June 2020

Kylie Burrett shares her startup journey as co-founder of edtech company Design Nuts at I2N's Startup Stories

A roadmap to engineer or breed the next generation of crops for high productivity and resilience to climate change has been laid out by a team of world experts.

As an inaugural recipient of a DVC(A) Merit List Award for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science, Dr Xanthé Mallett, opens up about her experience of teaching criminology through COVID-19, and shares her views on the future of learning in a post-pandemic world.

Electric vehicle charging stations have been installed at the University of Newcastle’s Callaghan campus in an effort to make sustainable transport more accessible.

Wondering where a Bachelor of Development Studies can take you? Meet Lisa, a self-confessed “Politics Nerd”, who has used her degree to tackle several roles in Parliament House.

Practical approaches and tools shared to help new and established businesses create new value for customers and extend their core business

Through its Pacific Node, the University of Newcastle, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) conducted a coastal clean-up of the Moata’a mangrove environment, in Samoa on Monday, 8 June 2020, to celebrate UN World Oceans Day under the banner “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean.”

In just one year, the University of Newcastle has climbed ten places to sit among the world’s Top 200 universities in the prestigious 2021 QS World University Rankings, results released today confirmed.

Forensic anthropologist and criminologist with the University of Newcastle, Dr Xanthé Mallett, has published a book which exposes Australia’s worst wrongful convictions.

Reflecting the integral part the University of Newcastle plays in its community, 15 of its affiliates have been congratulated by the organisation’s leaders for their recognition in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

It provides over half of the world’s oxygen, it’s the primary source of food for more than a billion people, home to the greatest abundance of life on our planet… and it’s in serious trouble. You guessed it, it’s the big blue.

The University of Newcastle and TAFE NSW have today committed to strengthening their 30-year partnership to ensure people in the Hunter and on the Central Coast can maximise their education options and be seamlessly supported as they enter tertiary education, re-train or up-skill following the COVID-19 crisis.