March 2017

University of Newcastle PhD candidate, Helen Hopcroft, will spend a year dressed as Marie Antoinette in an effort to highlight and bolster tourism in Maitland. My Year as a Fairy Tale is a year-long performance by artist and writer Ms Hopcroft who trained as a painter at London’s Royal College of Art and is in the final stages of a Creative Writing PhD at the University of Newcastle. The project is sponsored by the University of Newcastle’s Centre for 21st Century Humanities and partnered by Slingshot, a Newcastle-based corporate accelerator.

University of Newcastle (UON) graduate Karlie Noon, the first Indigenous student in NSW to obtain a double degree in science and mathematics, has been honoured in a speech delivered to the National Press Club by Chair of Universities Australia Professor Barney Glover.

With an acute stroke occurring every 10 minutes in Australia, a revolutionary timesaving diagnostic device called the Stroke Finder helmet is being trialled by the Hunter Medical Research Institute for the first time.

Cancer Council NSW has awarded nearly $6 million to 15 ground-breaking cancer research projects at their annual NSW Research Awards. The grants help fund future breakthroughs in cancer research, with 15 of Australia’s leading research teams paving the way for new ways to treat the disease.