October 2015

It's time to nominate!The Campus Life Awards are being held in early November, and we need some award winners!

The Faculty of Education and Arts Research Unit rolled out a number of activities for researchers at Ourimbah in 2015. Workshops have included:

A unique collection of 100 contemporary Hunter voices is being celebrated by 1233 ABC Newcastle in a live broadcast from the Birabahn building, home of the Wollotuka Institute at the University of Newcastle on Thursday 15 October.

As part of the University of Newcastle's (UON) 50th anniversary celebrations, Chancellors from 25 universities from across Australia met today for the first University Chancellor's Council Conference to be held in Newcastle.

Abstract proposals due by 15 December 2015 for The Worlds in a Wine Glass: Wine Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference.

A raft of Mark Hughes Foundation (MHF) travel grants will give Hunter brain cancer researchers the chance to build new clinical trial collaborations at the international COGNO Annual Scientific Meeting in Brisbane this month.

Want to achieve the best possible result while connecting with other students? Sign up to the new Online Peer Assisted Study (OPAS) site and get access to extra online resources, tips and activities that will help you improve your academic performance.

Dr Kate Ariotti, an Historian with the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, has been awarded the prestigious CEW Bean Prize for Military History from the Australian Army History Unit.

As individuals, we share a lot of sensitive data and information online, sometimes without thinking. It could be on a social media website, on an online shopping website or even sending emails to our family and friends. This information is not only valuable to you but it is something that cyber criminals would love to access as well.

Three University of Newcastle (UON) research leaders are among the distinguished health and medical scientists elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS).

Eminent University of Newcastle (UON) geotechnicalengineer, Laureate Professor Scott Sloan, has been named the 2015 New South Wales' Scientist of the Year this evening at the inaugural NSW Premier's Prizes for Science and Engineering.

Australian Award Scholars arrive from the Philippines