News • 08 Oct 2014

The big top’s evolution: Cirkopolis by Cirque Eloize

With the opening of Cirkopolis at the Melbourne International Arts Festival this week, Dr Gillian Arrighi looks at the evolution of circus

News • 07 Oct 2014

Honorary Fellowship for former UON Chancellor

The Australian Psychological Society rarely bestows the title of Honorary Fellow. We are proud to announce that Professor Trevor Waring is a recipient.

News • 03 Oct 2014

Wim Delvoye’s astonishing art shows what’s lurking in the banal

Senior Lecturer Dr Kit Messham-Muir in the School of Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle, looks at the astonishing work of Belgian artist Wim

News • 02 Oct 2014

Young women becoming more active, and more stressed

Young Australian women are fatter, fitter and more stressed than they were in the mid-’90s, according to the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health

News • 29 Sep 2014

Deb Mansfield exhibition at Stills Gallery

Deb Mansfield, an Australian artist and Associate Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, is exhibiting new photo-tapestries at the Stills Gallery, Sydney

News • 26 Sep 2014

UK grants to assist severely endangered languages

The University of Newcastle has been awarded three grants from the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme to document endangered Pacific languages

News • 26 Sep 2014

The petrol bomb’s incendiary – and uncertain – history

Dr Matthew Lewis from the University of Newcastle's (UON) Centre for the History of Violence, explores the uncertain history of the petrol bomb.

News • 25 Sep 2014

Teaching expertise honoured

The teaching expertise of UON staff members has been recognised by the Commonwealth in the 2014 Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

News • 24 Sep 2014

UON ranked Australia’s number one university under 50

The University of Newcastle is Australia’s number one university in the 2014 QS ‘Top 50 Under 50’ rankings, announced today.

News • 22 Sep 2014

Scopus Young Researchers

Associate Professor David Lubans and Dr Tracy Burrows have scooped two of the five catergories in the 2014 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards.

News • 15 Sep 2014

Scholars Week 2014

Academic excellence and commitment is being recognised and rewarded at the University of Newcastle (UON) annual Scholars' Week celebrations (15-19 …

News • 12 Sep 2014

Walk to shine light on organ transplant tolerance

Community members will take a fluoro-lit twilight stroll along Nobbys Breakwall on Saturday 13 September for the second annual Glow Walk.

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