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Always put your hand up: Middle Arm Integration manager’s life advice for 2025 graduates
As an occasional address speaker at this year’s May graduation ceremonies at Casuarina campus, Charles Darwin University (CDU) alumnus Jacinta Kelly said she wanted the new graduates to remember three pieces of advice.
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Industry and students collab to create AI road tech
In a single semester, four Charles Darwin University students developed an Artificial Intelligence model which can revolutionise road safety and infrastructure maintenance.
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Rooting out plant diseases: Are computers ready to run our farms?
Nature is still too complex for artificial intelligence (AI) modelling to be effective, but the tipping point is close, according to a new study that found the technology may still trip at the last real-world hurdle.
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Tech on the treetops: How AI can protect forests
The Artificial Intelligence model was developed to detect changes in forest cover.
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Volunteers protected Darwin wildlife for 50+ years, but new research suggests it’s time to stop winging conservation efforts
Volunteers have shouldered the burden of shorebird conservation in the Top End for more than half a century, but new research from Charles Darwin University (CDU) suggests it’s time for the government to take responsibility for all of the Northern Territory’s residents – including those with wings.
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Working with nature, not against it: How our economies can grow with the environment
Economic growth doesn’t have to come at a cost to the environment, and the ways in which this is possible will be on display at a global conference being held in Australia for the first time.
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Inspired NT just got Radicle
From Inspired NT to CDU Radicle Centre the Charles Darwin University (CDU) Faculty of Science and Technology Team is working on more ways to engage with young Territorians.
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NT to become Australia’s brightest spark with CDU’s new Energy and Resources appointment
After a career crossing continents and fields, Professor Maurizio Cirrincione has landed in the Top End of Australia to take the helm of Charles Darwin University’s (CDU) Energy and Resources Institute (ERI).
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Stronger together: Bilby conservation efforts enhanced by Indigenous knowledge
One of the nation's most iconic and at-risk critters could benefit by combining Indigenous knowledge with western survey methods, according to a new study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU) in collaboration with the North Tanami Rangers and Traditional Owners from the community of Lajamanu.
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