2019

21 March 2019

World-first opioid trial on acute spinal pain

Addressing a global epidemic in the prescription of opioids for back pain, the OPAL trial, led by Associate Professor Christine Lin, Sydney School of Public Health, is the first clinical trial that will provide evidence for the effect opioids have on pain relief in acute spinal pain patients.

21 March 2019

Business School’s Wai Fong Chua joins Accounting Hall of Fame

Recognised as an "innovative and prolific researcher," the University of Sydney Business School’s Professor Wai Fong Chua AM has been inducted into the University of Melbourne’s prestigious Accounting Hall of Fame.

21 March 2019

10-year plan to expand Medicare funded dental care

Two million Australians who needed dental care in the past year either didn’t get it or delayed getting it because it cost too much. The new Grattan Institute Report shows how to fill the dental gap.

21 March 2019

World Water Day 2019

The theme for this year's World Water Day, "leaving no one behind", highlights the discrimination and inequities in access to fresh water around the world.

21 March 2019

Data sharing by popular health apps is "routine", research finds

Researchers call for greater regulation and transparency as analysis of medicines-related apps found most directly shared user data - including sensitive health data - with third parties, posing an unprecedented privacy risk.

21 March 2019

Aboriginal Australia's smash hit that went viral

In a time before radio, songs were shared between Aboriginal groups at large social gatherings and spread enormous distances. One such song known as Wanji-wanji has travelled some thousands of kilometres and remained unchanged over the past 150 years.

21 March 2019

Sydney health researchers share their vision to 'Close the Gap'

Despite more than a decade of government commitment to the national Close the Gap campaign, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can still expect to live up to 10-17 years less than non-Indigenous Australians.

21 March 2019

What is needed to improve diversity and inclusion in Australia

Harmony Day, a day set aside every year to celebrate Australia's cultural diversity, is celebrated on the same day as the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It is a day for both the celebration of multiculturalism but also a day to resolve to eliminate racism and xenophobia.

20 March 2019

Alumna's $2 million gift for teaching modern and biblical Hebrew

Ann Kirby, an alumna of the University of Sydney, has left a $2 million bequest to the University to be used for teaching modern and biblical Hebrew.

20 March 2019

MBI and FAO United Nations to collaborate to combat emerging infectious diseases

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and The Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI) have joined hands to combat the threat of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases by increasing capacity in outbreak investigation and disease surveillance. 

20 March 2019

Design assistance for heart patients

University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning collaborates with Monash University on a long-term medical device project to redesign patient experience for patients with cardiovascular disease.

19 March 2019

Legal protection for the world’s most vulnerable

In a world-first study, University of Sydney Law School researchers have developed innovative tools to capture lived experiences of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

19 March 2019

Transforming Sydney's Medical Program

The University of Sydney's flagship program, the Doctor of Medicine (MD), has been re-designed to provide students with greater flexibility than ever before while placing added emphasis on clinical exposure, right from week one.

19 March 2019

Scholarship program triples completion rates for Aboriginal TAFE students

A unique teaching approach has more than tripled Aboriginal students' completion rates at TAFE, new research from the University of Sydney has found.

19 March 2019

Novel form of graphene-based optical material developed

The graphene-based material is 1000 times thinner than a human hair and can be tuned for use in solar cells, solar desalination, infrared lights and optical components.

19 March 2019

Study links breastfeeding with lower risk of heart disease

Mothers who breastfeed their babies have a lower risk of developing or dying from heart disease than those who don't breastfeed, finds new research from the University of Sydney.

18 March 2019

Sydney MBA team advises world leaders on government of the future

An MBA team representing the University of Sydney Business School has defeated competitors from around the world to finish 2nd place in the high profile Global Universities Challenge in Dubai.

18 March 2019

TEDxYouth 2019 is coming to campus

Sydney Uni is partnering with TEDxYouth in 2019, bringing together some of Australia’s most brilliant young minds to share their inspiring ideas and innovations.

18 March 2019

NSW finances face a serious squeeze unless radical action is taken

A new report by the Sydney Policy Lab at the University of Sydney reveals that any incoming NSW government faces a difficult fiscal situation, potentially threatening funding for public services.

18 March 2019

World's oldest semen still viable

Artificial insemination using the world's oldest known viable semen has a successful impregnation rate in sheep equivalent to recently frozen samples, in research from Associate Professor Simon de Graaf and Dr Jessica Rickard.