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19 February 2016

Orientation Week is where you start your university journey

Get prepared for university at Orientation Week

Get a taste of uni life and kickstart your semester with some essential preparations at Orientation Week from 22–26 February.

25 February 2016

Workers happier and equally productive with sit-stand desks

Take a stand

Workers who use sit-stand desks are just as productive as those who use traditional desks while enjoying a host of possible health benefits, according to a world-first study by researchers at the University of Sydney.

25 February 2016

The consequences of detaining asylum seekers in foreign countries

Call for humane government response to plight of asylum seekers in detention

Professor Elizabeth Elliott has called on the Federal Government for a more humane response to the plight of 267 asylum seekers held in offshore detention centres.

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19 February 2016

Kickstart your semester at Orientation Week from 22–26 February

Five things you should do at Orientation Week

Orientation Week is a great opportunity to get a few important things done before classes start.

25 February 2016

Fieldwork at the University of Sydney’s One Tree Island Research Station has provided new evidence ocean acidification resulting from carbon dioxide emissions is already slowing coral reef growth.

Ocean acidification already slowing coral reef growth

For the first time field-based research has found a link between ocean acidification and coral reef growth. Previous findings have been based on laboratory experiments.

24 February 2016

Every year, Teal Ribbon Day promotes awareness of ovarian cancer

New research taking the fight to ovarian cancer

The latest research into genes and tumour mutations may offer new hope in the fight against one of the most tragic and challenging cancers – ovarian cancer.

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01 March 2016

Soda Politics in the US

Professor Marion Nestle

Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium

Panel discussion with former contestants

08 March 2016

If You are the One

10 March 2016

Insights 2016: Lecture Series

The Conversation Machine with Professor Nick Enfield

General Lecture Theatre

01 March 2016

Soda Politics in the US

Professor Marion Nestle

Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium

01 March 2016

Soda Politics in the US

Professor Marion Nestle

Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium

Panel discussion with former contestants

08 March 2016

If You are the One

10 March 2016

Insights 2016: Lecture Series

The Conversation Machine with Professor Nick Enfield

General Lecture Theatre