University Of New South Wales

A program designed to support first-year regional and culturally and linguistically diverse students entering university has received funding through the state government’s Collaboration & Innovation Fund. The Start@Uni program, a…

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have discovered that a particular transposable element, or jumping gene, in the genome has a profound effect on the immune response to virus infection.The findings in mice, published in Nature today, provide…

A new study suggests the worst effects of global warming on Earth’s largest ice sheet can be avoided if the world meets the climate targets outlined in the Paris Agreement – but if we fail, then the melting of the ice sheet will have a…

Do more pores in a sieve allow more liquid to flow through it? As material scientists have uncovered, this seemingly simple question may have an unexpected answer at the nanoscale – and it could have important implications in the…

Dr Noam Peleg, senior lecturer at UNSW’s Faculty of Law & Justice, said suggestions by the NSW government that children as young as 10 could work off COVID fines of up to $1000 were “outrageous” and a breach of Australia’s obligations…

A collaborative research series between UNSW’s Gendered Violence Research Network (GVRN) and Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is deepening understanding of economic and financial abuse within the context of domestic and family violence.The GVRN x…

Despite women with stroke being more likely than men to arrive at hospital by ambulance, their care is less likely to follow a smooth pathway of care along the way, researchers from The George Institute for Global Health and UNSW Medicine…

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have developed a tiny, transparent and flexible material to be used as a novel dielectric (insulator) component in transistors. The new material would enable what conventional silicon semiconductor electronics…

People challenged with chronic back pain have been given hope with a new treatment that focuses on retraining how the back and the brain communicate, a randomised controlled trial run by researchers at UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience…

More than 40 multilingual students are set to bolster the NSW government’s interpreting ranks after successfully completing its Interpreting Scholarship program, facilitated by UNSW Sydney. Multicultural NSW and UNSW worked together to…