🏅 As our students start SWOTVAC, celebrate the Endeavour Award winners among them.

Announced as part of our biannual Endeavour program, the winners inspired us with awe & anticipation for how they will build a better, more sustainable world. Full list → unimelb.me/44Xqh84

🎵 Ever wondered how the world's most popular music streamer gets your listening habits just right & compiles your Spotify Wrapped each year?

Dr Marc Cheong & PhD Candidate Xanthe Lowe-Brown go deep on #Spotify , data & more for @ChoiceAustralia → unimelb.me/3wOA3Nj

⚙️ Delve into our Makerspaces this Melbourne Design Week with Re-Form: Intercepting Waste Streams.

Considering the future of material culture & our relationships to data, products & systems, the exhibit features work by MSD's Ex_Lab, Fab Lab & NExT Lab → unimelb.me/44QYLZX

📣 We are incredibly proud to count Dr @PJKaroly among the University of Melbourne researchers & partner organisations awarded $61 million in the latest @NHMRC Investigator Grant round.

Learn how Dr Karoly's project will explore stress in epilepsy → unimelb.me/4bOT6pR

Dr Anne Wang Anne Wang 🌱 presented the latest results about nitrogen assessment in almond orchards using airborne hyperspectral and Sentinel-2 imagery via modelling. Model performance against field data & plant trait contributions were discussed in a great event HyperSens Lab

Congratulations to our Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology PhD student, Debiprasad Bhakta, who received the prestigious Maitri Scholarship in Parramatta, Sydney today. Debiprasad will be developing novel numerical techniques to model installation of offshore wind foundations in sand ANAMITRA ROY.

🏆 Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure) & Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Ivan Marusic has been elected a Fellow of the @RoyalSociety for his outstanding contribution to research in fluid mechanics.

Learn more → unimelb.me/4dJwd8H

Our Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology students in CVEN90050 #Geotechnical #Engineering have the chance to visit a deep excavation to see in action the retaining wall solutions, construction sequence and practical considerations we learned about in the classrooms. Thank you hamiltonmarino.com.au!

.stan skafidas et al. Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology report a multifunctional smart field-programmable #radiofrequency surface (FPRFS) that implements arbitrary #antennas and impedance matching networks with enhanced radiation efficiency. #Microwave #Gettingapplied nature.com/articles/s4146…

🧪 Chemical engineer Katrina Wruck is researching ways to reduce 'forever chemicals' that threaten the environment.

Follow her path from QUT's Indigenous Australians PhD program to designing & building a lab-scale device that breaks down #PFAS → unimelb.me/44FWwZq

From addressing housing shortages to decarbonising the building industry, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology Prof. Tuan Ngo’s research is spearheading the pursuit for sustainable, cheaper & resilient infrastructure for the future. Read more about his initiatives at University of Melbourne → bit.ly/4bgvMkR

‘My whole library is wiped out’ – what does it means to own movies & TV in the age of streaming services?

Our Dr @ShaananC weighs in on the #TelstraBoxOffice fall-out for Guardian Australia 📺 unimelb.me/3QOdnDF

Our Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology students are very lucky to learn from our two experienced industry guest lecturers in our very first geology field trip for ENEN20002 Earth Processes for Engineering! It is really useful to see how theory is applied in practice!

Looking forward to Pint of Science AU next week! I'll be talking about sugar polymers & tissue repair, along with Nick Hoan from Nutromics who will tell us about developing DNA-based biosensors & what it takes to revolutionize healthcare!
For more info 👇
pintofscience.com.au/event/tissue-t…

💦 FEIT is set to develop mega-scale liquid hydrogen storage systems for energy export terminals & vessels, thanks to @ARENAGovAU.

Learn how Dr Shanaka Baduge, Prof @Priyan_Mendis, Dr Dr. Gang (Kevin) Li & more will help build our hydrogen industry → unimelb.me/3QDbpG3

🚌 PhD Candidate Mustafa Rezazada is working with Prof Egemen Tanin & Dr Neema Nassir to shed light on the causes, consequences & control strategies around one of PT's most intractable & annoying features – bus bunching.

Learn more → unimelb.me/3y9qc57

Practitioners can now use an AI-supported tool to provide high-quality support for people with disability.

@OliveiraEduardo & @ArtsUniMelb's Keith R. McVilly worked with Flinders University & UQ News researchers to develop the tool that aims to educate & prevent harm → unimelb.me/3wiTzBh

We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Signature Orthopaedics, Australia's only manufacturer of implantable orthopaedic devices, & RMIT University.

Learn how we'll link research excellence with one of the country's most innovative MedTech enterprises → unimelb.me/3JWyCzb

Call-out: Prof Tuan Ngo & Behzad Rismanchi invite you to submit an abstract for the International Conference on Decarbonising the Building Industry (DBI) 18–19 Nov in Melbourne.

Learn more → unimelb.me/3UMjomQ, deadline 31 May #DBI2024

A/Prof Sam John explores the frontiers of Brain-Computer Interfaces #BCIs for @PintOfScienceAU 13 May. 7–8.30pm at the Carlton Brewhouse, register at the link below. unimelb.me/4dwBgto