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A PhD in maths not enough for Melissa Cox, she performs her original music as Black Sesame, with a CD due for release in the new year.
Dr Mark Allon is one of only a handful of scholars around the world who can interpret the ancient language of Gandhari - and he is using his knowledge to read some of the oldest Buddhist manuscripts in existence.
The Vice-Chancellor has urged potential new students to think outside the classroom if they want to develop self-confidence and social skills.
A University Exchange Scholarship will allow a Sydney student to travel to Texas and study how the capital punishment system works at first hand.
The University's Faculty of Economics and Business has become the only Australian business school to be admitted into one of the world's most prestigious alliances of University business faculties.
The risk of dying by gunshot has halved since Australia destroyed 700,000 privately owned firearms, according to a new study published today in the international research journal, Injury Prevention. 
A book about a style of Aboriginal musical performance that links the living with the dead has won a major award for Indigenous scholarship.
Ed Blakely, The University of Sydney's Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, has been appointed to head up the reconstruction of New Orleans. 
Epidurals given during labour are associated with decreased rates of breastfeeding, a study involving a University of Sydney researcher has found.
A University of Sydney academic has taken out this year's Manning Clark House award for a book that asks why so many people are rejecting the traditional path of marriage, mortgage and a fast-track career.
A study undertaken by the University's NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity has found that as many as two thirds of NSW children are spending more than the recommended maximum of two hours per day in front of a small screen.
Artists, arts administrators and academics working in the performing and visual arts will come together on Friday 8 December at the University of Sydney to ask the question, Australian Arts: Where the Bloody Hell Are You? 
International mind expert, Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE officially opened the Brain Dynamics Centre's refurbished facilities at Westmead Hospital yesterday 
Nuclear energy will not solve the global warming problem and should only be considered as part of the solution, a Sydney Ideas public forum was told last night.
Sydney students have made a clean sweep of the 2007 Rhodes Scholarships, with two Sydney Arts/ Law students announced as winners of the Australia-at-Large competition. 
The next generation of architects at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Architecture has created a series of designs for a prime site in Parramatta, including an arts centre building that that looks like spilt mercury.
Flying-foxes (Megachiroptera species) are a common sight in Sydney, with a large population having taken up residence the City's Botanic Gardens; however we know very little about the species and their importance to the local ecosystem. 
The media's focus on grubby political scandals and politicians' dirty secrets threatens the very foundation of our democracy says Michael Hogan, co-editor of a new book celebrating 150 years of successful government in NSW.
Professor Mathew Vadas has been appointed the new director of the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology.
A University of Sydney science student has used supercomputer simulations of an ancient hothouse climate to unravel how the Earth heated up about 13 million years before humans existed, providing insights into Australia's climate future. 
If the world suffers an economic and environmental collapse, will future historians recognise the true causes? Professor Jørgen Randers thinks not.
Sydney University features in a new film which looks back at one of the biggest mysteries of the 1930s, the Pyjama Girl Murder.
The star of the award-winning short documentary "Butterfly Man" will discuss the making of the film with director Samantha Rebillet at the University of Sydney's Macleay Museum this Saturday at 2pm.
The surreal, fantastical and unsettling are explored in the latest exhibition at the University of Sydney's University Art Gallery.
Sydney University bowler Stuart Clark bounced back from injury with seven wickets in his first Ashes Test against England.
The University's water and energy manager, Grahame Pepper, has won a NSW government award for saving more than a billion litres of water in the past 12 years.
Rowley Richards, a Sydney graduate who helped save the lives of countless prisoners of war in Burma during World War II, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University.
Sydney University's Master of Creative Writing Program has spawned a new literary journal to be launched this Thursday at an evening of readings.
Professor Rick Shine and PhD student Mattias Hagman from the School of Biological Sciences suggest that the presence of cane toad tadpoles affects survival rates of disease-carrying mosquitoes
A technology used on glowing T-Shirts worn by ravers at dance parties has been adapted by a University of Sydney honours student to create basketball jerseys that light up to display players' performances.
Solutions for a Australian's water future will form the basis of discussion at a symposium being hosted by the University's Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources this week 
For the first time, known triggers for heart attacks - including sexual activity, cocaine use, pollution, heavy meals, and stressful major events like September 11 - have been analysed to develop a whole new approach to prevention. 
Research led by a Sydney University academic has shown that a combination of fish oil supplements and oily fish meal can help to alleviate the symptoms of depression 
SCA throws open its galleries and studios to the public, showcasing the work of graduating artists in its annual Degree Shows, opening tonight. 
The University of Sydney has been chosen to host Australia's US Studies Centre, a new think tank which will be the country's leading centre for research into American political, economic and cultural issues.
In what feels like a homage to the 1950s UFO era, researchers in the University's School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering have developed an aircraft that takes off vertically before flying off horizontally. 
Sweetened drinks, biscuits, cakes, chips and other low-nutrient, high energy snacks are contributing up to one-quarter of toddlers' energy needs, a University of Sydney researcher has found.
Professor Elizabeth Elliott, from the Faculty of Medicine, is concerned about the lack of awareness about the harmful effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. 
Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology, directed by the University's Professor John Clark, will be launched at the University tonight by Dr John Yu.
More than 130 Sydney University graduates were presented with their degrees by the Chancellor at a ceremony in Hong Kong on Saturday.
Professor Ian Hickie, executive director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, has been recognised as one of ten most influential Australians by the Australian Financial Review.
An antioxidant called resveratrol, which is common in red wine, has been shown by a team of Sydney University researchers to produce striking health improvements in mice which have been fed a fatty diet. 
The biggest threat to peace is not war, but fear and the failure of leadership, according to Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International and this year's winner of the Sydney Peace Prize.
The University has strengthened its foothold in mainland China with a first ever graduation ceremony in Shanghai
This week the University is holding its first-ever graduation ceremony in Shanghai. Tonight, 180 students will receive their degrees in the city's Grand Theatre from the Chancellor, Justice Kim Santow.
Dr Iver Cairns and Professor Peter Robinson watched from the VIP suite as their radio and plasma waves experiment blasted into space, one of the experiments being launched as part of NASA's STEREO project. 
In further confirmation of the University of Sydney's international standing, its humanities faculty has been judged the fifth best in the world by one of the most respected global ranking systems. 
UK-based author, commentator and academic Professor Gerry Stoker will speak about the rising tide of political discontent and what can be done about it at Sydney Ideas, the University of Sydney's international public lecture series.
After reading about long queues at Palestinian-Israeli border crossings, and the frustrations and even deaths that can occur as people wait for medical care, a University of Sydney student decided to create mobile phone technology to solve the problem.
A Sydney graduate has won the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority heritage prize for research which looks into the effectiveness of archaeological management plans in Australian cities.
Listen to the final lecture in the Key Thinkers series: Dr John Buchanan on Marx.
The winner of the 2007 NSW Rhodes Scholarship is Kate Brennan, a University of Sydney Arts/Law undergraduate.
Andrew Mathas, a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics, has won the Australian Mathematical Society Medal, awarded annually to an outstanding researcher aged under 40.
For his work over 20 years in tackling idione deficiency in Tibet, Sydney University endocronologist Cres Eastman has been described as "the man who saved a million brains".
Satiric comedy 'Bangers and Mash' opens this week, the last offering in the Seymour Centre's inaugural BITE.
Australia's best selling classical artist, Conservatorium pianist Gerard Willems, plays his unique selection of Mozart favourites on his new CD. 
Speaking out against Israel's handling of the Palestinian conflict is the best act of solidarity one can show towards Israelis and the Jewish people, argued Tanya Reinhart in the latest of the Sydney Ideas lecture series.
Young people feel uninformed about political issues and processes, view politicians as liars and promise-breakers, and rate voting as a rite of passage way below turning 18 and the end-of-year formal, a national survey of 5,000 high school students has found.
The University of Sydney has strengthened its position as Australia's top research institution with the announcement of the latest round of grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), with Sydney leading the way in new funding.
An exhibition highlighting Lebanon opens at the Nicholson Museum on 19 October with a guest keynote address on 'Beirut through the ages'
The University of Sydney is celebrating 100 years of physical and health education teaching, culminating in an anniversary dinner on Thursday 12 October.
The University of Sydney has risen once again in global rankings confirming its place firmly within the top forty universities in the world, according to a survey released today. 
Shakuhachi Grand Master Riley Lee and other Conservatorium musicians play the French impressionists and premiere a new work by Anne Boyd this Sunday. 
Works by the winner and other finalists of Sydney College of the Arts' prestigious Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship are currently on show.
The history of Aboriginal waterways and the innovative way Indigenous people used water to survive will be explored in a talk at the University's Macleay Museum on Saturday, 7 October.
Old strategies for dealing with racism no longer work, says Ghassan Hage from the University's Department of Anthropology.
Sydney University arts student Sabrina Houssami finished third in the Miss World contest in Poland at the weekend.
Today was national "Ride to Work Day" and University staff and students were encouraged to leave their cars at home and enjoy the health benefits of cycling.
A University researcher has won the Fresh Science 2006 award for her work on a project which has created synthetic copies of the light-harvesting molecules found in plants - a development that could change the face of solar power.
Whether the law has a role in tackling the current obesity crisis - and if so, how - will be the topic of a conference organised by the University of Sydney law school tomorrow. 
Eminent Israeli academic, author and linguist Tanya Reinhart will speak on the deepening crisis in the Middle East on Monday, 9 October, 2006, at the Seymour Centre.
Kate Grenville's multi-award-winning novel 'The Secret River', which she wrote in her room at Sydney University, has been short-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. 
New research has seen online grocery shoppers improve their diets at the click of a button.
Discover some of the hidden treasures in one of Sydney's best-kept secrets, the Nicholson Museum, as the museum celebrates NSW History Week 2006, this Saturday. 
A major study of the sexual encounters of heterosexual men and women has shed new light on the relationship between sexual repertoire and orgasm
Leah Purcell - actor, writer, director and Ambassador for Reconciliation -spoke on campus for Verge arts festival
Listen to a podcast of The Socratic Forum, "That we should keep religion out of Australian politics", presented by Sydney Ideas, the University of Sydney's international public lecture series. 
A University of Sydney academic has been appointed to oversee the HSC English exam, continuing the University's long and close involvement with the only compulsory HSC subject.
Dr Barry Spurr, senior lecturer in English, has presented a new edition of his book Studying Poetry to his former teacher at Sydney University, Dame Leonie Kramer.
The new School of Information Technologies on Cleveland Street, one of the University's most striking modern buildings, has been officially opened.
Award-winning author and educator David J Smith will speak at Sydney Ideas, the University of Sydney's international public lecture series, on Monday, 18 September, about his concept of the world being a village of just 100. 
Leah Purcell, leading indigenous actor, director, playwright and Ambassador for Reconciliation, speaks on campus this Wednesday as part of the student union's annual arts festival.
As Australia prepares to discuss the controversial issue of stem cell research, one University scientist says there are lessons to be learnt from the experience of California.
Leading didgeridoo player William Barton performs his own chamber works with Conservatorium ensembles in a series of free public concerts this week.
Political, academic and religious leaders will come together next Thursday, September 14 at Sydney Ideas, to discuss whether or not religion should be kept out of Australian politics.
Lucy Osburn, the founder of nursing in Australia, battled with surgeons, was vilified by the press, became the subject of a Royal Commission, was embroiled in a royal shooting and ultimately rejected by her heroine, Florence Nightingale.
SILLIAC, the University of Sydney's first computer, was built 50 years ago in the School of Physics, and a program of events has been organised to celebrate the anniversary.
Composer Elena Kats-Chernin features in a forum on the future of Australian music and a concert of works by Australian women composers as part of a series of public events at the Conservatorium for Australian Music Week.
This weekend Col James, a University of Sydney architecture lecturer, will be presented with an alumni award for over 30 years of working with Aboriginal groups, the homeless and others to build practical housing solutions.
Professor Jocelyn Valerie Chey will be presented with a University of Sydney Alumni Award for her contributions to Australia-China relations, refugee support services, and local community activities.
Professor Ronald Kim Oates, a tireless advocate for children who experience abuse and neglect and who have disabilities, will be presented with a University of Sydney Alumni Award this weekend. 
With more than 50 per cent of Australian adults now considered overweight, the issue of obesity is attracting interest from policy makers and lawyers. In September the University hosts an international conference looking at how the law can intervene. 
Listen to a podcast of last night's Paul Ginsborg Sydney Ideas lecture, where he discussed the future of Italy and whether or not the country's richest man - Silvio Berlusconi - will make a return to politics.
Listen to a podcast of the third in the Key Thinkers lecture series for 2006: Rick Benitez on Plato.
Listen to a podcast of "Being Collected", a public lecture by Dr Dawn Casey, CEO of Western Australian Museums, presented by the Macleay Museum.
In a first for a novelist, Kate Grenville's newly released memoir, "Searching for the Secret" River, lays bare the writing process of the multi-award-winning novel she penned in her room at the University.
Around fifteen thousand students enjoyed an insight into university life, exploring Sydney's laboratories, design studios and lecture theatres, as part of the 2006 Sydney Uni LIVE!.
The University of Sydney is ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities in the latest global survey by Newsweek magazine.
Australia's oldest early music group, The Renaissance Players, celebrates its 40th birthday in the Great Hall next week with concerts of Spanish music and poetry from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions.
Two University of Sydney researchers have won prestigious $10,000 Eureka Prizes and two others have been selected as finalists in this year's awards
This Saturday thousands of prospective students will be touring the University's labs, design studios and lecture theatres, listening to student DJs, and attending 150 mini-talks on courses by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and an array of University of Sydney course advisors.
Listen to a podcast of last night's Tim Flannery Sydney Ideas lecture, where he revealed the disastrous effects of global warming and why we need to have the nuclear debate.
A University of Sydney astrophysicist has discovered a pair of red stars at the centre of our galaxy that look just like giant Yin and Yang symbols.
Associate Professor Richard Joyce, the latest Senior Research Fellow to be appointed by the University, will be investigating whether human beings are inherently moral.
For an hour yesterday afternoon the University took on an strangely wintry appearance under what looked like a dusting of snow.
In this opinion piece, the University of Sydney's Stephen Leeder argues education, access to medical care, and government leadership in securing fresh food supplies for all Australians is the key to promoting good health.
Composer Michael Smetanin, head of composition at the Conservatorium of Music, has won the major award in the recently announced 2006 Classical Music Awards.
Great Australian soprano Joan Carden sings solo in the Great Hall this Sunday for Sydney University Graduate Choir's celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.
The University will host the first public showing of a 1966 model of the Sydney Opera House in more than 30 years.
Sydney University scientist Alexey Kondyurin may have solved the problem of how to build bigger space stations - using fabric and resin.
Experts in the fast-changing field of mobile communications are coming to the University next July for Australia's first-ever international conference on mobile media.
Virtuosic Conservatorium pianist Stephanie McCallum's new CD makes her the first person to have recorded all of Alkan's challenging studies in the major and minor keys.
The latest, finely honed poetic sequence from award-winning poet Noel Rowe was recently launched in the University's English Department. 
The School of Business at the University of Sydney is developing its reputation as a centre of expertise in the area of women and work with the formation of a new research group.
With Asia as subject matter and influence, 'Windchimes' - a unique anthology of high quality Australian poetry edited by Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith - can be read for aesthetic pleasure and as cultural history.
Isaac Shariv, the newly appointed director of the University's Business Liaison Office, brings to the role a proven ability to weave together science and business.
Lone children have been imprisoned for more than three years in immigration detention centres both in Australia and in Nauru as part of the so-called "Pacific Solution", according to a new report by a University of Sydney academic
Researchers at the University's Faculty of Vet Sciences are helping to develop an automated milking system for Australia's dairy cattle.
Indigenous people in Australia and other colonial societies have suffered injustices in the past, but their claims for compensation may be invalidated by changing social conditions, a visiting legal academic will argue in this year's Julius Stone Address. 
The University of Sydney museums - The Nicholson Museum, The Macleay Museum and the University Art Gallery - will be open to the public this Saturday, from 11am to 4pm. 
Last year's national inquiry into the teaching of reading in schools resulted in a "shoddy" document that selectively reviewed the evidence, according to Professor Derrick Armstrong, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work.
New South Wales's famous Jenolan Caves date back to a time 100 million years before dinosaurs when amphibians wandered through ferns and forests, a University-led study has revealed. 
Does democracy have a future? In this edited extract the next Sydney Ideas speaker, Professor John Keane, argues it's a complex question.
A state government program which allows carbon stored by forests to offset fossil fuel emissions could actually increase future Co2 emissions, according to a Sydney biologist.
Dog lovers may never think twice about whether their dogs are left- or right-pawed, but Dr Paul McGreevy from the Faculty of Veterinary Science is embarking on a study into the topic which could change the way police and guide dogs are trained.
Australia's first professional production of the seventeenth century, Spanish classic, Peribanez, opens in the York Theatre this week, a grand finale to the acclaimed Company B's year-long stay at the University's Seymour Theatre Centre.
There are many parallels between the modern megalopolis and Angkor, the medieval Cambodian city which is the focus of a four-day conference at The University of Sydney from 18 July.
Children's language skills could be vastly improved if parents stayed quiet more often, according to new research from the University of Sydney.
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music hosts the inaugural Sydney Flute Festival this week with a top-calibre line-up of talent organised by Conservatorium flutist, Alexa Still, artistic adviser for the festival.
Sydney University ecologist Dr Tracey Rogers is using Antarctic leopard seals to measure the impact of climate change on the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean - and her findings will be of importance to everyone on the planet.
The University has been successful in securing 22 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants worth $7.5 million, more than any other university in the country, it was announced today by the Minister for Education.
The world premiere recording of an unpublished Rachmaninoff sketch discovered and reconstructed by concert pianist and Conservatorium PhD candidate Scott Davie has just been released on Davie's latest ABC Classics CD.
Associate Professor Geraldine Hunt, a small animal specialist in the Faculty of Veterinary Science, has taken part in a marathon relay swim across crocodile-infested Lake Argyle, Australia's biggest reservoir.
Two of the world's leading authorities on democracy, Professors John Keane and Josiah Ober, will speak at the War, Culture and Democracy in Classical Athens conference at the University of Sydney this week.
If humans were able to meet their required protein intake in the same way as insects, says Professor Steve Simpson, we would not be in the grip of a rampant obesity epidemic.
Sydney University Arts student Nick Coyle's play, 'The October Sapphire', has been invited to the New York Fringe Festival - but first, it shows on campus where it had its origins.
University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gavin Brown AO has been confirmed as the new Chair of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU).
A research team headed by musicologist Linda Barwick has won a large international grant to document the rich classical song traditions of Western Arnhem Land.
Novelist Kate Grenville, an honorary associate at the University of Sydney, has won six literary awards these past few months and been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award for The Secret River which she wrote as writer-in-residence at the University.
The presidents of more than 30 of the leading research universities in the Pacific Rim are gathering for their annual conference at the University of Sydney.
Sydney College of the Arts' significant contribution to the 2006 Biennale's major event, Zones of contact, has just opened at SCA Galleries - an impressive exhibition from four international artists.
Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, the brains behind the GI diet, talks to Kate Rossmanith about the competitive world of dieting, book publishing, and the challenge of overcoming a hearing impairment.
Prime Minister John Howard opened the second stage of the Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI), today (5 June).
The Renaissance Players' 30th Runnymede Pop Festival of mediaeval music and poetry takes place this week in the University's neo-gothic Great Hall, suitably decked out for the occasion.
A study of locust behaviour will help scientists predict the onset of collective motion in insect swarms, leading to improved control measures for these hugely destructive events.
The University has underlined its commitment to Indigenous issues with the release of a formal undertaking in the form of a Reconciliation Statement.
A collection of the previously untranslated writings on fashion by influential French theorist Roland Barthes has been published by the University's Power Publications as The Language of Fashion.
A University researcher has dispelled a myth which has validated the saucy exploits of libertines for centuries: the widespread existence of the Roman orgy.
Sydney University Musical Society and Sydney University Symphony Orchestra join forces to present Mendelssohn's massive Elijah in the University's magnificent Great Hall this week, marking the final performance of Ben MacPherson as long-time musical director of SUMS.
Sydney University student Sabrina Houssami has been announced as the new Miss World Australia
Several Sydney University people are appearing in Writers' Festival events, including Professor Margaret Harris, editor of Christina Stead's letters, and award-winning novelist, Kate Grenville, writer-in-residence at the University.
Architectural drawings and watercolours from the influential 1906 European 'grand tour' of Leslie Wilkinson - first professor of architecture, 1918-1947 and University Architect, 1919-1928 - are now showing in the University Art Gallery.
A field study by a Sydney University postgraduate student could transform the care provided for homeless people living on the streets, in shelters and refuges.
Researchers at Sydney are providing the pharmaceutical industry with critical information: how and where drugs end up in the body.
Each artefact in the University's Nicholson Museum has a tale to tell, and some of the most bizarre and fascinating of these are told in the museum's new exhibition, Unearthed tales 2: a fascination with death.
Breakthrough research into optical fibre technology has won a Sydney student a prestigious DuPont Australia and New Zealand Innovation Award.
An experimental video essay by Merilyn Fairskye, senior lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, was showcased at the recent Banff New Media Institute's inaugural High Definition Summit and has been short listed for the Harries National Digital Art Award.
The Sydney University Graduate Choir performs on 13 May the Australian premiere of Beethoven's most important work from his Bonn years.
Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice delivered a public lecture about the concept of 'terra nullius', one of the most emotive issues in contemporary Australian politics, on Wednesday 3rd May 2006. Includes podcast.
A public high school principal who created a range of special programs and services for immigrant and refugee students has been conferred an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney.
A review of data led by Sydney researchers has shown that the effect of the male contraceptive treatment becomes reversible after a few months, bringing us a step closer to an effective form of male contraception.
Sydney graduate Geraldine Brooks has won the Pulitzer fiction prize for her American Civil War novel, 'March', which picks up a theme from Louisa May Alcott's classic 'Little Women'.
Criminal law specialist Mr Lex Lasry QC will speak about “The Politics of Death: the Death Penalty in Asia and Australian Responses”, as he delivers the second Albinski Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on Thursday 27 April 2006.
The legendary Terry Riley, founder of minimalism in music, is coming to Australia for the first time this week as featured composer in the new international music festival instigated by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Associate Dean of Technology, Matthew Hindson.
One of Australia's foremost theatre directors, Neil Armfield will be conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the University of Sydney on Friday 21st April 2006.
A University of Sydney academic has been appointed to the International Scientific Committee for the UNESCO Intellectual History Project.
The exhibitions by Amanda Robins and Cathy Laudenbach now showing in University’s Tin Sheds Gallery are strikingly different in medium and style, yet each strikes a similar chord with its strongly meditative effect and evocation of invisible presence.
Geoffrey Robertson QC, one of the world's foremost human rights lawyers, made an impassioned plea for Australia to introduce a Bill of Rights, when he spoke to graduates after receiving an honorary degree.
When the Gupapuyngu Dancers from Arnhem Land performed at WOMADelaide recently, ethnomusicologist Aaron Corn was dancing with them - along with hundreds of others.
On Wednesday 5th April 2006 the Governor of New South Wales, Professor Marie Bashir, inserted a time capsule with the foundation stone of the new wing of St Andrew's College.
In a world where pessimism is institutionalised and fashionable, and where human relationships are regarded as toxic, it is time to bend the stick the other way, urged Professor Frank Furedi as he delivered the first talk in the Sydney Ideas lecture series.
With industrial relations in Australia in a ferment as the new Industrial Relations legislation takes hold, the Hon. Kim Beazley, leader of the Australian opposition, will outline his vision for the IR future at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 11 April 2006.
The Joan Carden Award for 2006 has been won by baritone Jae-Hyeok Lee, a postgraduate student of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
The World Bank has broken new ground by making a public launch of its East Asia and Pacific Regional Update, choosing the University of Sydney as the venue.
A Sydney student recently returned from a seven-week Pacific cruise with a difference: this one included, for some participants, an audience with the Crown Prince of Japan.
Basketball player Belinda Snell and 400m relay runner Clinton Hill both won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, with another four Sydney University representatives taking silver medals.
A significant donation from prominent graduate Michael Hintze has lead to the creation of a new Chair in International Security Studies.
Roger Benjamin, the University's J. W. Power Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, has become one of the first - if not the first - Australian to be invited to lecture at the world-famous museum.
The struggle between diversity and dominance is a major theme of the innovative, multi-arts and multi-cultural performance, Grounded, currently showing at the University’s Seymour Centre and directed by a young Arts graduate.
Government policy preventing international students from obtaining travel concessions on state transport was overturned yesterday
When the Archibald Prize opens to the public this weekend, Sydney College of the Arts graduand Bin Xie’s portrait of artist and SCA senior lecturer Lindy Lee will be hanging with the other finalists - no mean feat for someone who started painting seriously only four years ago.
When Bach’s masterwork, St Matthew Passion, is performed on Palm Sunday with the best Bach soloists in the country, it will be the last time that Nicholas Routley conducts the renowned Sydney Chamber Choir as its founding musical director of 31 years.
The oversized paintings from established artist Terry Burrows’ works of the past ten years, showing now at Sydney College of the Arts Galleries, are more than the “short history of large works” from the exhibition’s title.
Australian astronaut Andy Thomas spoke of space-walking, hypersonic flights, and floating above his home city, when he addressed staff, students and the public in the University’s Great Hall.
U.S. Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice has urged Australian university students to remember the lessons of history and to think about how they can help spread democracy.
A sexy mathematician, the latest IT inventions, the stem cell debate and the University's very own sleek geek - all that and more at the 2006 Sydney Science Forum lecture series
Professor Geraint Lewis is part of an international team of astronomers that has announced their findings about our galaxy's closest cousin - the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Pattern in the extreme is the focus of the five established, contemporary artists represented in the exhibition currently showing in the University’s Tin Sheds Gallery, coordinated by award-winning Sydney College of the Arts graduate Judith Duquemin.
The inaugural Sydney Alumni Magazine, formerly known as the Gazette, was launched at the University last night.
Rare documents from linguist-ethnographer Arthur Capell’s research materials from the Pacific, PNG, Oceania and Indonesia have been salvaged from private storage and made accessible online by Sydney University researchers and colleagues from PARADISEC.
How does it feel to hurtle down an ice track at 125.8 kph holding a hurtling bobsled in the middle of a narrow track in the Winter Olympics final?
Robert Fisk, the distinguished foreign correspondent for the London Independent, told a packed audience at the University of Sydney last night that it is vitally important to ask the question 'why?' in any discussion about conflict in the Middle East.
A Sydney College of the Arts lecturer is working with one of the largest Aboriginal communities in Western Australia to produce a National Significance Assessment of their art collection.
Cannibalism drives the migration of millions of Mormon crickets in North America each year according to research undertaken by Sydney entomologist Professor Stephen Simpson
While Sydney University-based Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia breaks from Shakespeare to put on Educating Rita, its founder-director delves deeper into the bard as a newly enrolled PhD student.
The Australia Lebanese Foundation will award three new scholarships in 2006 to Australian Lebanese high school students in year 10, 11 and 12.
Music lovers will get their first chance to hear two new specialised and rare musical instruments just acquired by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before a gala concert next week launches their biggest music series ever.
Professional guitarist and masters in composition student, Bryce Jacobs, has invented an electric guitar which, with the range and capabilities of a piano, could revolutionise the instrument as we know it.
University of Sydney veterinary science student Astrid Loch-Wilkinson and teammate Kylie Reed reached 125.8 kph competing for Australia in the women’s bobsleigh final at the Turin Winter Olympics this week.
Lively Japanese prints dating from the 1930s are showing in the University Art Gallery as part of an exhibition that features recent gifts to the University Art Collection.
More arts students at the University of Sydney are making it through to second year after the success of a mentoring program which provides them with support, informal information and social activities.
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music has imported a specially commissioned Balinese gamelan that will greatly enhance the study of Indonesian music. 
The lights are off in the University's Tin Sheds Gallery, the better to feature Julia Davis's installation of flattened, spheroidal, mirrored glass forms that play in the natural light with one’s perception of place.
The accelerated evolution of invasion species such as the cane toad could turn ecological disaster into a nightmare, according to research by Professor Rick Shine at the School of Biological Science..jpg)
Batsmen Greg Mail and Matthew Phelps both scored double centuries on their way to a record breaking partnership for Sydney University on Saturday.
One of the Arab world’s leading journalists, Zaki Chehab, author of a new book about Iraq, will give a public lecture at the University of Sydney on Thursday February 23, 2006.
A new publication from Sydney University Press suggests that the best policy response to current issues affecting rural and remote indigenous communities involves attending to cultural and regional differences as well as providing jobs and better education.
Delegates from 31 countries are attending a symposium at the University which explores the complex relationship between the environment, behaviour and society.
Aimé Jacquet, who guided France to victory in the 1998 World Cup, is the star attraction at the Professional Footballers' Association Conference being held at the University.
Australia is in the grip of a bed bug pandemic with the Australian accommodation and tourism industry losing an estimated $100 million annually from bed bug infestations, according to medical entomologist Stephen Doggett of the Institute for Clinical Pathology & Medical Research (ICPMR), based at Westmead Hospital.
Work has started on the University's new law school building, a project that will eventually see the Faculty of Law return to the main campus from its current home in the CBD.
The genetic code of marsupials has been documented for the first time by an international team led by Dr Kathy Belov, a postdoctoral fellow from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Sydney College of the Arts is featuring a retrospective of work by leading Netherlands designer, Ruudt Peters, along with two other jewellery-focussed exhibitions connected with a recent conference co-hosted by SCA.
Thirty years to the day after his arrival in Australia, Professor Gavin Brown is one of a prominent group of University of Sydney staff who feature in the Australia Day honours.
The University's Macleay Museum has provided both the inspiration and the venue for a new exhibition of jewellery by four Sydney-based contemporary artists.
Cornwall’s oldest love story – the 12th century poem Tristan & Yseult – has been given a modern twist and brought to life in the 21st century by Cornwall’s internationally acclaimed Kneehigh Theatre Company and London's National Theatre
The beauty and bounty of the Japanese and Australian coasts are captured in a new exhibition of photographs by Leanne Mumford, a senior occupational health and safety officer at the University.
Once again, the University of Sydney has increased its lead in the competition for New South Wales first preference applications, according to figures released yesterday (18 January) by the Universities Admissions Centre.
A young University of Sydney graduate, Bryan Gaensler, Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, has been awarded the 2006 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy.
A new cervical screening technique being introduced in the USA and UK, is no better than the conventional smear test, according to research published in the most recent issue of The Lancet.
The discovery of a magnetar explosion by researchers at the University's Molonglo telescope has been ranked fourth in Science Magazine’s breakthroughs of 2005
Professor John Connell queries descriptions of "sinking" Pacific islands made whilst the US led Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate met in Sydney.
Prospective students and their families will be welcomed at the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus tomorrow to “test drive” the study options that will determine their future lives.
A new analysis has found that an optimal dose of radiation therapy for women with breast cancer is associated with better survival, measured at 10 years after treatment with surgery.© 2002-2009 The University of Sydney. Last Updated: 08-Apr-2009
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