March 2015

'Lucy' is an innovative program which aims to motivate and educate women studying business, commerce and law about the opportunities available for employment and leadership across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.

The recent industry site tour of Orica provided Newcastle Business School postgraduate students with an opportunity to see theory in practice and ask questions of professionals in situ.

Hunter Medical Research Institute researcher Associate Professor Jeannette Lechner-Scott is investigating the environmental risk factors surrounding multiple sclerosis after receiving a $220,000 project grant from MS Research Australia.

Associate Professor Murray Cairns has received an $800,000 2014/15 NSW Genomics Collaborative Grant to explore better treatments for schizophrenia.

This is the first in a three part series By Professor Roland Boer, Director of the Religion, Marxism and Secularism research group, on 18th Century Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith for The Conversation.

A new magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) technique developed by Australian researchers may potentially reduce or delay the need for preventive mastectomies among women at high risk of breast cancer.

Australia's leading contamination and remediation research organisation will be based at the University of Newcastle (UON) from March 2015, in a move that extends the latest clean-up science to a wider range of the nation's major industries.

Survival rates would be improved by making treatment regimens for metastatic melanoma more flexible, according to HMRI cancer researcher Dr Craig Gedye, a medical oncologist at the Calvary Mater Newcastle.