News • 04 Jul 2018

Rethinking the narrative of climate change

An international symposium will combine academia, activism and the arts this week to ignite the imagination of the community and spark effective discussion about climate change

News • 02 Jul 2018

Children experience a taste of University life

Local school students will experience a taste of university life, exploring a variety of fields including nursing, engineering, cartoon drawing and psychology at the CU on Campus experiential learning day.

News • 02 Jul 2018

Prof Craig Pennell appointed Chair of Red Nose Group

University of Newcastle’s Professor Craig Pennell, is the newly appointed Chair of the Red Nose National Scientific Advisory Group.

News • 02 Jul 2018

Kids have healthier hearts due to new school program

Cardiovascular disease risk in kids due to poor aerobic fitness has been cut by more than half in primary schools using a new online physical activity training program for teachers.

News • 29 Jun 2018

Local Lions have a clear vision for funding research

When Associate Professor Sally McFadden spoke at Dungog Lions Club in 2016 about her long-term research working at solving the riddle of myopia, her words travelled to Mrs Carole Powell, Lions Australia 201N3 District Coordinator.

News • 29 Jun 2018

Historic buyout signals promising hope for global cancer therapy

World-leading pharmaceutical company MSD (Merck in the US), has acquired virotherapy firm, Viralytics, founded in Newcastle by Associate Professor Darren Shafren.

News • 28 Jun 2018

Ma & Morley Scholars recreate friendship’s historic encounter in China

When the paths of Chinese entrepreneur Mr Jack Ma and respected Novocastrian, the late Mr Ken Morley, crossed almost four decades ago, the encounter formed a lifelong friendship and shaped the teenage Jack Ma’s life journey.

News • 27 Jun 2018

Hunter president for new Oceania chapter

The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) has recently established an Oceania chapter (SRNT-O) – and HMRI’s Professor Billie Bonevski is its inaugural founding President.

News • 26 Jun 2018

Pink Frangipani Ball blossoms hope for breast cancer patients

Current chemotherapy and radiation treatment options for breast cancer patients are grueling, and not all patients see positive results, however with funding raised from the 2018 Pink Frangipani Ball, Dr Nikki Verrills and her research team hope to develop rev

News • 25 Jun 2018

Innovating health care in regional Australia

An online support tool being developed by University of Newcastle PhD student, Brian Hill, has won the Regional Australia Institute’s 2018 Lightbulb Moments competition.

News • 25 Jun 2018

Call for hormone replacement therapy re-think after hip fracture study

Newcastle endocrinologist, Laureate Professor Roger Smith, has urged a re-think on the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after studying the risk of hip fracture in both elderly women and men.

News • 22 Jun 2018

Newcastle innovators awarded grants to go global

Two leading academics from the University of Newcastle are among the 38 beneficiaries in the latest round of the Australian Government’s Priming Grants, aimed at building international relationships to commercialise ground-breaking research.

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