2020
News • 7 May 2020
Vice-Chancellor shares insights into building a global tech company
Professor Alex Zelinksy AO shares his innovation journey as co-founder of tech company Seeing Machines at I2N's Startup Stories.
News • 5 May 2020
PVC wins Best Paper Award
Professor Tony Travaglione wins best paper award at the ANZIBA Annual Conference.
News • 5 May 2020
The impact of COVID-19 on tourism and hospitality
Professor Will Rifkin discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality and tourism industries.
News • 5 May 2020
Building the recovery workforce through short courses
The University of Newcastle has unveiled a suite of short courses to give displaced workers a chance to upskill or reskill and help build a thriving workforce in the post COVID-19 recovery phase.
News • 4 May 2020
A sneak peek into Truth: Now/Then/Everywhen
Truth: Now/Then/Everywhen brings together an impressive selection of works by artists such as Nancy Nanana Jackson and Judith Yinyika Chambers, Kaylene Whiskey and Robert Fielding and intersects true life stories with works such as Abbott’s Camp, 2016 by Sally Mulda – an Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist from the Central Desert region. Mulda’s painting practice is figurative, using text and bright colours to express brutal and dark truths about everyday life, documenting her experience and the surrounding social and political situations that her community experience.
News • 4 May 2020
Nominate now for staff council elections
Be involved in the decision making process of the University by becoming a member of Council.
News • 4 May 2020
Student response to studying from home overwhelmingly positive
The COVID-19 Online Learning Check-In Survey was recently completed by 7309 students and has shown a positive response to the changed learning environment.
News • 4 May 2020
Two rare collaborative artworks from the edge of the Great Sandy Desert for NUspace foyer
Desert Homelands – Waterhole, 2010 and Country and Country Where We Lived, 2010 by the Wangkatjungka Collaboration
News • 4 May 2020
A sustainable future in health: ensuring as health professionals our own house is in order and leading by example
It is time for health professionals to step up and lead to ensure a sustainable environment and health, according to one of Australia’s leading medical practitioners and researchers.
News • 4 May 2020
New book looks at how migrants used music to help shape their lives in nineteenth-century Newcastle
How did nineteenth-century migrants to Australia use music to make sense of their new surroundings? That is the question focused on in a newly published book authored by School of Creative Industries researcher and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Helen English.
News • 1 May 2020
Law in Lockdown - a Newcastle Law School podcast
The NLS explores the impact of COVID-19 on the legal community.
News • 1 May 2020
ARC Linkage Grant to investigate the impact of oestrogen on marine species
The Australian Research Council has awarded a $150,000 Linkage Grant to Dr Geoff MacFarlane, a Senior Lecturer for the School of Environmental and Life Sciences within the Faculty of Science.
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