March 2015

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Managing Director of Lifestyle Solutions David Hogg recently presented a guest lecture to Newcastle Business School postgraduate students.

One of Europe's premier international prizes for emerging respiratory researchers has been awarded to Dr Malcolm Starkey from the University of Newcastle and HMRI's VIVA (Viruses, Infections/Immunity, Vaccines and Asthma) Program.

Record numbers of recent Newcastle Law School graduates have been admitted as a Lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

The recent industry site tour of Orica provided Newcastle Business School postgraduate students with an opportunity to see theory in practice and ask questions of professionals in situ.

'Lucy' is an innovative program which aims to motivate and educate women studying business, commerce and law about the opportunities available for employment and leadership across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.

Professor Penny Jane Burke, Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education asks 'Is gender equity still an issue for higher education?'

Hunter Medical Research Institute researcher Associate Professor Jeannette Lechner-Scott is investigating the environmental risk factors surrounding multiple sclerosis after receiving a $220,000 project grant from MS Research Australia.

This is the first in a three part series By Professor Roland Boer, Director of the Religion, Marxism and Secularism research group, on 18th Century Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith for The Conversation.

Associate Professor Murray Cairns has received an $800,000 2014/15 NSW Genomics Collaborative Grant to explore better treatments for schizophrenia.

Australia's leading contamination and remediation research organisation will be based at the University of Newcastle (UON) from March 2015, in a move that extends the latest clean-up science to a wider range of the nation's major industries.

A new magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) technique developed by Australian researchers may potentially reduce or delay the need for preventive mastectomies among women at high risk of breast cancer.