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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.

Julie Leask

It's not just vaccine refusers who might not get the COVID-19 vaccination

As the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, Coronavirus joins many other disease super-villains tackled by vaccination, including smallpox, whooping cough and polio. While some people still won't be vaccinated, the reasons might not be what you think.

Port Arthur historic site

Port Arthur and the battle for tougher gun laws

In 1996, while Australians grappled with the horror that unfolded at a popular tourist spot; Rebecca Peters was at the epicentre of pushing for tougher gun laws. With the 25th anniversary of the shooting looming, she explains how it all came together.

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.

An echocardiogram

Understanding heart failure

The effects are profound, yet heart failure is surprisingly little understood. Now Dr Sean Lal is finding new knowledge with help from the world's largest bank of heart tissue samples right here on the University campus.

A black rat

Rethinking pest management to protect native species

Australian native species might seem overrun by feral invaders, but Professor Peter Banks has an ingenious idea that could bring the odds back in their favour.

Shipping cargo port

New modelling provides greater scrutiny for supply chains

Unethical or destructive practices can be hidden within supply chains bringing us items we want and need. Dr Arne Geschke uses data to drill into the complex global production web.

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 image of Max Bennett

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 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.

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