2026

The Grand Challenges of the world need more than just competitive forces to support their resolution. In a short timeframe, the NUW Alliance has led the way through its research and educational vision, with multiple projects already in train.

Researchers and artists from the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) have collaborated to create a tool to help women who have experienced stillbirth.

As the former Marketing Director for Coca-Cola South Pacific, Lisa is a beverage afficionado. Over her fifteen-year career she oversaw the R&D of countless products, spending time leading the company’s local start-up incubator, where she attempted to solve a problem for her industry—the absence of a simple, non-intrusive way to measure hydration.

NUW Alliance is pleased to share with you our first biannual report.

Laureate Professor Behdad Moghtedari and his team have secured $1.75 million from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund​​​​​​​ to scale-up the Hydro Harvester technology.

By Amy Maguire and Donna McNamaraRussia’s war on Ukraine is driving some of the most rapid movement of refugees ever seen. Its invasion and increasingly intense bombardment is generating a dire humanitarian crisis. Over 3 million people have fled across borders to Poland and other surrounding countries since February 24.

The narrative of Australia’s early colonial history continues to be contested with further evidence released today of the violent frontier massacres of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The University of Newcastle Central Coast Clinical School and Central Coast Research Institute was officially opened today by the Hon Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister of Australia.

The MedRad Forum, an Australian Society for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy event, was held in March 2022 at the The Global Centre for Research and Training in Radiation Oncology, University of Newcastle.

A team of researchers from the University of Newcastle have been awarded $468,000 as part of the Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grant to assist communities in recovery and resilience in the wake of the 2019-20 fires.

The NSW New England region has one of the highest rates of heart disease in the state.

Catastrophic flooding on the scale of what’s playing out in Queensland and NSW will become more likely as our planet warms, climate scientists warn.  That’s why this year’s International Women’s Day theme - Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow – is so critical and so worthy of our full attention.