University Of New South Wales

UNSW PhD candidates were given the opportunity to showcase their innovative research at the annual UNSW 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) finals last week. Eighteen PhD candidates had just three minutes and a single Powerpoint slide to explain their…

The number of successful heart transplants has soared by a quarter at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, since the introduction of technology pioneered by St Vincent’s, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and UNSW Medicine &…

The CleanAir Schools pilot program is being expanded from six to 100 NSW schools over the next two years to better understand the environment that Australia’s children learn and play in.The $1.9 million program, developed by UNSW…

There were 552 new HIV diagnoses in Australia in 2021, meaning the number of new diagnoses has halved over the past 10 years, according to a new national HIV report released today by UNSW’s Kirby Institute at the joint HIV&AIDS and…

UNSW Sydney Professor Cyrille Boyer has been awarded a prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC).The scheme supports world-class researchers to conduct research in Australia, forge strong links…

Two UNSW Sydney projects researching the transmission of COVID-19 and the development of an innovative antiviral treatment have received almost $2 million in funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).Aerosol transmission of…

Psychologists at UNSW Sydney have challenged the prevailing view that people with exceptional face recognition abilities rely on processing faces holistically.Instead, they argue, people who are great at learning and remembering new faces…

Estuaries – where rivers meet the sea – are some of the most valuable habitats on earth. As well as being biologically diverse and productive places, they are host to ports and a significant portion of the world’s population.Researchers…

UNSW nuclear engineering expert Dr Edward Obbard says fears that Australia’s agreement to acquire nuclear submarines will lead to it developing nuclear weapons in the future are unfounded.Dr Obbard, program coordinator of UNSW’s nuclear…

UNSW Sydney has received $2.5 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding for a Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) which will investigate violence in the community.Professor Tony Butler at…