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Sydney Alumni Magazine

The ideas and people making the world a better place

Sydney Alumni Magazine (SAM) links a worldwide alumni community. Explore the achievements of our alumni and stories of leading University research.

Associate Professor Ollie Jay.

Playing it cool: how the body copes during heatwaves

With few signs that greenhouse gases are being sufficiently reined in, adapting to higher temperatures is now more necessary and urgent. The little known field of thermoregulatory physiology is developing lifesaving strategies.

Associate Professor Joy Becker at Sydney fish markets

There aren't plenty more fish in the sea

The earliest known aquaculture sites were created more than 6000 years ago by Aboriginal peoples in Australia to grow eels. About five thousand years later, the Chinese began farming carp. Today aquaculture is the fastest growing, food-related primary industry in the world. And we need it to be.

An illustration of a human

How pain changes your brain

Good pain arrives, raises the alarm, then quickly leaves. Bad pain stays. No-one is sure why. People with chronic pain often hear it's all in the mind. The truth is, it's in the brain and the spine, and Professors Greg Neely and Paul Glare are working to fix it.

A kangaroo Island Sea Lion

Sea lions of Kangaroo Island under threat

The Australian sea lion is one of the rarest sea lion species in the world, and though they are protected and mostly live in isolated locations, their numbers are falling. Dr Rachael Gray and her team are trying to find out why.

A patient of Dr Browning in Tanzania.

Building hospitals and hope for African women with obstetric fistula

Most Australians have never heard of obstetric fistula. Yet in other places, it is a source of terrible suffering and shame for many thousands of women every year. 2020 Alumni Award winner Dr Andrew Browning AM (MBBS '95) is helping those women reclaim their lives.

A collage of images featuring Dr Michael Spence AC

Top of his game

After truly transforming the University of Sydney, Dr Michael Spence AC leaves Sydney in December for a new position in London. From championing equality and diversity to leading the largest philanthropic campaign, we look back at a Vice-Chancellor who turned challenges into opportunities over his twelve year tenure.

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Consciousness and the presence of mind

His book profiles 20 world-changing University of Sydney researchers. Yet, one of the most remarkable stories Maxwell Bennett AO tells in The Search for Knowledge and Understanding, is his own.

Associate Professor Dr Michael Bowen

'The love hormone' - a new treatment for addiction?

Human trials are set to begin in early 2021 on a promising new drug which could treat alcohol and opioid addiction.

Archival picture of Tannatt Edgeworth David

The geologist and the war

Tannatt Edgeworth David was a pioneering geologist and Professor of Geology. He was also a national war hero.

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