UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, have been shortlisted as a finalist of the Pro Bono Australia’s 2022 Impact 25 Awards that recognise the most influential leaders over the past year

The UNSW SMaRT Centre is lending its support to a new Australian Government initiative to attract international technology talent as the country strives to meet various national priorities such as enhanced manufacturing capability and developing a

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley joined UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Prof Veena at the Newcastle steel works to see up close SMaRT's Green Steel technology that uses waste to replace coke and coal in steel making

Veena features in this Australian Academy of Science video as part of a series focusing on technologies helping to create greater sustainability and to impact climate change

The ABC has produced this video of Veena to celebrate her being awarded 2022 NSW Australian of the Year

Some of UNSW SMaRT Centre's manufacturing and built environment innovations are being be featured in a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australian in Canberra as part of the Australian of the Year 2022 celebrations

Veena has featured on a second ABC The Drum show in as many weeks, this time sharing insights about how many products contain little known highly toxic and problematic ingredients

The UNSW SMaRT Centre with not-for-profit partner TierraMar has completed a study for the Australian Government on improved removal and processing of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (or ghost nets) from Australia’s northern waters

On 14 December 2021, Veena will be participating in the three-day APEC Workshop on Nanoplastics in Marine Debris

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director Prof Veena appears in this video with Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management Trevor Evans to help promote 'product stewardship', the shared responsibility for products

The UNSW SMaRT Centre is supporting the Australian Government's new 'ReMade in Australia' initiative

Engineers Australia's digital publication Create has produced a video and story on some of the 'waste to product' technologies developed at the UNSW SMaRT Centre

Veena featured on an ABC The Drum show focused in part on textile waste, sharing insights on the scale of the problem and some of the innovative solutions to it including UNSW SMaRT Centre technologies

This short video is part of a keynote address Veena made to the Net Zero North America three-day event hosted by Companies for Net Zero USA

In this new op ed, Veena talks about recovering critical and valuable materials from waste has a big role to play in helping to electrify the world as we move towards renewable energies and reducing our carbon footprint

Professor Veena has been interviewed on ABC Radio National's Life Matters program to explain her concept of 'waste as a resource'

UNSW SMaRT Centre's collaboration with industry partner Mirvac for their Pavilions project where SMaRT's MICROfactorie^TM Green Ceramics products were used in a display apartment has been highly commended at 2021 Sustainability

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has presented UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla with the award as the 2022 NSW Australian of the Year