Tag: Education in Australia

Professor Jacqueline Batley, an internationally recognised plant researcher, has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship for a research project that aims to revolutionise understanding of disease resistance genes in the plant kingdom.

UNSW Sydney alumnus Professor Kelvin Kong has won the 2023 NAIDOC Person of the Year Award. This year’s award finalists were whittled down from 200 nominees.

Quasars are the supermassive black holes at the centres of early galaxies. Professor Geraint Lewis in the School of Physics has unlocked their secrets to use them as 'clocks' to measure time near the beginning of the universe.

Two of Australia’s major banks have announced they will take action against financial abusers, including closing their accounts.

Two UNSW Sydney academics have received Australian Laureate Fellowships from the Australian Research Council (ARC) in the latest round of funding.

The University of Melbourne’s Student Precinct Project has been recognised with four awards at the 2023 Victorian Architecture Awards.

Brisbane is set to become a hub for Paralympic sport with the announcement of a nationally-significant partnership between The University of Queensland and Paralympics Australia.

In the first study of its kind, researchers from the University of Adelaide have investigated the level of online trade in invertebrates in Australia and believe they have only uncovered the tip of the iceberg.

Professor Stefan Williams from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics explains how submersibles work, how they communicate and what might have gone wrong for the Titan, the crewed submersible vessel which has gone missing near the Titanic shipwreck.

Telethon Kids Institute and The University of Western Australia have appointed internationally-renowned genetic disease researcher, Professor Aleksandra Filipovska, as the inaugural Lou Landau Chair of Child Health Research.