News archive

A large cut to university funding will hurt Australia's innovation plans, writes Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Dr Michael Spence. 

The Quantum Nanoscience Laboratory at the University of Sydney, headed by Professor David Reilly, is among a small collection of labs worldwide that are collaborating with Microsoft on quantum computing by doing revolutionary engineering and physics.

A world-first research centre exclusively focused on tackling the childhood obesity epidemic will launch this week at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre (CPC).

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music will be a beacon of stunning light and live music as part of the opening weekend of Vivid Sydney for the first time. 

The first facility built for nanoscience in Australia was launched at the University of Sydney in April. The Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology is the most advanced facility for nanoscience in the region. 

Finding a treatment for dementia is an international priority. Protein plaque in the brain is the main focus, but Professor Jonathan Stone believes plaque is just a side effect of other events caused by the beating of the heart.

The Royal Botanic Garden just celebrated its 200th anniversary. Behind the scenes, Brett Summerell is part of a team preserving natural history and addressing some of the world's environmental and food security challenges.

A heritage architect and a radio astronomer each talk about a key book that gave them a new insight or opened them up to a new way of thinking.

The 2006 Rio games included athletes from the University of Sydney. Many of these high achieving athletes were also gifted students balancing their ambitions for the Rio games with the demands of their study and course work.

Nanotechnology has the potential to transform how we live. At the newly opened Nanoscience Hub, researchers are working at the atomic scale with its very different laws of physics to advance idea like quantum computing and super-light metals.

As an archaeologist with an office right next to the Nicholson Museum where he often leads school tour groups and classes, Dr Craig Barker is close to lots of history. Here he talks about the objects that tell the story of his work.

Karn Ghosh was an award winning student destined to start his own business. He is now CEO of health-tech start-up, Hit 100. Here he talks about some of his favourite things and photographs he's taken of them.

Extremism and its terrorist consequences have radically altered the world's security framework. Two University students are addressing the root causes of extremism; one technology based, one through greater understanding.

INCUBATE is a 14-week program that helps University students, staff and recent alumni with technology-based ideas prepare for the market place. The program supports entrepreneurial ambition and drives innovation.

Justin Wolfers thanks an early job in the gambling industry for his perspectives as an economist. His many other unorthodox world views have made him a darling of the US media and a valued contributor to the economic debate.

In this opinion piece, Emily Scanlan suggests that psychologists should be open to using ideas based around philosophies like existentialism, when treating patients. These ideas should also be given more prominence for psychology students, she says.

The work of Dušan Marek, one of a handful of European artists who brought the Prague School of Surrealism to Australia after fleeing Europe post World War Two, is on show at the University of Sydney's Art Gallery.

A new web game for high school students and teachers is turning the cards on traditional approaches to Shakespeare and three of his best known plays. 

Urban ecology PhD candidate Lucy Taylor and Associate Professor Dieter Hochuli discuss the benefits of finding nature in the city.