2019

22 May 2019

Experts ask authority to hold oil giant to account on Bight Plan

A group of energy and natural resource experts, led by the Sydney Environment Institute, is calling on Australia’s regulator to hold Norwegian oil company Equinor to account over its proposal to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.

21 May 2019

Sydney lights up for Vivid 2019

Vivid Sydney is back, and it's bigger than ever. Students, alumni and academic staff from the University of Sydney once again feature across the program, exploring the intersection of art, technology and commerce.

21 May 2019

Sydney ranked among Australia's 20 most attractive employers

The University of Sydney has been voted as Australia's 13th most attractive employer, based on data collected from 10,000 Australian workers by Randstad.

21 May 2019

University of Sydney triumphs in Asia Pacific finance competition

The University of Sydney Business School has reinformed its reputation as a global centre of academic excellence with a winning position in the Asia Pacific finals of the prestigious Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) stock pitch competition.

21 May 2019

University of Sydney design students 'hack' needle phobias

Students from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning participated in a 'hackathon' at the Westmead Education and Conference Centre in Westmead Hospital on 12 April to support children with severe needle phobias.

20 May 2019

Scientists rush to support complex insight into obesity

Playwright Alana Valentine has been delighted by responses from scientists to her work Made to Measure, now playing at the Seymour Centre.

20 May 2019

Sydney experts advocate for inclusivity at the OECD

Intergenerational inequality creating a new class system, the need to apply a gender lens on the future of work and women in STEMM are some of the key arguments University of Sydney academics will make at the 2019 OECD Forum.

20 May 2019

How refugee and geneticist Monkol Lek is curing his own disease

Living in western Sydney and in his early twenties, Monkol Lek was struck with a rare medical condition - muscular dystrophy. Now his groundbreaking research could be game changing for people living with the condition.

20 May 2019

Find your calling this National Volunteer Week

The University offers a range of volunteering opportunities that anyone can get involved in. There's a lot to choose from, so we've created a brief guide to help you find the right 'fit'.

20 May 2019

Sydney clinical trial saves thousands of babies' lives each day

For International Clinical Trials Day, we've taken a look back at the most recent award-winning trial run by the University of Sydney NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre (CTC), which is saving premature babies' lives around the world.

20 May 2019

Australia’s energy (in)security and the proposed drilling in the Great Australian Bight

Australia has earnt the title of the biggest exporter of LNG in the world, and yet we are currently experiencing our worst energy supply crisis to date on Australia’s East Coast. Short-term policies that prioritise over-exportation and over-extraction endanger more than just our domestic energy security, but our most precious natural ecosystems, like the Great Australian Bight.

17 May 2019

Timor-Leste aims to become world's first plastics-neutral country

University spin-out company Licella will use catalytic technology developed by Professor Thomas Maschmeyer as part of global consortium to donate plastics recycling plant to the people of Timor-Leste.

17 May 2019

Vale Bob Hawke

Chancellor of the University of Sydney Belinda Hutchinson AM and Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence AC today honoured former Prime Minister Bob Hawke AC who passed away on Thursday 16 May 2019.

17 May 2019

How an Industry Project Unit can help you secure a graduate job

Vincent Giannini and Jenny Zhang completed an Industry and Community Project Unit (ICPU) in their final semester at Sydney Uni. They share how the experience helped them to land their jobs and start their career journey.

16 May 2019

Leading virtuoso Zhang Qiang and prodigious pipa performer Liu Lu in concert

One of the world's greatest pipa players, Zhang Qiang, will join Sydney Conservatorium of Music lecturer Liu Lu to perform for the first time in Australia.

16 May 2019

Epilepsy prediction device receives Microsoft grant

The University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering has been awarded an AI for Accessibility grant from Microsoft to support its efforts developing solutions that improve the independence for people living with epilepsy.

16 May 2019

Researchers join multi-billion dollar smart satellite revolution

The University of Sydney will be a key player in one of the most significant space industry research concentrations in Australia as part of a new Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Satellite Technologies and Analytics.

16 May 2019

What's it really like to study medicine at Sydney?

Are you interested in studying the Doctor of Medicine, but you want the inside scoop on the course before you hit apply? We spoke with two third-year students to give you the low down.

16 May 2019

Sydney Con International Jazz Festival 2019

International stars and Australian jazz heavyweights descend upon Sydney as The University of Sydney's Conservatorium of Music hosts its third annual International Jazz Festival on Sunday 2 June.

16 May 2019

Cane toads are 'reluctant warriors' when it comes to oozing toxin

Cane toads are exhausted by releasing their deadly toxin and will go to great lengths not to release it. They far prefer to run or freeze when a predator approaches.