University Of New South Wales

Professor Perminder Sachdev, Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Sydney and world-leading clinician and academic, has been awarded the 2022 Ryman Prize by Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in…

Janet Salem, co-founder of climatetech startup FootprintLab, says she is keen to change the way people perceive engineers after being awarded the 2022 UNSW Women in Engineering Ada Lovelace Medal for Outstanding Engineer.Her prize was one…

Scientia Professor Justin Gooding from UNSW Science has been presented with a Frontiers Research Award in recognition of the cutting-edge ‘Rastrum’ 3D bioprinter, a technology that has applications from biomedical research to drug…

Electric cars are widely regarded as our best bet to replace conventional cars with a more environment-friendly alternative. However, electric cars and other electric vehicles will most likely run on lithium-ion batteries, which currently…

A highlight on Sydney’s cultural calendar, the A&D Annual brings together graduates from UNSW School of Art & Design working across an array of media from installation, animation, digital media, film, visual communication, graphic…

With approximately one in five of NSW’s 721 beaches having lifeguards and surf lifesavers, chances are that thousands of holidaymakers will be swimming at unpatrolled beaches these Christmas holidays.And while many of us cherish this…

UNSW Sydney researchers have secured more than $16 million in the latest round of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant scheme funding.Developing a world-first alcohol market monitoring system, using CCTV to…

Kurdish-Iranian refugee and award-winning writer Behrouz Boochani delivered the 2022 Wallace Wurth Lecture at UNSW Sydney on Tuesday night, sharing why a human narrative is integral to fighting Australia’s current refugee policies.Mr…

Professor Jane McAdam, the Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and one of the world’s leading scholars in international refugee law, has been awarded the prestigious Australian Human Rights Commission Law Award.The…

Materials scientists at UNSW Sydney have shown that human pluripotent stem cells in a lab can initiate a process resembling the gastrulation phase – where cells begin differentiating into new cell types – much earlier than occurs in…