Media releases
Stars of Curtin classes honoured at annual alumni awards
An Indigenous social entrepreneur who creates stable employment opportunities for Indigenous youth has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at…
Inadequate post-release support drives up reincarceration rates: study
New research shows that people released from prison who sought help for their mental health or substance use problems were…
Unassuming local hero named the 2021 John Curtin Medallist
A devoted philanthropist, volunteer and Rotarian who has changed the lives of children across the globe has been awarded the…
BASF continues mission to spark early interest in STEM amongst outback communities
Close to 200 Kalgoorlie primary school students will experience a day in the life of a scientist when BASF Kids’…
Curtin honours four pioneers with Honorary Doctorates
A trailblazer of Indigenous health research, a pre-eminent Australian economist, an oil and gas executive committed to regional education and…
Curtin and Chevron join forces on innovative corrosion control project
An innovative new research project led by the Curtin Corrosion Centre and Chevron Australia aims to revolutionise the way corrosion…
Decades-long study finds endangered whales are having fewer babies
A world-class collaborative research project has found that the Australian population of southern right whales is calving less frequently and…
Curtin researchers make battery-free breakthrough
New Curtin University-led research has found a more effective way to improve the output of autonomous power sources, such as…
Study of 300-million-year-old faeces finds meat on the menu
Curtin researchers have analysed organic molecules preserved within 306-million-year-old fossilised animal faeces (coprolite) and unlocked a wealth of information about…
Worldwide flower family bloomed 50 million years before the dinosaurs
New Curtin-led research has discovered that a group of flowering plants with more than one thousand species worldwide is 150…