April 2014

Come and find out more about our Open Foundation program and see if it's right for you. We're holding information sessions in May where you can ask questions, learn about our flexible options and even register your interest in starting in second semester this year.

Why wait to start studying at the University of Newcastle? You can apply to study with us and start in Semester 2, 2014. With 48 degrees to choose from, you're spoilt for choice!

Going to uni is a big decision. To make sure you have all the information you need to make the right decision for you, we'd love to chat to you at one of the major career expos in May and June.

It took three months and a number of volunteers but a new mural featured in Mayfield's Webb Park has transformed the parkland area.

Nathan West never planned to go to university, until he attended an Open Day at the University of Newcastle. He decided to make tertiary study part of his future and has just been awarded the prestigious Roberta Sykes Scholarship to study at Oxford or Cambridge.

This is the advice from Bachelor of Business (Honours) student Daniel Frost, who's seen his fair share of hurdles in achieving his dream of a career in business and human resource management.

Newcastle Business School academic, Hao Tan, has had a letter published in Nature discussing China and its use of renewable energy sources.

University of Newcastle Electrical Engineering graduate Kumaran Nathan has received a prestigious 2014 General Sir John Monash Scholarship, worth up to $150,000 over three years, to study at the University of Cambridge. Presented by The Honourable Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia at a ceremony at The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, the scholarship will allow Mr Nathan to undertake pioneering work alongside the best of the world in his field.

Final year civil engineering student, Kelsie Clarke, recently returned from a three-week Dialogues on Development study tour in Cambodia.

University of Newcastle researchers win grants to study student equity in Higher Education.

Years of commitment and hard work will be celebrated by hundreds of University of Newcastle students over the next fortnight as they participate in the annual Callaghan April/May ceremonies.

The University community remembers Reynold (Reyn) Gilbert Keats, our first Chair of the Department of Mathematics, and the founding Dean when the Faculty of Mathematics was established in 1971.