June 2013

The University of Newcastle has appointed Nat McGregor as its new Chief Operating Officer, from 30 May 2013.

University of Newcastle research doctorate student, Namira Williams, has won the prestigious Australian College of Midwives 2013 NSW Midwife of the Year.

The University of Newcastle has climbed seven places to be ranked 26 in the 'Top 50 Under 50' announced today, 11 June 2013.

Our proposed Professor of Family Studies position will fulfill a longer term strategy to develop critical mass in our fields of research.  To this end we will soon be recruiting for this new Professor who will work with the University's New Directions strategic plan.

The workshop was consisted of 4 sessions – Chinese Language, Chinese Food, Chinese Paper Folding, and Chinese Folk Song and Dance

Organised and led by the Confucius Institute at the University of Newcastle the tour visited Shanghai, Suzhou, Kunming, Dali and Lijiang.

Academic excellence is being recognised and rewarded this week, with the University of Newcastle holding its annual Scholars' Week (3 - 7 June) celebrations.

A multinational consortium of medical researchers and social scientists has found a link between educational attainment and tiny variations in a person's genetic sequence.

Up and coming artist Skye Jacobson, from Balcolyn, has been named the 2013 winner of the Jennie Thomas Travelling Art Scholarship, one of the most hotly contested scholarships at the University of Newcastle.

An innovative and flexible student-centred website, the first of its kind in the world for occupational therapy students, will be launched at the University of Newcastle today, Thursday 23 May.

University of Newcastle researchers are lining up eleven of the world's most innovative running shoe designs to compete in a world-first project testing safety and performance.

University of Newcastle Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin has been named the 2013 recipient of the Rufus Oldenburger Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), in recognition of his fundamental contributions to automatic control theory and practice.