April 2014

Almost anywhere you like! Studying a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Newcastle gives you a unique opportunity to follow your passions, explore new and exciting areas of study, and develop valuable and transferable career skills.

It took three months and a number of volunteers but a new mural featured in Mayfield's Webb Park has transformed the parkland area.

During the past couple of weeks, we were delighted to host the Vice-Chancellor from the University of Essex, Professor Anthony Forster, who travelled to Australia to visit UON. Essex turns 50 this year, so it is almost the same age as UON, and our two institutions are similarly placed in the independent global ranking systems.

University of Newcastle Electrical Engineering graduate Kumaran Nathan has received a prestigious 2014 General Sir John Monash Scholarship, worth up to $150,000 over three years, to study at the University of Cambridge. Presented by The Honourable Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia at a ceremony at The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, the scholarship will allow Mr Nathan to undertake pioneering work alongside the best of the world in his field.

Newcastle Business School academic, Hao Tan, has had a letter published in Nature discussing China and its use of renewable energy sources.

Final year civil engineering student, Kelsie Clarke, recently returned from a three-week Dialogues on Development study tour in Cambodia.

University of Newcastle researchers win grants to study student equity in Higher Education.

The University community remembers Reynold (Reyn) Gilbert Keats, our first Chair of the Department of Mathematics, and the founding Dean when the Faculty of Mathematics was established in 1971.

PhD student Nadia Zakrzewski has just journeyed for 26 hrs straight to help raise funds for an event called Coast Trek.

Currently featured in the Gallery Shop is local ceramicist Sandra Burgess, with porcelain vessels and delicate papercuts.

Pitching an idea is a huge part of industrial design, but it's the kind of thing that can only be learnt through experience.

A new clean energy system launched today will demonstrate cost savings in electricity generation for remote mining and industrial sites and rural communities.