The University of Western Australia has climbed seven places in the 2018 Best Global Universities rankings to be placed 88th in the world and 7th overall in Australia and New Zealand.

If you are an academic staff member you will have recently received a survey invitation from the UWA Library. Your feedback is important and will inform the development of services to support your research and teaching needs. Input from academic staff is invaluable for the planning of future developments of the UWA Library and will assist the University in providing world-class education, systems and facilities.

Congratulations to Professor Carol Bower, Professor Karen Simmer and Professor Stephen Zubrick for being inducted into the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Fellowship last week. This is a wonderful achievement and national recognition of three outstanding researchers in health and medical sciences.

An optical fibre-based synchronisation system designed by UWA ICRAR researchers has been selected for the first phase of SKA-mid, the part of the Square Kilometre Array that will be built in South Africa.

The long distances between SKA antennas means radio waves from the sky will arrive at each antenna at different times. With thousands of antennas spread over continental scales, one of the most complex technical challenges for the SKA is to synchronise the incoming signals with extreme precision before they’re combined by the SKA’s supercomputers.