October 2026

The University of Newcastle has today announced their Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Alex Zelinsky AO, will retire in February 2027.

As debate intensifies around the newly negotiated Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement, University of Newcastle experts, industry leaders and policymakers have come together to examine what the future might look like for one of Australia's most iconic regional industries: Hunter Valley wine.

Community demand is driving the next phase of the 'Which Way? Women's Program' to expand beyond NSW.

Celebrated arts leader Rachael Parsons is set to join the University of Newcastle Galleries as its new Senior Art Curator and Manager from next year.

University of Newcastle researchers will help shape two newly funded Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centres.

More than 250 of Australia’s brightest young science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) problem-solvers will put their skills to the test at the final of the National Science and Engineering Challenge at Australian Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

A nationally significant initiative to reduce racism and discrimination in healthcare will be rolled out across primary care settings, bringing culturally safer care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients in GP clinics, telehealth services and specialist outreach clinics.

The University of Newcastle has recognised the achievements of graduates making a difference locally, nationally and internationally at the 2026 Alumni Excellence Awards.

More than 80 guests gathered at NSW Parliament House for the NSW Female Founders Showcase, celebrating women entrepreneurs from I2N programs including the NSW Female Leadership and Innovation Program.

The University of Newcastle has announced McMahon Services as the principal contractor for the demolition of the Hunter Building at Callaghan Campus, marking a major milestone in the dismantling of the building.

A long-forgotten story of Aboriginal activist Dexter Daniels was brought into public focus through a script reading hosted by the University of Newcastle's Purai Global Indigenous History Centre.

A major international review argues that human-driven change since the mid-20th century is significant enough to mark the beginning of a new geological chapter in Earth’s history: the Anthropocene.