October 2015

Faculty Awarded $148,500 in New Colombo Plan Grants

Australian Fellowship in Health Services Research and Policy

A collaborative supply chain study, with a focus on pre-farm inputs, using Life Cycle Assessment

Ten Business and Commerce students from the Newcastle Business School spent ten days in Samoa as part of a Government Funded initiative under the New Colombo Plan.

Newcastle will become Australia's newest 'United Nations City' and a training hub for the Asia-Pacific region, under the leadership of Associate Professor Graham Brewer, following a UN decision to locate an International Training Centre at the University of Newcastle (UON).

On Friday September 25, 2015 Freedom for Faith and the Newcastle Law School jointly hosted the Conference – Religious Freedom in a Multicultural World. The discussion covered the controversial issues, conflicts and contradictions that surround religious freedom in the eyes of the law, and in society more generally.

The University of Newcastle (UON) warmly welcomes this morning's announcement by Minister Birmingham. The University has consistently called for a delay in the implementation of new higher education funding policy until 2017 at the earliest, and we are pleased to be able to move into a new phase of consultation with the Minister.

Newcastle is a creative city, and there's no prouder celebration of this creativity than This Is Not Art Festival (TiNA), a long-weekend of experimental arts and events.

More than 1,100 students will celebrate the completion of their studies at the University of Newcastle (UON) Callaghan campus on Thursday 1 October and Friday 2 October.

A NEWCASTLE research team that's used mice poo to treat asthmatic mice could be first in the world to show a link between gut bacteria and diseases throughout the body.