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Embedding culturally responsive care has been central to ECU graduate Mitch Walley's speech pathology practice, who was recently recognised with a Young Achiever Award at the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia Awards.
ECU has risen again, jumping an impressive 19 places to rank 64th in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings. Institutions 50 years or younger from around the world are considered in the rankings system.
Researchers are collaborating to combat the intentional spread of misinformation online, by better understanding the defence analytics that are crucial to national security.
CyberWest Summit 2024 sponsored by ECU has opened to its biggest ever crowd. The only cyber security event of its kind in Australia, it is designed to educate small to medium size businesses about the dangers to help them build cyber resilience. This year a Hollywood heavyweight also made a virtual appearance.
ECU is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Paulo de Souza as Executive Dean of School of Engineering.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) will become Western Australia's first osteopathy educator, and one of only four nationally, with the School of Medical and Health Sciences offering a Bachelor of Medical Science (Osteopathy).
Edith Cowan University's Centre for Precision Health has become the first research facility in WA to have the capabilities of mapping the entire human genome.
As part of National Reconciliation Week 2024, ECU is collaborating with Murdoch University and James Cook University on an important event entitled "Post-Referendum: What's Next for Universities" – and everyone is invited.
ECU School of Engineering is celebrating a win in the WA Climate Action Challenge 2024. The student team collaborated with government and industry to develop a plan to obtain clean, sustainable energy sources for hydrogen in Western Australia that could allow for a future where hydrogen powered cars are more dominant than electric vehicles.
While it is often presumed that children are digital natives because they have grown up with different technologies around them, new ECU research findings show that primary students produce higher quality writings using paper and pen(cil) than when using a keyboard.
New research has found that investment by maternal grandmothers into grandchildren who have suffered multiple adverse early life experiences (AELE's) could significantly reduce emotional and behavioural problems in these children.
New research by Edith Cowan University (ECU) and Fiona Stanley Hospital is aiming to decrease noise levels in intensive care units (ICUs) by implementing improvements in acoustic design.
Professor Sanjit Roy discusses the significant discrepancy between the Utopian future promised from the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the result being realised globally.
Lateropulsion, a clinical condition which results in the body leaning to one side, affects about half of all stroke survivors.
As electric vehicle (EV) demand accelerates, so does the need for lithium batteries. But these batteries contain valuable critical minerals, as well as toxic materials, so they should not be treated as common waste. Efforts to recycle batteries onshore have now been jeopardised by the decision – announced last week ahead of this week’s federal budget – to scrap plans for a waste export levy.
Children today are growing up surrounded by technology making it easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard. But new ECU research highlights the need to actively teach students to be able to type as well as write using paper and pen or pencil.
Thanks to the efforts of community volunteers, scientists and local authorities, there are several thriving local populations of the southern pigmy perch in Bendigo Creek.
A longstanding feud between TikTok and Universal Music Group seems to have finally reached an end, with both parties signing a deal that will see Universal-backed music returned to the social media platform.
There is widespread agreement Australia needs to do better when it comes to gender-based violence.
Australia's National Cabinet has committed almost $1 billion to a range of strategies to tackle the resurgence in gender-based violence and deaths. Tackling "online harms" was among the new commitments, including the introduction of a pilot program to restrict children’s access to inappropriate material.
An Edith Cowan University (ECU) student's short film about a young woman who is inspired to become an opera actress and follow in the footsteps of her Taiwanese grandmother has been shortlisted in the 2024 Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase.
As testament to the calibre of our graduates, ECU is proudly celebrating seven Alumni in this year's esteemed Western Australian Business News 40under40 Awards.
ECU is proud to acknowledge Professor Sara Bayes who won the prestigious Excellence in Research award at the 2024 WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards. Amongst the winners, there were also five ECU alumnae and one current student.
ECU has proudly announced ECU Engineering student Caeden Porter as the inaugural Sir Frank Ledger Scholarship recipient in 2024.
This year's ECU Open Days attracted thousands of prospective students with their friends and families, all enjoying the glorious weather and the fun vibe on our three beautiful campuses.
The recently wrapped up 2023-2024 Telethon Community Cinemas film season has been declared the "Greatest Season of all Time!" by Event Coordinator and founder, Ken Gibbons.
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