SAO News

• SAO graduation
  SAO graduated 2 students on 22 December 2009. Congratulations to our graduates! For our alumni list click here. For the SAO graduation photo gallery click here.
• SAO Honour Roll for S1-2009
  SAO Honour Roll, which lists the top students for each SAO unit, has been updated for S1-2009.

• 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 again recognised for teaching excellence
  For the fourth year in succession, Swinburne has been recognised by the Australian federal government for teaching excellence. In the 2009 Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF) allocations, Swinburne has been awarded $1.6 million over both the teaching excellence and the (new) teaching improvement categories. For details, follow this link.

Old News of Interest

• 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.

• 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.

• Swinburne ranked fourth in Australia for learning & teaching
  For details, see the Vice-Chancellor's Media Release.