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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A newly discovered form of circle dancing is perplexing astronomers; not due to its complex choreography, but because it's unclear why the dancers - dwarf galaxies - are dancing in a ring around the much larger Andromeda Galaxy.
An extensive undersea mapping program of the Australian coast has revealed some surprises about the deep Great Barrier Reef, including a dense network of submarine canyons, the remains of numerous undersea landslide scarps where large parts of the continental slope have given way, and some areas which may be prone to future underwater landslides.
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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.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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. 
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.
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.
A newly discovered form of circle dancing is perplexing astronomers; not due to its complex choreography, but because it's unclear why the dancers - dwarf galaxies - are dancing in a ring around the much larger Andromeda Galaxy.
An extensive undersea mapping program of the Australian coast has revealed some surprises about the deep Great Barrier Reef, including a dense network of submarine canyons, the remains of numerous undersea landslide scarps where large parts of the continental slope have given way, and some areas which may be prone to future underwater landslides.