2017
Articles
Students launch successful start-ups
University of Sydney students are emerging as leaders in Australia's burgeoning start-up industry, aided by on-campus start-up programs like INCUBATE, Sydney Genesis and Sydney Social Innovation Hub.
6 things you didn’t know about sugar
Using tactics similar to the tobacco industry, the sugar industry has influenced the research agenda on sugar in order to distract from the harms of its products says Professor Lisa Bero.
Students employing a degree of skill
University community features at Sydney Writers' Festival
More than 40 University of Sydney staff and alumni will join the stellar line-up of guests to speak at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival.
On my desk: Matthew Todd
Associate Professor Matthew Todd promotes online, open source drug research where anyone can contribute to creating molecules that might one day treat conditions like Ebola and Zika virus. Here, he gives us a tour of his desk.
My favourite: Shila Ghazanfar
Shila Ghazanfar works in the evolving field of statistical bioinformatics which looks for genetic relationships that might give new insights into diseases like cancer. She loves her work. She also loves a few other things.
Books that changed my mind
Dawn of the artificial employee
A tsunami of change is already arriving. Artificial intelligence is now capable of doing desk jobs that were previously safe from automation. The social and economic effects remain to be seen, but is AI what we think it is?
On my mind: Ranjit Voola
Ranjit Voola has a message for big business. The future belongs to the companies that rethink their single-minded drive for profit, and instead look to developing countries for opportunities to make money, while improving peoples' lives.
Devil of a problem
A contagious cancer is threatening to wipe out the Tasmanian devil. A big problem is that the devils are all so genetically similar. Breeding programs and genome mapping are underway, and there have already been surprises.