November 2014

The University of Newcastle's Dr Catherine Grant has been awarded the 2014 Future Justice Medal 'for future justice leadership and initiative in early career' for her work on endangered music.

Dr Catherine Grant, a researcher in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Newcastle (UON), has been awarded an Endeavour Fellowship to continue her work on endangered musical traditions in Cambodia.

The Federal Government announced recently it will assist several hundred Australian expert volunteers travel to an Ebola hotspot in Africa to help control the epidemic. The government has struck an agreement to manage a British field hospital in Sierra Leone.

Dr Zsuzsa Millei from the University of Newcastle's Comparative and International Education Group (CIEGUN) has been awarded a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) at the University of Tampere, Finland.

The University of Newcastle is one of just 76 organisations in Australia to receive a citation as a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE).

Alistair Briscombe, a UON Master of Clinical Epidemiology graduate and human trafficking and HIV prevention expert, is this year's recipient of the Vietnamese Graduates from Australia Club 'Friendship Award'.

The state-of-the-art Medical Sciences Building West at the University of Newcastle has been awarded at the Master Builders Awards, NSW.

The winners have been announced and celebrated at the the 2014 Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Student and Staff Awards Ceremony.

UON Bachelor of Music 1st year student Christopher Pantelidis has been touted one of Australia's rising young musical talents. He recently received his 2nd prestigious accolade for the year - the 2014 Willoughby Symphony/Fine Music 102.5 Young Composer Award.

Internationally-renowned cancer care and health behaviour researcher, Laureate Professor Robert Sanson-Fisher AO, has won the inaugural Research Australia NSW Government Health Services Research Award.

On 4 and 5 December 2014, Professor Roger Markwick, Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle (UON), will co-host a bi-lingual (English/Russian) workshop at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The University of Newcastle's (UON) Historical Experience, Representation, Media, Education and Society Research Network (HERMES) has been awarded an ANZAC Centenary Grant to capture and disseminate what ANZAC means to young Australians and their communities.