July 2020

Five local tourism, entertainment and arts organisations will benefit from more than $500,000 in funding from the City of Newcastle.

The University is really looking forward to welcoming our students back to campus for Semester 2, and commend you all for the extraordinary maturity and professionalism you’ve shown over the past five months as we’ve all dealt with university education in a COVID-19 world.

A University of Newcastle Electrical Engineering graduate, Sam Parker, has been accepted to Brown University – a prestigious Ivy League research university in the United States.

The Newcastle Knights announced today that the University of Newcastle will take top position on the back of jersey for Indigenous Round.

The University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor Professor Alex Zelinsky AO today updated staff on measures to help our institution achieve financial sustainability amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Tania Sourdin in the Newcastle Herald discusses using apps for family dispute resolution

Last week Professor Penny Jane Burke (Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education) attended the first meeting of the new Federal government Equity in Higher Education Panel (EHEP) as one of two invited research experts in the field.

Dept. of Home Affairs and the Australian Government call for views 2020 Cyber Security Strategy paper by Prof Vijay Varadharajan.

Abstract proposals due by 15 December 2020 for the international edited collection entitled 'Taking Control: the critical and creative uses of digital tools in the now, the foreseeable future, and beyond, in screen, literature, and the visual arts'.

Early modern literary historian and digital humanities researcher with the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Erin McCarthy is leading a new project that will compare and contrast the language used to describe early modern disasters and contemporary disasters such as the recent bushfires that ravaged the east coast of Australia in 2019.

Would you let an AI help sort out your divorce?

A ground-breaking opportunity was announced today by the University of Newcastle for students who have overcome major life challenges to study Medicine.