2015

A CEEHE research team led by Co-Director Professor Penny Jane Burke was recently awarded competitive research funding from the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) as part of their 2015 Student Equity in Higher Education Research Grants Program.

Laureate Professor Graeme Jameson's invention, the Jameson Cell, has been estimated as adding $36 billion to the Australian economy from 1990 to the end of 2014, according to a recent independent report from Manford Pty Ltd.

After 30 years as a metallurgist, in 2008 Andrew Styan changed direction radically to take up a part-time career as a climate change researcher and to pursue his passion for landscape photography.

Champions4Change is a sustainable behaviour change program to help meet targets of the Environmental Sustainability Plan 2015 – 2017, and develop new or innovative ways to support environmental sustainability.

The University of Newcastle has announced the awarding of the construction contract for its inner-city campus NeW Space to Hansen Yuncken, a leading Australian construction company with strong ties to the Hunter.

The University of Newcastle is delighted to announce geotechnical engineer Laureate Professor Scott Sloan has been elected to The Royal Society, a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientific minds. This scientific academy is the oldest in continuous existence and includes luminaries such as Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.

We have witnessed with great sympathy and sadness the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Nepal recently.

UON is celebrating its golden year and it's your time to shine - don't miss your chance to be recognised, or to honour another graduate with a nomination at our 2015 Alumni Awards.

A group of first year commerce students recently visited the Newcastle offices of accounting firm Cutcher & Neale.

Getting taut and trim can be a walk in the park, according to University of Newcastle researchers who have developed an innovative, multicomponent physical activity study.

Works by Australia's leading writers have been recognised in the shortlists for the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, including Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799‐1815 by Professor Philip Dwyer from the Faculty of Education and Arts.

The Family Action Centre, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine is delighted to announce that Professor Alan Hayes, currently the Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, will take up his appointment as inaugural Distinguished Professor of Family Studies and Director of the Family Action Centre, on the 1st of July 2015.