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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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