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11 September 2007
Dr Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia, will discuss the challenge of living with a mental illness in a high profile profession when he gives the second Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture, presented by UNSW.
06 September 2007
The wily dingo out-competed the much larger marsupial thylacine by being better built anatomically to resist the "mechanical stresses" associated with killing large prey, according to a team led by UNSW scientists.
04 September 2007
New research to be published in the UNSW's Australian School of Business Magazine reveals there's a double edge to quarantine restrictions.
04 September 2007
UNSW researcher Dr Christine Lu has been awarded a prestigious Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship to undertake advanced research and study in the United States.
04 September 2007
The architects of Cambodia's famed Angkor- the world's most extensive medieval "hydraulic city" - unwittingly engineered its environmental collapse, says research by UNSW scientists and a team of international scholars.
28 August 2007
Zimbabwe's Opposition Leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, will give a public lecture at UNSW this week.
28 August 2007
Russell Lowe, a digital technology expert specialising in repurposing computer gaming technology to aid architectural design, will host a forum on digital architecture on 28 August.
28 August 2007
Former High Court Justice, the Hon Michael McHugh AC, QC, will argue that High Court decisions on the common law have often forced the Federal and State legislatures to enact controversial and politically divisive legislation to overcome those decisions, when he presents the 2007 Hal Wootten lecture at UNSW.
27 August 2007
Former High Court Justice, Michael McHugh, has outlined how the High Court has often frustrated the legislative policies of political parties in a public lecture at UNSW.
24 August 2007
Interior Architecture student Hayley Carr has won two black belt events in an international karate competition.
24 August 2007
UNSW researchers have highlighted concerns about the clinical use and cost benefits of one of Australia's most expensive publicly funded medicines, the anti-breast cancer drug Herceptin.
21 August 2007
Former High Court Justice the Hon Michael McHugh AC, QC will discuss the legislative repercussions of High Court decisions when he presents the annual Hal Wootten lecture at UNSW.
21 August 2007
Global financial services firm UBS has committed to a major investment in support of Indigenous programs at the University of New South Wales.
13 August 2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri has told a UNSW audience that nations like Australia need to "act resolutely on the basis of the scientific evidence" that global warming is due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
07 August 2007
UNSW's commercialisation division, New South Innovations (NSi) has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Coal Services Pty Ltd to supply a suite of software and virtual-reality theatres to support mine safety training.
03 August 2007
Three UNSW students will represent Australia in Water Polo and Table Tennis at the upcoming World University Summer Games.
31 July 2007
Three students from the Planning and Urban Development Program in the Faculty of the Built Environment (FBE) have dominated the Urban Development Institute of Australia's 2007 Tertiary Awards for Excellence.
19 July 2007
The implications of the Federal government's intervention in Northern Territory Indigenous communities will be examined this week at a national forum organised by UNSW's Indigenous Law Centre.
17 July 2007
The implications of the Federal government's intervention in Northern Territory Indigenous communities will be examined at a national forum this week organised by UNSW's Indigenous Law Centre.
16 July 2007
Thirty eight design and engineering students will construct an enormous sculpture of a snake, nick-named Ed, on the UNSW campus to celebrate multi-disciplinary design education.
16 July 2007
A world-first symposium at UNSW will look at new trends in the field of design education and the growing collaboration between architects, engineers and designers.
16 July 2007
Since 11 September 2001 the Australian government has created 44 new laws as a key component of its efforts to combat terrorism. A major international symposium, to be held at UNSW, will look at the challenges protection from the threat of terrorism presents to the rule of law.
13 July 2007
Leading young researchers in the area of crime and justice have been brought together by the inaugural UNSW Crime and Justice Research Network interdisciplinary student conference.
13 July 2007
Music that expresses more emotion than that felt by listeners is likely to be unpopular or "daggy", according to new empirical research from UNSW.
10 July 2007
Thirty eight design and engineering students have constructed an enormous sculpture of a snake, nick-named Ed, on the UNSW campus to celebrate multi-disciplinary design education.