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Two ECU research teams have secured nearly $900,000 in funding from Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) Ignite program to fast-track first-of-their-kind technologies in drone security and critical minerals processing.
ECU researcher Dr Syed Zulqarnain Gilani has been appointed to the newly formed Early-and-Mid Career Researchers (EMCR) Reference Group, which will advise the WA Government and the Chief Scientist on issues affecting researchers statewide.
A new Edith Cowan University study shows how filtered faces on social media are fuelling nose shame, and how online communities are fighting back.
A team of researchers from the School of Business and Law have been awarded a grant to support diversifying markets for the Australian sheep industry.
The MARS Centre at Edith Cowan University (ECU), with support from the Western Australian government's MARS Program, is offering a limited number of fully funded scholarships for the Graduate Certificate of Leadership in Mining Workplace Safety.
ECU is proud to announce that Elder-in-Residence, Dr Roma Yibiyung Winmar AM, and researchers Professor Rob Newton AM and Professor Wei Wang AM have been awarded the prestigious Member of the Order of Australia.
The Lagoon Medical Centre Yanchep at the ECU Health Centre in Yanchep has been selected as the location for a new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Western Australia.
A new exhibition by Professor Panizza Allmark titled "Reframed Horizons" will run at the Ellenbrook Art Gallery as part of FRINGE WORLD 2026.
A team led by Associate Professor Catherine Bondonno has been awarded more than $1.7 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to investigate N-nitrosamine formation and chronic disease.
Discussions between ECU researchers and focus groups in rural and regional Western Australia have highlighted the need for local governments to play a bigger role in improving access to fresh, healthy food.
New research has found that people who eat more nitrate from vegetables had a lower risk of developing dementia, while those who consumed more nitrate and nitrite from animal foods, processed meats, and drinking water, had a higher risk of dementia.
Education experts are encouraging teachers and parents to empower children to be critical readers by adopting a new, innovative framework that fosters empathy and understanding.
New research suggests VR may play a meaningful role in future mental-health support, and the design of the virtual space itself can make a surprising difference to how comfortable people feel opening up.
Researchers have developed a new method for human identification, which could be a powerful new tool for forensic investigations.
Memory is at the very heart of who we are, but it's surprisingly complex too.
For teens, a holiday or weekend job is a good way to earn pocket money and learn a new range of skills. But given the historical and ongoing exploitation of child labour across the globe, strict laws are set out to protect children.
Starting school is a big moment in a child's life. It is a time filled with new routines, new people and new places. These changes can also mean it is sometimes a stressful time. But it doesn't have to be.
X (formerly Twitter) has become a site for the rapid spread of artificial intelligence-generated nonconsensual sexual images (also known as "deepfakes").
As the summer holidays begin, parents may feel concerned their children will "forget how to spell their own names" during the long school break.
As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions and densities and the way they intervene in light, regulate temperatures and choreograph heat flows across our restless planet.
A simple-to-use scam awareness app developed by a group of ECU students is now available.
Opening hours for ECU services supporting future, current and graduating students will be limited over the Christmas-New Year break.
ECU in Bunbury has made history by hosting Australia's first AIESEP Specialist Seminar, uniting global leaders in Health and Physical Education to explore critical issues of body politics in movement.
ECU's NAIDOC Speaker Series celebrated and explored the diversity and cultural richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their deep connection to Country.
The annual PEAC Induction Program gives Year 4 students from across the northern suburbs an opportunity to meet fellow high-potential learners, participate in fun thought-provoking workshops, and engage with expert academics and students from ECU.
National and international sports science graduates have taken part in a two-week strength and conditioning practicum.
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