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7 December 09 |
More than a hundred teenage refugee footballers will converge on an eastern Sydney soccer field tomorrow (Tuesday, 8 December) to learn who will be part of Australia's other team heading to the 2010 World Cup.
4 December 09 |
Voicing youth concerns and holding governments to account are among the goals of UNSW's young climate change activists heading to Copenhagen this month.
4 December 09 |
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard officiated at the start of work on UNSW's landmark new research centre, the Tyree Energy Technologies Building.
4 December 09 |
A group of primary school students are already making plans for university study following the launch of UNSW's newest social inclusion initiative, XPLORE UNSW.
1 December 09 |
Research into the attitudes of women toward genetic testing for cancer has received major backing in two separate rounds of state and federal government funding.
1 December 09 |
Poor countries in South-East Asia could experience a spike in HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths due to the effects of the global economic crisis, UNSW research has found.
1 December 09 |
Australians should not be complacent about the risk of HIV infection, UNSW researchers have warned on World AIDS Day.
27 November 09 |
Climate change is accelerating beyond expectations and urgent emissions reductions are required, according to a new report by some of the world's top climate scientists.
26 November 09 |
Australia is losing the battle against obesity and more attention must be given to the role of drugs in managing weight loss, UNSW researchers say.
24 November 09 |
An extra 600,000 megalitres of water needs to be returned to the Murray River to avert an environmental disaster in its lower reaches, a scientific review has found.
24 November 09 |
Medical researchers have for the first time demonstrated that "comfort eating" can reverse the effects in the brain of psychological trauma experienced early in life.
24 November 09 |
UNSW has launched Australia's first research and teaching program dedicated to lifting leadership standards in education and improving student outcomes.
20 November 09 |
Researchers from the Australian School of Business will be at the forefront of designing the auction system for Australia's carbon pollution permits.
20 November 09 |
Australia's next generation of artists and designers will reveal their final projects at the 2009 COFA Annual exhibition.
20 November 09 |
A new approach to harnessing small-scale solar power could deliver higher levels of efficiency in portable power sources.
17 November 09 |
Radically redesigned train stations and mobile art galleries are among ideas for Sydney explored by young architects in a new exhibition.
16 November 09 |
Israeli human rights advocate and litigator Professor Frances Raday will deliver the Australian Human Rights Centre annual lecture at the University of New South Wales on Tuesday 17 November.
13 November 09 |
Psychologist Mona Taouk is developing a world-first questionnaire to identify young people at risk of depression and suicide.
13 November 09 |
When it comes to making a difference, death is no obstacle. In the November/December issue of Uniken, we hear about those who generously donate their bodies to science.
12 November 09 |
UNSW Chancellor David Gonski's "extraordinary leadership" in philanthropy has been recognised with a major award from the Business/Higher Education Round Table.
11 November 09 |
It is with immense shock and distress that the UNSW community heard news of the death of Nick Waterlow, Director of the Ivan Dougherty Gallery at COFA and a much loved and respected member of staff.
10 November 09 |
Sydney's native bush rats were victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague in 1900, according to scientists who plan to reintroduce the native rodents.
10 November 09 |
One of Australia's leading experts in early childhood education, Professor Deborah Brennan, has been elected to the Academy of Social Sciences.
6 November 09 |
The Role of Education in the Road to Reconciliation will be discussed by a panel of experts, lead by Professor Pat Dodson, at the University of New South Wales next week.
6 November 09 |
Australian scientists led by UNSW remote sensing expert Associate Professor LinLin Ge will have access to high resolution images from Chinese satellites, boosting our capacity to respond to natural disasters.
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