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News • 08 Apr 2020
Empowering Healthy Ageing in Older Australians
Cromwell Property Group Foundation is supporting Live Well, Age Well led by University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing.
News • 08 Apr 2020
Award Puts Rural Mental Health in the Spotlight
The University of Newcastle Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health has been awarded Organisation of the Year
News • 08 Apr 2020
Inspired in the Past and Now Fuelling the Future
How a bequest from Margaret Schmidt is fuelling research into the growing area of space research
News • 08 Apr 2020
Dr Askland part of research project to study advocacy coalitions
Member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, anthropologist Dr Hedda Askland, is part of a new $418,828 multi-institutional research project which aims to better understand and utilise the mechanics of “advocacy coalitions” for low-carbon technologies.
News • 03 Apr 2020
Mining Voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier
Anthropologist with the School of Humanities and Social Science and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Hedda Askland, has published a journal article with Cambridge University Press entitled Mining voids: Extraction and emotion at the Australian coal frontier.
News • 20 Mar 2020
You ripper!… how you open your packets is generating tiny microplastics
New research led by Dr Cheng Fang from the Global Centre of Environmental Remediation has revealed opening plastic packaging, such as plastic bags, chip packets and bottles, is creating tiny microplastics we might be consuming every day.
News • 21 Feb 2020
Work to start on the University of Newcastle’s new home for innovation and creative endeavour
Taylor Martin MLC has today joined University of Newcastle Vice Chancellor, Professor Alex Zelinsky, AO, to announce construction is set to begin on the first building within the University’s Honeysuckle City Campus.
News • 12 Feb 2020
Prof Philip Dwyer co-edits Cambridge World History of Violence Four Volume set
Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, Professor Philip Dwyer has co-edited the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence, which is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and different regions of the world.
News • 11 Feb 2020
Nervous tissue growth factors promote aggressive cancers
Researchers from the University of Newcastle and Hunter Cancer Research Alliance are discovering exciting new avenues for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer using the knowledge that nerve cells act to fuel cancer growth.
News • 05 Feb 2020
The GLAMX Lab – offering new skills to students from across the University
Each day you can find students from a range of disciplines on Work Integrated Learning (WIL) or volunteering in the GLAMX Lab. GLAM stands for galleries, libraries, archives and museums and The GLAMX Lab offers the opportunity for students to learn invaluable digitisation and other cultural sector s
News • 31 Jan 2020
Local researchers succeed in latest ARC Linkage funding
Two University of Newcastle researchers, and a research team have been awarded more than $1.7 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for projects that support advancements in sustainable energy, health, agriculture and mineral processing.
News • 23 Jan 2020
New research to investigate link between obesity and endometrial cancer
Hunter researchers have been awarded a $600,000 grant to investigate the link between obesity and endometrial cancer to better identify and treat those at risk.
Events
In person
HunterWiSE Network Event: Belonging in STEM
You're invited to join us for the first HunterWiSE event of 2026. Facilitated by Dr Yemi Penn, this panel discussion will focus on the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse women in STEM, exploring themes of identity, belonging and opportunity.
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10 Years of AI
This is an exploratory workshop that will highlight the big moments in Artificial Intelligence in the past 10 years.
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Circular Economy Grand Challenge - Information Session
Are you up for the Challenge? Help minimise waste and maximise resource efficiency!
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Student to Startup
Three Newcastle student founders share the unfiltered reality of building a startup while studying.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.