2014

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.

UON's Global Innovation Chair for Equity in Higher Education Professor Geoff Whitty CBE delivered the Occasional Address to Faculty of Education and Arts 2014 graduates on 23 April 2014, about the values of excellence and inclusion.

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.

PhD student Nadia Zakrzewski has just journeyed for 26 hrs straight to help raise funds for an event called Coast Trek.

Currently featured in the Gallery Shop is local ceramicist Sandra Burgess, with porcelain vessels and delicate papercuts.

The challenge of making children & young people's participation realNigel Thomas is Professor of Childhood & Youth Research at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is also Director of The Centre for Children & Young People's Participation, and is also an Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross Uni.

Pitching an idea is a huge part of industrial design, but it's the kind of thing that can only be learnt through experience.