2018

10 September 2018

Recent graduate Alex Tighe wins prestigious ABC journalism scholarship

Along with 12 months of real-world newsroom experience, the Media and Communications graduate will develop his technical and research skills under some of the national broadcaster’s leading journalists.

10 September 2018

What you need to know about teeth whitening

Teeth whitening is offered by a number of different providers with many products also available over the counter, but which option is the best and safest? Dr Alexander Holden from the School of Dentistry explains.

10 September 2018

Business School again Australia's number one in FT world rankings

The highly respected London-based Financial Times (FT) has ranked the University of Sydney Business School's flagship Master of Management (MMgt) Australia's number one program of its kind for the sixth consecutive year.

10 September 2018

Viruses & infectious diseases: Prof Edward Holmes public lecture

This talk on 12 September by Prof Edward Holmes, who has published a number of Nature papers on viruses, will discuss what we have learned since the 1918 influenza pandemic and 40 years since the last death from smallpox.

10 September 2018

Giving music to regional kids who need it most

Alumna, Michelle Leonard, decided to bring back music education through Moorambilla Voices, and in the process enriched entire regional communities.

10 September 2018

9 things you need to know about koalas

Ever wonder why koalas spend so much time up trees? Do they eat anything other than eucalyptus? Dr Valentina Mella, koala expert and all-round legend is here to answers all your leafy questions.

10 September 2018

The Man Who Escaped Sierra Leone

"There are times when you walk into the train station or shops and people will look at you differently. I recently had dreadlocks and you could see people making judgements like, ‘There goes a shabby African boy."

10 September 2018

Social Engineering and Cybersecurity

Ahead of his appearance at the upcoming Outside the Square event, "Hackers, Breaches, Bots", graduate and white-hat hacker, Alex Hope, sits down to talk cybersecurity.

10 September 2018

The importance of mastering communication

In our knowledge-intensive and media-saturated economy, Associate Professor Eric Knight says it is vital for businesses and people to command the message and shape the markets in which they operate.

07 September 2018

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences alumni named in 100 Women of Influence

Joining the impressive list of AFR's 2018 100 Women of Influence are nine Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences alumni who have been shortlisted in the awards.

07 September 2018

From the Dean

I am profoundly grateful for the wonderful gift support—now more than $60M—received by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from alumni and friends during the ongoing INSPIRED campaign.

07 September 2018

Corporate China looks to Australia for business insights

Chinese businesses are turning to Australia in the hope of gaining entrepreneurial skills and a level of corporate sophistication before tackling the larger European and North American markets, according to a leading China scholar at the University of Sydney Business School.

06 September 2018

Adventures in the virosphere

Viruses are everywhere – you are surrounded by them, yet we know remarkably little about them. Take an adventure into the virosphere with the Sydney Science Forum on Wednesday 12 September.

06 September 2018

Sydney Law School academic and alumni named in 100 Women of Influence

Professor Rosemary Lyster and three Sydney Law School alumni have been named in the 2018 Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence.

06 September 2018

The Sydney alumnus helping people of all abilities get active

James Gribble's life changed forever when he broke his neck in a freak accident. Now he's working to make his favourite sport accessible for everyone.

06 September 2018

Videomania in Pixelmosh

Sydney Underground Festival reporter Michael Sun sits down with Bachelor of Visual Arts student Christopher Bonador to talk about his new film, Madonna videos, and why digital isn’t always better

05 September 2018

Alumna awarded inaugural Schmidt Science Fellowship in Astronomy

Engineering alumna Jielai Zhang is part of a team building the world’s best telescope to observe faint and large extragalactic objects.

05 September 2018

Cannabis As Medicine Survey CAMS:18 launches

The University of Sydney is launching CAMS:18 - an online survey for people who have used medicinal cannabis in the past 12 months. This survey will provide an 'after' snapshot since legislative changes in 2016.

05 September 2018

How the Philosopher and the Wolf inspired new self-reliance

Alumna, Stephanie Fynn (MIDEA '14), creates sensory worlds for people with disabilities. Here she explains how Mark Rolands' The Philosopher and the Wolf made her think differently about her approach to what she does.

05 September 2018

We need to talk about sexuality after stroke

Stroke survivors and their partners are not adequately supported to deal with changes to their relationships, self-identity, gender roles and intimacy following stroke, according to new research.