2024
Articles
09 July 2024
You’re a Liberal and You Don’t Even Know It
A new book, reviewed by The New York Times and The Washington Post, by University of Sydney Professor Alexandre Lefebvre investigates how liberalism profoundly shapes our values, beliefs, and daily lives. In Liberalism as a Way of Life, he argues that liberalism informs our moral, psychological, and aesthetic outlooks, and can be the basis for a good, fun, and rewarding way of living.
08 July 2024
Graduates have new expectations of a modern workforce
A new report reveals graduate workers value flexibility, and are prepared to commit long-term to an employer who meets their needs.
08 July 2024
Should the NSW Government buy our toll roads?
Toll roads charge too much yet we don't have enough of them. To fix both things, NSW should buy their private owners, writes Professor David Levinson for The Conversation.
05 July 2024
NAIDOC Week 2024: a time of pride and reflection
As NAIDOC Week turns 50, Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Strategy and Services, reflects on past progress and ongoing efforts towards justice and equality.
03 July 2024
Meet the new University Organist and Carillonist
Titus is one of Australia's leading organists, with a passion for sharing accessible music with local and international audiences.
03 July 2024
New Alphonse Mucha exhibition provides balm for a world in upheaval
Dr Will Visconti from Art History reviews the life and works of artist Alphonse Mucha, whose sweeping exhibition of illustrations, jewellery, interior decoration, photographs and more is now on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 22 September.
03 July 2024
Researchers unlock 'materials genome', opening possibilities for next-generation design
A new microscopy method has allowed researchers to detect tiny changes in the atomic-level architecture of crystalline materials like advanced steels for ship hulls and custom silicon for electronics. It could advance our ability to understand the fundamental origins of materials properties and behaviour.
03 July 2024
Researchers develop new transparent 'blood vessel-on-a-chip'
Researchers have developed a 'blood vessel-on-a-chip' for heart disease with the potential to change the future of drug testing and development. The technology could also reduce our reliance on animal testing.
01 July 2024
Australia's 'Easter bunny', the bilby, has had its genome fully sequenced
Under pressure from predatory foxes and cats and competing with feral rabbits, the Greater bilby has lost more than 80 percent of its habitat. Conservation work led by Professor Carolyn Hogg is designed to help save the bilby from extinction.
29 June 2024
The beginnings of fashion: why do we wear clothes?
From stone tools that prepared animal skins for humans to use as thermal insulation, to the advent of bone awls and eyed needles to create fitted and adorned clothing, Dr Ian Gilligan explores when we started to dress to impress.