2018

Healthy UON is pleased to advise that The Forum (University and Honeysuckle) has now joined Fitness Passport.

Keeping our campuses safe and healthy is a responsibility we all share.

The University of Newcastle (UON) is proud to present the Port Macquarie Health Showcase this Friday, an event bringing together the local healthcare community and leading experts in the fields of health and medicine.

Parents and carers of Hunter school children will have a helping hand in the kitchen to create healthier lunchboxes, with the support of a University of Newcastle research project.

Newcastle China Week returns over 21 - 23 September with an invitation to join new dialogues in global innovation at the China Business Forum, dine under the stars at the Hawker Night Food Market, or stroll the vibrant Street Festival on Beaumont St, Hamilton, which will be bursting full of cultural performances, free activities, delicious food, contemporary entertainment and amusements.

Tuesday 9 October at 6pm historians Caroline Schneider and Dr Hans Lukas Kieser will present an expansion of the research contained within the Long Shadows exhibition concerning the Yazidi and the modern Middle East.

A new book documenting the Hunter’s rich history of wine making has been launched, revealing the changing historical conditions and many personalities that have helped shaped the Hunter Valley region, and Australia’s drinking culture, over the past two centuries.

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Conjoint Professor of Practice with the Faculty of Business and Law Kyle Loades was a joint recipient of the National Leadership Award for his work as a non-executive director of Credit Union Australia, Chair of Drive Yello, Chair of Hunter Medical Research Institute and Chairman of the NRMA, a role in which he led significant cultural and operational change.

Leading University of Newcastle statistician, Associate Professor Peter Howley, has been named as one of ten inaugural ambassadors who will help strengthen the understanding and importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at a federal level.

University of Newcastle alumnus, Yasser Hamed, has risen to the top of his field in film animation, joining the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.

The Colonial Frontiers Massacres Map has won the best digital map award at the 2018 New Zealand Cartographic Society GeoCart Conference.