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👏 Congratulations to Prof. Andrea Morello who has secured $35m in funding to set up the new Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Performance and Integration.

The centre will serve as a national research hub, enabling workforce growth and strengthen Australia's leadership in quantum technologies.

Read more 🔗 https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/12/driving-discovery--unsw-receives--70m-for-two-centres-of-excelle

Driving discovery: UNSW receives $70m for two Centres of Excellence Two new national research centres will unite leading experts to tackle challenges in ocean sustainability and quantum computing – areas critical to Australia’s future prosperity.

‘Like talking on the telephone’: quantum computing engineers get atoms chatting long distance UNSW quantum engineers have achieved quantum entanglement – where two atoms inside a silicon chip become deeply connected across a distance – by using two electrons to bridge the gap between them.

Huge congratulations to EE&Ts spinout Diraq for winning the Technology Platform category at the prestigious NSW iAwards, a fantastic recognition of their groundbreaking work in scalable quantum computing.

UNSW quantum computing spinout wins industry award Diraq, a startup founded by UNSW Sydney’s Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak, has been recognised at the 2025 NSW iAwards.

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/07/unsw-announces-international-fellowship-program-to-attract-the-worlds-best

UNSW announces international fellowship program to attract the world’s best The University will offer up to 12 fellowships to outstanding international researchers whose work aligns with UNSW’s key goals and strategy.

UNSW research projects backed by Australia’s Economic Accelerator Innovate Program Four UNSW Engineering projects have been awarded funding in the first round of a government initiative designed to support nationally significant research and commercialisation.

After nearly a six year hiatus, BLUEsat will this week be restarting its high-altitude balloon activities. On Sunday 6 July, a team of 12 BLUEsat members travelled under the supervision of Prof. Elias Aboutanios to Rankins Springs (see https://maps.app.goo.gl/iVED65N5WLd5rt7HAhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/iVED65N5WLd5rt7HA) to launch a light stratospheric balloon to an altitude of approximately 30,000 m. The balloon will carry a payload carrying three cameras as well as a number of sensors to record the flight dynamics (speeds and accelerations) as well as environmental parameters such as temperature and pressure. Upon reaching its highest altitude, the balloon will burst and the payload will fall back to Earth on a parachute. Once back on the ground, the payload will be recovered and the data and video extracted.

After releasing the balloon, the chase and recovery team will head to the predicted landing site. The balloon is continually being tracked during its flight and the prediction is continuously updated.

Anyone interested can track the balloon by going to the website apris.fi and entering the balloon call sign VK2GPW in the Track Callsign search box.

Weather permitting, the expected launch will take place today at 9:45am.