2021

University spin-out powering the renewables transition attracts significant venture investment and recognised nationally as top 100 innovator.

The 5th annual University of Newcastle Pride kicks off this week with celebrations running through to Wear it Purple Day on Friday 27 August. While we can’t be on campus to raise the flag, we hope you'll take the opportunity to mark Pride online.

Five outstanding early career researchers have been successful in securing more than $2 million in the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.

Professor Pradeep Tanwar and his team have studied women with a family history of ovarian cancer to identify a blood-based protein biomarker that could help save the lives of millions of ovarian cancer patients around the world.

In response to an external review of enabling pathways, a new version of the Yapug enabling pathway program will be delivered for the first time on the Central Coast in 2022. Yapug is a pathway program designed to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to gain knowledge and skills for entry into university while immersing them in Indigenous knowledge, history and culture.

In light of the extraordinary circumstances created by COVID-19, the University understands that you may require additional flexibility with assessment deadlines.

Raju Chowdhury was mentioned in the Steel Hub news.

New research to tackle one of Australia’s most prolific mosquitos, responsible for spreading most cases of Ross River virus, has commenced in the Hunter Region of New South Wales.

A team of cognitive scientists, led by Dr Scott Brown and Dr Ami Eidels of the University of Newcastle’s School of Psychological Sciences, have received a grant of $756,538 over three years to help prepare Australia for the battleground of the future – cyberspace.

Explaining years of research in three minutes and unpacking it in layperson’s terms is fiendishly difficult but this didn’t stop two Wollotuka students for taking up the challenge as part of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

Purai Global Indigenous History Centre’s affiliate, Paddy Gibson, is part of the organising team for an online symposium, in February 2022, about Australian workers and anti-colonialism and would like to hear from scholars interested in the topic.