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Technology And Engineering

Mahdokht Shaibani Research Fellow, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Supercharging batteries

A new technology for rechargeable batteries overcomes many of the problems with the ones we use today.

A new technology for rechargeable batteries overcomes many of the problems with the ones we use today.

What Happens Next?

Episode 3: The Mess We're In

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

Susan Carland Director, Bachelor of Global Studies

We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one. It takes awareness and education to change our behaviours surrounding waste. Find out what you can do.

Monash Life Magazine

Greening the Big Apple

As COO of New York’s Green Bank, Caroline Angoorly is helping the city achieve its 100 per cent renewable electricity grid.

As COO of New York’s Green Bank, Caroline Angoorly is helping the city achieve its 100 per cent renewable electricity grid.

Amandine Denis-Ryan Head of National Programs, ClimateWorks

Tracking corporate net zero pledges

Some of Australia's biggest property companies are making ambitious emissions-reduction pledges – but how well are they really doing?

Some of Australia's biggest property companies are making ambitious emissions-reduction pledges – but how well are they really doing?

Science

Overcoming the hydrogen hurdle

A water electrolysis breakthrough has huge potential to make hydrogen generation more economically viable.

Alexandr Simonov Lecturer, School of Chemistry

A water electrolysis breakthrough has huge potential to make hydrogen generation more economically viable.

Technology And Engineering

Roger Dargaville Senior Lecturer, Resources Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

Nuclear power versus renewables

Is nuclear energy the right technology for the transitioning Australian energy market?

Is nuclear energy the right technology for the transitioning Australian energy market?

Medicine and health

Medicine And Health

Medicine and health

Greening up the health sector

Work is under way on how to best teach our future health workforce about environmental sustainability and its impacts.

Jorja Collins Adjunct lecturer, Nutrition Dietetics & Food

Work is under way on how to best teach our future health workforce about environmental sustainability and its impacts.

A Different Lens

Episode 14: The business of energy

Energy is big business. How will economies cope with the switch to green energy? ‘A Different Lens’ investigates.

Rob Brimblecombe Manager, Engineering and Sustainability

Energy is big business. How will economies cope with the switch to green energy? ‘A Different Lens’ investigates.

Aisha Reynolds Project Officer – International Program, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

Pacific Islands thinking SMART

ClimateWorks Australia has developed a tool to help Pacific Island countries design pathways for the future through sustainable, climate-resilient, net-zero-emissions development.

ClimateWorks Australia has developed a tool to help Pacific Island countries design pathways for the future through sustainable, climate-resilient, net-zero-emissions development.

Innovation

Jacek Jasieniak Director of Monash Energy and Materials Systems Institute

Innovation

New power and a world of panes

Technologies being developed using one of the planet's most abundant materials will be a game-changer in solar energy.

Technologies being developed using one of the planet's most abundant materials will be a game-changer in solar energy.

Education futures

Education

Education futures

Reality check: EdTech is killing the planet

Despite our reliance on digital technologies in the classroom, there are too few natural resources to produce and sustain them at the levels we expect.

Neil Selwyn Professor, Faculty of Education

Despite our reliance on digital technologies in the classroom, there are too few natural resources to produce and sustain them at the levels we expect.

Global Leaders' Week

Global Leaders' Week

Committed to a sustainable future

Monash is playing a leading role in the push to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Monash is playing a leading role in the push to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Monash Life Magazine

Power for good

Monash law graduate Nicole Iseppi is an influential figure in global energy infrastructure, working to empower societies through a low-carbon future.

Monash law graduate Nicole Iseppi is an influential figure in global energy infrastructure, working to empower societies through a low-carbon future.

Business

Monash Life Magazine

Business

Good leadership values resources

As technology sweeps the world’s expanding oil and gas sector into a new era, Woodside CEO and managing director Peter Coleman is looking at the company from many angles to ensure its future aligns with its values.

As technology sweeps the world’s expanding oil and gas sector into a new era, Woodside CEO and managing director Peter Coleman is looking at the company from many angles to ensure its future aligns with its values.

Sustainable Development Agenda: Monash University Leading The Way

Monash drives sustainable development initiatives

From energy storage solutions and smart urban planning, to ensuring a steady food supply in a world of climate change, Monash researchers and industry experts offer insights.

From energy storage solutions and smart urban planning, to ensuring a steady food supply in a world of climate change, Monash researchers and industry experts offer insights.

Monash the man ... more than a soldier

By the 1920s, the man after whom Monash University was named was broadly regarded as “the greatest living Australian” .

By the 1920s, the man after whom Monash University was named was broadly regarded as “the greatest living Australian” .

Debra Stirling Chair of the Monash Mining and Resources Advisory Board

Talent shortage, but mining far from rock bottom

Despite the shrinking pool of mining engineering graduates, the industry is crying out for new talent.

Despite the shrinking pool of mining engineering graduates, the industry is crying out for new talent.

Greens have a call to make as election looms

Both major parties have declared they will not form minority government in Tasmania – talk that should be taken seriously, but not literally.

Both major parties have declared they will not form minority government in Tasmania – talk that should be taken seriously, but not literally.

Science

Doug MacFarlane Professor of Chemistry

Science

Liquid salts fuelling global change

Researchers are focusing on sustainable ammonia to create sustainable fuel and help preserve our coral reefs.

Researchers are focusing on sustainable ammonia to create sustainable fuel and help preserve our coral reefs.

Technology And Engineering