News • 21 May 2024

Accelerating Startups with the Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy Program

Housed at the University’s Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER), the Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE) program is moving innovative technologies out of the lab and into global manufacturing.

News • 20 May 2024

Achievements and sound financial result captured in 2023 Annual Report

The University of Newcastle delivered strong results in 2023, as outline in its 2023 Annual Report that was tabled in NSW Parliament today.

News • 17 May 2024

Professor Dun recognised with Australian Society for Medical Research award

The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) has announced Professor Matt Dun from the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute as the recipient of the esteemed 2024 ASMR Medallist award.

News • 16 May 2024

Scientists unlock key to breeding ‘carbon gobbling’ plants with a major appetite

The discovery of how a critical enzyme ‘hidden in nature’s blueprint’ works sheds new light on how cells control key processes in carbon fixation, a process fundamental for life on Earth.

News • 06 May 2024

Sector-first approach to Indigenous health research

Community members and top medical bodies across the Hunter and New England regions have joined forces in a powerful bid …

News • 06 May 2024

Scientists uncover the climate of a planet 280 light-years away

An international team of researchers has mapped the weather – including temperature, cloud cover and winds – on an exoplanet that is roughly 280 light-years from Earth.

News • 03 May 2024

New study aims to put asthma into remission

Researchers at HMRI and the University of Newcastle have evaluated a drug called azithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic, to test if it would put moderate to severe asthma into remission.

News • 29 Apr 2024

Partnering to prevent local extinction of threatened marsupial

City of Newcastle (CN), the University of Newcastle and FAUNA Research Alliance have joined forces to investigate ways to protect Squirrel Gliders in the Lower Hunter.

News • 29 Apr 2024

From the Classroom to the Operating Room: Emily Mason’s Journey as an Indigenous Female Surgeon

For proud Gamilaroi woman, Emily Mason, the path to becoming one of the country’s only Indigenous traumatology specialist surgeons has …

News • 19 Apr 2024

Newcastle team on mission to improve childhood cancer outcomes

A University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute team will endeavour to improve the outcomes of children diagnosed with high-risk cancers with support of a $591,890 Cancer Australia grant.

News • 18 Apr 2024

Proving age is just a number, Arlyn wants to inspire more women in their 50s to pursue education

Ever since Arlyn Ellis was a child, it was her dream to one day become a nurse – but she never thought it was possible.

News • 18 Apr 2024

Kicking goals on and off the field, Joeli proves you can do it all

Being an elite athlete, working part time, and studying to become a teacher, Joeli Morris proves that with determination and the right support, you can do it all and get a degree at the same time.

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