November 2014

Professor Scott Sloan and Dr Chet Vignes have been awarded more than $453,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for their research project Computational modelling of hydraulic fracture.

Dr Stefania Paolini has been awarded more than $293,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for her research project Developing a Approaching the Outgroup Unlocks Intergroup Contact's Benefits for Society.

Innovative education program Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids (HDHK) has been recognised with a 2014 national award for Best Community Engagement Collaboration.

Professor Pauline McGuirk has been awarded more than $192,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for her research project Governing urban energy transitions: reconfiguring spaces, sites, subjects.

Paul Docherty and Steve Easton discuss the Medibank Private float

Master of Architecture (Honours Class 1) 2013 graduate Sacha Parkinson has won the NSW Architects Registration Board 2014 Architects Medallion for her impressive portfolio of projects completed during her Masters degree including residential high-rise masterplanning and her final year project.

Dr Hao Tan discusses implications of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement to Chinese fossil fuel companies

Matt Lumb from the AIM HIGH program at the University of Newcastle was featured on 1233 ABC Radio Newcastle in a discussion with presenter Carol Duncan about breaking the poverty cycle with education.

Dr Amy Waller has been awarded more than $359,000 in ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funding commencing in 2015 for her research project Decision making in older people approaching the end of life.

Dr Andrew Fleming has been awarded more than $266,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for his research project Atomic Resolution Sensors for Imaging and Metrological Science.

Associate Professor Sarah Johnson and Dr Lawrence Ong have been awarded more than $355,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for their research project New strategies to transmit data: Coping with exponential growth in demand.

Professor Phil Hansbro has been awarded more than $443,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for his research project Elucidating the post-transcriptional regulation of mast cell proteases.