As a global university of technology and design, RMIT undertakes high quality research that solves critical problems affecting communities around the world. Research at RMIT is undertaken around the following five research focus areas:
Nano optical antennas steer light: research New collaborative research by RMIT University has discovered novel nanoscale devices that manipulate light for the transfer of information. 20/06/2013
No sweat Getting older has its benefits: experience, wisdom, perspective. Paradoxically, just when we begin to "get it together", our bodies start to slow down. 13/06/2013
Art and soul High above Sydney's Angel Place laneway, birdcages of all shapes, sizes and colours appear to be dangling from the sky, with the calls of more than 50 birds that differ as day transitions into night. 13/06/2013
Keep it clean When Simon Lockrey was flown to Hobart to explain life cycle assessment to staff at the Australian Antarctic Division, he didn't expect to strike such an instant chord. 13/06/2013
Talking the torque When Karl Benz put the world's first cars into production with his four-stroke internal combustion engine, he probably didn't imagine that technology would still be driving vehicles nearly 130 years on. 13/06/2013