2020

Port Stephens community members are working with scientists to collect information to help save koalas in the region.

A virtual gallery, live performances, short films, animation, documentaries and much more will light up the virtual world this weekend as Festival X brings together a digital celebration of student creativity.

The University of Newcastle has today announced the winning team and installation in its recently completed Design-a-Place Marker competition.  Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alex Zelinsky AO, joined the winners and competition convenors to reveal the design of the new Callaghan campus place marker, which will be installed at Callaghan and Ourimbah campuses.

By Associate Professor Kathleen Butler, a proud Bundjalung and Worimi woman and Head of the Wollotuka Institute of Indigenous Research and Education at the University of Newcastle.

From a deodorant that repels mosquitoes  to engineering a trap that disrupts mosquito breeding, nine innovative projects were awarded and have shared $45,000 in funding in the University of Newcastle's 2020 Grand Challenge.

A free legal clinic to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society – older people – will officially launch at an event on Thursday with the NSW Attorney General, The Hon. Mark Speakman SC MP.

University of Newcastle climate scientist Dr Andrew Magee has become the first Asia Pacific representative to be named a finalist in the history of the Allianz Climate Risk Research Award. The global award supports scientific research that improves our understanding of climate change-related risks.

Taking the opportunity to showcase our capability as an innovator in next generation resources, the University of Newcastle was delighted to host the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull and Ms Lucy Turnbull at its Callaghan campus this week (Tuesday 3 November).

​​​​​​​I am so pleased to write to you to provide details of our 2021 Subject Rankings released by Times Higher Education (THE). These rankings aim to provide an overview of the best places in the world to study a chosen discipline. A record 1,512 institutions are ranked in the 2021 Subject Rankings across the 11 subject areas, with 522 newly ranked this year.

Newcastle researchers have discovered a new way to kill leukaemia cells.

On Wednesday 28 October, University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Alex Zelinsky AO, provided all University staff with a Discussion Paper mapping the process for organisational change and restructuring across the institution.

That nervous "new student feeling" happens to pretty much everyone, which is why the Peer Mentor Program was created.