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One of Australia’s shooting stars of surf life saving, Jemma Smith, has been awarded the inaugural Newcastle Knights Minerva Scholarship.

The University of Newcastle has been awarded $2.59m to provide students an opportunity to participate in innovative Indo-Pacific cultural experiences.

The University regularly reviews its policies and procedures to ensure they are up to date with technology and industry best practice as well as ensuring compliance with new laws or regulations. We are seeking your feedback on the propose changes to our CCTV Policy and Procedure.

Our University will be implementing the Service NSW COVID Safe check-in system across all our campuses and venues in 2021.

As part of Orientation or ‘O’ Week celebrations, the University of Newcastle will welcome new students to its campuses via a series of welcome addresses, campus tours, demonstrations and social gatherings, commencing today.

New year, new campus changes!

The merging of our Faculties into Colleges encourages greater multidisciplinary collaboration and improved processes.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for 550 students who will celebrate the culmination of their studies at the University of Newcastle Callaghan graduation ceremonies this week.

The University is honoured to announce the establishment of four new Indigenous scholarships, made possible by the partnerships and support of Port of Newcastle, The Vonwiller Foundation, BMG Australia and Moray & Agnew.

University of Newcastle postgraduate student Shuang Zhang is the 2020 ELICOS NSW International Student of the Year.

The Hunter Building on the Callaghan campus is closing and is being vacated progressively from now and during 2021

From a soft robot manta ray designed to explore the Great Barrier Reef without harming coral; to a prosthetic arm controlled by the mind; and a contender for the world’s fastest boat – The Art of Problem Solving 2020 exhibition showcases an impressive spread of engineering and computing projects fro