Media releases
Curtin Professor wins Mental Health Nurse of the Year award
A Professor of Mental Health at Curtin University has been named the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN), Mental…
Calls for government to control food labels
Curtin University researchers have found an overwhelming majority of Western Australians support government regulation of food labels and advertising. Dr…
Similar global warming conditions associated with two mass extinctions
Researchers have discovered two of Earth’s ancient mass extinctions wiped out life on the planet in a similar way to…
Gravitational waves help understand black-hole weight gain
Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy has one. But here’s a real conundrum: how did they grow so big? A…
Curtin’s Agribusiness bounces back
Enrolment numbers into Curtin University’s Bachelor of Agribusiness have increased by more than 50 per cent in 2013, demonstrating a…
Curtin vaccine to show whooping cough who nose best
Curtin University researchers will develop a new whooping cough vaccine which promises to have fewer side effects, be more effective…
Curtin research uncovers tumour-killing protein
A researcher from Curtin University has discovered a protein that kills brain tumour stem cells and prevents them from regenerating,…
Curtin mum scores more than a PASS at national awards
A mother-of-six and Curtin University health sciences student has won an Australasian-wide leadership award as part of the international Peer…
Langoulant in Curtin strategic appointment
Prominent business leader John Langoulant has joined Curtin University in a strategic appointment that will see him providing advice to…
World’s oldest known cholesterol found in the Western Kimberley
Curtin University researchers have found sterols, including cholesterol, coexisting with their fossilised counterparts (geomolecules) in a 380-million-year-old crab-like fossil from…