2021

23 April 2021

MOMENTUM III Sue W COVID-19 Special Commission winners

Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Australian Music Centre announce Anne Cawrse, Nicole Murphy, Elizabeth Younan as the winners of the three MOMENTUM III - Sue W COVID-19 Special Commissions.

23 April 2021

International students turned entrepreneurs give back to fuel more startups

University of Sydney alumni and co-founders of Access Corporate Group - a four-year-old startup with more than 2000 employees - Livia Wang and Warren Liu have donated $100,000 on behalf of the company to help entrepreneurs at the University of Sydney scale-up.

22 April 2021

Penelope Seidler AM awarded honorary doctorate

Australian architect, Penelope Seidler AM has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sydney in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the field of architecture, the arts and the wider community.

22 April 2021

Biden’s challenges at the Climate Summit: what are his levers?

Professor Rosemary Lyster writes an opinion piece on the Earth Day 2021 Climate Summit, and US President Joe Biden's challenges and levers.

22 April 2021

Law School team named Jessup Moot world champions

The University of Sydney team has been crowned the world champions of the prestigious Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

22 April 2021

How can we re-learn the art of multispecies cohabitation?

Humans have been designing spaces for and with animals and plants for thousands of years, so what has changed? A new exhibition by Feral Partnerships opening this week confronts this era of unprecedented biodiversity loss, and asks how architecture and planning can embrace the natural world once more.

21 April 2021

Sydney continues to excel in global impact rankings

University continues to excel in 2021 Times Higher Education Impact rankings which measure an institution's research, outreach and stewardship against UN Sustainable Development Goals.

21 April 2021

Quantum ethics project awarded DFAT grant

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has awarded the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) $800,000 over two years to develop accords for the ethical use of quantum technologies.

21 April 2021

First Pasifika Professor in an Australian university

Born and raised in Sydney to an iTaukei (Indigenous) Fijian father, and Anglo-Saxon mother, Professor Ravulo hopes to inspire people from culturally diverse backgrounds including Pasifika people to pursue higher education studies.

21 April 2021

University joins ground-breaking EducateAT Parramatta Alliance

An alliance between the City of Parramatta, Western Sydney Local Health District and universities in Sydney's geographical centre has launched to cement the City as a global education destination.

20 April 2021

Webinar: Dog Ownership, Mental Health and City Planning/Design

The third webinar of the Network for Research in Built Environment and Mental Health, led by the Matilda Centre and the Henry Halloran Trust (both University of Sydney).

20 April 2021

Cars will be king until transport authorities connect the dots

Access to unlimited trips on public transport is a more compelling incentive for consumers than price points, was the main finding of an innovative trial of transport subscription plans by University of Sydney researchers.

19 April 2021

The winning shark-tank pitch that aims to save the planet

The winners of the Summer Innovation Program 2021, the Sustainability team, speak about their winning idea, Offset October, and their ambitious plans to combat climate change.

19 April 2021

How much time and money do commuters save working from home?

Commuters could save an average of 90 hours (or two-and-a-half working weeks) each year if work from home continues at current rates, according to preliminary findings of a University of Sydney survey.

19 April 2021

A real utopia: the case for a community kitchen on campus

1 in 4 university students experience food insecurity – but they don’t have to. Kate Johnston explores why a community kitchen providing access to free and affordable food, job opportunities and training could revolutionise food security on and off campus.

16 April 2021

Anxiety and alcohol use: Can we Re-Train Your Brain?

Researchers at the Matilda Centre are running a pilot trial to examine whether an online brain training program can successfully re-train spontaneous and sometimes subconscious mental habits that contribute to the development and maintenance of anxiety and alcohol use disorders.

16 April 2021

Treating post-traumatic stress and substance use disorders in adolescents

We spoke to Dr Natalie Peach about an innovative treatment program for youth targeting post traumatic stress disorder and substance use.

16 April 2021

How does childhood trauma impact problematic eating and substance use among adolescents?

We spoke to Ivana Kihas about her PhD journey with the Matilda Centre and her work in co-occuring post traumatic stress disorder, substance use and eating disorders.

16 April 2021

5 minutes with Oana Balmau

We caught up with Oana Balmau, who recently won the best PhD dissertation award from the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE), to discuss why she chose Sydney and the impact of her research.

16 April 2021

Port Arthur had survivors: the world's other victims of gun violence

Gun violence tends to be measured in lives lost, rather than the much more numerous survivors of gun violence. Gun law advocate, Rebecca Peters, is working to redress the balance.