Message from the Chief Executive Officer

The University of Newcastle Foundation Team has been established to build on the great work by our Executive Officer Dr Bernie Curran in helping people invest in the University of Newcastle.

When you invest in education, you are shaping our future. As a donor to the University myself I believe strongly in investing in our future through education. Encouraging our young (and not so young!) to find solutions - through education - to environmental, health and economic issues is surely the greatest gift we can give.

Donations to the University of Newcastle benefit the whole community; from encouraging disadvantaged students to facilitating ground breaking research into community issues.

Already the University of Newcastle is a top 10 Australian University for Research and in the top 400 universities in the world. This is thanks to our many supporters, including donors. Through your donations and bequests, many scholarships have been established to support students, our research capacity has been strengthened and the social and cultural lives of our community enhanced.

For example - scholarships have been donated to support research in melanoma, prostate cancer and stroke. Others have supported the environment through the Tom Farrell Institute. Local firms have contributed to Chairs to help establish the Hunter as a national and international leader in the fields of electrical engineering and urban architecture.

Whether it is a donation to a specific area (such as environment) or funding a scholarship to encourage the best students to study here, donations to the University of Newcastle Foundation can truly make a difference to our future.

I encourage everybody who reads this to donate to the University of Newcastle Foundation - even the smallest donation can make a huge difference.

Louise O’Connell
CEO
University of Newcastle Foundation

Meet the rest of the University of Newcastle Foundation Team