November 2016

Four exemplary University of Newcastle (UON) undergraduate students have been honoured with a prestigious New Colombo Plan (NCP) scholarship, a unique initiative from the Australian Government to strengthen ties between Australia and the Indo-Pacific.

Dr Andrew Fleming has been awarded the 2016 Batterham Medal by the Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) at an award ceremony in Melbourne.

For White Ribbon Day 2016, UON's Professor Penny Jane Burke, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education features in the Newcastle Herald speaking about the transformative power of education and how her life story inspired her son to make an award-wining film Still Waters.

University of Newcastle researcher Dr Emma Beckett has been awarded a grant in the AMP Tomorrow Fund round.

Newcastle Innovation hosted their annual Awards ceremony on Friday 18 November at Merewether Surfhouse.

UON Alumna Catherine Richards has been awarded a prestigious General Sir John Monash scholarship to Cambridge University in the UK.

University of Newcastle (UON) engineering graduate, Catherine Richards, will continue her ambition of securing a sustainable future for the world after receiving a prestigious John Monash Scholarship valued at $200,000 to carry out postgraduate study at Cambridge University, UK.

Almost two hundred business-minded secondary students have been competing to see who can create the best business model to enhance the health and wellbeing of the Central Coast this week.

Tomorrow (November 19) is World Toilet Day. Despite spending approximately 92 days on the throne over the course of our lives, many of us still don’t know if the Simpson’s were right…does water spin in different directions in opposing hemispheres, or is that just loo-dicrous?

I don’t know about you, but I think this has been a pretty odd year - perhaps one of the oddest years on record.

Fertility researcher Dr Kate Redgrove has been recognised for her outstanding work on one of the major molecular mechanisms in the male reproductive system.

Recognising the changing role of the engineer, the University of Newcastle (UON) has redesigned its engineering degrees, unveiling a new format that will prepare graduates for the jobs of the future.