UNSW has received $6m as part of a $15m NSW Government funding package that aims to advance Australia's research priorities and build new world-class research facilities.
UNSW has topped the bill in the 2008 Good Universities Guide. The Guide gives UNSW the maximum five-star rating for nine key performance indicators, well above any other GO8 University.
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.
Leading climatologist Professor Stefan Rahmstorf revealed today at a UNSW public lecture that sea-level rises caused by global warming could be higher than those published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earlier this year.
The NSW Minister for Science and Medical Research has opened the inaugural Stem Cell Symposium at UNSW, announcing that half a million dollars will be given to stem cell research.
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.
