2020
Articles
25 February 2020
University of Sydney sociologist bound for the IAS in Princeton
Associate Professor Sonja Van Wichelen has been invited to join the prestigious Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton (IAS), which counts Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer among its past members.
21 February 2020
The huge history of big hair bows
Hair bows may seem like cutesy accessories, but their facade is deceptively simple. Honorary research fellow in in digital cultures, Dr Fiona Andreallo, unravels the meaning behind the grosgrain.
14 February 2020
Can machines imitate human intelligence?
As rapid technological advances bring artificial intelligence into our daily life, the public imagination is still dominated by a Romantic fear that machines will take over the world.
10 February 2020
Oscars retrospective: Steven Spielberg's Jaws
Though now controversial for its portrayal of sharks as man-eaters, Jaws was - and remains - a groundbreaking cinematic feat. Film studies expert Associate Professor Bruce Isaacs explains what makes it a classic.
03 February 2020
Student-engineered solutions at the nexus of law and science
An idea to label food to indicate the use of antibiotics to prevent the emergence of superbugs has seen a multidisciplinary team of students named the inaugural winners of the Summer Innovation Program (SIP) challenge.
31 January 2020
Cross-country dingoes have different-shaped heads
While older research has suggested that there are three dingo varietals, a new study adds to a growing pile of evidence that there are, in fact, two.
30 January 2020
Not just for laughs: 3 new ideas about humour
Funniness is culturally, contextually, and personally dependent, as highlighted in three pieces of quirky University of Sydney research.
29 January 2020
International MOU signed to collaborate on corpus linguistics research
The Sydney Corpus Lab and the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science have started a new partnership to work on collaborative research in corpus linguistics.
28 January 2020
China in 2020 - what can we expect?
Last Saturday 25 January was Chinese New Year. As we move into the year of the rat, experts at the University of Sydney share their thoughts on what we can expect from China in 2020.
24 January 2020
250 years after James Cook, how should we view Australia Day?
One of Australia’s leading historians, Professor Mark McKenna reflects on our divergent attitudes to Australia Day.