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  • TEDxSydney and the University of Sydney experience[14 May 2013]

    Bill Pritchard TEDxSydney thumbnail image

    The promise of the information revolution for 37 million blind people, the independence of West Papua, why food security is about more than how much food we grow, the insecurity of the digital records of our lives, and why data analysis is key to our democracy, were just some of the issues posed to more than 2200 people this Saturday at the Sydney Opera House. More

  • Professor Steve Simpson elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[3 May 2013]

    Steve Simpson

    Professor Steve Simpson, from the School of Biological Sciences and Director of the University's Charles Perkins Centre, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, announced in London on 3 May 2013. More

  • Professor Nalini Joshi shares her love of maths at the Sydney Comedy Festival[18 April 2013]

    Nalini Joshi

    Bringing mathematics to a new audience in an unexpected way, Professor Nalini Joshi, from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, is taking to the stage at the Sydney Comedy Festival. More

  • Faculty of Science is Inspiring Australia[17 April 2013]

    Jackie Randles

    The University of Sydney has entered into a partnership with NSW Trade and Investment and the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education to support Inspiring Australia, the Australian Government's national strategy for engagement with the sciences. More

  • Optics innovation creates a wave of sales[9 April 2013]

    Jochen Schroeder

    An optics innovation created by postdoctoral researcher, Dr Jochen Schroeder, from the School of Physics and CUDOS, is a technology transfer success story, creating a wave of sales for Finisar, the Australian company that has used the new technology in their latest WaveShaper product. More

  • Science student helps NASA investigate a stellar 'crime scene'[28 March 2013]

    Cleo Loi

    An undergraduate astronomy student at the University of Sydney is proud to have played her part in investigating NASA's discovery of the remains of a shattered star. More

  • Professor Bryan Gaensler elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science[27 March 2013]

    Bryan Gaensler

    Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics and Director of CAASTRO - the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, announced on 27 March 2013. More

  • Professor Tony Weiss inducted into medical and biological engineering elite[5 March 2013]

    Tony Weiss

    The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has bestowed its highest honour upon University of Sydney researcher, Professor Tony Weiss, inducting him into its College of Fellows. More

  • Two new Cooperative Research Centres successfully funded[19 February 2013]

    Cooperative Research Centres

    Two new Cooperative Research Centres with nodes at the University of Sydney have been successful in gaining funding from the federal government and will start operating in July 2013. More

  • Generous gift funds Professor Walter Stibbs Lectures [13 February 2013]

    Professor Walter Stibbs

    With a family association to the University of Sydney spanning more than 128 years, and as a science graduate from the University herself, Margaret Stibbs knew there was no better place to make a generous donation to fund a new lecture series in memory of her eminent husband - astronomer Professor Walter Stibbs. More

  • Listening to electrons: New method brings scaling-up quantum devices one step closer[1 February 2013]

    Quantum dots

    Quantum devices will revolutionise computing, offering up a whole new way of operating that will allow huge calculations to be completed that classical computers simply can't do. We're now one step closer to quantum computing becoming a reality thanks to new research led by a team of University of Sydney physicists, who have found a new way to detect changes in charges smaller than one electron. More

  • Two Australian Academy of Science awards for Faculty of Science[16 January 2013]

    Australian Academy of Science

    The Australian Academy of Science has recognised the research excellence of two University of Sydney scientists: Professor Peter Lay, from the School of Chemistry, won the 2013 David Craig Medal and Professor Sébastien Perrier, also from the School of Chemistry, won the 2013 Le Fevre Memorial Prize. More