June 2017

Students from diverse disciplines such as social science, IT, nursing, arts, business and environmental science converged on Monday afternoon for the launch of an exciting new interdisciplinary, employability program being piloted at the Ourimbah campus.

A group of students, alumni, staff and community friends of the University of Newcastle (UON) will come together later this week, ahead of the ambitious 65 kilometre trek across the Larapinta Trail in the Northern Territory this August.

The University of Newcastle’s (UON) $95 million NeW Space facility will soon be welcoming students and the community, with staff moving into the building on Monday 3 July.

An exciting community development assignment in the South Pacific is currently underway for Bachelor of Development Studies graduate, Jessica Richardson, who commenced a twelve month appointment with the Vanuatu Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (VASANOC) in April.

A new nutrition study at the University of Newcastle (UON) is aiming to help pregnant women beat confusion related to how much carbohydrate they should eat.

Historian and Australian Research Council Future Fellow with UON's Centre for the History of Violence, Associate Professor Hans Lukas Kieser has been awarded the President of the Republic of Armenia Prize for his significant contribution to the history of the Armenian Genocide. Associate Professor Kieser recently travelled to Armenia to collect his $10,000 prize in a presidential ceremony.

Dr Hedda Askland and colleagues from UON and Europe have been awarded funding by the Faculty of Education and Arts (FEDUA) to establish the Rural Land Use and Community Research Network to bring together local and international scholars working in the area of rurality and community, rural land use change and conflict, and migration and mobility. The aim of the network is to explore rurality (as locality) through the lens of global movement, as it manifests through the movement of people (e.g. urban-­‐rural migration, asylum seekers and refugees), minerals (e.g. coal and gas), and agricultural products.

The Prevenar study is testing whether Pneumonia vaccine can reduce airway inflammation and improve daily asthma symptoms.

UON’s Global Newcastle initiative is pulling the layers of Newcastle’s history back one fascinating story at a time.

When he’s not teaching in a classroom or working on the land, Ryan O’Neill gets lost in his imagination, creating the lives of Rand Washington, a racist science fiction author, or Rachel Deverall, his own fictitious, late wife.

As UON campuses prepare to go completely smoke-free on 1 July 2017, Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Fellow and behavioural scientist Dr Flora Tzelepis is conducting a new study to determine the effectiveness of video consultations in supporting smokers to quit.

Super changes on the way