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Jul 31, 2024 | newcastle.edu.au

The Mark Hughes Foundation (MHF) has today announced a $1m investment to bring two of Australia’s leading brain cancer research centres together in their mission to accelerate progress towards a cure.

Jun 19, 2024 | newcastle.edu.au | Jessica Allen

5. What other impacts would the project have? Irrigating bioenergy crops can create water stress. Soil quality and land degradation must also be considered. And transporting and processing biomass might create other emissions such as particulates that would affect project neighbours. The reality is that modern-day humans and our technologies are bad for the environment, full stop. Every technology will have an impact. So the question is: which option has the least impact?

May 7, 2024 | newcastle.edu.au | Shahni Wellington

If you were to ask current students at Menindee Central School what they wanted to be when they grow up, you’d get a wide range of answers. Veterinarians, rappers, doctors, professional football players and even dolphin trainers, would appear on the list – just to name a few. However, according to locals from the remote community in far-west NSW, around 110km south-east of Broken Hill, aspirations from this particular cohort are being spruiked for the very first time.

May 3, 2024 | newcastle.edu.au | David Skerrett-Byrne

Three University of Newcastle researchers have been awarded $4.8m in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grants* to find solutions to health problems such as pre-term birth and male infertility.

Jul 28, 2023 | newcastle.edu.au | Shahni Wellington

Sitting on the banks of the Ourimbah campus yarning circle, Wangaaypuwan and Wiradjuri man, Dr Jesse Hodgetts, sings with a smile alongside his nana, Anita Selwyn Shipp. The two share a harmony as she taps along to the beat of the clapping boomerangs. “Jacky Jacky was a smart young fella…”It’s a short, joyful melody. Anita, a proud Wiradjuri woman, quips how her dad would sing it, recalling deep in her memory as a child growing up in Dubbo in the state’s west.