News and Events

This morning Senator Chris Evans, Australia's Minister for science, visited The University of Western Australia node of ICRAR along with UWA's new Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson.

All the staff at ICRAR were deeply saddened today to hear of the untimely and tragic death of Steve Rawlings. Steve was a leader of the international effort to build the SKA and had served as the international project scientist, head of the European SKA consortium and in other major roles that promoted and pushed forward the SKA science case and vision. He was a great researcher, communicator and scientific leader. We will all miss him greatly.

An ICRAR - Curtin University radio astronomer is a step closer to understanding how black holes can launch superfast 'bullets' of gas into space, by identifying the exact moment when these 'bullets' form.  

A leading science administrator has been honoured as one of the State’s greatest contributors to scientific endeavour with his induction into the Western Australian Science Hall of Fame.
Dr Bernard Bowen, Chair of the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research − a collaboration between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia − was inducted at a WA Science Awards gala dinner at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre last night.

A quest to study the earliest stars and galaxies in the Universe is underway, with local industry building the first major pieces of a revolutionary new radio telescope in Western Australia, as part of the Murchison Wide-field Array.