We’re tapping into UNSW Engineering Professor Stuart Khan's expertise on water quality and how to keep your drinking water safe as the Australian bushfires continue.
24 Jan 2020
UNSW Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Professor Megan Davis says the Uluru Statement from the Heart provides a roadmap to resolving the heated Australia Day debate.
Baby Kalara with her mother Sam, who has type 1 diabetes. Kalara is part of the ENDIA Study. Picture: OMGImagery
24 Jan 2020
An additional $8.25 million for the ENDIA Study into type 1 diabetes will enable researchers to follow 1500 children in the first years of their lives.
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15 Jan 2020
UNSW academics are available for interview on the bushfires, discussing links to climate change, and how fires affect our health and water supplies.
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24 Jan 2020
More than $1.3 million has been awarded to three UNSW research projects through the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Scheme.
Dr Tristan Moss from UNSW Canberra has been awarded the Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies.
24 Jan 2020
UNSW’s 2020 recipients will travel to esteemed US research institutions and organisations under the flagship foreign exchange program.
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Professor Alta Schutte will join UNSW Sydney under the University’s Strategic Hires and Retention Pathways (SHARP) initiative.
24 Jan 2020
Professor Alta Schutte will join UNSW Sydney as Principal for Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine.
Urban planners and architects have warned that not all bushfire prone areas may be suitable for reconstruction because of the elevated risk in a changing climate.
23 Jan 2020
The Dean of UNSW Built Environment says it’s possible to build more fire resistant homes, but designs need to use best practice principles to be resilient.
The media have revealed Federal Sport Minister Bridget McKenzie’s conflict of interest in granting money to a gun club without disclosing she was a member. Credit: Shutterstock
23 Jan 2020
Usually, governments expect these sorts of controversies to blow over after 10 days but that is not happening.
Warragamba Dam supplies water to 3.7 million people in Sydney and the lower Blue Mountains and is currently sitting at 42.6% full. Picture: Shutterstock
23 Jan 2020
A study by UNSW engineers suggests we should get used to water restrictions as modelling predicts inflows into natural reservoirs are set to decrease.
22 Jan 2020
UNSW Art & Design Professor Ian Howard has been fascinated with the rubbing technique since the 1960s, a time also marked by the escalation of the Vietnam War.
UNSW Business School has secured funding from the Australia-ASEAN Council (AAC) to help enable women’s economic empowerment and financial inclusion in developing communities.
Professor Sisi Zlatanova investigates the use of 3D digital models with the aim of improving accessibility, safety and emergency response procedures.
The association between working long hours and developing mental illness remained regardless of age, gender, level of training, location, marital status and whether the junior doctor was trained overseas or locally. Image: Shutterstock
22 Jan 2020
Junior doctors who work more than 55 hours a week are at a greater risk of developing mental health problems and experiencing suicidal ideation.
A new and independent national taskforce, Engineering for Australia Taskforce, aims to address the gender disparity among applicants for university. Image: Shutterstock
21 Jan 2020
A new taskforce has launched a report that shows we need to change the perception of engineering in schools and society to increase gender diversity.
Professor Mari Velonaki is the Director of the Creative Robotics Lab at UNSW Art & Design. Her research is in social robotics that can assist humans, including autistic children and the elderly.
A scan taken from the new Fire and Rescue NSW Emergency Services Academy in Orchard Hills. Image: Supplied.
21 Jan 2020
A research team from UNSW Built Environment is using 3D mapping technology to help improve fire safety and crisis response procedures for Fire and Rescue NSW.
UNSW donor-conceived PhD student Giselle Newton
20 Jan 2020
A group of donor-conceived and surrogate-born people have spoken out at the UN in a renewed push to improve the rights of access to biological information.
16 Jan 2020
Another troubling consequence of the bushfire smoke is its effects on our eyes. But there are some steps we can take to minimise irritation and any risk of longer-term harm.
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20 Jan 2020
UNSW Business School secures funding to strengthen relationships with countries of Southeast Asia.
New UNSW research shows the possibility of the iconic Australian platypus becoming extinct because of threats including climate change and human-related habitat loss. Picture: UNSW Science
20 Jan 2020
New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs.
Conjoint Professor Bin Jalaludin says the P2 face masks are the most effective masks to wear on smoky days.
Conjoint Professor Bin Jalaludin from UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine answers your top questions about air quality and how to stay protected as the Australian bushfires continue.
The team from the National Facility for Human Robot Interaction Research and the Creative Robotics Lab at UNSW was awarded a grant that will enhance the cognitive performance and resilience of troops in the Australian Army.
20 Jan 2020
The $523,000 grant from the Human Performance Research network (HPRnet) will be used to develop technology to improve cognitive performance and resilience
14 Jan 2020
UNSW Philosophy/Medicine alumnus Dr Thomas Riisfeldt resurrects the end-of-life debate with his controversial stance on the ethics of euthanasia.
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