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News • 13 Feb 2024
Central Coast Living Lab promotes healthy ageing at home
A collaborative workshop has marked the launch of the first Central Coast Health & Wellbeing Living Lab – an innovative, real-life experimentation hub designed to support healthy ageing at home for generations to come.
News • 08 Feb 2024
$438,000 funding to boost cleantech innovation in the Hunter
Local clean technology innovators will have more opportunity to bring their products to market with the NSW Government awarding $438,375 in funding for the University of Newcastle’s Hunter Cleantech Accelerator.
News • 08 Feb 2024
Empowering women in STEM: HunterWiSE and Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group launch new scholarship initiative
Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG) has proudly supported HunterWiSE since 2019. This year, NCIG will strengthen its collaboration with HunterWiSE to fund new scholarships for female students in their second or subsequent year of a degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) at the University of Newcastle.
News • 07 Feb 2024
Inspiring capable communities
Kate and Jordan, who were participants in I2N’s Accelerator Cohort 2023, are the co-founders of are of Ariel Community, a tech startup working to inspire advocacy for disability inclusion and access throughout Australian communities.
News • 31 Jan 2024
Major breakthrough in hypertension diagnosis could save Government billions
HMRI and University of Newcastle researcher, Professor Murray Cairns, along with his Precision Medicine team have discovered a way of predicting who will respond to blood pressure treatments to lower sodium in the body.
News • 29 Jan 2024
$1m awarded to Purai Global Indigenous History Centre for research championing the value of truth telling
Two separate projects, one with the Department of Education (DoE), the other an ARC Discovery grant will engage in Indigenous histories from Indigenous perspectives with a view to advancing reconciliation and build meaningful connections across Australia.
News • 23 Jan 2024
Female leadership key to community ‘saving itself’ in unprecedented trauma
As the two-year anniversary of the devastating Northern Rivers’ flooding looms, new research from the University of Newcastle has shown the female-led response to the trauma prevailed where authorities failed.
News • 15 Jan 2024
$3.6m NHMRC funding fuels innovative ideas
Premature birth, severe asthma and sperm stress will be a key focus for innovative researchers from the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), who were successful in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants.
News • 15 Dec 2023
$10.3m NHMRC Investigator grants help search for health solutions
Six University of Newcastle researchers have been awarded more than $10.3m in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grants* to tackle health problems such as pre-term labour, schizophrenia, endometrial and lung cancers, as well as asthma.
News • 14 Dec 2023
Round Table Talks with AAUN Senior Members
Senior members of the Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN) secretariat held round table discussions with the University of Newcastle’s staff with interests in Africa related research and engagement projects on 30th November 2023.
News • 13 Dec 2023
Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu receives international honour
Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu has won the Glinka World Soil Prize from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
News • 13 Dec 2023
Research team secures $2.3M to help reduce methane emissions
University researchers have secured $2.3 million to advance the development of a catalytic system with the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions associated with ventilation air methane (or VAM) - a common emission in Australia's coal and gas sectors.
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2025 Karen Thrift Prize for Poetry
The University of Newcastle School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences is happy to announce that applications for the Karen Thrift Prize for Poetry for 2025 is now open.
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