May 2018

Two University of Newcastle students have been awarded newly established Hunter Water scholarships, which offer financial assistance to help Indigenous students achieve their educational aspirations.

The Newcastle Jets are proud to welcome the University of Newcastle (UON) as an official club partner, thanks to their support of upcoming international youth tours.

Mothering, and grand-mothering, have always been complex. Whether mothers, or not, women have also carried much of the responsibility for caring, within and beyond their families.

Fighting the urge to fall asleep in class is something most students joke about, but for Kaija Mitcheson, it was a reality that impacted her life for six years and affected her time studying to become a nurse.

DJ Lawson takes top spot in grand final for third year running!

University of Newcastle chemical engineer Laureate Professor Graeme Jameson AO has been honoured by one of the most prestigious organisations in the world – the Royal Society, which boasts a fellowship of 1,600 of the world’s most eminent scientists.

We are now well into the second quarter of the year, and work associated with re-imagining our University into the future has been gaining pace. The framework that underpins this important process is the Education Redesign project. Thanks to the good work of our stream leads and to the contributions from colleagues across the University, we now have a comprehensive Student Journey Map to guide our thinking and focus our efforts on the student experience as we redesign our approaches to our work. The map is complemented by the New Education Framework – approved by Council approved in early 2018 – which details a range of projects that will transform our course and program offerings and the ways in which we enable learning and teaching.

Sing it from a car seat for UON carpool karaoke!

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has awarded University of Newcastle researcher Dr Md Atiqur Rahman a 2017-2018 IASLC Fellowship for a project entitled ‘Cell free microRNA: a potential biomarker for the early detection of lung cancer’.

On the eve of National Families’ Week - Stronger Families, Stronger Communities, it is timely to consider some of the challenges and opportunities for families in modern society. Professor Alan Hayes AM, Distinguished Professor of Family Studies and Director of the Family Action Centre recently delivered the Keynote Address to an international audience at the International Symposium on Family and Community Strengths at City Hall in Newcastle.

In late 2015, around the same time as the NeW Futures Strategic Plan was launched, UON was proud to be named among 30 Australian research institutions included in the first tranche of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Athena SWAN pilot.  Our involvement called for a two year deep dive into various data sources to establish a detailed view of our organisation through a gender lens.

Managers and staff across UON are logging in to the new online system for recording PRD conversations and managing probation.