2016

UON’s School of Education has been honoured for its outstanding work with numerous accolades at the Australian Association for Research in Education conference.

Associate Professor Frini Karayanidis (pictured below with ‘Best Oral Presentation’ winner, PhD (Psychology) candidate, Patrick Cooper, and ‘Best Fast Talk’ winner, PhD (Psychology) candidate, Montana McKewan) and Associate Professor Juanita Todd from the School of Psychology co-chaired this year’s Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) Conference which was held at the Ramada Resort, Shoal Bay from November 24th to 27th.

The Australian government is reviewing our electricity market to make sure it can provide secure and reliable power in a rapidly changing world. Faced with the rise of renewable energy and limits on carbon pollution, The Conversation has asked experts what kind of future awaits the grid.

Four exemplary University of Newcastle (UON) undergraduate students have been honoured with a prestigious New Colombo Plan (NCP) scholarship, a unique initiative from the Australian Government to strengthen ties between Australia and the Indo-Pacific.

Dr Andrew Fleming has been awarded the 2016 Batterham Medal by the Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) at an award ceremony in Melbourne.

For White Ribbon Day 2016, UON's Professor Penny Jane Burke, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education features in the Newcastle Herald speaking about the transformative power of education and how her life story inspired her son to make an award-wining film Still Waters.

University of Newcastle researcher Dr Emma Beckett has been awarded a grant in the AMP Tomorrow Fund round.

The University of Newcastle (UON) has invited local organisations to attend the screening of an award winning short film this White Ribbon Day to explore the role that higher education can play in furthering national discussions on the issue of domestic and family violence.

Newcastle Innovation hosted their annual Awards ceremony on Friday 18 November at Merewether Surfhouse.

UON Alumna Catherine Richards has been awarded a prestigious General Sir John Monash scholarship to Cambridge University in the UK.

University of Newcastle (UON) engineering graduate, Catherine Richards, will continue her ambition of securing a sustainable future for the world after receiving a prestigious John Monash Scholarship valued at $200,000 to carry out postgraduate study at Cambridge University, UK.