2017

Remember what it was like to start fresh at uni? New students register for the UON Peer Mentor program to have someone guide them through their first weeks at uni.

The NSW Government has announced it will provide more than $3m in funding for medicinal cannabis research to the Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence (ACRE), based at the University of Newcastle (UON).

An outstanding behavioural scientist from the University of Newcastle has received a Sax Institute's 2017 Research Action Award, which recognise researchers whose work has made a real-world difference to the public's health and wellbeing.

Outstanding contributions to science have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science, with 18 of Australia’s leading scientists and future stars receiving prestigious 2018 honorific awards.

Australia’s $63 billion* agriculture sector stands to benefit from a revolutionary fuel technology that will convert multiple agricultural waste streams into valuable biofuel and green chemical products for the first time.

Two exceptional University of Newcastle (UON) Radiation Therapy students have been awarded a place in the Crestani Research Program, in memory of the late Chris Crestani, former chief Radiation Therapist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney.

Following a 200% incidence rise in gestational diabetes over the past five years in the Hunter Region, nutrition researchers from the University of Newcastle are trialing a new diabetes risk-reduction program called Body Balance Beyond.

The University of Newcastle (UON) has attracted $12.2m in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding to investigate some of the nation’s and world’s greatest health challenges.

Today marks 40 years since the conception of the world’s first In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) child. Since 1977, more than five million IVF babies have been born around the world, but there is still a way to go for reproductive research.

The University of Newcastle (UON) has been successful in securing more than $6.7 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) funding for 2018.

University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Caroline McMillen, has announced she will retire from the University in October 2018, following seven distinguished years of service.

The NSW Government will invest $1.25 million in a new university-led network to bolster defence-related research and development activity across the state.