SAO News

  • SAO Honour Roll for S2-2011
    SAO Honour Roll, which lists the top students for each SAO unit, has been updated for S2-2011. Congratulations to all.

  • SAO graduation
    SAO graduated 4 attending students on 28 March 2012. Congratulations to our graduates! For our alumni list click here. For the SAO graduation photo gallery click here.

  • FICT Excellence Awards for 2010
    FICT Excellence Awards, which lists the top SAO students for each SAO program, has been updated for 2010. Congratulations to Paula, Stamatios, Stephen and Robert!

  • SAO short course Term 3 enrolments now open (From Planets to the Universe)
    Enrolment information for Term 3, 2012 can be found here.

  • State's best university for graduate satisfaction (again!)
    The Good Universities Guide 2012 has rated Swinburne the best university in Victoria for graduate satisfaction, continuing a successful track record of being best in Melbourne in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011. Vice-Chancellor Professor Linda Kristjanson said the results, which come just two days after Swinburne was named as one of the world’s top 500 research universities, reflect Swinburne’s commitment to becoming one of Australia’s leading higher education institutions. Professor Kristjanson said that it was the third year in a row that Swinburne had made the top 500 list, confirming its reputation for high quality, focused research. “As well as being renowned for excellent learning and teaching, we also have an absolute commitment to producing world-class research that delivers new knowledge to society. “Advances in physics help us understand the world in which we live, so I am particularly proud that we are one of the top 100 universities in the world in this field,” she said. For details, follow this link.

Old News of Interest

  • SAO Alumni co-authors Nature paper!
    SAO alumni Trevor Barry is co-author on a Nature research paper (Volume 475, 71. 7 July 2011) "Deep winds beneath Saturn’s upper clouds from a seasonal long-lived planetary-scale storm" by Sánchez-Lavegahas et al. Trevor is a contributor to the The International Outer Planet Watch (IOPW) Team. For details visit here. Well done Trevor!

  • SAO Alumni tracks Saturnian Storm for NASA!
    One of Swinburne Astronomy Online's former students, Trevor Barry, has made the headlines by observing an electrical storm on Saturn from his telescope in Broken Hill. Trevor is one of only four amateur astronomers supplying regular images to the NASA Cassini team. For details visit here and here.

  • SAO re-accrediation apprived for another 5 years
    On 8 July 2009, Swinburne University's Academic Board approved the re-accrediation of our three degree programs for another five years. Accreditation information can be found here.

  • Swinburne excels
    Follow In Melbourne: SUT top ranked University for teaching and graduate satisfaction and In Australia: SUT excels in university quality report for details.

  • SAO student goes into orbit!
    SAO Masters student, Anousheh Ansari visited the International Space Station on 18 September 2006.