News Articles for Curtin University

Developing a hydrogen industry will be critical for WA's economy if LNG fades, but there should be no illusion it will be simple.

Avicena Systems, Vix Technology and East Metropolitan Health Service were among the winners at the annual Incite Awards for WA tech.

WA's public universities have largely maintained their position in the latest QS World University Rankings, despite what has been a difficult period for the nation's higher education sector.

Recovering from COVID-19 is shaping up to be a long haul for WA's universities.

Fortescue Metals Group and Curtin University are part of a consortium to research low-carbon iron pellets, cement and alumina, which received $39 million from the federal government today.

Western Australian researchers have been awarded a modest 4.3 per cent share of funding under the latest round of national medical research grants.

The state's peak planning body has given Perth-based property developer Exal Group the green light to build its $55 million student accommodation project in Waterford.

Former Artrage chief executive Marcus Canning and Fortescue deputy chief executive Julie Shuttleworth were among the Western Australians recognised by the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours.

A Perron Institute spinout focused on reducing brain damage caused by strokes listed on the ASX this morning, with its share price rising 50 per cent.

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Perth's Pawsey Supercomputer is supporting scientific research into quantum computing and will soon process data from the world's biggest telescope.

Fifty Perth-based companies and organisations - including education institutions, numerous local startups and not for profits and mining giants have been announced as finalists for the INCITE Award

Four WA universities contribute significantly to the defence sector, operating together as ‘team WA'.

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Innovation should be embraced, not feared.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Tabitha McMullan, Lynda Dorrington, Todd Morcombe, Christina Matthews and Bronwyn Myers.

A prominent Australian academic and architectural consultant has questioned the wisdom of using city deals to relocate universities into CBDs.

UWA overcame a loss of international students and lack of federal wage subsidies to report a $55.1 million operating surplus in the year to December.

All but one of WA's five major universities have slipped in new global rankings compiled by a UAE-based consultancy firm.

Local business VeinTech has taken home a $10,000 prize after winning a prestigious medical technology competition.

The linear route from high school to uni is no longer the only course to follow

Australia is unlikely to close the gender pay gap until at least 2046 despite significant progress made over the past seven years.

While the impacts of the federal government's tertiary fee overhaul will become clearer through 2021, early signs are that it has had little effect.

A third of uni students were unhappy with their overall experience of tertiary education last year, a national survey has found.

Developing a technology road map and finding options for local recycling will be two initial projects of a new decommissioning centre for the oil and gas industry.

Carey Mining was one of the first private Aboriginal contractors to be established in Australia and it's still going strong.

Curtin University spin-out Hyprfire has raised $2.25 million from local investors to commercialise Its cyber security technology.

Universities shed tens of thousands of jobs and lost close to $2 billion this past year as travel restrictions and funding changes dampened the sector's bottom line.

The state government has awarded contracts worth $17 million for 98 new stand-alone power systems and partial funding for a $9.4 million biofuel plant.

The head of Perth-based recruitment company LH Global has rejected claims the organisation is affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, labelling them “simply untrue”.

Australia's most populous state will phase-out taxes on property sales by 2040, raising the question of whether WA could follow suit.

A proposal for purpose-built student accommodation near Curtin University is one of the latest to be submitted under the State Development Assessment Unit.

Woodside Petroleum has declared it wants to engage more with the local startup community and plans to invest in promising new technologies.

Investigators have reassembled the roof of a building at Perth's Curtin University that collapsed in October, killing an apprentice construction worker and injuring two others.

The state government has committed $160,000 in funding to advocacy group StartupWA, which plans to host a series of summits to help build the state's start-up and technology sector.

Twelve research projects led by Curtin University will share in $4.5 million in grants from the federal government.

Government, the public, and businesses need to work together to turn WA's poor recycling record around.

Australia could lose more than 400,000 international students by 2022 if travel restrictions remain in place, according to a new report from the Mitchell Institute.

How should WA prepare for a productivity revolution driven by data science and machine learning?

A collaborative Western Australia-based research project is investigating whether treating hearing loss could reduce the risk of dementia in the elderly.