Faculty of Science students have created a hilarious music video clip, originally shown at the 2009 Science Revue 'Jurassic Quark', which is now gaining international exposure on YouTube and has been distributed by CSIRO communications to CSIRO staff.
Professor Steve Simpson, from the School of Biological Sciences, has been named in the top 100 most influential people in Sydney by the Sydney Morning Herald's the(sydney)magazine.
Jonathan Kummerfeld, who completed his Bachelor of Science (Advanced) with first class honours and the University Medal in November 2009, has won the General Sir John Monash Award.
Dr William Figueira, from the School of Biological Sciences, has helped to produce the first Australian benchmark of climate-change impacts on marine ecosystems.
Associate Professor Sebastien Perrier, from the School of Chemistry, has won the 2009 Rennie Memorial Medal from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Professor Ben Eggleton, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) in the School of Physics, has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).
The winner of the 2010 NSW Rhodes Scholarship is David Llewellyn, a University of Sydney Science Honours student with a determination to develop a vaccine for malaria.
Associate Professor Sebastien Perrier and Dr Timothy Schmidt, both from the School of Chemistry, have been awarded NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Awards from the NSW Office for Science and Medical Research.
Researchers from the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney have secured $17.29 million in funding for Discovery Projects and $1.045 million in funding for Linkage Projects from the Australian Research Council, for research to begin in 2010.
Hear Associate Professor Rod Cross, from the School of Physics, talk about his forensic physics work which provided crucial evidence for the murder conviction of Gordon Wood, at his public talk 'Evidence for Murder: How physics convicted a killer' on 19 November 2009.
Research conducted by a first year Bachelor of Science (Advanced) student at the University of Sydney, Laura McKemmish, and her University of Sydney Talented Student Program project supervisors, Professor Jeffrey Reimers and Professor Noel Hush, along with colleagues at the University of Queensland, provides a definitive analysis of a forty year old biochemical hypothesis, by showing the conditions that Fröhlich condensates will form under.
Come to the launch of the fascinating new book 'A Natural Calling: Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox', by Professor Tony Larkum from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney. The launch will be held on Friday 9 October 2009 in the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney from 4.30pm until 7.00pm.
Finding ways to engage science undergraduate students in their studies is an area which concerns science staff in universities across Australia. UniServe Science, at the University of Sydney, has dedicated their annual conference in 2009 to the theme 'Motivating Science Undergraduates: Ideas and Interventions'.
Professor Kurt Lambeck, President of the Australian Academy of Science, will present a public lecture at the University of Sydney titled, 'Climate Change through the lens of the geological record: the example of sea level'
Professor Steve Simpson from the School of Biological Sciences has been named as the NSW Scientist of the Year 2009 for his cutting-edge work on nutrition and its implications for ecology, evolution, agriculture and human health.
65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then they all died... 65 million years later, humans rule the Earth. Coincidence? Find out at the 2009 Science Revue: Jurassic Quark.
Seven Faculty of Science staff have been awarded prestigious Future Fellowships from the Australian Research Council (ARC), announced on 9 September 2009.
Caught on film for the first time ever, paparazzi to the stars - astronomers - have captured images of our nearest large galaxy, Andromeda, hooking up with its neighbour, the Triangulum Galaxy. Just like any good star gossip, the liaison was suspected previously, but these images are the first to reveal the connection between the two.
A delegation of Chinese doctors visited the Faculty of Science to learn about advances in diabetes treatment, and hear from GI specialist, Professor Jennie Brand-Miller.
Dr Stephen Ng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney, and his team have discovered an extremely rare neutron star in the Frying Pan. The star is bursting out of a supernova remnant, leaving behind it a long trail or 'handle'.
University of Sydney geneticist Dr Kathy Belov has been voted Australia's favourite scientist in the Australian Museum Eureka People's Choice Award for her work on identifying the link between the genetic make-up of tasmanian devils and contagious facial tumours threatening the species' survival.
The winners of the 2009 University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize were announced last night at the 20th Anniversary Australian Museum Eureka Prize dinner.
The development of a new assessment tool for organisations to calculate their ecological footprint has seen the University of Sydney take out the public sector sustainability category of the state's leading environmental awards.
A walk through a cemetery is an evocative journey telling tales of human life come and gone, but to weathering erosion specialist Associate Professor Deirdre Dragovich, graveyards can also tell a story about climate change and pollution.
It's been 40 years since the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took that "one small step" to become the first human to set foot on another world. An exhibition at the University of Sydney, Small Step, Giant Leap: Celebrating Apollo at 40, commemorates this significant anniversary.
The Sydney Medical School in conjunction with the University of Sydney Faculties of Science, Pharmacy and Nursing and Midwifery and in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine are holding a three-day research symposium from 12-14 August, 2009.
Research by University of Sydney scientist, Dr Mike Letnic, has shown that Australia's top predator, the dingo, plays an important role in maintaining the balance of nature and that reintroducing or maintaining existing dingo populations could increase biodiversity across more than 2 million square kilometres of Australia.
Federal Minister for Ageing, The Hon. Justine Elliot, will open a one-day conference, 'Ageing at Home: Nutrition and Other Aspects' on 10 June 2009, where experts will discuss present problems and possible future solutions at the University of Sydney.
The Faculty of Science celebrated the success of its staff with a sparkling event called Celebrating Success on 28 May 2009. Researchers and teaching staff from the Faculty were celebrated with a cocktail reception and the launch of a new book, Sydney Science, which reveals the exciting breadth of research across the Faculty of Science.
The federal budget announcement made on 12 May 2009, includes $19.5 million for the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, and $160.5 million for space and astronomy research and infrastructure.
Professor Norm Dancer, from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, has been awarded the 2009 Hannan Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. The prestigious medal is a career research award for excellence in mathematics.
Emeritus Professor Len Lindoy, from the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, has been awarded the 2009 David Craig Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. The prestigious medal is a career research award for excellence in chemistry research.
Michael West, a fifth year combined Bachelor of Science (Advanced) and Bachelor of Engineering student, was sponsored to attend the Greenhouse 2009: Climate Change and Resources conference in Perth in March.
Music and the Cosmos was a magic night where science and music met at an event to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. The Sydney Science Forum and Sydney Conservatorium of Music presented the special event, featuring leading astronomers from the University of Sydney's School of Physics and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Brass Ensemble.
Astronomers believe our Universe began in a Big Bang, and is expanding around us. Professor Brian Schmidt, from the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory, will describe the life of the Universe that we live in and how astronomers have used observations to trace our Universe's history back more than 13 billion years at the free Pollock Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on 30 April 2009.
The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science was launched on 23 April 2009, drawing together expertise across the Schools of Physics, Electrical and Information Engineering, Mathematics and Chemistry, and the Electron Microscope Unit.
As the environmental state of the planet becomes more and more uncertain, the need for sustainable solutions is essential. Hear international experts tackle the sustainability problem from a scientific, industrial and policy perspective at a free public event on Tuesday 14 April 2009 at the University of Sydney.
Ten Japanese students from Tohoku University have taken part in an innovative new program to learn English through Physics and Mathematics lectures at the University of Sydney.
The University of Sydney's Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope is one of the telescopes featured in the Around the World in 80 Telescopes event, as part of the 100 Hours of Astronomy.
Internationally renowned physicist, Professor Sir John Pendry, from Imperial College, London, will talk about the science of invisibility at the Sydney Science Forum on Wednesday 8 April 2009.
No, George Michael is not planning a reunion tour in the southern hemisphere of 1980s iconic band WHAM! Instead, a telescope called WHAM - the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper - has just been moved to Chile from the USA, with the help of University of Sydney physicist, Dr Greg Madsen.
Conserving Australia's most endangered snake - the broad-headed snake - might mean lighting more bushfires, University of Sydney ecologists have proposed.
A seemingly impossible sparkle of green light from a silicon chip has opened up a whole new field of possibilities for communications devices, including exponentially shrinking the hardware needed to guarantee high quality internet connection.
Professor Scott Kable, from the School of Chemistry, has won a 2009 Fulbright Senior Scholarship to visit the University of Wisconsin, USA, for six months.
Six outstanding students who scored a UAI of 100 in their Higher School Certificate have enrolled in science degrees at the University of Sydney, with five starting in March 2009 and one to start in March 2010.
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, with nodes at the University of Sydney, University of Western Australia and Australian National University, has been awarded a $9.8 million renewal of funding by the Australian Research Council.
Scientists from the School of Physics are leading research to measure the ages of stars that are much older than our sun, using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which launched on 6 March 2009.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Australia's favourite 'science guy' and Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney, will present Science is Golden on Wednesday 11 March 2009, as part of the Sydney Science Forum series.
Professor Ben Eggleton and his team in the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwith Devices for Optical Systems, School of Physics, have developed a photonic integrated circuit that can not only increase internet networks speeds making them 60 times faster, but can act as traffic monitors to keep the speed high and error-free.
Dr Nadine Kasparian has won the Australian Psychological Society's 2008 Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology Award for her PhD research in the School of Psychology.
Enter the University of Sydney's Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer, who entertain audiences around Australia with their Sleek Geeks show, invite young Australians to make a short film about any scientific topic.
Professor Steve Simpson, from the School of Biological Sciences, with scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, have found the neurochemical cause of locust swarms. Their research is the cover story in the prestigious journal Science.
Five Associate Professors in the Faculty of Science have been promoted to Professors: Professor Arthur Conigrave, from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences; Professor Kate Jolliffe, from the School of Chemistry; Professor Brendan Kennedy, from the School of Chemistry; Professor Geraint Lewis, from the School of Physics; and Professor Dietmar Muller, from the School of Geosciences.
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Federation Fellow in the School of Physics, with colleagues at the Anglo-Australian Observatory and Redfern Optical Components, are transforming astronomy with their innovative new light filter system for telescopes.
Shintaro Tsuruta, a current Bachelor of Science student, has received a Commendable Effort certificate in the Space Generation Advisory Council's International Year of Astronomy Essay Competition.
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Faculty of Science students have created a hilarious music video clip, originally shown at the 2009 Science Revue 'Jurassic Quark', which is now gaining international exposure on YouTube and has been distributed by CSIRO communications to CSIRO staff.
Professor Steve Simpson, from the School of Biological Sciences, has been named in the top 100 most influential people in Sydney by the Sydney Morning Herald's the(sydney)magazine.
Jonathan Kummerfeld, who completed his Bachelor of Science (Advanced) with first class honours and the University Medal in November 2009, has won the General Sir John Monash Award.
Dr William Figueira, from the School of Biological Sciences, has helped to produce the first Australian benchmark of climate-change impacts on marine ecosystems.
Associate Professor Sebastien Perrier, from the School of Chemistry, has won the 2009 Rennie Memorial Medal from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. 
Professor Jeffrey Reimers, from the School of Chemistry, has won the 2009 H G Smith Memorial Award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. 
Professor Ben Eggleton, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) in the School of Physics, has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). 
The winner of the 2010 NSW Rhodes Scholarship is David Llewellyn, a University of Sydney Science Honours student with a determination to develop a vaccine for malaria.
Associate Professor Sebastien Perrier and Dr Timothy Schmidt, both from the School of Chemistry, have been awarded NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Awards from the NSW Office for Science and Medical Research.
Researchers from the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney have secured $17.29 million in funding for Discovery Projects and $1.045 million in funding for Linkage Projects from the Australian Research Council, for research to begin in 2010. 
Hear Associate Professor Rod Cross, from the School of Physics, talk about his forensic physics work which provided crucial evidence for the murder conviction of Gordon Wood, at his public talk 'Evidence for Murder: How physics convicted a killer' on 19 November 2009.
Research conducted by a first year Bachelor of Science (Advanced) student at the University of Sydney, Laura McKemmish, and her University of Sydney Talented Student Program project supervisors, Professor Jeffrey Reimers and Professor Noel Hush, along with colleagues at the University of Queensland, provides a definitive analysis of a forty year old biochemical hypothesis, by showing the conditions that Fröhlich condensates will form under.
Come to the launch of the fascinating new book 'A Natural Calling: Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox', by Professor Tony Larkum from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney. The launch will be held on Friday 9 October 2009 in the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney from 4.30pm until 7.00pm. 
Finding ways to engage science undergraduate students in their studies is an area which concerns science staff in universities across Australia. UniServe Science, at the University of Sydney, has dedicated their annual conference in 2009 to the theme 'Motivating Science Undergraduates: Ideas and Interventions'.
Professor Kurt Lambeck, President of the Australian Academy of Science, will present a public lecture at the University of Sydney titled, 'Climate Change through the lens of the geological record: the example of sea level'
Professor Steve Simpson from the School of Biological Sciences has been named as the NSW Scientist of the Year 2009 for his cutting-edge work on nutrition and its implications for ecology, evolution, agriculture and human health.
65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then they all died... 65 million years later, humans rule the Earth. Coincidence? Find out at the 2009 Science Revue: Jurassic Quark.
Seven Faculty of Science staff have been awarded prestigious Future Fellowships from the Australian Research Council (ARC), announced on 9 September 2009.
Caught on film for the first time ever, paparazzi to the stars - astronomers - have captured images of our nearest large galaxy, Andromeda, hooking up with its neighbour, the Triangulum Galaxy. Just like any good star gossip, the liaison was suspected previously, but these images are the first to reveal the connection between the two.
A delegation of Chinese doctors visited the Faculty of Science to learn about advances in diabetes treatment, and hear from GI specialist, Professor Jennie Brand-Miller.
Dr Stephen Ng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney, and his team have discovered an extremely rare neutron star in the Frying Pan. The star is bursting out of a supernova remnant, leaving behind it a long trail or 'handle'.
University of Sydney geneticist Dr Kathy Belov has been voted Australia's favourite scientist in the Australian Museum Eureka People's Choice Award for her work on identifying the link between the genetic make-up of tasmanian devils and contagious facial tumours threatening the species' survival.
The winners of the 2009 University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize were announced last night at the 20th Anniversary Australian Museum Eureka Prize dinner.
The development of a new assessment tool for organisations to calculate their ecological footprint has seen the University of Sydney take out the public sector sustainability category of the state's leading environmental awards.
A walk through a cemetery is an evocative journey telling tales of human life come and gone, but to weathering erosion specialist Associate Professor Deirdre Dragovich, graveyards can also tell a story about climate change and pollution.
It's been 40 years since the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took that "one small step" to become the first human to set foot on another world. An exhibition at the University of Sydney, Small Step, Giant Leap: Celebrating Apollo at 40, commemorates this significant anniversary. 
The Sydney Medical School in conjunction with the University of Sydney Faculties of Science, Pharmacy and Nursing and Midwifery and in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine are holding a three-day research symposium from 12-14 August, 2009.
Research by University of Sydney scientist, Dr Mike Letnic, has shown that Australia's top predator, the dingo, plays an important role in maintaining the balance of nature and that reintroducing or maintaining existing dingo populations could increase biodiversity across more than 2 million square kilometres of Australia.
Federal Minister for Ageing, The Hon. Justine Elliot, will open a one-day conference, 'Ageing at Home: Nutrition and Other Aspects' on 10 June 2009, where experts will discuss present problems and possible future solutions at the University of Sydney.
The Faculty of Science has launched Sydney Science, a new book which reveals the exciting breadth of research across the Faculty.
The Faculty of Science celebrated the success of its staff with a sparkling event called Celebrating Success on 28 May 2009. Researchers and teaching staff from the Faculty were celebrated with a cocktail reception and the launch of a new book, Sydney Science, which reveals the exciting breadth of research across the Faculty of Science. 
The federal budget announcement made on 12 May 2009, includes $19.5 million for the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, and $160.5 million for space and astronomy research and infrastructure. 
Professor Norm Dancer, from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, has been awarded the 2009 Hannan Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. The prestigious medal is a career research award for excellence in mathematics. 
Emeritus Professor Len Lindoy, from the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, has been awarded the 2009 David Craig Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. The prestigious medal is a career research award for excellence in chemistry research.
Michael West, a fifth year combined Bachelor of Science (Advanced) and Bachelor of Engineering student, was sponsored to attend the Greenhouse 2009: Climate Change and Resources conference in Perth in March.
Music and the Cosmos was a magic night where science and music met at an event to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. The Sydney Science Forum and Sydney Conservatorium of Music presented the special event, featuring leading astronomers from the University of Sydney's School of Physics and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Brass Ensemble.
Astronomers believe our Universe began in a Big Bang, and is expanding around us. Professor Brian Schmidt, from the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory, will describe the life of the Universe that we live in and how astronomers have used observations to trace our Universe's history back more than 13 billion years at the free Pollock Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on 30 April 2009. 
The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science was launched on 23 April 2009, drawing together expertise across the Schools of Physics, Electrical and Information Engineering, Mathematics and Chemistry, and the Electron Microscope Unit.
As the environmental state of the planet becomes more and more uncertain, the need for sustainable solutions is essential. Hear international experts tackle the sustainability problem from a scientific, industrial and policy perspective at a free public event on Tuesday 14 April 2009 at the University of Sydney.
Ten Japanese students from Tohoku University have taken part in an innovative new program to learn English through Physics and Mathematics lectures at the University of Sydney. 
The University of Sydney's Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope is one of the telescopes featured in the Around the World in 80 Telescopes event, as part of the 100 Hours of Astronomy. 
Internationally renowned physicist, Professor Sir John Pendry, from Imperial College, London, will talk about the science of invisibility at the Sydney Science Forum on Wednesday 8 April 2009. 
No, George Michael is not planning a reunion tour in the southern hemisphere of 1980s iconic band WHAM! Instead, a telescope called WHAM - the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper - has just been moved to Chile from the USA, with the help of University of Sydney physicist, Dr Greg Madsen. 
Conserving Australia's most endangered snake - the broad-headed snake - might mean lighting more bushfires, University of Sydney ecologists have proposed.
A seemingly impossible sparkle of green light from a silicon chip has opened up a whole new field of possibilities for communications devices, including exponentially shrinking the hardware needed to guarantee high quality internet connection.
Professor Scott Kable, from the School of Chemistry, has won a 2009 Fulbright Senior Scholarship to visit the University of Wisconsin, USA, for six months. 
Six outstanding students who scored a UAI of 100 in their Higher School Certificate have enrolled in science degrees at the University of Sydney, with five starting in March 2009 and one to start in March 2010.
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, with nodes at the University of Sydney, University of Western Australia and Australian National University, has been awarded a $9.8 million renewal of funding by the Australian Research Council.
Scientists from the School of Physics are leading research to measure the ages of stars that are much older than our sun, using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which launched on 6 March 2009. 
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Australia's favourite 'science guy' and Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney, will present Science is Golden on Wednesday 11 March 2009, as part of the Sydney Science Forum series.
Doing maths with a pencil and paper is what's needed, not shiny new laptops, writes mathematics professor Nalini Joshi in The Australian.
Professor Ben Eggleton and his team in the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwith Devices for Optical Systems, School of Physics, have developed a photonic integrated circuit that can not only increase internet networks speeds making them 60 times faster, but can act as traffic monitors to keep the speed high and error-free. 
Dr Nadine Kasparian has won the Australian Psychological Society's 2008 Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology Award for her PhD research in the School of Psychology. 
Enter the University of Sydney's Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer, who entertain audiences around Australia with their Sleek Geeks show, invite young Australians to make a short film about any scientific topic.
Professor Steve Simpson, from the School of Biological Sciences, with scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, have found the neurochemical cause of locust swarms. Their research is the cover story in the prestigious journal Science.
Five Associate Professors in the Faculty of Science have been promoted to Professors: Professor Arthur Conigrave, from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences; Professor Kate Jolliffe, from the School of Chemistry; Professor Brendan Kennedy, from the School of Chemistry; Professor Geraint Lewis, from the School of Physics; and Professor Dietmar Muller, from the School of Geosciences.
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Federation Fellow in the School of Physics, with colleagues at the Anglo-Australian Observatory and Redfern Optical Components, are transforming astronomy with their innovative new light filter system for telescopes. 
Shintaro Tsuruta, a current Bachelor of Science student, has received a Commendable Effort certificate in the Space Generation Advisory Council's International Year of Astronomy Essay Competition.