News • 24 Jan 2023

Industry partnership aims to heal wound control problem

University of Newcastle experts and industry leaders will join forces to develop new ways to address wound control, a distressing problem that costs the Australian healthcare industry $3.5b each year.

News • 20 Jan 2023

Beat the scammers and dive into Law on the Beach

Financial scammers don’t discriminate when honing in on their targets, often leaving the most vulnerable in the community confused and fearful.

News • 19 Jan 2023

Award-winning night of reflection Ngarrama returns

Building on the success of the inaugural event, the University of Newcastle is proud to welcome the wider community once again to Ngarrama.

News • 18 Jan 2023

Pro Vice-Chancellor Nathan Towney named 2023 Newcastle Citizen of the Year

University leader and Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous, Strategy and Leadership, Nathan Towney, has been selected as Newcastle’s 2023 Citizen of the Year.

News • 16 Dec 2022

Ballot outcome at University of Newcastle

The University of Newcastle has today announced the outcome of the ballot on its proposed new enterprise agreements.

News • 15 Dec 2022

Spinal cord pain to PTSD: $5.2m in NHMRC grants to target pressing medical conditions

Both the body and the mind will be a key focus for innovative researchers from the University of Newcastle, who were successful in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants.

News • 12 Dec 2022

Paid leave for school carnivals, sick pets, weddings and life admin on list of benefits offered by University

Staff at the University of Newcastle will be able to take up to ten days a year of paid leave to care for pets, go to school concerts, manage their life admin and attend weddings and other ceremonies, under the Enterprise Agreements being voted on this week.

News • 01 Dec 2022

Asthma in pregnancy toolkit rolls out to help stop flare-ups

A world first Asthma and Pregnancy Toolkit designed to improve the health of pregnant women and their babies will be rolled out across the ACT.

News • 01 Dec 2022

Researcher identifies 6,000 sperm proteins, potentially leading to a male contraceptive

A researcher has for the first time profiled 6,000 sperm proteins that could help create a non-hormonal male contraceptive - while also building on key research linking sperm health to overall men’s health.

News • 28 Nov 2022

Enterprise Bargaining Update 28 November 2022

The University of Newcastle has today tabled a revised offer to unions and staff representatives as it moves to finalise enterprise bargaining ahead of Christmas.

News • 26 Nov 2022

Preschoolers’ screen time logs link to sleep and development

Australian preschoolers’ growing screen time use, whether at day or night, is associated with poorer sleep, and poorer language and cognitive development, University of Newcastle researchers have revealed.

News • 23 Nov 2022

$1m to improve schizophrenia treatment

Professor Murray Cairns has been awarded $1 million in NSW Government funding to explore genetically informed precision medicine for schizophrenia using human cerebral organoids.

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