The eminent British economist Professor Sir Tony Atkinson - a leading world authority on inequality and poverty - will give a public lecture at UNSW this week.
Larry Dwyer, Qantas Professor of Travel and Tourism Economics from the University of New South Wales, has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to tourism.
Floods across large parts of western Queensland will produce a bird bonanza lasting six to nine months, according to UNSW researcher Professor Richard Kingsford.
Two UNSW students have won a major engineering competition, triumphing over entrants from several of the world's leading universities, including Oxford.
The Diplomacy Training Program and Oxfam Australia's Indigenous Australia Program areholding a training course at UNSW to look at human rights advocacy.
The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) has been ranked as the leading business school in Australia and among the top 50 business schools in the world in the Financial Times (UK) 2007 ranking of full time MBA programs.
The IT community has acted to support technical teaching of computer engineering at UNSW by donating more than $100,000 to the John Lions Chair in Operating Systems.
UNSW has built Sydney's largest percolation pit on its Kensington campus. The pit drains the storm water from 70 percent of the campus into the Botany aquifer.
