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  • Students to advise Chinese enterprises as part of unique MBA module

    22 May 2013

    In a tertiary education first, students in the University of Sydney Business School's new MBA program will advise Chinese enterprises wanting to invest in Australia or do business with Australian companies.

  • Professor Ron McCallum patron for people with disability

    22 May 2013

    Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO, former Dean of Sydney Law School has been named as this year's Patron for International Day of People with Disability.

  • Cannes beckons engineer

    17 May 2013

    A short film created by a University of Sydney engineering student has been selected for showing at this year's Cannes International Film Festival.

  • The right to be different

    17 May 2013

    Are you capable of interacting positively with people who do not look like, talk like, move like, think like, believe like, act like, live like or love like you? It's a question Professor Tawara Goode, Director of the National Centre for Cultural Competence from Georgetown University helped to answer during her visit to the University last week as the first visitor of the Wingara Mura Visiting Thinkers series.

  • How cyanide-eating butterflies led to Charles Perkins Centre appointment

    16 May 2013

    "Nutritional ecology is so central to every aspect of life that it should be considered a foundational part of biology in the same way evolution is," says Professor David Raubenheimer, the first chair appointed to the Charles Perkins Centre.

  • Does upsetting China matter?

    16 May 2013

    Professor Kerry Brown asks: what are the costs these days of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people?

  • China: what we think we know is wrong

    16 May 2013

    There's been too much lazy categorisation. It's time to get microscopic about power in China, says Kerry Brown.

  • Sydney Law School leads successful constitutional talks in Myanmar

    15 May 2013

    A Sydney Law School-led workshop in Yangon last week, attended by politicians and decision makers across Myanmar's political spectrum, has agreed to promote constitutional reform in that country.

  • Australian BREAST moves overseas

    15 May 2013

    A web-based training tool for reading mammograms developed by researchers at the Faculty of Health Sciences is poised to be implemented across the globe.

  • Piano student already winning over the world's stages

    15 May 2013

    Tony Lee, a student of piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, has taken out the first prize in the under 24 category of a major international piano competition in Paris.