Talented UNSW Engineering student Kate Fairlie has won the Jacobs Australia Engineering Leadership Prize for her work to inspire other students to follow in her footsteps.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma and businessman and philanthropist Frank Lowy today turned the first sod at the site of the Lowy Cancer Research Centre at UNSW.
UNSW computer science lecturer Richard Buckland has been named among Australia's most outstanding university teachers in the 2007 Carrick Awards For Teaching Excellence.
A team of international researchers, including UNSW archaeologist Dr Andy Herries, has shown that the earliest humans were a sophisticated lot who decorated their bodies, used advanced stone tools and enjoyed seafood.
UNSW climatologist Andy Pitman has cause to celebrate the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize won by Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The UNSW Sunswift Solar Racing Team is once again ready to do battle in the World Solar Challenge, a gruelling race from Darwin to Adelaide. They'll be relying the power of the sun - and some very clever thinking.
