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• Major gift funds cutting-edge scientific research

  

  A generous gift of $5 million from one of Australia's leading businessmen will enable the University of Sydney to make major advances in the exciting new field of nanoscience. More

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• Professor Ben Eggleton wins Walter Boas Medal[3 February 2012]

  

  Professor Ben Eggleton, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), in the School of Physics, has won the 2011 Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics. Professor Eggleton will receive his medal at an awards ceremony in March 2012 in Melbourne. More

• Joss Bland-Hawthorn wins the 2012 Jackson-Gwilt Medal[13 January 2012]

  

  Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, from the School of Physics, has been named as the winner of the 2012 Jackson-Gwilt Medal, announced at the Royal Astronomical Society's annual meeting in the UK on 13 January 2012. More

• Hotter homes produce smarter babies[11 January 2012]

  

  A hotter home appears to produce babies with better cognitive abilities - but before you turn up the home heater to make your baby brainier, the research was conducted on the Australian lizard Bassiana duperreyi. Many traits in young reptiles are determined by the temperature of the nest, so Joshua Amiel, a PhD student in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney, and his supervisor, Professor Rick Shine, looked at how incubation temperature would affect the learning performance of these lizards. More

• Scientists get funny at Bright Club[9 January 2012]

  

  Turning science into stand-up comedy, three scientists in the division of Natural Sciences at the University of Sydney will take to the stage as part of Bright Club at the Sydney Festival over three nights in January. James Heathers, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, Associate Professor Dieter Hochuli, from the School of Biological Sciences, and Professor Alex McBratney, from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, have been selected for their comic skills and ability to make science snigger-worthy. More

• One step closer in the search for the Higgs boson[14 December 2011]

  

  University of Sydney scientists working with an international team using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have made an important step towards the discovery of the Higgs boson - a theoretical particle that physicists predict will explain why matter has mass. More

• Ageing stars are slow on the outside but fast on the inside[8 December 2011]

  

  What will our Sun look like in five billion years? It will have a fast spinning core and slow spinning surface, according to an international team of scientists, including University of Sydney astronomers Professor Tim Bedding and Dr Dennis Stello. The team has discovered that old stars called 'red giants' have slowed down on the outside, while their cores spin at least ten times faster than their outer layers. More

• Winners in the Australian Innovation Challenge[8 December 2011]

  

  Two University of Sydney scientists have won Australian Innovation Challenge awards for their research - Professor Marcela Bilek, from the School of Physics, and team have won the Health award and Professor Rick Shine, from the School of Biological Sciences, has won the Environment award. More

• Two NSW Science and Engineering Award winners in Faculty of Science [23 November 2011]

  

  Professor Rick Shine, from the School of Biological Sciences, and Dr Mat Todd, from the School of Chemistry, have won NSW Science and Engineering Awards, announced at a ceremony at Government House on 23 November 2011. More

• Leading the way in sustainable manufacturing[22 November 2011]

  

  Sustainable ways to produce plastics, foams, paints and other everyday materials could be the outcome of a $10 million, four-year project about to commence at the University of Sydney. More

• Carl Recsei wins Australia-Israel Scientific Exchange Foundation Postgraduate Fellow award[17 November 2011]

  

  Carl Recsei, a PhD student in the School of Chemistry supervised by Dr Chris McErlean, has won the Australia-Israel Scientific Exchange Foundation Postgraduate Fellow award, which will allow him to spend six months at the Technion in Israel in 2012. More

• Sunken islands could cause tectonic shift in Gondwana story[14 November 2011]

  

  In the remote waters of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, scientists have just discovered two sunken islands, almost the size of Tasmania, which were once part of the supercontinent Gondwana. More

• Lindsay Soutar wins 2011 Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award[10 November 2011]

  

  Lindsay Soutar, a geography tutor in the School of Geosciences, former Australian Mekong Resource Centre staff member, and previous Geography Honours student, has won the 2011 Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award. More