In this video we have captured the essence of what makes our community extraordinary - our people. More than 100 students, staff, researchers and professors participated and we are excited to share with you a glimpse of what makes the University of Sydney so special.
Marie Bashir has served the University of Sydney for more than 50 years, as a student in medicine and music, a lecturer, a professor, and as chancellor.
An $11.5 million, state-of-the-art facility for the education and clinical training of students and professionals, was launched by the Governor of New South Wales today.
Australia's potential to become the 'food bowl' of Asia has triggered a drive to develop robots for use in farming and agriculture and University of Sydney mechatronics experts are leading the way.
A conference this afternoon, hosted by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) at Sydney Law School, will examine how the law can deal better with the growing number of climate extremes being influenced by climate change.
A promising step forward in stopping an intergenerational cycle of birth complications, diabetes and obesity associated with gestational diabetes has been made by researchers at the University of Sydney.
The world-class standard of University of Sydney research has been confirmed in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluations announced today.
The University of Sydney reached a significant milestone this week in securing our 10,000th donor for 2012, the first time in the history of the University that we have experienced support of this magnitude.
Rural housing in provincial Vietnam can be hot and damp, but an innovative project developed by University of Sydney advanced engineering students may provide the solution to keeping them cool and dry.
The locations of where the world's largest earthquakes are most likely to take place have been pinpointed with greater accuracy than ever before, by researchers from the University of Sydney.
Volunteers have united at the University of Sydney's Great Hall for the annual Birthing Kit Assembly Day event, which is now one of the largest of its kind in Australia.
Imagine your smartphone becoming a mobile medical laboratory that records and sends data for a range of research. That will soon be a reality thanks to the expertise and impatience of a University of Sydney PhD candidate.
Two spectacular paintings by the Chinese Australian artist Shen Jiawei that fuse European and Chinese history will open the inaugural annual conference for the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney tonight, Wednesday 5 December.
Nine of the most significant Australian thinkers in the field of cultural studies will sit on a powerhouse panel this Thursday to consider the state of the discipline.
Tasmanian devils had low immune gene diversity for hundreds, and possibly thousands, of years before the emergence of Devil Facial Tumour Disease, researchers at the University of Sydney and University of Adelaide have discovered.
The Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) is a major venture officially launched at the University of Sydney today with a keynote address by Professor Hilary Charlesworth.
Pavan Sukhdev, the man who has been described as 'nature's banker', will present a special Sydney Ideas lecture today (3 December) to share his vision of a global green economy.
A biography of the Australian sexologist Norman Haire, entitled 'Norman Haire: a study of sex' by Diana Wyndham, will be launched tonight by the Hon Michael Kirby at the University of Sydney's Scitech LIbrary at 6.30pm.
The assumption that childhood cancer in developing countries is prohibitively expensive to treat is challenged by new research contributed to by the University of Sydney.
Professor Paul Griffiths of the University of Sydney has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest honours in the field.
The written Chinese language is like a beautiful unbroken chain of symbols, say University of Sydney researchers who are developing IT solutions that will make information extraction from Chinese text easier and faster.
The Sydney Morning Herald has recognised two leading University of Sydney academics for their world-leading research and transformative influence on government policy in a list of Sydney's most influential people in 2012.
Anita Mitchell, a Sydney based specialist in environmental sustainability, has been selected by Financial Review BOSS and the University of Sydney Business School as the recipient of a 'First' MBA scholarship, from a pool of Australia's brightest young business talent.
Blasting superbugs with tiny nano-sized antibiotics delivered via powder aerosol may be a faster, safer and cheaper way of treating respiratory infectious diseases such as pneumonia or cystic fibrosis, claim University of Sydney pharmacy researchers.
An ambitious project by the University of Sydney's Faculty of Veterinary Science, in partnership with the federal government, is exploring how family poultry production in Africa can be made more effective to benefit families and the wider community.
The unlikely connection between Cyprus, Australia and the Greek goddess of love will be explored in a free exhibition at the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum, opening on 29 November.
Despite his passing resemblance to the Twilight star Robert Pattinson, saxophonist and PhD student Jeremy Rose is quick to clarify that his band The Vampires predates our current cultural obsession with the creatures of the night.
GPs are fitting much more into patient consultations than they were a decade ago but the average length of the consultation has stayed the same, research led by the University of Sydney shows.
The University of Sydney today announced it has received a generous $2 million gift to establish the Judith and David Coffey Life Lab at the Charles Perkins Centre.
University of Sydney Master of Commerce student Corey Payne has been recognised for his drive to help young people from less privileged schools and low socioeconomic areas pursue higher education through his award of the NSW Young Australian of the Year.
Chen Baosehng, vice-president of China's Central Party School, says the new regime aims to increase the country's economic growth as its contribution to the world.
The Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health (BHUDRH), the University of Sydney, has celebrated 15 years of helping to improve the health and lives of people in far-west New South Wales with the opening of a new $1.8 million Clinical Simulation Building by federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek.
With the business world placing increasing emphasis on entrepreneurship and innovation, University of Sydney students are embracing new opportunities to turn their business ideas into reality.
The University of Sydney joins with community, government, and rural health organisations in congratulating Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health (BHUDRH) on 15 years dedication to improving the health and lives of people in far west NSW.
In the same week as the US President's historic visit to Myanmar, and Australia's participation in the East Asia summit, Foreign Minister Bob Carr today launched the nation's first truly interdisciplinary Southeast Asia-focused research centre.
Obama's decision to visit historic not just because of what it says about the US position on Burma and efforts to promote Asian democracy, but because of what it says about southeast Asia.
Kerry Brown says of all the daunting challenges now facing Xi Jinping, the biggest may be whether he can connect with and mobilise the people - in a way his predecessor did not.
In a reversal of the centuries-old tradition of explorers undertaking ocean voyages of discovery with the hope of finding new land, a scientific party has done the complete opposite.
Research with the potential to lead the world in understanding the universe's secrets, including the formation of the first galaxies and the nature of dark matter, is being undertaken by astrophysicists from the University of Sydney in new premises opened this week.
An innovative NSW health service featuring coaching sessions conducted over the phone is an effective health promotion intervention, a University of Sydney evaluation has shown.
Physiotherapists, oncologists, psychologists, physiologists and experts in breast surgery and public health have joined forces in a new multidisciplinary research group dedicated to improving the future outcomes and overall quality of life of breast cancer sufferers.
Using technology ranging from iPads and Xboxes to projectors and typewriters, University of Sydney students have been combining design savvy and technological know-how to create exciting new works showcased at the Rocks Popup festival opening tonight, Thursday 22 November.
In the absence of a concerted effort from government and universities, our relationship with Southeast Asia risks being relegated to a sideshow as we rush to position ourselves in relation to China and India, writes Michele Ford.
The University of Sydney has launched an international recruitment campaign for 10 new chair and professorial positions to spearhead its unique cross disciplinary research into obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
In a breakthrough for both nanotechnology and multiple sclerosis research, nanoparticles have been used to stop the immune system attacking part of the nervous system in mice with the disease.
Former Director General of Al-Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, will deliver his assessment of the Middle East's progress since last year's Arab Spring at the University of Sydney this Thursday 22 November in his talk 'Journalism and Political Transition in the Arab World'.
Five scholars from the University of Sydney have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, one of the highest honours available in the humanities in Australia.
Professor Rick Benitez from the Department of Philosophy has been honoured with the 2012 Award for Teaching Excellence from the Australian Government's Office for Learning and Teaching.
Covering up and staying out of the sun for prolonged periods of time, especially in the middle of the day, is still the best way to protect ourselves from damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation, claims a University of Sydney researcher.
Dr Maria Seton from the University of Sydney's School of Geosciences is on a 25-day voyage in the eastern Coral Sea. From on board she writes of her experiences.
Three University of Sydney students will fly to Washington DC in January to see Obama's 2013 inauguration, thanks to a competition run by the US Studies Centre.
The use of antidepressants doubled in Australia between 2000 and 2011 and they now account for two out of every three psychotropic medications prescribed, a new study by the University of Sydney reveals.
Researcher Professor Tony Weiss from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre has received a prestigious USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding grant - one of the few awarded to an Australian researcher in recent years.
A smoker's license designed to limit access to tobacco products and encourage quitting has been proposed by Professor Simon Chapman, from the University of Sydney.
With as many as a 30 percent of pregnant women in Australia experiencing a caesarean birth, a study led by researchers from the University of Sydney aims to determine if there is a link between high levels of lactate in amniotic fluid and difficult labours which may end with a caesarean section.
This week a special Sydney Ideas forum will ask how social justice research can bring together practitioners, policy makers, citizens and academics in new ways to address inequality and disadvantage.
In the current issue of America's most influential international relations magazine Foreign Affairs, Dr Megan MacKenzie from the Department of Government and International Relations argues that the US military should lift their outdated ban on women serving in front-line combat.
Brighter smiles are becoming more common in Bourke thanks to the dental work performed by final-year students from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Dentistry.
Read the address by Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence at the University's recent honorary degrees ceremony, when he reflected on the achievement of our academics and students in 2012.
More widespread use of the vaccines currently available to treat bacterial meningitis could have a major impact on the disease, according to a global research review led by the University of Sydney.
Maps comprehensively detailing Sydney's access to public transport show frequency of service is a major hurdle to Sydney having a viable and equitable transport system.
A lack of national data on health care complaints is a major obstacle to making improvements to the health care system, a study led by the University of Sydney claims.
Hu Jintao is a gambler. Not just any old gambler, but the man who has just committed one of the biggest wagers in history, writes Professor Kerry Brown.
An Academy Award-winning actress, a Nobel Laureate, an internationally recognised astronomer, an Australian literary icon and an exceptional Aboriginal musician will accept honorary degrees from the University of Sydney this Saturday 10 November.
Disease-causing bacteria will light up like a fluorescent shirt on a nightclub dance floor in a new rapid detection technique currently under development at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Pharmacy.
A book about the history of the University of Sydney has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award in the Community and Regional History Prize category.
Obesity, memory, neuroplasticity, development banks and children's language are among the research areas to benefit from this year's University of Sydney Equity Fellowships.
The pioneering work of the University of Sydney Power Institute's inaugural Director and founding Professor of Contemporary Art, Bernard Smith, will be celebrated at a two-day symposium starting tomorrow.
Take a journey through the universe and beyond - to potential other universes in a 'multiverse' - when Professor Martin Rees, the UK's Astronomer Royal, presents his Sydney Ideas talk this Friday 9 November.
University of Sydney students are helping to stimulate a new wave of creative and sustainable industries in Broken Hill, with a plan to redevelop the town's disused Central Power Station and rejuvenate the Broken Hill Film Studio.
Barack Obama and his supporters in America and abroad are understandably thrilled after winning a remarkable electoral victory. They are entitled to gloat over those of us who doubted he'd win or deserved to win, writes Tom Switzer.
Food safety and how to protect Australia's reputation for producing affordable, nutritious and safe fresh produce is the focus of a forum at the University of Sydney today.
Professor Anton Zeilinger, from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences will reveal how our world will be revolutionised by quantum systems.
The Sydney Peace Prize lecture will be delivered this evening by Senator Sekai Holland, Zimbabwean cabinet minister and long time campaigner for the rights of her compatriots.
All of us have fond memories of NSW national parks, and a new book called 'Playing in the bush', edited by University of Sydney researchers Richard White and Caroline Ford, examines such uses of national parks and outlines their history over the 20th century.
Come and hear broadcaster Angela Catterns when she joins Professor Simon Chapman, Associate Professor Danielle Celermajer and Dr Richard Miles next Monday (12 November) to talk about how academics can get their message across in the mainstream media.
The planet's most powerful survey telescope is among the 100-plus University of Sydney projects to receive funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Grants.
After months of campaigning, more than a billion dollars spent and a rollercoaster ride of public opinion, Americans are finally heading to the polls to pick the President of the United States this Tuesday.
Why the Mountain Ash trees that survived the 2009 Black Saturday fires did not die from the heatwave as expected is explained by research by the University of Sydney and University of Western Sydney.
The emphasis on breeding for speed not stamina is the reason international dominance of the Melbourne Cup is set to continue, says Associate Professor Phil McManus.
Low-dose aspirin is a cheap and effective way to prevent potentially deadly blood clots in the leg or the lungs in patients who have had a previous blood clot a new study shows.
Searching for the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts and understanding how the 'vacuum cleaners' of our brains work are the research goals that have seen two University of Sydney scientists honoured for their work.
Sydney and Melbourne universities divided the spoils of victory for the third year running on Sunday morning as the Australian Boat Race returned to Sydney Harbour.
Some 150 international medical students don't have intern placements for next due. The situation is critical, for students and the healthcare sector, writes Bruce Robinson.
A community language teacher-training program offered by the University of Sydney could be an answer to the huge gap in Australia between government rhetoric and language education.
Engineers pride themselves on being thinkers and problem solvers and today students from the University of Sydney have presented their novel ideas to more than 200 industry representatives who attended the annual Research Conversazione event.
Professor Annamarie Jagose, Head of the School of Letters, Art and Media at the University of Sydney, invites guests of her Insights lecture tonight to be orgasmologists for the evening.
Two works by students, staff and graduates from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning have been showcased in this year's Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi exhibition.
The history and rivalry between two of Australia's oldest and greatest universities will be on show again this weekend when four crews from Sydney and Melbourne universities compete in the 2012 Australian Boat Race.
Associate Professor Michele Ford, Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, is pushing for a fundamental rethink in how Australia approaches learning about some of our closest neighbours.
Some of the University of Sydney's most outstanding alumni have been recognised with Graduate Medals, awarded to exceptional students who have graduated or completed requirements for their degrees in the previous year.
A dramatic image of a virus replicating and spreading through cells, destroying them as it goes, has been captured by University of Sydney researchers.
Come to tonight's Sydney Ideas lecture to hear what happens when galaxies crash into each other, and how astrophysicists go about the work of reconstructing past collisions.
The University of Sydney today welcomed the NSW government's decision to enhance the attractiveness of NSW as an education destination and support the international student experience by offering travel concessions to international students.
Multibillion-dollar mega projects like the NBN or Gorgon natural gas facility are an underappreciated new feature of the global economy, write professor Geoffrey Garrett and Archie Johnston.
A major review of evidence on the impact of coal mining has highlighted serious, ongoing health and social problems and an urgent need for improvements in government coal mining policy.
Polling for the University of Sydney's What Matters campaign, a public engagement campaign to find out what matters to Australians and people around the world, has wrapped up for 2012, having attracted more than 29,000 votes from 157 countries.
University of Sydney alumni shine in almost every conceivable area, with an impressive range of prime ministers, chief justices, astronauts, surgeons, artists, scientists and Nobel laureates graduating in the University's 162-year history.
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick from the University's Department of History has been awarded the American Historical Association's 2012 Award for Scholarly Distinction, the first recipient with a focus on Soviet history.
For the fourth year running Sydney College of the Arts will play host to For Art's Sake, a fundraising exhibition and auction for FRANS, an organisation that has been helping children and adults with a disability for over 30 years.
Celebrity culture is vacuous. Right? Actually, no. A new book, 'Celebrity Society', argues that celebrity is an important aspect of modern society, and has been for a long time.
In this video we have captured the essence of what makes our community extraordinary - our people. More than 100 students, staff, researchers and professors participated and we are excited to share with you a glimpse of what makes the University of Sydney so special.
To mark 20 years since the Mabo decision transformed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights, the University of Sydney's 2012 Dr Charles Perkins AO Annual Memorial Oration will feature two speakers deeply involved with Eddie Mabo and the case that bears his name.
A study published today in the British Medical Journal has found pro-smoking content, some featuring explicit cigarette brand images, is being promoted in smartphone apps reaching millions of users worldwide, including teenagers and children.
University of Sydney graduates will be better placed to lead major infrastructure projects around the world thanks to a record $20 million donation by John Grill, one of Australia's leading business executives and a University of Sydney alumnus.
As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Australia-China diplomatic relations, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music is accompanying the Sydney Symphony on a 10-day tour of China to explore further educational links and opportunities.
A new book looks at the contemporary horseracing industry and its possible future from economic, social, ethical, geographic and environmental perspectives.
A new preventive approach to influenza trialled by University of Sydney researchers has achieved lowered rates of infection in residents and staff, fewer hospitalisations and a significant reduction in duration.
A new book by University of Sydney researcher Deborah Lupton explores why the 'fat body' has become so reviled and, in extreme cases, viewed as diseased.
Media personalities Costa Georgiadis, host of ABC's Gardening Australia; Angus Stewart, alumnus and presenter on ABC's Gardening Australia; and Chris Russell, alumnus and former ABC panelist on The New Inventors are featured speakers at The Young Professionals in Agriculture Forum.
The distinguished Australian feminist philosopher Elizabeth Grosz returns to the University of Sydney this week to deliver a Sydney Ideas lecture exploring the connections between the painter Francis Bacon and the philosopher Giles Deleuze.
At this moment, Australian Parliament is considering a Bill with far-reaching and shcoking consequences for Australian research, writes Michael Biercuk.
A University of Sydney scientist has outclassed ballerinas, breakdancers and flaming hula hoops to dance his way to victory in the fifth annual 'Dance your PhD' competition.
A diagnosis of cancer once spelled the end for our animal companions but the launch today of a specialty cancer clinic, led by one of Australia's leading veterinary oncologists at the University of Sydney, offers new hope.
Can the lawyers catch up to the teachers? All will be revealed on Wednesday when the champions of the Interfaculty Sport competition for 2012 will be decided.
A Sydney Ideas lecture this Tuesday 16 October will look at the leadership transition occurring in the Communist Party of China as the era of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao draws to a close.
Carrying too much weight during pregnancy can place both mother and child at risk but new research from the University of Sydney has discovered that one type of fat is riskier than another for mums and unborn babies.
Budding University of Sydney writers and poets will see their work showcased alongside some of Australia's best-known literary talent with the launch of the Hermes 2012 journal on Thursday 11 October.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Jill Trewhella argues that the Defence Trade Control Bill currently before the Senate has unintended and serious consequences for research in Australia.
Kerry Brown and David Goodman say if China's decision-makers shrink the size of their elite club, as rumoured, it would be a step backwards for a country grappling with historic challenges.
The connections between myth, music and philosophy will be explored in a free lecture and performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music this Thursday 11 October.
It was a case of short and sweet for PhD student Bridget Haire who will represent the University of Sydney at this week's finals of the Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis competition.
Can you have a memory if you don't have a brain? The question has been answered with the discovery that brainless slime moulds use excreted chemicals as a memory system.
A giant humans vs zombie battle, a symphonic concert of Disney classics, giant communal artworks and a slow bike race (in which the winner is the last person to finish) join more than 33 hours of comedy, 30 hours of music and 25 hours of theatre at this year's Verge Festival.
Australian researchers have given hope to patients with advanced melanoma by showing that a new drug targeting a common mutation in melanoma successfully shrank tumours that had spread to the brain.
The winner of this year's ARIA for Best Classical Album is a collaboration between leading Aboriginal musician William Barton and Matthew Hindson, an Associate Professor at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
On Saturday 6 October about 500 people representing 58 languages groups will gather at the University of Sydney to discuss issues concerning second-language education.
New research led by the University of Sydney's Family Medicine Research Centre reveals many Australians are inadequately protecting against potentially serious infectious diseases before travelling abroad.
This is the fifth year of the international Dance Your PhD competition, organised by Science Magazine, which offers people who have undertaken a PhD an alternate way to explain their topic.
It took five hours to answer the complex mathematical problems, but a team of young algorithm whizzes from the University of Sydney conquered their nerves and their opponents to take out this year's South Pacific Regional Collegiate Programming Contest.
Good infrastructure could change cities says Sir David Higgins, the current Chief Executive of Network Rail (UK) who is visiting Sydney to present the 2012 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies' Dean's International Lecture on Monday 8 October.
New research and teaching facilities opened at the University of Sydney's IA Watson Grains Research Centre in Narrabri on 3 October, promising an exciting future for grains research.
Just four years ago James O'Neill was an architecture student at the University of Sydney. Now the Master of Architecture graduate is working on a real life masterplan for another famous urban site, London's Olympic Village.
A new book by the University of Sydney's Adjunct Professor Richard Broinowski tells the story of Japan's worst nuclear disaster and attempts by authorities to suppress, downplay and obscure its consequences.
What do actor Charlie Sheen, comic strip star Ginger Meggs, the Big Brother reality TV show and Luna Park have in common? University of Sydney students who are currently getting to grips with the complexities of business law will be able to tell you.
In the end, whatever struggles the Chinese Communist Party had with its better nature were trumped by the historic default position: when in a corner, always go for the jugular, write Kerry Brown and David Goodman.
This Thursday sees Professor Wolfgang Merkel, Germany's leading political scientist, taking to the Sydney Ideas stage to ask whether democracies around the world are in crisis.
Carers for the elderly are more likely to be female, aged 70, facing health risks, and under financial stress a Sydney Nursing School and Sydney Medical School study has found.
Cutting screen time and not rewarding children's good behaviour with sweets are among the steps parents could take to reduce overweight and obesity in children before they start school, according to research by the University of Sydney.
A new University of Sydney exhibition chronicles some of Australia's most significant advances in the biological sciences during the past half-century.
A University of Sydney sleep expert will use money from a recent award to study how sleep disorders can predict the development of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
Rabies is now present only 350 kilometres from northern Australia. If it reached our shores it would have serious ecological, public health, economic and social impacts according to Professor Michael Ward, from the University of Sydney.
"Since Homer first invoked the Muse in the opening line of the Iliad, poets have spoken of their poems as emanating from somewhere beyond themselves," notes Dr Penelope Murray, who will present a Sydney Ideas lecture on Tuesday 2 October.
Ageing Australian city-dwellers are more likely to suffer from non-infectious chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, arthritis, cancer and asthma than their rural counterparts, according to new research from the University of Sydney.
Has Australia scared Chinese investors with mixed messages? Should Chinese companies be more transparent to help ease anxiety about Australian deals? These and many other challenging questions were debated this week at the 2012 Sydney China Business Forum.
As you leave Professor Rick Benitez's office, you're faced with a colourful lollypop sign with the word 'infin'. It's an image he wants his students to remember because of the message behind it - the journey of learning is infinite.
The mysteries of commonly used medicines, topical ointments and creams will be revealed to the students who attend the inaugural University of Sydney Pharmacy Indigenous Camp.
As Australia's manufacturing sector contracts, a growing number of people are joining the ranks of the working poor with jobs that are low paid, unskilled, insecure and offer few career prospects, according to researchers at the University of Sydney Business School.
A eureka moment while watching a movie for the umpteenth time with his children has led a University of Sydney researcher to achieve a new insight into visual perception, which could benefit traditional artists and graphic designers.
The University of Sydney and Qantas have entered into a four-year partnership to develop a flight planning system that will help the airline fly optimised routes, reduce fuel consumption and improve operational effectiveness.
Nearly half of the nation's train travellers complain that the level of crowding on local train services at peak times is intolerable, according to the University's latest national transport survey, released today.
How far away are we from 'the cure' for cancer? On 26 September Professor Roger Reddel from Sydney Medical School, one of Australia's leading cancer researchers, provides the big picture on cancer including the latest advances in our understanding and treatment.
JW Power is best known for a fortune left to build Sydney's Power Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art, and now a University of Sydney exhibition highlights his work as early 20th century Australia's most interesting avant-garde artist.
You may have seen him taking to the sky in gliders, helicopters and hot air balloons in the ABC TV program Great Southern Land which premiered last night, but University of Sydney scientist Professor Steve Simpson will also thrill audiences with his latest book.
At a certain point, Mitt Romney will have to pony up for the monocle and top hat if he wants to heighten his similarities to Rich Uncle Moneybags. Rhetorically, he's topped out, writes Nicole Hemmer.
Dennis Richardson, secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, gave the 2012 Michael Hintze Lecture for the Centre for International Security Studies. Here is an extract from the lecture.
Dr Maurice (Maurie) Saxby AM, a distinguished alumnus of the Faculty of Education and Social Work, will delight guests this Wednesday evening with a historical tour of children's literature at the event 'An Australian Story - Maurice Saxby on Children's Literature'.
The Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, today announced the reappointment of Dr Michael Spence as the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney.
The protests in Sydney's CBD on Saturday undermined the true message of Islam and the very message the protestors sought to defend, write Dr Ghena Krayem and Mehal Krayem.
What can really be done to promote longevity? Modern science can tell us an increasing amount about the ageing process, as a first step in combating many age-related conditions. It also opens the door to keeping ageing at bay.
Taking to the sky in gliders, helicopters, hot air balloons and anything else that will carry him, Professor Steve Simpson begins his journey across Australia this coming Sunday 23 September, in a documentary series on ABC TV looking at how humans interact with the landscape.
The man who helped transform the Federal Government's proposed mining super profits tax into the Minerals Resource Rent Tax will this week discuss current challenges facing the sector at a free public address at the University of Sydney.
October 11 marks the inaugural International Day of the Girl Child, a day to promote girls' rights and address the discrimination and abuse suffered by girls around the world. At a special Sydney Ideas forum this week, a panel asks: "Why is it important to have a day to formally recognise girls?"
Australia will soon release a White Paper entitled 'Australia in the Asian Century'. Conspicuously absent from the analysis will be America, writes Dr John Lee.
Emotional intelligence is not the cure-all elixir for spotting who will succeed in work and life, but it is more than a useless fad, says Carolyn MacCann.
A special one-day forum in Sydney on 25 September will explore the opportunities that Chinese investment in Australian infrastructure presents. It will examine the challenges, the commercial and regulatory landscape and the need for collaboration given the international competition for funds.
The commentary on the O'Farrell government's transport master plan has focused almost exclusively on a lack of timelines for action and any detail on where the money is coming from to pay for the projects, writes David Hensher.
The Sydney College of the Arts senior lecturer and contemporary artist Lindy Lee will lead a team of artists and designers - including a feng shui expert - to create a new public space in the heart of Sydney's Chinatown.
A large-scale international review involving University of Sydney researchers has shed light on falls in older people, revealing some interventions can effectively prevent falls in people over 65 and living in their own homes.
Former Greens leader Bob Brown will take part in a Sydney Ideas panel discussion about the politics of Antarctica at the University of Sydney on Thursday 14 September.
New South Wales' Solicitor General will this week deliver a public address discussing the highest court of Australia's history as a decision maker that shifts power away from the states and towards the federal government.
In a first for Australia, a handbook written with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals has answered the call for a comprehensive resource to help clinicians address alcohol and drug issues.
In tonight's Sydney Ideas lecture Professor Paul Ginsborg, chair of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, looks at the historical roots of Italy's troubled membership of the European Union.
A re-engineered postgraduate engineering program at the University of Sydney has received full accreditation from Engineers Australia, making it unique in Australian universities.
In a free lecture this Wednesday 12 September, Susan Ryan, Age Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, will discuss the obstacles presented by population ageing, one of the major challenges of the 21st century.
The rate of pregnancy-associated cancer is increasing and is only partially explained by the rising number of older mothers according to research led by the University of Sydney.
On 12 September, Professor Robert Booy from Sydney Medical School will focus on both recent and historical vaccine successes and scares in the fourth talk in the series 21st Century Medicine - today's research, tomorrow's healthcare.
Two University of Sydney athletes were part of the Australian women's basketball team that won silver at the London 2012 Paralympics, while two of our other athletes hope to add to their medal tally as the games enter their final weekend.
Psychology honours student Angela Ballard won her second medal of the London 2012 Paralympics, while other University of Sydney athletes are on track for glory during the final weekend of the games.
Spring brings with it hay fever and red eyes for many inner-city residents and in absence of fields of flowering grasses, people turn their attention to other possible causes.
Jimmie Rodgers, Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, says long-term vision rather than short-term political expediency is needed to tackle the challenges facing the region.
Unless you're a land developer, a candidate or a political tragic the NSW local government election next Saturday September 8 will be about as exciting as a strand of used dental floss, writes Richard Stanton.
In an era of polarised American politics, it is less about attracting undecided voters and more about convincing voters who are unsure whether they will vote at all, writes Luke Freedman.
A team of medical specialists from Sydney is visiting Latin America, looking for research partners to work on the threat to global health caused by non-communicable diseases
Andrew Tilley from Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness reports on the progress of University of Sydney athletes at the London 2012 Paralympics, with the Australian women's wheelchair basketball team still on track for a medal.
Public broadcasters and media academics from around the world have gathered in Sydney this week to debate the public media sector, an industry facing rapid change.
The acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim will discuss her new book about the world of "outsider physicists", people with little or no scientific training who nevertheless have developed their own alternative theories of the universe.
Andrew Tilley from Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness reports on the first weekend of competition at the London 2012 Paralympics, where two University of Sydney athletes won bronze medals for Australia.
Because of the widely shared horror at sex crimes against children, many people see the incarceration of incest perpetrators as the appropriate social response. But in many cases this ignores the unresolved needs of child victims, writes Tony Vinson.
Six leading lights of the University of Sydney community are sharing what matters most to them for the final month of the 'What Matters' campaign, which asks members of the public in Australia and around the world to cast their votes for what is most important to them.
Historians and politicians have pondered comparisons between Europe's great depression and the rise of fascism, and the current financial crisis. Will history repeat itself? Find out at this Sydney Ideas event.
Andrew Tilley from Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness reports on the first weekend of competition at the London 2012 Paralympics, where two University of Sydney athletes won bronze medals for Australia.
On 5 September Professor Ian Hickie, Director of the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Research Institute, will outline the Institute's new clinical approach to treating adolescent depression.
University of Sydney researchers will be looking for ways to slash one of the world's biggest single sources of energy consumption - the heating and cooling of buildings - at a state-of-the-art new laboratory.
The outlook for Tasmanian devils appears even worse following breakthrough research by the University of Sydney published in PLoS One, the Public Library of Science journal, today.
The Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Paralympics shows our ways of talking about disability, especially in the media, still lag well behind the social transformations that are well underway and irreversible, writes Gerard Goggin.
The unveiling of the National Anti-Racism Strategy in Melbourne on Friday marked an early but significant successful engagement for the University of Sydney's newly established Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR).
The importance of camouflage in music and art will be explored in a free performance seminar at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music this Thursday 30 August.
Office workers from all professions are experiencing unprecedented levels of neck, back, shoulder and arm pain as an unintended consequence of the paperless office, according to new research.
Locusts are both solitary and social animals, and new research by the University of Sydney and international researchers suggests cannibalism has played a crucial role in the evolution of this behavioural transformation.
Professor Kathryn Refshauge, an internationally recognised leader in sports injuries and musculoskeletal pain research, has commenced as the new Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney.
Synthetic materials developed by tissue engineers that may replace damaged bone in the body and encourage normal bone regrowth are to be discussed at a three-day international symposia being held at the University of Sydney.
A strategic review of health and medical research, announced by the University of Sydney today, aims to enhance collaboration, maximise benefit to the community and ensure the University maintains its leading position in the field.
Ten academically outstanding international students from as far afield as Korea, the Philippines, the United States and Thailand have received Sydney Achievers International Scholarships to study at the University of Sydney.
Most economic policies have a marked male bias when considering them in the light of imbalanced gender relations in society, says leading feminist scholar Professor Diane Elson who will deliver the 2012 Ted Wheelwright public lecture.
University of Sydney researchers are part of the Australian Melanoma Genome Project, an ambitious two-year national research program that aims to identify the common gene mutations that lead to melanoma.
One of the most heartening aspects of the otherwise divisive debate on same-sex marriage has been the recognition on all sides of politics that marriage matters, writes Patrick Parkinson.
Research has found that workers are significantly less likely to claim GP visits for psychological illnesses on workers' compensation than they are for physical work-related injuries such as musculoskeletal disorders.
The University of Sydney is taking its quest to find out what matters to people in Australia and all over the world to the heart of Sydney's CBD and the Chatswood business district to engage with our city about its concerns.
A team of design computing students has created an interactive screen that allows high school students to see themselves depicted in the setting of their potential future career.
Dame Leonie Kramer, the first woman to be elected Chancellor of the University of Sydney, will launch her provocatively titled memoir Broomstick: Personal Reflections at the University on Thursday 23 August.
With university application closing dates approaching, Sydney Nursing School will host a 'Men in Nursing' lecture at the University of Sydney's Open Day to encourage men to considering an extremely rewarding career in nursing.
New research by an international team, including Dr Simon Ho from the University of Sydney, has discovered that the mysterious death of a polar bear in a zoo in 2010 was caused by a virus found in zebras 'jumping' to the bears.
Patients who attend regional trauma centres have less chance of surviving than seriously injured people who attend a major metropolitan trauma centre, according to a study conducted at Sydney Nursing School.
Few would have envisaged China as our largest trading partner when Australia established diplomatic relations with Beijing in 1972, says the University of Sydney editor of a new book marking the 40th anniversary of the bilateral relationship.
The Honourable Adrian Piccoli MP, State Minister for Education, will visit the University of Sydney this Wednesday to deliver a public talk about the recent report from the NSW Department of Education and Communities 'Local Schools, Local Decisions'.
It is time to start thinking about Chinese investment in light of Australia's positive experiences with foreign investment and less using alarmist innuendo of Chinese domination, writes Professor Geoffrey Garrett.
The University of Sydney is opening its doors on Saturday 25 August to all prospective students, their families, and friends, for our biggest event of the year - Open Day.
Low-income households in Australia are increasingly at risk of "energy poverty", a situation in which a household must spend more than 10 percent of its disposable income on energy bills, according to new research.
Six years of research into the recorded history of the Yolngu people comes home today with the launch of a book of historic photographs compiled by the University of Sydney's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island research fellow, Dr Joe Gumbula.
Join Professor Dale Jamieson from New York University as he delivers a free Sydney Ideas talk 'Living with Climate Change' at the University of Sydney.
In a classic example of an accidental scientific breakthrough a University of Sydney research team may have solved the mystery of why there is more non-industrial acid in air than anyone can explain.
Asia-Pacific urban researcher Paul Jones writes about his participation in a ceremony held in the PNG highlands to mark two major events of national significance.
An international symposium convened by the Department of Japanese Studies will explore the comic world of Japanese Manga as a medium for political debate.
This morning Australia's High Court dismissed the plain tobacco packaging case brought against the Australian government by the world's largest tobacco companies. The companies had challenged the government's new law - due to be fully implemented from December 1 this year.
Money laundering and other suspicious behaviours will become more detectable with the refinement of a 2D graphic visualisation tool currently under development at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies.
Global ideas forum TED, whose past speakers include former world leaders, Nobel Prize winners and people who transformed the modern technological world is within the sights of three University of Sydney staff and three of our alumni, and you can help to get them there.
A new University of Sydney study has found Tai Chi can be an effective form of exercise therapy for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), improving exercise capacity and quality of life.
The University of Sydney has again been rated among the world's top 100 universities, rising three places to 93 in the latest Academic Rankings of World Universities.
The University of Sydney is taking its quest to find out what matters to people in Australia and all over the world to the heart of Sydney's CBD and the Chatswood business district to engage with our city about its concerns.
University of Sydney Olympians have finished with a total of eight medals - one gold, three silver and four bronze - at the 2012 London Olympic Games following four medals in the final three days of action. It was our second most successful Olympic campaign ever after Sydney 2000.
For Fulbright scholar and University of Sydney PhD candidate Dominick Ng there would be a certain irony in completing his degree without adequate communication skills.
How to avoid the health risk of sitting down all day, what to eat to prolong your life, the best ways to tackle teenage depression, an overview of vaccination and what our progress is on tackling cancer are just some of the topics to be covered in a new series of talks presented by Sydney Medical School.
The University of Sydney has welcomed the first ground state depletion (GSD) super-resolution microscope in the Southern Hemisphere, which will enable researchers to see materials at a cellular level and open the way for improvements in the diagnosis of diseases including cancer.
There is no denying the worldwide cultural influence of American popular music and rock 'n' roll. In an innovative new course from the United States Studies Centre, the sexual, racial and gender aspects of this mega-industry will be examined through the eyes of some of the music industries biggest influencers.
Australia's dealings with China have a "unique" immediacy, closeness and urgency, says the incoming Executive Director of the University of Sydney's China Studies Centre.
Australia's rowing 'oarsome foursome' may have just missed out on victory at London 2012 last weekend, but on Thursday their kayaking equivalents, including a University of Sydney alumnus, snatched a surprise gold in the kayaking four.
Answering questions such as 'How do people get blue eyes?' and 'Will we ever colonise Mars?' the Sleek Geeks - Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer - talked science with school students all over NSW at a special video conference this week to celebrate National Science Week in NSW.
Exploring Mars with roving robotics may become a virtual reality for remote and rural students as part of a program underpinning the National Broadband Network (NBN)-Enabled Education and Skills Services Program.
The Fair Work Act Review, worker's rights in the crisis-riddled Euro Zone, and industrial upheavals at Qantas will all be scrutinised during the 20th Annual Labour Law Conference this Monday 13 August.
A work co-created by Rob Saunders, a lecturer in design computing in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, was short-listed for the National New Media Art Award.
Improvements to the accuracy and relevance of the test for blood doping by a University of Sydney researcher could soon put an end to finger pointing, weak excuses and suspicion in elite sports.
Balance and strength training integrated into everyday routines could reduce falls in older people by almost a third, according to a new University of Sydney study.
In a Thursday night lecture on 8 August, Professor Colin Wight will argue that the social sciences have failed to achieve their initial lofty goals as set out by the thinkers of the Enlightenment.
Colonel Valery Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, will be presenting a talk today to mark the launch of the Human Survival Project, an initiative of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.
In this opinion piece Arnold Aprill, a Fulbright Senior Specialist and this Thursday's Sydney Ideas speaker, argues that in an information age characterised by innovation, creativity and a constantly changing body of knowledge, the arts must be central to the curriculum.
It's a National Science Week launch like no other as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer - Australia's favourite Sleek Geeks - put the band back together in a spectacular stage show celebrating science on Monday 13 August at the Sydney Town Hall.
Discover the principles underlying how shoals swim in synch, flocks fly in formation and herds hurry in harmony when Professor Iain Couzin from Princeton University presents a free public talk.
Justin Trendall, chair of printmedia at the Sydney College of the Arts, welcomes the City of Sydney's recent initiative to create a register of significant works of street art, including graffiti.
In a turbulent media landscape in which journalism's traditional business model has collapsed, an Australian-first survey has revealed the attitudes of 100 journalists and media executives about the dramatic transformations currently underway in newspapers and online media.
Andrew Tilley from Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness reports on the latest action at the London 2012 Olympics, with two of our Olympians helping Australia to qualify for the quarter-finals of the men's water polo for the first time since Sydney in 2000.
A parched inland village in Peru has an innovative water resource thanks to a simple 'fog harvesting' system installed by two University of Sydney honours students.
Prostate cancer patients being treated with radiotherapy can now have their prostate position known to within 0.5mm during radiation treatment thanks to a study led by Professor Paul Keall, NHMRC Australia Fellow at the University of Sydney.
Ginger, the common spice and ancient Asian remedy, could have the power to help manage the high levels of blood sugar which create complications for long-term diabetic patients, a University of Sydney study reports.
Andrew Tilley from Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness reports on the second weekend of competition at the London 2012 Olympics, with one of our Olympians winning silver in the rowing regatta. Other athletes were in action in the sailing, basketball, waterpolo and hockey competitions.
Join this Sydney Ideas lecture by Professor Samuel Moyn on Wednesday 8 August and learn how our understanding of human rights has transformed over time.
Five of the University of Sydney's academics and alumni have shared what matters most to them in the fifth month of our What Matters campaign. Now the University is calling on members of the public to cast their votes to find out what matters most to them.
Sydney University Women's Rowing Club representative Brooke Pratley teamed up with Melbourne's Kim Crow to win silver in the women's double scull at the London Olympics rowing regatta on Friday.
Two University of Sydney Olympians have added to Australia's medal tally at the 2012 Olympics with our youngest Olympian, first-year student Jess Fox, taking silver in the kayak slalom. Alumna Kaarle McCulloch won bronze in the women's team sprint.
The University of Sydney has teamed up with four other NSW universities in a bold $21 million initiative designed to reach more than 100,000 school students and boost higher education participation rates for low socioeconomic status communities.
Andrew Tilley from Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness (SUSF) reports on the progress of University of Sydney Olympians as the London 2012 games approach the second weekend of competition
On Monday Sydney Ideas will present Katherine Boo, Pulitzer prize winner and writer with The New Yorker, discussing her acclaimed first book, produced during three years of intense research at Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in Mumbai.
A world-first study by the University of Sydney has used a driving simulator to provide the first clinical evidence of an association between heavy methamphetamine use and impaired driving ability.
A delegation of senior executives from the C9, China's group of elite universities, has visited Sydney for talks about joint research and exchange programs.
Temperature rises can drastically alter relationships between predator and prey, including the success of invasive species, new research from the University of Sydney has shown.
Danny Boyle's designation of 1709 as the turning point of British history in the Olympics opening ceremony offered his worldwide audience an idiosyncratic view of the nation's past, writes Professor Paul Giles.
In the next Sydney Ideas talk, Antony Loewenstein and Jake Lynch discuss the failure of the Israel/Palestine 'peace process' and argue that the prospect of a two-state solution is no longer viable.
The exceptional research potential of a native Australian plant has been accelerated by the release today of both its DNA and RNA sequence by University of Sydney researchers and their partners.
The University of Sydney's youngest Olympian, kayaker Jess Fox, entered Olympic competition on Monday. Read our recap on the progress of Jess and other University of Sydney Olympians.
The University of Sydney Business School has launched an ambitious and innovative Master of Business Administration (MBA) as part of its drive to enter the upper ranks of global business education.
The number of children diagnosed with tuberculosis only represents the tip of the iceberg, according to the University of Sydney's Associate Professor Ben Marais.
More than 30 University of Sydney athletes - students, graduates and sports club members - are preparing to represent Australia at the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics, the University's largest-ever representation at the world's biggest sporting event.
Using a traditional Chinese board game and artificial intelligence, researchers at the University of Sydney and Charles Sturt University have gained new insight into how expertise develops.
Inhalable and thermo-responsive, fat-encased nanoparticles have been developed by researchers at the University of Sydney as possible treatment for lung cancer.
Four University of Sydney scientists have been selected as finalists in the 2012 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes - the largest and most comprehensive prizes for science in the country.
Arts and Social Sciences alumna Amanda Shalala is on her way to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London as a reporter. A self-confessed sports addict who loves the thrill of competition, Amanda is working hard to pave the way for Australian women in sport.
If every crisis requires a hero and a villain then where do ratings agencies fit on that scale, judging by their performance during Europe's sovereign debt disaster?
As you prepare to watch the world's best athletes competing at the London 2012 Olympics later this week, have you thought about what distinguishes elite sprinters from long-distance athletes? Find out about Professor Kathryn North's work on the 'gene for speed'.
As London prepares to host the 30th modern edition of the Olympic Games, the University's Nicholson Museum looks at the origins of the world's oldest sporting festival.
Older more experienced nurses working in palliative care are more likely to include spiritual caring in their day-to-day professional activities compared to their younger counterparts in acute care, a University of Sydney study has found.
Learning how to run, jump, kick and catch are skills many children are struggling to accomplish, with major implications for their general health, according to a landmark study led by the University of Sydney.
A landmark biography of the historian Manning Clark has won a 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award for its author Associate Professor Mark McKenna of the University of Sydney.
Early- and mid-career researchers at the University of Sydney will help us manage climate change and food security, improve our detection of money laundering schemes, and increase the wellbeing of mothers and newborns thanks to new government funding announced today.
More than 100 of the world's leading thinkers in the area of urban planning will be in Sydney this week to discuss the challenges of creating sustainable global cities.
A new study led by the University of Sydney hopes to shed light on how the experiences of young Australians with a disability are shaped by discrimination.
More than 30 students, graduates or other members of the University of Sydney community will compete at this year's Olympics and Paralympics. But as the clock counts down to London 2012, another of our graduates will play a major role in helping the games to run as smoothly as possible.
Sydney is hosting a meeting of world experts in the field of spintronics, a technology that is expected to drive the next generation of faster, smaller and smarter electronic devices.
Parents of young children who show extreme behaviour problems and a lack of empathy or remorse may find new hope from research at the University of Sydney.
As 20,000 participants meet for the start of the Global AIDS Conference in Washington DC today, a study by the University of Sydney underlines the need for a greater focus on older Africans living with HIV.
The next Sydney Ideas lecture will look at the history of the British Empire, in particular how the empire's subject peoples took up, adapted or rejected European ideas in light of their own traditions and beliefs.
The London Olympics seems paralysed with problems. The latest is protests from taxi drivers - who say they need access to special "Olympics lanes" - which have brought traffic to a halt. Is London going to cope with the millions of people about to hit its streets?
Sydney Uni Wheelchair Flames representatives Sarah Stewart and Katie Hill are part of the 12-strong Australian women's Paralympic wheelchair basketball team, the Gliders.
University of Sydney Elite Athlete Program (EAP) scholarship holder and paddler Jessica Fox was selected for the Australian 2012 Olympic Games team after a tough weekend of racing at the 2012 Oceania Canoe Slalom Championships in Penrith.
Former University of Sydney Elite Athlete Program (EAP) scholarship holder Kaarle McCulloch will make her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Olympic Games in the Australian track cycling team.
The University of Sydney will be represented by two divers at the 2012 Olympic Games, after Matthew Mitcham and Loudy Wiggins (Tourky) were named in the 10-strong diving squad that will head to London.
Two University of Sydney students, Krystal Weir and Olivia Price, will head out onto the seas of Weymouth when competition kicks off at the 2012 London Olympic Games after being selected in the Australian Sailing Team.
Former Southern Design Sydney Uni Flames representative Belinda Snell was selected for her third consecutive Australian Olympic Games women's basketball squad.
A record 10 University of Sydney rowers were selected for the 46 person Australian Olympic Games Rowing team that holds an exciting mix of youth and experience.
University of Sydney will be represented in both the Australian women's hockey team and the men's team at the 2012 London Olympics, thanks to Megan Rivers and Matthew Butturini.
On the eve of the Olympics, the world's greatest celebration of sport, a series in the medical journal The Lancet has starkly highlighted the threat a lack of physical activity poses to our health and mortality.
Are you a high school student passionate about a particular area of study and motivated to succeed, but worried your exam marks may not quite get you where you need to be?
Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we'd thought previously, with the first evidence that they cooked plants for food and used plants for medicine found by an international team of scientists.
Travelling to the London Olympics? What do you expect to bring back? Some amazing sporting memories? A medal? How about some bed bug bites, or, worse still, a few bugs to kick off an infestation at home?
The Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS) commences today with a keynote speech from Professor Michael C Williams from the University of Ottawa, in conjunction with Sydney Ideas.
Former University of Sydney Elite Athlete Program (EAP) scholarship holder Angela Ballard is part of the Australian athletics team for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Following the recent listing of koalas as a threatened species in NSW and Queensland, a team of scientists has received federal funding to undertake cutting-edge research to help with koala conservation.
The latest fatal shark bite on a surfer is another in a string of terrible and random tragedies that have befallen Western Australia in the past two years. Yet, the hard truth is that shark attacks are a problem that cannot be fully solved, writes Christopher Neff.
Paramedics and doctors, already highly trained in the treatment of human patients, will learn how to apply advanced first aid training to rescue dogs at the University of Sydney today.
Aspects of a horse training method made famous by Monty Roberts, author of the 'The Man Who Listens to Horses', have been called into question by research at the University of Sydney.
If there's a sports gene, then 18-year-old Jess Fox probably has it. Her parents represented their countries in canoe/kayak at the Olympics, and first-year student Jess is about to do the same for Australia.
Challenges to the health and functioning of our soil pose significant issues for the future of humanity and the planet. To examine the importance of soil, the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment and United States Studies Centre are holding a research symposium on soil security.
How many undergraduate students does it take publish original research in an academic journal? Exactly 74 in the case of veterinary science students whose study on saltwater crocodile genetics is published in the Australian Journal of Zoology today.
With the US election just four months away, the really big problem facing Americans is how their nation is going to keep its flattering but onerous title of No. 1, writes Tom Switzer.
As the Tour de France re-excites interest in cycling, a new analysis casts doubt that there is a boom in cycling in Australia, writes Professor Chris Rissel.
Australia's aerospace industry is facing an exciting future, according to aeronautical and space engineering students at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies.
In the next Sydney Ideas lecture a leading economist will discuss his experiences in the US designing markets that have some of the most important impacts on our lives - school markets, job markets and health markets.
The first radio emissions to be detected from an intermediate mass black hole have been discovered by an international team of astronomers, including Dr Emil Lenc and Dr Sean Farrell from the School of Physics.
The University of Sydney is helping drive the academic achievement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, a report by a not-for-profit mentoring organisation has found.
A new exhibition at the University of Sydney Art Gallery showcases the University's collection of Latin American kinetic (moving) art, a globally acclaimed genre with a low profile in Australia.
As robotic systems become more intelligent, more flexible, more autonomous and more adaptable to their surroundings, international robotics experts are gathering at the University of Sydney's Great Hall to discuss their future.
As many of us sniffle and cough our way through another winter, Professor Robert Booy from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance at Sydney Medical School has some advice about colds and flu.
The University of Sydney is calling on members of the public in Australia and around the world to vote for what matters most to them, with five new topics this month ranging from human rights to robotics to identifying athletic genes.
Evidence for the existence of a new sub-atomic particle resembling the long-sought-after Higgs boson was announced last night in a pair of seminars given at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN.
University of Sydney PhD candidate Mark Scarcella is still taking in the significance of last night's announcement of evidence that the Higgs boson particle exists.
Continued production in the face of issues of food security, energy prices, falling fertility, environmental impacts and productivity are key questions that will be tackled at the Dairy Research Foundation 2012 Symposium.
Gardening offers a colourful opportunity to convey important scientific concepts says Angus Stewart, who will be delivering the next talk at Sydney Connections alumni breakfast.
Koala conservation, lowering emissions from buildings, an evaluation of immigration policy and the better use of fruit and vegetable waste are some of the University of Sydney research projects to benefit from the latest round of Australian Research Council Linkage Project grants.
The educational dream of six Aboriginal students will see them return to the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies for a second in-depth workshop aimed at increasing their opportunity for tertiary studies.
As Mexico awaits the outcome of its presidential election, Associate Professor Jake Lynch examines the country's allegedly manipulative media outlet Televisa, the world's largest Spanish-speaking media group.
A University of Sydney scholar has conducted groundbreaking research that could change the way pianists perform music by late-romantic composers such as Brahms, Chopin and Saint-Säens.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences have made a further commitment to public engagement in the arts with a sponsorship of the 18th Biennale of Sydney's Opening Week Symposium, in conjunction with the Power Institute Foundation.
The world's largest ever LEGO model of the Roman Colosseum and Arch of Constantine will bring history to life at a free exhibition at the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum this July.
An award winning University of Sydney choir will hold a final concert this Sunday before embarking on an international tour where they will be performing in some of the world's most famous venues, including Westminster Abbey and at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Interactive worktables, robots and collaborative learning on mobile devices are are just some of the revolutionary educational approaches being discussed at this year's International Conference of the Learning Sciences, being held for the first time in the Asia-Pacific region at the University of Sydney.
There has been a decline in the per capita level of cycling in Australia, with population growth three times that of recent increases in cycling trips, according to University of Sydney research.
Sydney motorists are prepared to pay to reduce congestion and support public transport, according to a survey conducted by the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) in the University of Sydney Business School.
Teaching new mums about healthy eating and active play can reduce the risk of their child being overweight or obese a research study in which the University of Sydney collaborated has found.
The growth of online legal teaching will be high on the agenda when legal academics from across Australia and the Pacific gather for the Australasian Law Teachers Association conference at Sydney Law School this weekend.
Some of the world's oldest musical compositions will feature in a free all-day event celebrating Australia's Indigenous musical culture at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Saturday 30 June.
The unfolding print news crisis has an inevitable feel to those who've been studying the latest phase of restructuring in our digital media industries, write Fiona Martin and Tim Dwyer.
David Pulsford, an alumnus of the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, and an industry leader in nitrogen fixation, will be honoured with a special award from the faculty and the opening of a new lab bearing his name.
The worst fears of Australia's honeybee industry have been realised, with new research confirming that Australian honeybees are highly susceptible to a pest that will potentially devastate them when it reaches Australia.
An upcoming visit of deans from leading Chinese law schools will strengthen Australia' position at the vanguard of international legal alliances with China, says Sydney Law School Dean Professor Gillian Triggs.
New works by Danie Mellor, a lecturer at the Sydney College of the Arts and one of Australia's most significant contemporary artists, are on show at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum in a self-titled solo exhibition.
The University of Sydney, South Sydney Football Club and Souths Cares will work together to encourage and support young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the South Sydney region.
Tonight, hear about how a hundred years of restaurant menus, old ships' logs, and tax records are just some of the sources being used to recreate a historical picture of the world's oceans and marine life.
A way of performing PET scans on laboratory rats that are in motion is more accurate and makes possible new experiments linking brain and behavioural function.
A secretive and exotic species of mosquito, found across much of Australia, has revealed a new twist on the insect's famous 'blood-sucking' reputation to researchers at the University of Sydney.
Two of the world's leading humanities institutions in two great global cities have joined forces in a landmark agreement, providing unique research and learning opportunities for their students.
A University of Sydney essay competition inviting anyone under 25 to write about Australia's relationship with China gives young people a chance to reflect on the history of this key bilateral relationship and ponder its future.
Over 13,500 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia each year. After completing initial treatment, the immediate question for many, if not most, is - what are the chances my cancer will return?
A number of University of Sydney women are featured in a photographic project that documents 50 inspiring women who have had a positive impact on the community.
To mark the arrival in Australia of five new Steinway concert grands, music composition students at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music have created five new five-minute works to be played on the five pianos simultaneously.
In the wake of Egypt's first democratic elections, the current Greek political crisis and the forthcoming US Presidential elections, global electoral integrity has become an increasingly significant issue.
An effective new weapon in the fight against the spread of cane toads has been developed by the University of Sydney, in collaboration with the University of Queensland.
Behind every museum artefact lies a story and an exhibition at the University of Sydney tells some of the most riveting tales behind its vast antiquities collection, the largest in the southern hemisphere.
PhD students at the University of Sydney will receive comprehensive training to help them better prepare for their future employment and to support them in necessary skill development during their candidature.
An increasing number of doctors and other health workers from developed countries - including Australia - are packing up their mosquito nets and scalpels and heading overseas on short trips to provide health services.
University of Sydney academics and researchers have been recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours for their contribution to politics, medical research and education.
A Sydney College of the Arts student will be body painting two models using striking motifs from Chinese folk art in a public performance of her work today, Friday 8 June.
Guerrilla graffiti projections will be roaming Circular Quay and the Opera House precinct as part of the Vivid Sydney festival, thanks to two master's students.
The first sod has been turned on the site of The Sydney Adventist Hospital's Education Centre - a $17m facility which boosts the clinical training options for the University of Sydney's health and medical students.
Thirty percent of threatened species are at risk because of consumption in the developed world of goods such as coffee, cocoa and lumber, according to University of Sydney research.
The degree of genetic difference to a tumour is not a factor in Tasmanian Devils contracting the facial tumour disease, according to research led by the University of Sydney.
As momentum builds in a US Presidential election year, a Sydney Ideas panel this Friday looks towards the United States and what has been dubbed a 'War on Women'.
A team of researchers from the University of Sydney are putting together a training program for stroke survivors to help them regain the skill of handwriting.
See the planet Venus cross in front of the sun during the Transit of Venus today, at a public event run by the University of Sydney Physics Society. It's your last chance to see Venus transit the sun until December 2117.
As the Greek financial situation threatens to envelop the whole country in political crisis, Australians with a connection to Greece are watching events unfold with a mixture of anxiety and despair.
Australians are spending around $1 billion annually on illegal offshore gambling sites, yet with few regulations in place they are leaving themselves open to identity fraud, being ripped off or developing gambling problems.
The ancient Tibetan goji berry could help fight blindness caused by long-term diabetes according to studies conducted by University of Sydney researchers.
This Wednesday, professors Margaret Harris and Elizabeth Webby, together with research assistant Jennifer Moore, will deliver a public talk about their Australian Research Council funded project on the Patrick White manuscripts.
This Wednesday 6 June Sydney Ideas will host a One Just World forum that asks why we can manage to produce enough food to feed everyone on the planet, and yet one in seven people go to bed hungry each night.
Testosterone prescriptions have surged since 2006 due to promotional activity, according to University of Sydney research which also found growing overuse in older men.
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning student William Chan has turned his passion for sustainability into a brilliant artwork for Vivid Sydney 2012.
The front page of the Saturday 26 May edition of the Sydney Morning Herald was dominated by a story about the actor Rachel Griffiths and her husband, artist Andrew Taylor "playing swapsies" with their family roles.
For the past five weeks 20 students from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music have been venturing out to three Sydney schools to jam with groups of students in preparation for a concert held at the Conservatorium's Recital Hall this week.
Think back to your first day at university - did it involve an elite Olympic wrestler, a glass blower, a rugby league star, a guided tour of a celebrated art collection, climbing a rock wall or making and eating ice cream?
Australian society's recent progress in acknowledging and understanding mental illness is yet to find its way to the criminal justice system, a University of Sydney law lecturer says.
A study by a University of Sydney academic calls for improved transparency, implementation and policymaking around medical missions to developing countries.
A parasite linked to dogs and responsible for an estimated $30 million loss to the national cattle industry each year is present throughout Australia, a University of Sydney study has revealed.
In a public lecture this Thursday 31 May, Professor John Keane will call for the cracking open of the corporate culture of public-relations-induced silence that has caused human loss, and environmental and financial disasters.
Consumers could save on power bills thanks to an energy saving solution devised by two savvy students at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies.
Jack Manning Bancroft, founder of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) and one of Australia's youngest CEOs, has achieved a great deal since his days at the University of Sydney.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a concept that's been slowly growing and evolving since 1991. But recently this ambitious project took a giant leap towards reality with the announcement of a SKA site decision.
An exhibition at the University's Tin Sheds Gallery is celebrating the anniversary of that 1769 Transit of Venus, and probing the connections between science, art and culture from both a western and Indigenous perspective.
On Wednesday 30 May, Helen Szoke, the Race Discrimination Commissioner from the Australian Human Rights Commission, will be the guest speaker in an Open Forum on the National Anti-Racism Strategy.
University of Sydney staff and students have been busy in recent weeks building giant dandelion light sculptures for this year's Vivid Sydney festival.
One of the greatest cliches uttered about her majesty Queen Elizabeth II is that in 60 years of reigning over us, "she has never put a foot wrong". This may well be true but how do we know, writes Anne Twomey.
In line with our renewed momentum in the area of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, the University of Sydney will stage its largest ever program of public events for Reconciliation Week 2012.
Patients given a clot-busting drug within six hours of a stroke are more likely to make a better recovery than those who do not receive the treatment, new research has found.
At TEDxSydney this week, the Dean of the University of Sydney Business School, Professor Geoffrey Garrett, will look at Australia's future in world not dominated by a Group of 20 or a Group of Eight but rather a G2 World in which China and the United States share political and economic power.
In what will undoubtedly be a controversial public debate, the University of Sydney's Professor Annamarie Jagose will be speaking for the controversial proposition 'Same-sex marriage should not be legalised' at the City Recital Hall in Sydney on Tuesday 29 May.
The drive from the University to the Sydney Opera House is a short one. But for Kip Williams, it represents a long, exciting journey in his budding theatre career.
A dilution of President Obama's healthcare reforms by the Supreme Court would be its worst decision in more than a decade, says a visiting expert speaking tomorrow at Sydney Law School's Distinguished Speakers Program.
Australia's next generation of radiation therapists will benefit from a new state-of-the-art 3D virtual reality training system at the University of Sydney.
Justice Michael Kirby has spoken publicly about many controversial subjects over the years but rarely about personal friendships. On Thursday 24 May, at the next Sydney Connections breakfast, he will speak about his friendship with former fellow judge Roddy Meagher.
'Does it take too long to become a doctor?' is the question asked of several medical professionals, including two of the University of Sydney's medical academics, by the Medical Journal of Australia this week.
Design researcher, practitioner and Australian Future Fellow, Professor Andy Dong has been appointed to the Warren Chair in Engineering Innovation at the University of Sydney.
Mid-year figures reveal female graduates at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies are reaching record numbers.
A Sydney Ideas event exploring contemporary art in a global context will mark an exciting new phase in the partnership between two of Sydney's most important art institutions - the University of Sydney's Power Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Australian researchers have reported promising results with a new drug that shrinks brain tumours in melanoma patients. Their findings are published in The Lancet medical journal today.
Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.
A new class of anti-cancer drugs which control the growth and spread of cancers and do so with minimal side effects is being developed by researchers at the University of Sydney.
The Sydney Morning Herald, in partnership with Sydney Ideas - the University of Sydney's premier public lecture series program - will tackle the difficult question of whether the Government should decriminalise drugs.
A recent Time magazine, featuring a stylised cover shot of a young woman breastfeeding her three-year-old, has caused a storm of controversy. University of Sydney academics Fiona Giles, Marc de Rosnay and Deborah Lupton consider the image and the article.
Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence has announced that the University is pressing ahead with plans for a Southeast Asia Studies Centre on a visit to Jakarta.
Discover why 90 percent of the cells in your body aren't your own, learn what the speed of death is and find out how the Apple logo got its bite, when Dr Karl Kruszelnicki presents his Sydney Science Forum today at the University of Sydney.
Behind every museum artefact lies a story and a new exhibition at the University of Sydney tells some of the most riveting tales behind its vast antiquities collection, the largest in the southern hemisphere.
The world faces a major challenge in the coming decades as global food demand is poised for unprecedented growth, writes visiting professor Chris Barrett.
The vast but little known north-western Chinese region of Xinjiang has presented a University of Sydney archaeologist with exciting new evidence of early contact between China and the West.
Many people talk of problem gambling as an 'addiction' but work coming out of the University of Sydney's Gambling Treatment Clinic suggests that this may not be the case.
The internationally renowned democracy expert, Professor John Keane, will join a special Sydney Writers' Festival panel discussion on Thursday 17 May in the University of Sydney's Great Hall on the future of the Occupy movement.
There are still seats left at a free screening tonight of a probing yet humorous documentary on the debate between believers in intelligent design, and the scientists who support evolution theories.
In the age of e-books, an original 1944 paper copy of the modernist magazine 'Angry Penguins', containing all the Ern Malley poems, will be on display for the duration of the Sydney Writers' Festival at the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney.
In what promises to be a challenging Sydney Writers' Festival event, Danielle Celermajer, director of the University of Sydney's Torture Prevention and Human Rights programs, will be in conversation with Glenn Carle, a former CIA interrogator and the author of 'The Interrogator: A CIA agent's true story'.
An Australian film depicting the life of a young boy exposed to alcohol during his mother's pregnancy was shown at the United Nations headquarters in New York yesterday.
Children's picture books are a specialised art form, and a public lecture by writer Nadia Wheatley and illustrator Ken Searle aims to encourage deeper appreciation of the genre among parents and educators.
A major study from the University of Sydney has shed light on the secret world of excessive porn viewing and the devastating effect it has on users and their families.
Young children and families in the Broken Hill area will benefit from a number of new health clinics to be established as a result of federal government budget funding for the University of Sydney.
An indication of whether a mother will develop pre-eclampsia, the most common and severe pregnancy-related disease, has been identified by a University of Sydney study.
The Faculty of Education and Social Work in partnership with the Koori Centre is launching its series with Indigenous Australian writers and thinkers, Turning the Tide, with the inaugural event in association with the Sydney Writers' Festival in The Great Hall on Thursday 17 May.
Star Bulldogs Rugby League player Corey Payne will encourage young people in Sydney's south-western suburbs to take on university at a free event this Wednesday 9 May at Revesby Workers Club.
An international study led by the University of Sydney has the potential to improve the design of clinical trials for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a disorder of the peripheral nervous system.
Almost 700 students aged eight and nine got their first hands-on experience of life on campus this week at the Year 3 Introduction to University Day, part of the University of Sydney's Compass 'Find your way to higher education' program.
Dr Rowena Cowley, a senior lecturer in Voice and Opera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and President of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing, reflects on the TV ratings phenomena 'The Voice'.
Australia's sea snakes may be more in danger of extinction than previously thought, marine scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies say.
The art of cleaning and protecting teeth is taken for granted, claim University of Sydney dentists, and there is a need to refocus on basic oral hygiene skills particularly in remote Australia.
How to build resistance and strengthen families living with mental illnesses is the focus of a Churchill Fellowship study tour to be undertaken by Associate Professor Kim Foster from the Sydney Nursing School.
A new history of the University of Sydney examines Australia's oldest university's track record as a secular institution serving the public interest and one of the colony's earliest hubs of philanthropy and social inclusion.
International travellers, shift workers and even people suffering from obesity-related conditions stand to benefit from a key discovery about the functioning of the body's internal clock.
Direct attacks by introduced dingoes may have led to the extinction on the Australian mainland of the iconic marsupial predator, the thylacine, a new study involving University of Sydney researchers suggests.
Five of the University of Sydney's most prominent academics and alumni have shared what matters most to them in the second step of our What Matters campaign.
Prominent climate change activist, Anna Rose, will speak at the Sydney Connections Breakfast next Thursday 10 May about the latest episode in her mission to spread the word about global warming.
Members of the United States Studies Centre's Soil Carbon Initiative put their case for increased attention to global soil security at the United Nations in New York last week.
There's no reprieve in sight for Australian letterboxes bombarded with junk mail, with new University of Sydney research showing that junk mail is enormously effective in boosting in-store sales.
Two University of Sydney PhD students will continue their research overseas after being awarded Prime Minister's Australia Asia Awards in the 2012 round of the Australia Endeavour Awards.
The University of Sydney has awarded an Honorary Doctorate to Ross Gittins, the Sydney Morning Herald journalist who has been economics editor at the newspaper since 1978.
A tiny crystal that enables a computer to perform calculations that currently stump the world's most powerful supercomputers has been developed by an international team including the University of Sydney's Dr Michael Biercuk.
The University has received more than $3 million in funding from 15 successful applications in the latest round of the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship program.
Southeast Asian nations surrounding the Lower Mekong Basin should put construction of hydro-electric dams on the Mekong River on hold if they want to avoid a human security disaster, says a University of Sydney PhD candidate.
The Government's aged care reforms are a landmark for setting valuable directions for better care. It's the first such major initiative in more than 25 years - but there's a long and uncertain road ahead, writes Professor Hal Kendig.
Paul Berkemeier, an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, will become the next president of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Researchers have thrown new light on the tricks the brain plays as it struggles to make sense of the visual and other sensory signals it constantly receives.
A cross-disciplinary team from the University of Sydney has won an Australian Leaderships Awards Fellowships grant to host a delegation of health sector representatives from four developing nations.
The decline in children's participation in mathematics can only be reversed by tackling a complex mix of factors, including positive and negative attitudes of parents, peers and teachers, new research has found.
How much body work does $1000 buy? In many ways this is a more sensible question than how many jobs will be created for people over 50 by offering workplaces small sums of money to hire them, writes Dr Leanne Cutcher.
A small octagonal timber building originally used by veterinary science lecturers when demonstrating to students on cows and horses has won a major heritage award from the National Trust of Australia today.
A new book produced by the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre has challenged existing approaches to diabetes and obesity treatments and presented a strategy with the potential to revolutionise the way our society approaches weight management.
In another win for beautiful people, a University of Sydney study has revealed that fashion retail managers consider good looks and charm to be significantly more important for their staff than qualifications or experience.
The first IVF birth worldwide was in 1978, and so the oldest IVF children are now adults. Will they have the same health outcomes as those conceived "naturally", asks Professor David Celermajer.
Despite the headline-grabbing fixation with gun crime, we received some positive crime news this week with the release of the 2011 NSW Crime Statistics.
A whispering scene in Fellini's classic film 'La Dolce Vita', famous whispering walls in India, and a fascination with technology, language and codes are all influences behind the latest installation by the Sydney College of the Arts' Robyn Backen.
The University of Sydney Business School has won a prestigious AusAID research grant that will see it export its capability-building expertise to Mongolia.
Why has burglary in NSW more than halved and motor vehicle theft dropped by almost two-thirds in the last 10 years? The University of Sydney's Institute of Criminology invites you to find out why.
Being a mature-age student with no Higher School Certificate did not stop Jacinda Matthews becoming the first person in her family to graduate from university.
Six artists who work from studios in a former gaol in the Victoria town of Geelong are featured in an exhibition opening this week at the Sydney College of the Arts' Callan Park Gallery.
Low cost solar cells suitable for rooftop panels could reach a record-breaking 40 percent efficiency following an early stage breakthrough by a University of Sydney researcher and his German partners.
Celebrated artist and University of Sydney alumnus Ben Quilty will chat online with members of the public today about why support for the arts is a critical issue as part of the 'What Matters' campaign.
An educational initiative designed by Google has the potential to produce brighter, smarter computer students at tertiary level, according to the University of Sydney's information technology experts.
A public forum at the University of Sydney will examine the outcome of the recent Finkelstein Inquiry into the news media, scrutinising the politics of recommendations and whether they are likely to be successfully implemented.
Putting all dieters to shame, the red giant stars of our galaxy lose many times the entire mass of the Earth every year, and the riddle of how has finally been solved by University of Sydney researchers.
A University of Sydney taxonomist has built on the research of Emperor Akihito of Japan, perhaps the world's best known ichthyologist, to classify a new family of fish.
Australia's favourite footwear are under the spotlight, with a world-first study from the University of Sydney indicating thongs may not be as bad for children's feet as their reputation suggests.
Academics across the University of Sydney are starting to explore new ways to tackle some of the big issues of the 21st century thanks to their success in attracting external research funding throughout 2011.
Unacceptably high maternal and infant mortality rates in Burma are being addressed for the first time in Australia at a conference at the University of Sydney today.
Australia's largest public collection of the work of Joseph Beuys, one of the late 20th century's most influential artists, has gone on show at the University of Sydney's Art Gallery.
A company that worked on the film The Matrix has developed groundbreaking technology which will help University of Sydney veterinary students improve their surgical desexing skills.
Tiny agents found in omega-3 could potentially be used to block the path of primary cancer tumours, preventing the advance to secondary stage cancers according to pharmacy researchers at the University of Sydney.
Parents spend a lot of time and money picking out the perfect school shoes for their children, but a University of Sydney study is questioning whether the traditional solid, sturdy shoe is the best choice.
Grace Shephard, a PhD student in the School of Geosciences, will join early career research scientists from around the world for a special event featuring 25 Nobel Laureates.
Two young students from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music will be spending this Easter in Beijing competing in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, commonly regarded as the 'Olympics for young violinists'.
On a visit to South America, Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence has signed an agreement on behalf of Australia's leading research universities that will bring more Brazilian students to Australia.
Scientists can already see damage in the eyes of children who have been drinking fizzy drinks and eating too many carbohydrates, according to a world first study.
Canadian researcher Stephen Larin will conduct a six-month study into immigration policies in Australia and Canada after winning an Endeavour Award to study at the University of Sydney.
On 28 March the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its full report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX).
The discovery of how a particular virus can persist in a latent state for the life of the human host has won the 2012 Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize for Medical Research.
The Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek, has announced a grant of $2.1 million to the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), located at the University of Sydney.
This week's Sydney Ideas speaker, international global entrepreneur Gunter Pauli, will update us on his plan to create 100 million jobs over 10 years without hurting the environment.
The head of NASA, Charles F Bolden Jr, will speak at a public event at the University of Sydney co-hosted by the US Studies Centre, CAASTRO (ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics) and the US Consulate General this Wednesday 4 April.
Close to 100 local residents attended a community forum on the National Disability Insurance Scheme at the University of Sydney last week. Hosted by the federal Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek and the Every Australian Counts Campaign, the forum included a panel of experts from the University who spoke on the importance of the proposed scheme.
The University of Sydney is using its most prominent academics and alumni to find out what Australians care about and give the wider community a better idea of the impact of its work.
The Joan Carden Award for 2012 has been won by mezzo soprano Agnes Sarkis. Agnes holds an Advanced Diploma of Opera from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is currently in the first year of study for a Graduate Diploma of Music (Opera).
University is often remembered as a time of parties, relaxation and fun but students Australia-wide also experience a surge in mental health issues in their university years. To help raise awareness of the challenges this presents, the University of Sydney is launching its inaugural Thrive Festival.
Personal-best goals for at-risk children such as those with attention deficit hyperactive disorder may be one way of closing the achievement gap in schools, according to new research.
The University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has teamed up as a partner with the iconic literary event in 2012 to offer a diverse range of panel-led discussions and workshops with leading authors and researchers.
Human geographers and international public health experts from the University of Sydney are collaborating on a project to help people in Laos adjust to large-scale environmental changes, with a research grant of $1.4 million from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
More than one in two Australians believe that taxi services in their local areas are deteriorating, according to the University's latest quarterly national transport survey.
Australia would greatly benefit from a "slow down and learn approach" to managing possible risks from coal seam gas extraction , argues Professor Alan Randall from the University of Sydney.
David Isaacs, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, has called for the introduction of compensation for those who suffer a serious adverse reaction to vaccination.
Sydney doctor and philanthropist Tom Wenkart yesterday donated $4 million to endow the University of Sydney Wenkart Chair in Endothelium Medicine at the Centenary Institute.
Asian Development Bank Vice-President Stephen Groff has spoken at the University about the challenges facing the region at the start of the Asian Century.
A study led by the University of Sydney has found that adults who sat 11 or more hours per day had a 40 percent increased risk of dying in the next three years compared with those who sat for fewer than four hours a day.
Researchers from the University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital and the University of Queensland have announced the largest study yet into lymphoedema, a disorder affecting up to 30 percent of people undergoing treatment for some cancers.
Professor Bernard Faure from Columbia University will deliver a Sydney Ideas talk on Tuesday night on the emerging dialogue between neuroscience and Buddhism.
Dr Oliver Bown, a musician and a lecturer at the University of Sydney's Design Lab, has released an album of electronic music in 1000 digitally unique versions.
Joseph Bozich, founder of Knights Apparel, will be speaking at a public event on how manufacturing companies can offer a sustainable pathway out of poverty for workers without sacrificing profitable business practises.
Free range hens are not necessarily less stressed than cage or barn housed hens, a new study from the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney has found.
Honesty may be the best policy, but new research from the University of Sydney suggests that consumers feel more satisfied if they lie and get what they want than if they tell the truth.
Evidence of the unacceptable use of whips in thoroughbred racing and the inability of stewards to adequately police Australian whip rules has been documented in University of Sydney research.
A $1.2 million biosecurity laboratory which opened in Sydney this week will allow researchers to double their efforts to understand and combat tuberculosis.
Gold nanoparticles can be used as delivery vehicles for platinum anticancer drugs, improving targeting and uptake into cells, according to new research.
The opt-in requirements of the federal government's current reforms for the financial advisory sector, write a University of Sydney financial regulation expert.
Twenty-one academically outstanding international students will study at the University of Sydney this year after being announced as the inaugural recipients of the Sydney Achievers International Scholarships and the Dr Abdul Kalam International Scholarships.
Research into how computers can better understand human language has won University of Sydney PhD candidate Dominick Ng a Fulbright Scholarship to spend eight months studying at UC Berkeley in the US.
The Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (BMET) will be officially opened this evening at the University of Sydney and will significantly advance this highly multidisciplinary research for life sciences and medicine.
In the same week the NSW Government announced a series of reforms including the devolution of budgetary control to school principals, Professor Raewyn Connell will deliver the first lecture for 2012 in the Educational Heresies Series entitled, "Are Markets Good for Education?"
The University of Sydney has jumped to be ranked among the top 50 universities in the world in the latest annual Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.
Next week the Sydney Conservatorium of Music welcomes Princeton University Jazz to Australia where students from the two jazz schools will undertake a week-long intensive exchange of musical and cultural ideas.
Eighty of the finest French violin, viola and cello bows - some worth a quarter of a million dollars and more - will be on show in Sydney later this week at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Emily Johnson has just joined the University of Sydney through the Cadigal Alternative Entry Program and is two weeks into her Bachelor of Arts degree, following in the footsteps of her big sister, second-year Arts student Alicia.
Australian astronomers are leading the way with a revolutionary approach to studying the cosmos which looks at huge parts of the sky all at once, to answer some of the big questions about our universe.
You might have heard of warming up for a football match, but researchers from the University of Sydney are hoping that warming up for a flu vaccine could improve its effectiveness and reduce illness and death in the elderly.
Women in their forties are more likely to have dental anxiety than any other age group according to a University of Sydney study into dental anxiety and phobia.
The US government is investing $2.5 million in a Sydney-based study to determine the role of genetics in alcoholic liver disease, a silent epidemic that costs $3.8 billion a year in Australia alone.
Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to Professor Geraint Lewis and two honours students from the University of Sydney.
By exploring the connections between astronomy and music, Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the University of Sydney, will introduce a chamber music concert celebrating Galileo.
Dr Mat Todd, from the University of Sydney's School of Chemistry, recently led a meeting to discuss the application of the open source model to discovering drugs to treat malaria.
Knowledge of a disease prevalent among Northern Territory Indigenous communities has been overhauled thanks to research contributed by the University of Sydney's Garth Nicholson.
Young women, middle-aged women and older women should be inspired by what has been achieved in the past by active women and their advocates: a speech by Professor Marian Baird for International Women's Day 2012
A cartilage gel being developed by tissue engineers and biochemists at the University of Sydney could bring increased mobility to people living with debilitating sports injuries.
Climate change challenges us to rethink the whole narrative of human progress and a range of unsustainable political and social practices, says Professor David Schlosberg who will deliver the inaugural 2012 Insights lecture tonight.
If people fully understood how the Prime Minister was elected they would not have been caught up in the media hype brought about by the recent Labor leadership challenge, says one of our experts in civics and citizenship.
New homes are being approved in Australia's coastal zones under controls that haven't been updated to account for climate change impacts, warns a report launched today.
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is much criticised for being slow to accept new treatments, but this reluctance is understandable in view of the great risks involved, writes Danielle Celermajer and Thomas Pogge.
The executive briefcase in Australia is getting heavier, with new research from the University of Sydney showing that most executives carry "technology toolkits".
An innovative University of Sydney research partnership with private enterprise could see a radical change in how breast cancer is diagnosed, with the possibility to improve detection rates.
Despite Australia's critical shortage of skilled workers, many trade apprentices are living on a wage that falls below the poverty line and is barely higher than the unemployment benefit, according to new research.
The US presidential primary calendar comes to a head this Wednesday 7 March, when 10 states vote on which Republican should challenge Barack Obama for the American presidency.
EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn has visited the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility, the first stop on a tour of Australia's leading science research centres.
This Wednesday the Yale University political philosopher Thomas Pogge looks at the big questions confronting all of us concerned with human rights and global justice.
The watery depths of Western Australia's Ningaloo coast will be audited by marine engineers and scientists this week using an aquatic robot and technology developed by University of Sydney mechatronic experts.
Penile cancer, HIV, HPV, syphilis and kidney inflammation are among a number of medical conditions whose risk can be lowered by the practice of infant male circumcision, says a study led by the University of Sydney.
Just one year after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami devastated their region, a group of students from Tohoku, Japan, have arrived at the University of Sydney to undertake an intensive English language course that uses concepts from maths and physics to teach the language.
Tourists often assume the chaos on Vietnam's roads does not translate to a high crash rate. Nothing could be further from the truth, writes Anna Hollows.
While many people associate student life with parties and junk food, the University of Sydney is offering its students an alternative with a healthy living focus at this year's Orientation Week.
Today's world would have astonished and disturbed George Orwell says Canada's Professor David Lyon, who will deliver a public lecture at the University of Sydney this week.
India's Agriculture Minister has visited the Plant Breeding Institute at Cobbitty to hear about work on the development of disease-resistant and drought-tolerant crops.
In light of Kevin Rudd's spectacular defeat to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the Labor Party leadership ballot yesterday, Tom Switzer opines on how Rudd became so loathed in his own party.
Former chief executive officer of Leighton Holdings Limited, David Stewart, has accepted the role of chairman of Engineering Sydney, the University of Sydney's industry-aligned body that collaborates and develops partnerships with business leaders and organisations.
Javier Cercas, Spain's most celebrated contemporary writer, will deliver a Sydney Ideas lecture in the University's Great Hall this Wednesday 29 February.
Live entertainment, student society activities and information sessions will help more than 10,000 new students get into the swing of university life as Orientation Week kicks off today across University of Sydney campuses.
Dr Helen Proctor reviews the Gonski review as part three of a Herald series that asks: ''What could the Gonski review mean for parents choosing a school 10 years from now?''
Broken Hill City Council and the University of Sydney further cemented their commitment to educational, research, professional and service learning development in the region by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health (BH UDRH).
A new report confirms that Sydney has enjoyed a deeper engagement with China than any other Australian university over the past decade, measured by joint publications.
A world-renowned scientist whose research spans why locusts swarm to the dietary causes of ageing and human obesity has been appointed Academic Director of the newly named Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney's new multidisciplinary centre specialising in obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The first of a series of free concerts in 2012 by some of Australia's leading young musicians will be held this Saturday 25 February at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Associate Professor Gareth Denyer, from the School of Molecular Bioscience, has won the 2012 Invitrogen Life Technologies Education Award from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
A short film about an Indigenous family living a technologically engaged life to the north-east of Darwin has been screened in the prestigious Berlin international film festival.
Professor Paul McGreevy, Faculty of Veterinary Science, has suggested a solution to the suffering caused by over-tight horse nosebands used in equestrian competition, which cause stress, reduced blood flow and ultimately deformed nasal bones.
Omega-3 fatty acids may have a role in preventing heart attack or strokes in adults who were small at birth, according to University of Sydney researchers.
Results of a University of Sydney study show tablet computers such as the iPad are as good as standard LCD computer screens when used as secondary display devices for viewing medical imaging. Secondary display devices can be used by doctors who move from patient to patient in hospital wards.
Effective immediately, the University of Sydney has determined that students who have completed the China National Education Entrance Examination (the Gaokao), and who have attained a Tier One result, may apply directly for admission into an Undergraduate program at The University, provided they meet the University's English language and special entry requirements.
The Surveillance and/in Everyday Life: Monitoring Pasts, Presents and Futures conference will draw together international experts to discuss a range of technological developments and related social implications
As the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 approaches, a University of Sydney expert in the history of wartime camouflage says key figures at the time were arguing for Darwin to be much better protected.
A leading international expert will shed new light on the contentious issue of post-separation parenting legislation when Sydney Law School's Distinguished Speakers Program kicks off for 2012 on Wednesday 22 February.
It is in our national interest to better support agriculture at our universities, says Professor Mark Adams, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. Opinion piece originally published in the Canberra Times.
The University of Sydney's Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education is holding a Forum on Preparedness for First Year Mathematics today for staff from universities across Australia to share their strategies for dealing with the issue.
The University of Sydney has recognised the success of hundreds of its high-achieving students during the 2011 academic year, publishing its 2011 Honour Roll in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The genome sequence of the crocodile has been completed by an international collaboration of scientists, including researchers from the University of Sydney.
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Sydney, has found the molecular structure in the body which functions as our 'shock absorber'.
Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies top honours in Canon Australia's Extreme Imaging competition.
Coral from one of Australia's oldest collections, striking renditions of coastal marine life by Australian artists and works from students living in the reef-rich Torres Strait will help examine our treasured-yet-fragile coral reefs in a new exhibition at the University of Sydney's Macleay Museum.
As observers warn the European debt crisis could lead to global depression, and as recent Australian employment figures fall short of expectations, the arrival in Australia of economist Professor Guy Standing could not be timelier.
Libby Gleeson, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work and an alumna of the University of Sydney, is to be the recipient of the 2011 Dromkeen Medal.
A NSW government decision to ban solariums has been welcomed by University of Sydney researchers whose Australian Melanoma Family Study, done in collaboration with other organisations, contributed to the move.
Simon Reid, a third year medical student at the University of Sydney has been elected as co-chair of the National Rural Health Students Network for 2012.
The University of Sydney has been commended for its strong research performance and its successful efforts to build multidisciplinary and international research collaborations in a report published by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA).
Professor Ben Eggleton, in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney has won the 2011 Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics.
Burqini has been selected as the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2011 and will be included in the annual update of the Macquarie Dictionary Online.
Comedian, music video fanatic and YouTube wrangler Adam Buxton likened his show to what you'd experience if you came round for dinner (minus the dinner) and left an appreciative audience feeling like they'd spent two hours with that geeky friend who can't wait to show you their latest internet finds.
In a major step to ensure the health and wellbeing of all staff, students and visitors, the University has introduced a new smoke-free policy for all its campuses.
Dr Robert Cowan, a lecturer in the University of Sydney's Department of Classics and Ancient History, responds to the Sydney Festival production of Thyestes.
University of Sydney academics have been recognised for the significant contributions they've made in their fields and to their communities with the latest round of Australia Day Honours, announced yesterday by the Governor-General.
Internationally renowned performer, music educator and academic, Professor Karl Kramer, has been appointed as the new Dean and Principal of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Sex was the theme for the second late-night session of the Bright Club, the Sydney Festival event in which University of Sydney academics reveal the funnier side of their research.
Kate and Ainslie Thompson share birthdays, looks and an aspiration to become engineers when they finish school. The twins are among 23 students attending this year's Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School at the University of Sydney.
Associate Professor Penny Russell from the University of Sydney's Department of History responds to the Sydney Festival production 'Tis Pity She's A Whore'.
Joining the University of Sydney debating society comes with a number of potential perks - there's the possibility of world travel and the chance to pit your intellect and wits against some of the best young minds from around the globe.
FoodSwitch, an Australian-first iPhone app, has been launched recently to help shoppers make healthier food choices in the supermarket and reduce high levels of fat, salt and sugar from their diets.
For the fourth exciting year the Dominik Mersch Gallery Award winner has been announced: Kevin Platt, a Master of Fine Arts student will receive the opportunity to exhibit his works in the gallery.
The Sydney Festival production of 'Beautiful Burnout', which tells the story of five young boxers who are fighting for a chance to see their name in lights, has just opened at the University's Seymour Centre.
When Will Chan moved to Sydney from Brisbane, he had no idea that his degree would take him to the other side of the world. Nonetheless, that's where he ended up, with a scholarship to design new buildings in the Diepsloot slums in South Africa.
Internet gambling is on the rise in Australia according to new research from the University of Sydney and Southern Cross University, with factors such as convenience and ease of access contributing to its popularity.
It might seem like a leap to begin your university career in French and philosophy and then switch to medicine, but it is a progression that made sense for Jack Lawson.
Australians with a chronic illness or disability face serious levels of economic hardship, according to University of Sydney research just published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, from the School of Physics, has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Jackson-Gwilt Medal by the UK's Royal Astronomical Society.
A team of four, including University of Sydney masters student Bob Miles, cross Australia using only biodiesel in the documentary series 'The Aussie Way Up' premiering this weekend.
Two University of Sydney research teams have received almost $7 million in NSW government funding, announced at the Bernie Banton Centre today by the Minister for Health and Medical Research, Jillian Skinner.
The wordsmiths at the University of Sydney's Macquarie Dictionary lab have collected all the new words which have entered the vernacular to choose a Word of the Year in the annual update of the Macquarie Dictionary Online.
Professor Cassandra Pybus, from the University of Sydney's Department of History, reflects on one of the Aboriginal heroes portrayed in the Sydney Festival production 'I Am Eora'.
University of Sydney researchers are joining forces with the Sydney Festival to bring a smile to the faces of audiences in the Famous Spiegeltent. As part of the 'Bright Club' in Sydney's Hyde Park, academics who study areas as diverse as American literature, the breeding habits of insects, consumer marketing and medieval demons are reflecting on the funny side of their research and providing nourishment for the mind in an evening where comedy and brains collide.
University researchers have debunked the dogma that predators aren't picky eaters, with a new study finding predator animals that are given a choice of foods will select a diet that maximises their chances of reproducing.
People who weigh more should pay more to fly on planes - in the same way that people who exceed their baggage allowance must fork out extra, writes Tony Webber.
A hotter home appears to produce babies with better cognitive abilities - but before you turn up the heater to make your baby brainier, the research was conducted on the Australian lizard by University of Sydney researchers.
Professor Shane Houston, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) this week joined MC Wendy Harmer for Sydney Festival's Hope 2012 speakers' event.
Two multi-instrumentalists are juggling more than 20 instruments to recreate Mike Oldfield's 1973 classic Tubular Bells in a Sydney Festival performance at the University of Sydney's Seymour Centre
A new approach for diagnosing patients with anorexia nervosa could have a significant impact on the treatment and recovery of sufferers, as well as reducing the strain on public health.
Imaginative designs by University of Sydney architecture students for a captivating sister venue to the Sydney Festival's Famous Spiegeltent will be exhibited at the Tin Sheds Gallery.
The monotony of day-to-day existence is lit up with magic and humour at L'Effet de Serge, hosted by the Sydney Festival at the University's Seymour Centre.
Ballroom dancing classes for senior citizens could bring back the balance and strength needed to prevent falls in elderly Australians, according to University of Sydney researchers.
Some of Sydney's best examples of modernist architecture will come alive at the Sydney Festival this summer, in a walk across the University of Sydney's Camperdown Campus that intertwines art and architecture.
Professor Paul McGreevy from the Faculty of Veterinary Science is working on ways to 'check the brakes' on horses to ensure that they slow down on cue, protecting both the horses and their riders.
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