October 2023

Will it, or won’t it? The nail-biting task of designing and launching their own glider has gripped thousands of high school students over the years as part of the Science and Engineering Challenge. This exhilarating activity has had a sustainable makeover thanks to a special partnership with Boeing.

More than forty years since the chance meeting at West Lake in Hangzhou, China that sparked the friendship between Jack Ma and the Morley family, a new generation of globally-minded aspiring leaders from the University of Newcastle visited China for a unique cultural exchange.

University wasn’t originally part of Belle’s plan after completing her HSC. But with a passion for the creative arts, she applied for the Bachelor of Visual Communication Design and began exploring opportunities and pathways she never knew existed.

In a groundbreaking initiative, the New South Wales Department of Education has teamed up with the University of Newcastle to launch a pilot project to retrain secondary teachers to attain mathematics teaching accreditation.

Analysis released today by the University of Newcastle’s Institute for Regional Futures into the national housing shortage shows that the projected supply of housing needed in Australia’s cities and regions falls significantly short of demand.

The 2023 I2N Accelerator cohort is here,  solving wicked problems and creating massive positive impact in the process.

An event celebrating the creativity and stories of First Nations Novocastrians by focusing on dreams for the future was hosted by Purai Global Indigenous History Centre at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music in September 2023.

This term, the University of Newcastle hosted teachers and support staff from local schools for a STEM-focussed professional development (PD) – “iSTEM Zero-to-Hero”.

Applications are now open for the Greater Charitable Foundation Equity Scholarship program, which is clearing the path to higher education for students wishing to study at the University of Newcastle.

Sarah Williams, University of Newcastle student, is the founder of What Were You Wearing (WWYW), a non for profit organisation providing education, awareness and advocacy on sexual violence.

The University of Newcastle is pleased to announce the appointment of the Hon Patricia Forsythe AM as its next Chancellor. She will succeed the University’s current Chancellor Mr. Paul Jeans, who is retiring at the end of 2023 after over 10 years in the role.

Emergency department nurses across NSW will gain valuable real-time experience in stroke care thanks to a new virtual reality (VR) training program developed by the Centre for Advanced Training Systems at the University of Newcastle.