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News • 08 Apr 2020
Inspired in the Past and Now Fuelling the Future
How a bequest from Margaret Schmidt is fuelling research into the growing area of space research
News • 08 Apr 2020
Dr Askland part of research project to study advocacy coalitions
Member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, anthropologist Dr Hedda Askland, is part of a new $418,828 multi-institutional research project which aims to better understand and utilise the mechanics of “advocacy coalitions” for low-carbon technologies.
News • 03 Apr 2020
Mining Voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier
Anthropologist with the School of Humanities and Social Science and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Hedda Askland, has published a journal article with Cambridge University Press entitled Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier.
News • 20 Mar 2020
You ripper!… how you open your packets is generating tiny microplastics
New research led by Dr Cheng Fang from the Global Centre of Environmental Remediation has revealed opening plastic packaging, such as plastic bags, chip packets and bottles, is creating tiny microplastics we might be consuming every day.
News • 21 Feb 2020
Work to start on the University of Newcastle’s new home for innovation and creative endeavour
Taylor Martin MLC has today joined University of Newcastle Vice Chancellor, Professor Alex Zelinsky, AO, to announce construction is set to begin on the first building within the University’s Honeysuckle City Campus.
News • 12 Feb 2020
Prof Philip Dwyer co-edits Cambridge World History of Violence Four Volume set
Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, Professor Philip Dwyer has co-edited the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence, which is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and different regions of the world.
News • 11 Feb 2020
Nervous tissue growth factors promote aggressive cancers
Researchers from the University of Newcastle and Hunter Cancer Research Alliance are discovering exciting new avenues for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer using the knowledge that nerve cells act to fuel cancer growth.
News • 05 Feb 2020
The GLAMX Lab – offering new skills to students from across the University
Each day you can find students from a range of disciplines on Work Integrated Learning (WIL) or volunteering in the GLAMX Lab. GLAM stands for galleries, libraries, archives and museums and The GLAMX Lab offers the opportunity for students to learn invaluable digitisation and other cultural sector s
News • 31 Jan 2020
Local researchers succeed in latest ARC Linkage funding
Two University of Newcastle researchers, and a research team have been awarded more than $1.7 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for projects that support advancements in sustainable energy, health, agriculture and mineral processing.
News • 23 Jan 2020
New research to investigate link between obesity and endometrial cancer
Hunter researchers have been awarded a $600,000 grant to investigate the link between obesity and endometrial cancer to better identify and treat those at risk.
News • 22 Jan 2020
New biotech venture going viral in battle against cancer
The scientific team behind Viralytics, a Hunter-based biotech firm bought in 2018 by Merck for a record $502 million, is reuniting for a new private venture aiming to develop cutting-edge cancer therapies. ImmVirX.
News • 21 Jan 2020
Support for business owners impacted by bushfires
Small business owners whose business premises have been impacted by bushfires can access temporary coworking deskspace operated by several NSW …
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