Awards

UNSW SMaRT Centre researchers are continuing their work on sharing their growing understanding of microplastic wastes as part of the Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub that the UNSW SMaRT Centre leads

UNSW SMaRT Centre's Plastics MICROfactorie^TM Technology and commercial partnership with operator Renew IT has behind the winning of the ESG Award at the 2025 techpartner.news Impact Awards

UNSW SMaRT Centre's Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, has again been selected as a judge for the annual Good Design Awards 2025

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena has won the prestigious Excellence in Sustainable Innovation (Industrial) Award at an event honouring trailblazing and visionary women as part of the Vogue Codes Summit 2025

UNSW SMaRT Centre researcher and lecturer Dr Rumana Hossain has been recognised for her work in helping to develop Australia's first ever official standard to analyse microplastics in the environment

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena spoke to community members in western Sydney about the importance of sustainable practices including innovative uses of waste as a resource in an Australia Day speech

Following the Order of Australia awarded to Prof Veena , ABC News has published a news feature story and news video about UNSW SMaRT Centre's pioneering recycling and remanufacturing technologies as part of comprehensive coverage of the main award

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena has today been an awarded an 2025 Australia Day Honour of being an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

UNSW SMaRT Centre's Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, features in two video wrap-ups following the 2024 Good Design Awards, talking about the essence of good design

UNSW SMaRT Centre's Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, has again been selected as a judge for the annual Good Design Awards

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena has been named a Shaping Australia Awards finalist for the Problem Solver category

UNSW SMaRT Centre's Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, has won Good Design Australia's 2023 Women in Design Award

UNSW SMaRT Centre's Director, Professor Veena Sahajwalla, and Head of MICROfactorie^TM Technologies, Anirban Ghose, have won two of the four 2023 Engineers Australia Excellence Awards (People & Projects Sydney) at a ceremony las

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena has been named the the ATSE Clunies Ross Innovation Award winner for her globally recognised waste transformation technologies

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena, brought inspiration to Prestons Public School’s inaugural Science Fair

In this video, UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena, the 2022 NSW Australian of the Year, joined a stellar group of NSW Australian of the Year alumni recipients at Western Sydney University to share their inspirational life stories wit

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena, a 2022 Eureka Prize winner, took part in an Australian Museum science education event for school children

UNSW SMaRT Centre Director, Professor Veena has been named the 2022 Eureka Prize winner for the Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science