2010-02-25 - Human genome breakthrough
In a major breakthrough, scientists have dramatically expanded the volume of genetic information available to medical researchers about complex human diseases and their potential treatments.
2010-02-25 - Australia Day Honours
Three distinguished members of the Australian School of Business community were recognised in the 2010 Australia Day Honours List; Mr Steven Lowy, Mr Robert Maple-Brown and Mr Mark Compton.
2010-02-19 - New approach to healthy cities
NSW Health officials have launched a new initiative with UNSW planning experts at the University of New South Wales to investigate relationships between health and the built environment.
2010-02-04 - Fine Australians
An eminent group of UNSW researchers, alumni and supporters has been recognised in this year’s Australia Day honours, including Scientia Professor Phil Mitchell and Associate Professor Denis King for their services to medicine.
2010-01-24 - Students unlock Wollemi Pine secrets
UNSW students have sequenced the chloroplast genome of the ancient Wollemi Pine – a world first that could reveal how a "dinosaur" of the tree kingdom survived 200 million years of shifting continents and changing climates.
2010-01-24 - War and Peace
UNSW PhD graduate Moya Collett has won the Australian Political Studies Association prize for best thesis for her research on conflict and peacekeeping in West Africa.
2010-01-15 - CFL globes not so bright
Think your new energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamp doesn't throw as much light as the old incandescent bulb it replaced? You're right, a new study has found.
2010-01-07 - An Outback wonder
The team saw boom conditions as the desert ecosystem sprang to life, with carpets of wildflowers and massive breeding events from freshwater fish and vast bird colonies. The drying of the lake saw the ecosystem go gradually into bust mode.
2010-01-07 - Quantum age edges closer
In the two breakthroughs, written up in the international journals Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters, researchers have for the first time demonstrated two ways to deliberately place an electron in a nano-sized device on a silicon chip.
2009-12-29 - Funds put bionic eye in sight
A bionic eye capable of restoring vision to the blind is a step closer to reality after the federal government awarded $42 million in funding to a consortium including leading researchers from UNSW.
2009-12-23 - Hollywood Honours
Animator and COFA digital media graduate Phillip To has been nominated for an Annie Award, the animation industry’s highest accolade.
2009-12-23 - Selling Patients
Getting the best treatment in hospital doesn’t just depend on your doctor’s clinical nous and bedside manner, but also how well they “sell” you as a patient, research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) shows.
2009-12-16 - New ADFA agreement welcomed
Minister for Defence, Senator John Faulkner, has announced that UNSW’s agreement to provide undergraduate and postgraduate education to Defence Force personnel through UNSW@ADFA has been extended to 2023.
2009-12-16 - Young engineer Australia's finest
A UNSW graduate engineer helping develop smart grid technologies for NSW has been named Australia’s Young Professional Engineer of the Year. Mr Clark is now leading the team developing Energy Australia’s smart grid program.
2009-12-10 - Soaring to new heights
Research into the effects of oxygen deprivation at high altitudes and policies to improve economic growth in resource-rich countries will be pursued by two outstanding UNSW graduates awarded General Sir John Monash scholarships.
2009-12-10 - New funds boost research strength
A grant of $600,000 was made for an advanced facility for the development of new-generation optical fibre nanotechnologies for use in areas including biomedical imaging, sustainable energy industries and environmental monitoring.
2009-12-03 - HIV Risk Remains
Around 1,000 Australians will be newly infected with HIV in the coming year and Australians should not be complacent about the risk, UNSW researchers have warned on World AIDS Day.
2009-12-03 - Cancer Boost
UNSW won almost $4.5 million across 11 projects in the NSW government’s Cancer Institute NSW grant scheme and the federal government’s Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme.
2009-11-26 - Innovating for the future at UNSW
A team of physicists at the University of New South Wales has solved a major part of the puzzle with the creation of the world's narrowest conducting wire, leading to a research partnership with IBM.
2009-11-26 - Leading the way
Primary and high school principals from across the state have joined education researchers and students at the launch of UNSW’s Office of Educational Leadership (OEL) – the first initiative of its kind in Australia.
2009-11-20 - New Visions of Sydney Life
Radically redesigned train stations, mobile art galleries in the Domain and an agricultural precinct at White Bay are among new ideas for Sydney explored by young architects in a new exhibition opening this week.
2009-11-20 - Making an impact
UNSW Chancellor David Gonski’s “extraordinary leadership” in philanthropy has been recognised with a major award from the Business/Higher Education Round Table.
2009-10-29 - UNSW tops ARC Funding
UNSW has received the most funding of any university in the country – $47.8 million – in the Australian Research Council’s latest round of grants.The funding, commencing January 2010, covers 122 projects across the Discovery and Linkage competitive grant schemes.UNSW is the top performer in Linkage grants, winning $11.36 million for 28 cutting-edge projects involving collaboration with industry partners.
2009-10-24 - Quest for a Green Campus
Alumna Leith Sharp established UNSW’s green campus program in 1995 before moving to Harvard University as foundation director of its Green Campus Initiative.
2009-10-15 - Watt a beauty
UNSW's Sunswift solar racing team has unveiled a new car which can reach 115km/h using the same amount of power it takes to make your morning toast.
2009-10-15 - UNSW in world’s Top 50
UNSW came in at 47 on the UK Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings 2009, one of six Australian institutions to make the top 50.
2009-09-30 - Medical media moguls
UNSW students have launched an Australia-first academic journal offering a forum for medical students to showcase their research and share ideas.
2009-09-30 - UNSWTV wins beach safety award
A UNSWTV video on beach safety that has been viewed by more than 50,000 people has won an Australian Safer Communities Award, sponsored by Emergency Management Australia (EMA).
2009-09-24 - Research backs legend of man-eating bird
A huge flesh-eating eagle that became extinct in New Zealand only 500 years ago was an efficient hunter that could attack prey 10 times its size, UNSW research has found, lending credibility to a Maori legend of a giant man-eating bird.
2009-09-16 - Triple win for UNSW Researchers
Breakthrough work on crash-proof computers, the genetics of toxic algae and space-based radar have won recognition for three UNSW researchers at the NSW Scientist of the Year awards.
2009-09-11 - COFA artist wins Blake Prize
The 58th Blake Prize for Religious Art has been awarded to artist and COFA masters student Angelica Mesiti for a silent video work entitled [Rapture (silent anthem)].
2009-09-01 - Online solutions to mental disorders
In findings that could revolutionise the way psychologists treat their patients, researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and St Vincent’s Hospital have shown online treatments are just as effective as face-to-face therapies for a wide range of common mental disorders.
2009-09-01 - New Solar power world record
UNSW solar cell researchers have played the key role in achieving the highest efficiency for solar power, setting a new world record of 43 per cent of sunlight converted into electricity.
2009-08-31 - How to save the planet
Governments are failing to implement effective climate change policies so it’s up to citizens to demand action, argues Dr Mark Diesendorf from UNSW’s Institute of Environmental Studies (IES).
2009-08-22 - ASB to tie up with Wharton
In a major coup, UNSW’s Australian School of Business (ASB) has struck an exclusive agreement with the prestigious US business school Wharton, to become a partner in the global Knowledge@Wharton Network. An online portal for capturing and disseminating business knowledge, Knowledge@Wharton has a global audience of more than 1.3 million subscribers.
2009-08-22 - Five Star Success
UNSW has scored the maximum five-star rating for seven key performance indicators in the 2010 Good Universities Guide. The Guide describes UNSW as “one of the heavyweights of Australian higher education ... it’s big, tough to get into … offering an intense, rich tertiary experience”.
2009-08-13 - MBA scores top ranking
The AGSM MBA Program at the Australian School of Business has been ranked as the leading full-time MBA in Australia, and number 9 world-wide among non-US programs in the prestigious Forbes biennial rankings.
2009-08-07 - Life-saving vision wins design gold
UNSW’s iCinema, a three-dimensional, 360-degree virtual reality cinema, which has opened up new possibilities in art, education and industry training, has won a top prize at the “Oscars” of international design, the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
2009-08-07 - New Media key to power people:
The ability of human rights advocates to harness modern communications means regimes around the world can no longer commit barbarities against their own people and expect to get away with it, East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta has told a UNSW audience.
2009-07-31 - UNSW in a new light
UNSW and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) combined their considerable talents to transform the University campus this week in a special joint performance to mark major milestones.
2009-07-24 - Choreographing the future
Some of Australia’s most promising new choreographers – including international award-winner Adam Linder – will benefit from a dance residency program at UNSW, to be launched this week (Thursday 23rd July).
2009-07-24 - The flu fighters
Three UNSW research teams will conduct urgent studies to help boost Australia’s defences against the evolving threat of H1N1 swine flu.
2009-07-17 - Hitting leukaemia at its source
Researchers from UNSW and the Children's Cancer Institute Australia have developed a new approach to the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), one of the most aggressive forms of the disease.
2009-07-17 - Investors still like risky business
The research, by Associate Professor Hazel Bateman of the Australian School of Business, together with Professor Jordan Louviere and Dr Susan Thorp from University of Technology, Sydney, was presented at the Australian Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers. It examined attitudes of individuals choosing an investment portfolio for a hypothetical retirement savings contribution.
2009-07-11 - Half century of vital research
UNSW’s Water Research Laboratory (WRL) has marked 50 years of providing unique and invaluable advice and analysis on the diverse challenges of managing and understanding our water resources.
2009-07-10 - AGSM MBA Class of 2008 - Employment Results
The Australian School of Business’ AGSM MBA graduates of 2008 have achieved excellent employment results, with 92% either finding employment or receiving job offers within three months of graduation. The average post-MBA total salary package is AUD 142,990, a 53% increase on the corresponding pre-MBA package of AUD 93,642.
2009-06-28 - Fellowship fuels food for thought
Feeding nearly a billion undernourished people, and obesity in over-indulging wealthy nations are two of the biggest food problems facing the world today, according to Emeritus Professor Ken Buckle, newly elected Fellow of the US Institute of Food Technologists.
2009-06-28 - Training the frontline
The state's frontline public health officers will be trained by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM), following a partnership between UNSW and NSW Health.
2009-06-18 - End game: combatting terrorism
Research using computer gaming technology to help protect Australia from terrorism is among several UNSW projects funded in the latest round of Linkage Grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
2009-06-18 - COFA reveals all in Venice
The COFA graduates dominating Australia’s representation at the world’s most prestigious art exhibition have finally revealed their works to an international audience in Venice.
2009-05-28 - Uncovering schizophrenia risk
Pinpointing new risk factors associated with schizophrenia will be part of the research focus of Australia’s first Chair in Schizophrenia Epidemiology and Population Health at UNSW.
2009-05-09 - Water-Saving Vision
UNSW graduate engineer Alexandra Bennett has won recognition for an undergraduate project focused on an innovative way to help Australia’s farms to withstand drought.
2009-05-09 - Inventor of the year
Solar cell inventor Stuart Wenham has won the top prize at the 2009 Inventor of the Year awards hosted by New South Innovations, UNSW’s technology commercialisation company.
2009-04-15 - A vote for Indigenous rights
Director of UNSW’s Indigenous Law Centre, Megan Davis, has welcomed the Australian Government’s endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, describing it as “an historic decision” that will improve lives.
2009-04-12 - Top Performers
Under the new program, undergraduate applicants can receive up to five bonus points on their UAI rank for entry into their preferred UNSW program.
2009-04-12 - Web lectures a smart head-start
Mr Buckland, an award-winning lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, has made his first-year Higher Computing course available to 16 high school students this year, via a combination of online video lectures and face-to-face tutorials. The program will expand to a new intake of students next year.
2009-04-02 - Excellence by Design
Professor Ken Maher, of the Faculty of the Built Environment (FBE), has confirmed his status as one of Australia’s leading architects by winning his profession’s highest honour, the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
2009-04-02 - Google This: Ori’s Success
The brilliant work of a UNSW PhD researcher, which was snapped up by internet search behemoth Google, is now helping millions of people conduct more useful and relevant searches on the web.
2009-02-05 - Drought mystery solved
The causes of south-eastern Australia's longest, most severe droughts have been discovered, with the surprise finding that they originate far away in the Indian Ocean.
2009-02-05 - Planting seeds of success
UNSW is accelerating research into biochar, an organic product derived from biological waste that harnesses carbon emissions, boosts crop yields and improves sustainable land use for horticulture and forestry.
2009-01-28 - Top Result for AGSM MBA
The AGSM MBA Program has been ranked as the leading full-time MBA in Australia and 32nd in the world in the Financial Times’ (UK) 2009 ranking of the top 100 global MBA programs.
2009-01-23 - Tapping our water expertise
UNSW will take a major role in the new $60 million National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT), announced on Thursday by the Federal Government.
2008-04-13 - New Dean for Engineering
Professor Graham Davies has taken up his new role as the Dean of Engineering. Previously the Chance Professor and Executive Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham, Professor Davies wants to see UNSW as a major player on the world scene.
2008-04-13 - Business Brains Honoured
Ken Cowley now has a qualification to match his status in the Australian business community. The chairman of R.M. Williams and a former News Limited chief executive was awarded an honourary business doctorate for his eminent service to the community. Over his 45-year career in business Mr Cowley has also worked in the aviation and banking industries.
2008-04-13 - Scaling the Heights
Twenty-three-year-old medical student Nikki Bart and her mother, Cheryl Bart, who is an alumna of UNSW, hope to be the first mother-and-daughter team to conquer the world’s highest mountain. The pair has already scaled six of the Seven Summits – the tallest peaks on each of the world’s seven continents - together.
2008-04-13 - Turning brain science fiction into fact
Brain Sciences UNSW is quickly building a first-class reputation among the country’s top research students. In its first offering of scholarships, the institute has attracted five leading PhD students. Among the new scholars is Stewart Heitmann who hopes his work will one day help to “build a brain”.
2007-07-19 - Newsletters
Want to be in the know, link back to the campus, find out what UNSW is upto in India? Auto Post, the Newsletter for Indian Alumni tells all. Download your copy now.
2007-06-28 - UNSW Asia closes
The University of New South Wales will close its campus in Singapore, Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer announced today.
2007-06-28 - UNSW Strengthens Ties With India
16 October 2006, India: The University of New South Wales is strengthening its engagement with India, becoming the first Australian university to establish a company dedicated to developing commercial and research partnerships and student and staff exchange with India.
2007-06-28 - UNSW Global Scholarships
In recognition of the increasing importance of the Australia-India relationship and in order to reward academic achievement in the International Assessment of Indian Schools we have recently announced the UNSW Global High Achiever Scholarship. The Scholarship is established to provide assistance to Indian high achievers in the IAIS to undertake an undergraduate qualification of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
2007-06-28 - UNSW India Launch
The University of New South Wales strengthened its engagement with India by becoming the first Australian university to establish a company dedicated to developing commercial and research partnerships and student and staff exchange with India.
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