2018

01 October 2018

Building cities for our future

Our world is changing rapidly – technological process is accelerating, people and technology are becoming more interconnected, people are living longer and, urban populations are increasing faster than ever.

01 October 2018

Labour trends in China

Overseeing the operations of more than 150 recruiters in seven offices across mainland China, Terry Shen meets some of the top talent impacting their industries and has a front-row seat to watch the country transform.

01 October 2018

The disruptors redesigning fashion's future

Husband and wife duo Dean Jones (BCom (Hons) ’10) and Audrey Khaing-Jones (BCom ’09) are on a mission to shake up the way women consume clothes by building fashion’s answer to the sharing economy.

01 October 2018

Empowering women

As a wellness entrepreneur and former MMA fighter, Tricia Yap is an advocate for female empowerment and a key influencer in the women’s wellness space in Hong Kong.

01 October 2018

Blockchain: Bust or brave new world

The hype cycle, a concept popularised by Gartner, theorises that all transformative technology goes through a steep upward trajectory of excitement then a bust which leads to disillusionment before gradual long-term productivity is finally achieved.

01 October 2018

A new equality: people, planet and profits

The Zimmermans are a fairly typical Australian family of four. It’s their home that’s atypical.

01 October 2018

Banking on technology

Think about the core financial products you or your business use. Virtually none were invented in this millennium.

01 October 2018

RARE Opportunities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders elders and rural community leaders are looking for innovative ways to solve entrenched social and financial problems.

28 September 2018

University team develops antibacterial surfaces for bone implants

A University team has found a solution to tackle the infection rate following joint replacement surgery by developing a non-toxic silver nanoparticle plasma coating.

28 September 2018

How does architecture impact our lives?

To celebrate World Architecture Day, Senior Lecturer Michael Muir and a group of our students told us about their favourite buildings, design heroes and what architecture means to them.

28 September 2018

How we made nutrition our business

With a passion for all things food and science, Anna and Alex pursued postgraduate study to build a career in both. Now accredited practising dietitians, they share the journey that led them to run their own nutritional myth-busting business.

28 September 2018

Agriculture students make clean sweep at Crops Competition

Competitors from across Australia and the US have taken their lecture knowledge into the field in a hands-on test of their skills in agronomy, live crop-yield potential, and plant and disease identification.

28 September 2018

Banking Royal Commission: Five things you need to know

How could the Banking Royal Commission impact you as a consumer? And what brought about the Commission? University of Sydney experts explain what you need to know about the interim report release.

27 September 2018

Building food utopias: amplifying voices, dismantling power

As the number of food movement groups promoting different, yet overlapping, food and agriculture solutions continue to increase, it is essential that they include not only the voices of people from diverse backgrounds but their leadership, too.

27 September 2018

NSW HSC no longer includes women’s contributions to physics

The new Higher School Certificate (HSC) physics syllabus for NSW will contain no mention of the contributions of female physicists to the field.

27 September 2018

How Jordan O'Reilly is fixing disability support with a mobile app

Before he was the founder and CEO of Hireup, one of Australia’s most talked about purposeful businesses, Jordan O’Reilly was a brother on a mission to change the lives of people living with disability.

27 September 2018

Construction, transport workers at high-risk of spinal injuries

Workers in the construction and transport industries experience high rates of traumatic spinal injuries, and there is an urgent need for more effective safety measures, says a new study led by University of Sydney experts.

27 September 2018

Six scholars recognised for social sciences leadership

Six University of Sydney social scientists have been elected to the prestigious Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia for their distinguished contributions to their disciplines and to society.

27 September 2018

Sydney team wins Gibbs Moot

Sydney Law School students Ruben Robertson, Joy Chen and Rowan O’Donnell have been named as the 2018 winners of the Sir Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot.

27 September 2018

Sydney continues to move up in latest THE rankings

The University of Sydney has been ranked 59 in the world in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World University rankings, jumping two places since last year's rank of 61.