just two days.
Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon – starting today
28 Mar 2025
Starting 28 March, Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices....
A story to be told and retold: ANU building renamed in honour of IT trailblazer
24 Feb 2025
The ANU computer science and information technology building has been renamed to honour Skaidrite Darius, a pioneer who carved out a place for women in the early male-dominated days of computing.
ANU neuroinformatics researchers recognised for contribution to brain science
18 Feb 2025
Three early-career researchers from the ANU Neuroinformatics group have been recognised for their impactful contributions to the field.