Suntech's Dr. Stuart Wenham and the "father of photovoltaics", Professor Martin Green, were awarded the prestigious Australian Collaborative Innovation Awards last week.

When you're a tiny creature in a vast ocean it pays to hang out with the right crowd, regardless of whether they are related to you or not, a new study into the amazingly diverse world of marine microbes has found.

Two UNSW academics have been recognised among Australia's star researchers, with the award of Laureate Fellowships to Professors Mike Keane and Ian Petersen.

Engineering's Professor Liangchi Zhang has been named Inventor of the Year by UNSW's commercialisation arm, NSi.

The computer scientists and robotics engineers of the future are honing their skills with coordinated dance moves, complex rescue challenges and games of soccer courtesy of the RoboCup Junior program hosted by UNSW.

Rising Australian cricket star, Usman Khawaja, knows what it's like to combine a demanding sports career with university; during matches, when he wasn't on the field, he used to hole up in the change rooms to study.

The fragility and beauty of the Royal Bluebell flower inspired COFA student Anne Nguyen's winning design for the 2011 RUG UP design competition.

Dr Sameer Alam, from UNSW@ADFA in Canberra, has received the 2011 ACT Young Tall Poppy of the Year Award from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science.

UNSW PhD candidate, Cara Young, is working on a new therapy for type 1 diabetes. She is exploring techniques to prevent rejection of insulin-producing cells injected into patients.

A video work showing Naqshbandi Sufi Muslims chanting has won UNSW@COFA graduate Khaled Sabsabi the 60th Blake Prize for Religious Art. He is one of two COFA alumni and two COFA students acknowledged in the Blake Prize.