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06 July 2011
Young women today are just as likely as 1950s housewives to want taller husbands who earn more money than them, says Stanford Professor Paula England speaking at the Australian Social Policy Conference at UNSW.
01 July 2011
The outstanding contributions of UNSW staff to improving student learning have been recognised with seven citations from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
28 June 2011
Military historian Bob Hall has turned a tour of duty in Vietnam into a life's work. His team at UNSW@ADFA has identified the burial sites of thousands of Viet Cong missing in action.
24 June 2011
Academics from the Centre for Refugee Research have presented a statement to the UNHCR in Geneva condemning the Australian government's proposed refugee deal with Malaysia.
17 June 2011
There have been no breaches of network security at the University despite claims by online hacker group LulzSec that it has obtained passwords for email addresses at UNSW.
14 June 2011
Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia, law professor George Williams leads a high-profile group of UNSW academics and alumni recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours.
10 June 2011
Key representatives from government, UNHCR and refugee groups will discuss solutions for Australia and the Asia Pacific at a major refugee conference at UNSW.
10 June 2011
UNSW has become the first Australian university to be awarded five stars in the new QS Stars rating system, which measures institutional performance against international benchmarks.
10 June 2011
Many strata executive committee members are ill-equipped to deal with complex problems that can affect quality of life and property values, new research shows.
03 June 2011
UNSW researchers will use a Linkage grant to develop new technology allowing oral delivery of vaccines, with potential for considerable impact in developing countries.
02 June 2011
Once oppressed by big business, the Australian working class now suffers under the yoke of elite actors. The Liberal Party's class war rhetoric has turned the tables on the Left, argues Associate Professor David McKnight.
31 May 2011
Australia actually has the lowest middle or upper class welfare in the OECD, write Professor Peter Whiteford and Dr Gerry Redmond.
27 May 2011
UNSW has thanked its million dollar-plus donors for their generous support at an event hosted by the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor.
24 May 2011
Australia should invest the proceeds of its mining boom in education, shadow minister for communications Malcolm Turnbull has told the U21 dinner at UNSW.
18 May 2011
UNSW is hosting the Annual Presidents' Meeting and Global Ideas Roundtable of Universitas 21 - an international network of leading research-intensive universities from 15 countries.
18 May 2011
One in seven Australian adults are either fully or severely excluded from accessing basic financial services, according to new research by the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW and the National Australia Bank.
10 May 2011
Clever UNSW designs for improved healthcare, surf safety and emergency response are among the finalists of Australia's top student industrial design competition.
06 May 2011
It would take only a single inspirational politician to change the media and political landscape, according to one of Australia's pre-eminent journalists, Kerry O'Brien, who delivered the flagship Wallace Wurth Memorial lecture.
04 May 2011
It's about time Australia became a card carrying member of the global R&D club, argue Professors Fred Hilmer and Les Field.
04 May 2011
The launch of a new report on convergent media by the Journalism and Media Research Centre, will provide new foundations for the national debate.
03 May 2011
UNSW's Centre for Refugee Research has been selected by the United Nations to help international female refugees present their stories of survival, marking the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention.
08 April 2011
UNSW's Faculty of Built Environment will help shape the Sydney of the future under an agreement announced by Lord Mayor Clover Moore this week.
08 April 2011
An alliance victory in Libya, however defined, will be illusory, writes Associate Professor Ian Bickerton.
01 April 2011
NSW Labor has one thing over the Coalition, argues Louise Chappell, its willingness to put in place a quota system that challenges male-dominated party processes.
29 March 2011
Is the university as we know it an endangered species? Get the full story in the first edition of Uniken for 2011.