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A collaboration between academics and government representatives, the Australia Awards fellowship is aimed at strengthening public service performance and building governance capacity in Kenya.

Oncolytic virotherapy firm Viralytics, which originated from the work of UON's Associate Professor Darren Shafren, has been acquired for $502 million by world-leading pharmaceutical company, Merck.

The University and ADC have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on research into the use of virtual simulation to support individual training.

The Hunter Children's Research Foundation has awarded Dr Megan Jensen with an Early-Career Fellowship thanks to a bequest from the late Peggy Lang.

The Women in Master of Business Administration (WiMBA) Scholarship program has partnered with leading Hunter organisations to help grow the female talent pipeline and foster positive economic growth.

The University of Newcastle (UON) will bid farewell to Professor Steve Larkin, following an impressive tenure as the institution’s inaugural …

The University congratulates and celebrates all Australians, in particular members of the UON community, named in the 2018 Australia Day honours.

A UON researcher is part of a major international collaboration that has revealed greater insight into the feeding habits of the world’s shark population.

Associate Professor Brendan Boyle has received a 2017 Teaching Excellence Award from the Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT).

Professor Nicholas Talley, UON’s Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Research is Australia’s most cited academic, a new report from Google Scholar confirms.

Professor John Lester from the University of Newcastle has received the Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education.

Researchers from the University of Newcastle have received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new method of nutrition assessment.