Science gets the “naked” treatment
National Science Week 2010 ended with a bang, thanks to England’s naked scientist Dr Chris Smith.
By Chris Thomson | Campus and community; Physical sciences and mathematicsscience & technology
Emeritus Professor John de Laeter (1933-2010)
Curtin mourns Emeritus Professor John de Laeter who passed away on August 15, 2010.
By Chris Thomson | Campus and community; Physical sciences and mathematics | Leave a commentWhen hell freezes over
Adventurer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis will talk about his trek retracing Australian polar explorer Sir Douglas Mawson’s epic 1912/13 journey at Curtin University next week.
By Shaun Ratcliff | Campus and community; Physical sciences and mathematicsSpace is not the final frontier for Curtin’s Spatial Sciences
Curtin’s Department of Spatial Sciences has decided to get its name on the map – or more accurately – on the globe.
By Jarrad Long | Campus and community; Physical sciences and mathematics | Leave a commentStudents engineer their futures at Curtin
Twenty-three young Australians spent last week at Curtin University of Technology as part of the Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School (IAESS).
The year 11 and 12 students from WA and Queensland lived at Curtin’s Bentley Campus as part of the six-day program.
By Shaun Ratcliff | Campus and community; Culture, language and Indigenous; Engineering and miningHair dye and fake tattoos provide a new way to catch crooks
The substance used to make hair dyes and fake tattoos may become the latest tool in the fight against crime.
By Shaun Ratcliff | Research; Physical sciences and mathematicsThe threat of fires in a changing climate
A Curtin University of Technology academic wants authorities to ban new houses being built in fire prone areas and the number of volunteer firefighters increased.
By Shaun Ratcliff | Campus and community; Research; Agriculture, environment and sustainabilityResearch changes the elementals of science
A Curtin University of Technology scientist has made a breakthrough that could overturn some elementary tenants of solid-state chemistry and lead to a new branch of materials science.
Associate Professor Nigel Marks has been working with Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers Chao Jiang, Chris Stanek, Kurt Sickafus and Blas Uberuaga, running atomic-scale simulations on nuclear waste, with results indicating that the decay of radioactive isotopes may be used to create new materials for use in industrial processes.
By Shaun Ratcliff | Research; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Physical sciences and mathematicsInspirational young engineer takes the top job
Curtin University of Technology academic Dr Euan Lindsay has been elected as President of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
By Shaun Ratcliff | Campus and community; Engineering and miningBlock Pirates shine at iNexus Robotics Competition
Curtin’s Block Pirates came equal second with a team from Swinburne University of Technology at the Curtin leg of the iNexus Robotics Competition.
By Jarrad Long | Campus and community; Physical sciences and mathematics | Leave a comment