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The 2008 subscription season at the University's Seymour Centre has exceeded all expectations and planning is already underway for the 2009 season.
A major collaboration between the University of Sydney and a leading NSW high school could transform the way Shakespeare and English literature are taught at high schools and universities. 
An arts education is fundamental to a better understanding of all subjects according to Mrs Harriet Fulbright, president of the Fulbright Centre, speaking at the University.
The list of Sydney's 100 most influential people, published today in the(sydney)magazine features a number of Sydney University identities.
Two University of Sydney academics have been recognised in the inaugural National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Awards 
The University's Ross Coleman has been awarded one of the highest honours given to Australian university librarians.
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Australians have lost trust in US values and their political institutions, but retain high levels of respect for US science and technology and its economic opportunities, according to the latest survey from the United States Study Centre
Chinese officials have taken part in an intensive course at the University designed to improve the lives of millions of rural Chinese. 
In the early 1960s, the drug Thalidomide was found to cause birth defects. What has never been explained is how the drug was able to mutilate embryos inside the womb. A new book provides some answers.
An international treatment trial for sufferers of chronic anorexia nervosa involving Sydney, London and Chicago is a world first.
Sydney has forged new relationships in China after a series of highly successful events and graduation ceremonies.
A new book written by the University's Professor Chris Dickman reveals the secret lives of Australia's marsupials and their precarious state in an ever-worsening environment.
The University's George Institute for International Health today announced the launch of The George Institute, India in Hyderabad. 
A groundbreaking ceremony for the $12 million Asbestos Diseases Research Institute was conducted by the NSW Premier Morris Iemma, today
A senior university researcher has heralded a 'golden age' of modern biochemistry and molecular biology brought about by our complete sequencing of the human genome
One of the University's most generous supporters, Sir William Tyree has been recognised for his outstanding philanthropic contribution to higher education.jpg)
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Research into traditional Chinese medicine will be boosted at the University of Sydney with the establishment of a new dedicated research centre
Copyright controls have largely benefited big business rather the creators who the legislation was intended to protect, a new book argues.
Self-confessed 'militant anarchist' Col James refuses to slip quietly into retirement - at 71, he's still campaigning for improved community spaces.
Doctors visiting patients at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital are using a new electronic note-taking system that is designed to cut down on human errors and provide better patient care.
Building a new high school for girls in an impoverished village in Kenya is the first project for an organisation set up by five Sydney architecture students.
With India facing an imminent coronary heart disease crisis, Dr Suresh Gulati is working with farmers in Gujarat to reduce the fat content of their milk.
'Australia confronts the challenge of global warming from the vantage point of a policy cul-de-sac', so claims one of the academics featured in a new publication by Sydney University Press. 
A new study questions the need for expensive and potentially risky treatments commonly used to combat acute low back pain
Dr Hans Blix, recently honoured by the Sydney Peace Foundation for his leadership and global peace efforts, was on hand to answer questions from staff and students at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies yesterday.
The University of Sydney has again improved its position in the latest Times Higher Education rankings of the world's top universities.
Dr Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat, international human rights lawyer, weapons inspector and disarmament campaigner, will call on nuclear states to resume steps towards disarmament when he delivers the City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture tonight.
Highly awarded Melbourne artist Mark Hilton has created a provocative new exhibition for the University Art Gallery in response to the collections of Sydney University Museums.
Dr Hans Blix, recipient of this year's Sydney Peace Prize, delivered the City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture on Wednesday 7 November at Sydney Town Hall. The full text is available here.
A survey done by Sydney's George Institute on heart attack and acute angina patients in China has revealed that in many cases treatment is determined by financial considerations.
Sydney University Experience Days change expectations and open up a new world to students from disadvantaged high schools
The Macleay Museum will open a stunning new exhibition next week to celebrate the release of "Museum: the Macleays, their collections and the search for order", a book chronicling the passions and collections of the Macleay family. 
Sydney researcher says that individuals with weight perceptions that deviate from the societal ideal ('overweight' and 'underweight') are at increased risk of psychological distress.
Dr Kate Jolliffe, a 2007 Young Tall Poppy Science award winner, makes molecules that could lead to new cancer treatments and anti-fungal drugs. 
A job in the polluting mining industry gave this 2007 Cosmos Bright Spark a mission to build a sustainable future.
Sydney scientists have shown that low-level soap contaminants in rivers and estuaries can block social recognition in fish and cause their shoals to break up.
A new book looks at the pros and cons of the different policy approaches of two countries with ageing populations and shrinking workforces - Australia and South Korea.
Professor Noel Hush has received one of the world's foremost chemistry prizes for his lifetime achievements in molecular research.
Editor-in-chief of Manic Times and The Chaser co-founder Charles Firth will speak at Sydney Ideas this Saturday as part of the University's "Spring Back to Sydney" alumni event. 
Australia's first female Indigenous cabinet minister said last night that the Commonwealth was herding Aboriginal Territorians back to the primitivism of assimilation and the days of native welfare.
It will be "not a very long time" before China's best universities catch up with the best in the West. A training course run by the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific has attracted 22 vice-chancellors of top Chinese universities to come to Sydney.
Leading breast cancer researcher Sharon Kilbreath hosted a pink ribbon breakfast this morning to raise much-needed funds for the disease, which will affect oen in eight Australian women.
Sydney's Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific is initiating the 2007 Australian-Korea Young Leaders' Exchange Program, to promote the understanding of enviromental issues in both countries.
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A series of public lectures and events encompassing the restoration of the Parthenon and the building of the New Acropolis Museum is being held at the University.
Three early career Sydney University researchers have been awarded NSW and ACT Young Tall Poppy awards for 2007
Climate change will drive an increased demand for new graduates from the agricultural sector, according to new research from the University of Sydney.
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Dr Michael Spence, a leading Australian academic currently at the University of Oxford, has been appointed as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, to take up the position in mid 2008.
For the first time researchers have turned their attention onto the health effects of invasion on our old friend the cane toad, revealing that they are suffering from severe spinal arthritis brought on by the onslaught
A University of Sydney graduate will explore the links between an Ancient Greek myth and contemporary reactions to terrorism after winning the prestigious John Crampton Travelling Fellowship.
A Sydney University-based project that has amassed a large database of lab experiments that have been proven to be effective teaching tools for chemistry students has won a major teaching award.
Democracies everywhere are on shaky territory says Professor John Keane, special guest speaker at the University of Sydney tonight.
Palestinian-British author and academic Dr Ghada Karmi will advocate the "one-state solution" as the way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis when she speaks at Sydney Ideas tomorrow night. 
The United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney today released the first results of the most comprehensive survey ever conducted on Australia and the United States.
University researchers have discovered why the Devil Facial Tumour Disease which has wiped out 90 per cent of some native Tasmanian Devil populations has been so devastating.
A massive study of more than 8,000 workers' experiences provides the most accurate picture to date of the impact of the Federal Government's industrial relations laws.
A $41 million national research facility to provide cutting-edge microscopy and microanalysis capability to all Australian researchers was launched by the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, today. 
Two Sydney scientists have been named in a list of top Australian scientists under 40.
First he devised a way for India's 11 million dairy farmers to improve milk production. Now Dr Suresh Gulati of the Faculty of Veterinary Science is making milk healthier in a country where coronary heart disease is set to soar.
The University of Sydney has been successful in securing over $55 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council funding
Indian academic and author Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal will explain why democracy is a work in progress in India when she speaks at Sydney Ideas on Tuesday, 2 October, 2007.
Representatives from governmental and non-governmental aid organisations will join academics to discuss the development of the Mekong region, at the University of Sydney on 26 and 27 September
Some of the University's leading astronomers will take the stage at the Conservatorium at a concert exploring the music of the cosmos.
Happy workplaces and how leaders can foster them is the focus of a University of Sydney conference.
The University of Sydney has received $5.5 million for 18 projects in the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme.
A University of Sydney professor who developed a system to combat bioterrorism has received a major award from the US military.
A new exhibition to open at the Nicholson Museum this Sunday gives a unique glimpse into our colonial past and celebrates the work of Australia's early archaeological work. 
Fear of being criticised by others may be leading Australian mums to be overly concerned about preschoolers being underweight, a new study has found.
In a historic collaboration with the State Government, the University is investing $30 million in a new education and research facility within the grounds of Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH).
The University of Sydney Museums will celebrate NSW History Week this Sunday with a series of fascinating talks and fun activities for the younger history buffs. 
A gene variation commonly found in endurance athletes most likely evolved as humans moved out of warm, food-rich environments to colder and harsher conditions, according to new research.
In their love of myths and legends, and the power of the land and earth, striking similarities have been found between Indigenous Australian and Mapuche Chilean artworks.
Three University of Sydney academics have been shortlisted for this year's 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards.
Information technology needs to go beyond the latest youth-oriented web-based device and be used to assist elderly people in an ageing population, according to German IT expert Professor Dieter Rombach.
A law lecturer is preparing to bring a test case on behalf of indigenous "stolen wages" victims - Aboriginal people who were paid little or nothing to work on cattle stations in the Northern Territory.
The world's leading labour market economist, Harvard University's Professor Richard Freeman, will present his analysis of WorkChoices during a visit to Australia next week.
The University's partnerships with leading universities around the world have been strengthened with the allocation of extra funding to support international networks.
Sixteen Library employees have mounted a group exhibition of their art in a first for the University.
A sound and sculpture installation tackling the topical issues of forest clearing and climate change is now on show at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning.
Strident anti-tobacco campaigner Simon Chapman has launched his new book, Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control: Making Smoking History, with the help of former NSW premier Bob Carr.
Professor of Chemistry Thomas Maschmeyer is working towards alleviating two environmental problems: Creating biofuels while at the time reducing salinity. 
Despite the growth of the knowledge economy there are huge variations in the way organisations report intellectual capital, new research shows.
It wasn't just the unseasonably warm weather heating things up last night - Sydneysiders were also treated to a red-hot lunar performance.
Sydney Uni Live! courses and careers day has changed dramatically over the years as students re-assess what they want from a tertiary education and parents hold sway over where and what their children will study.
A looming collision of world crises is inevitable and civilisation needs to be creative in order to avoid catastrophe, Canadian global expert Thomas Homer-Dixon told a Sydney Ideas audience last night.
Three University of Sydney students have been working with residents of Johannesburg's poorest townships to improve their housing conditions.
The University will be hosting its first-ever Germany Innovations festival in September, bringing industrialists and academics together.
The University's Great Hall will be the venue for an international debating competition in Mandarin this week which will be broadcast to a television audience of up to a million people.
From the bush to the beach, traditional notions of Australian identity are examined by sociologist Catriona Elder in her new book.
Some of Australian artist Lloyd Rees's most stunning and spiritually inspired works will be on display in a new exhibition opening this Saturday at the University Art Gallery.
The new United States Studies Centre has a ten member Board of Directors drawn from business, academia, politics and government.
An investigation into the poor uptake of evidence based medicine has won University of Sydney Professor Alex Barratt the $10,000 Pfizer Eureka Prize for Health and Medical Research Journalism for the second year running
The University's already generous scholarship scheme is being boosted with an expansion of the Access Scholarship Program
Jack Cowan, a world leader in the study of architectural science and a gifted writer and teacher, has died aged 87.
Are too many people now diagnosed as having depression? Two experts give their views in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ). 
Best-selling UK-based author and philosopher Stephen Law will step into the "values in schools" debate when he argues that religious schools are not necessarily the answer to raising good children.
While the rich get richer, over ten per cent of Australians live in poverty. In their new book, Frank Stilwell and Kirrily Jordan investigate the politics of economic distribution in Australia.
Australian researchers using NASA technology to map the medieval city of Angkor have discovered at least 74 new temples.
The University has received seven Carrick Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. 
Next stop Hogwarts! Wesley College hosted its third biennial 'Hogwarts' dinner on Wednesday night, as part of a campaign to urge indigenous students to consider university as a higher education option.
Art historian Louise Marshall has been visiting churches across northern Italy in search of images of 14th century saint, St Roch.
Radical new technologies such as genetic manipulation and selection should be used to "make humans better", Australian-born University of Oxford ethicist Julian Savulescu told a Sydney Ideas audience last night.
Sydney University Press, which has brought over 40 classic Australian novels back into print in recent years, has backed calls this week to reinstate Australian literature's central place in English courses.
Two University of Sydney researchers named as finalists in the 2007 Eureka Awards
Professor Ian Hickie from the Brain and Mind Institute has received a $4 million Australia Fellowship.
A selection of stunning art works celebrating the spirit of reconciliation and created by Sydney primary school children will be on display throughout August in the foyer of the Macleay Museum. 
Sydney University has won a third successive Sydney grade rugby permierwhip, beating Eastern Suburbs 34-11 in Saturday's Grand Final.
The lost art of letter writing, collecting Australiana and the contribution of Aborigines to the economic development of early NSW all feature in a new book to be launched this weekend.
A new book argues the corporate scandals surrounding firms such as Enron, HIH, and Bond Corp are more to do with the complex tangle of financial reporting regulations rather than the greed or immorality of individual corporate high flyers.
The University today announced the formation of a new high level research centre which will tackle the obesity epidemic with an unprecedented expert collaborative group based in Sydney
When the APEC summit in Sydney is disrupted by protesters in September, we should remember that dissent is a vital part of democracy, says Jake Lynch.
A near total ban on domestic travel could delay the spread of a flu pandemic by a week or more, particularly if the outbreak originates in a regional town or small city such as Darwin, according to new modelling by Australian researchers.
Fairley and Smith's sharp comedy-thriller opens the Seymour Centre's 2007 season of BITE this week.
A Hollywood organisation that advises TV medical dramas how to accurately portray health issues could be the model for a new Australian centre aimed at improving health and medical information in films and TV shows.
Dean of Nursing, Professor Jocalyn Lawler, delivered the Chomley Oration at the Annual Conference of the Royal College of Nursing last week.
Bush poet Les Murray is one of the speakers at a conference examining the legacy of one of the most "difficult" poets in the English language, T.S. Eliot.
New research has shown that drivers carrying two or more passengers are twice as likely to crash as unaccompanied drivers
Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, will discuss the power of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great at the Nicholson Museum next Tuesday night. 
The Renaissance Players take over the Great Hall with their 31st Runnymede Pop Festival on 16 and 17 July. 
Father and daughter duo, Ted and Louise Grantham, make their duetting debut on the University's bells this Sunday.
All new dads should be paid two weeks' paternity leave and all workers should have the right to request part-time work or to work from home, a leading group of Australian researchers said today.
Rio Tinto has announced major funding for one of the world's largest civilian robotics research centres, a centre for mining automation, which will be based at The University of Sydney.
Paving the way for the Aussie premiere of the opera, 'A Streetcar Named Desire', Conservatorium academic and baritone Michael Halliwell has organised a collaborative public symposium with Opera Australia on turning literature into opera.
A Sydney architect and University of Sydney graduate has been awarded the prestigious Greenway Award for Heritage Architecture for her work on one of the University's most significant rooms.
Taronga's penguin colony had a temporary population boost today to raise awareness of the International Science School, which began in Sydney this week
Raimond Gaita led a distinguished line-up of Australian philosophers who addressed a media lunch at the University of Sydney last week.
University of Sydney researchers are embarking on the world's first major study into the connection between managers' abilities to engage with multiple viewpoints and workplaces where staff are productive and flourish.
Hear UK-based historian, political campaigner and prolific author Tariq Ali discuss the revolution taking place in Latin America at Sydney Ideas.
The recent stranding of the Pasha Bulker on Nobby's Beach at Newcastle brings fresh interest to a unique method of marine salvage.
Former NSW Premier Bob Carr will give a unique political insight into the power of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius when he speaks at the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum at 6.30pm this Thursday, 28 June, 2007
Activity study points to link between playfulness and creativity
In-school cinemas, more book choices and enthusiastic teachers would make high school boys more excited about English, said a group of visiting 'professors' at the University of Sydney last week.
A new business ethics group will promote public debate about the rights and wrongs of corporate behaviour.
A leading world expert in childhood obesity has warned that Australia must move quickly and implement coloured 'traffic light' coding on food labels 
The architecture of one of Sydney's most significant sites - the University of Sydney - is celebrated in a new exhibition which opens this week at the Sydney University Art Gallery.
Two University academics and a future Federation Fellow have been named in the 2007 Smart 100 list published by the Bulletin Magazine
A student documentary about an indigenous woman who remained positive despite losing brothers and other family members in tragic circumstances has won first place at a University of Sydney film night.
When the world's poorest sell their bodies to the world's wealthiest in the international tissue donation market they often secure their economic health at the cost of their physical health.
Three University of Sydney researchers have recently been elected to the Australian Academy of Science, including Professor Peter Lay, who develops cutting edge drugs to treat racehorses.
Opportunities for further links between Australia and India will be discussed at an international forum at the University on 22 June.
As workplace environments become more complex, a University research project is aiming to train better managers
Associate Professor Catherine Waldby, who will be presenting a public lecture at the University this Wednesday night, looks at the fraught and often frightening world of organ donation in this opinion piece.
The emergence of a presidential style of government needs to be balanced with the creation of multiple centres of power, says Professor Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia.
The University of Sydney's eleventh annual Antique Fair is to be held once again this long weekend.
The Brain and Mind Research Institute has received a further $12 million for its work to combat brain diseases.
A team, led by a PhD student from the School of Biological Sciences, has been investigating the impact of climate change on sea turtles nesting along the Florida coast
In an internationally competitive environment government funding must foster Australia's few truly world class universities, says the Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University, Professor Gavin Brown.
Sydney Ideas will bring together the author of "The Existential Jesus", Professor John Carroll (left), and one of the Anglican Church of Australia's leading theologians and academics, Archbishop Peter Jensen, next Tuesday to discuss this provocative new book.
A university researcher supports controversial self-collect method for HPV testing
Noel Hush, from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, has become the first Australian to be chosen for the Welch Award in Chemistry.
Tune in to Radio National this weekend to hear a Sydney University historian's documentary about an extraordinary 1948 joint US-Australian excursion to the Oenpelli region of northern Australia. 
Universities need to commit themselves to attracting indigenous students to science and incorporating indigenous knowledge in curricula, according to the University of Sydney's Dr Diana Day. 
New York-based author and Univeristy of Sydney visiting scholar Michael Otterman will expose the long-standing history of torture practices used by the US when he speaks next Tuesday at Sydney Ideas.
The governors of NSW and Queensland, both with strong links to Women's College, returned to take part in a glittering gala evening.
Award-winning Sydney artist James Powditch showcases some of his stunning large-scale works in a new exhibition at the Seymour Theatre Centre.
A graduation film by a Sydney College of the Arts student has won a short film award at the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner.
Dr John Buchanan of the Workplace Research Centre employs a range of analytical tools to take a look at the future of work.
The latest exhibition at the Tin Sheds gallery, Disparallel Spaces, marks the beginning of interdisciplinary design within the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning.
Award-winning novelist Sue Woolfe, lecturer in the University's creative writing program, explores the neuroscience of creativity in her new book to be launched this week.
The University's Professor Peter Goodyear was today awarded a prestigious Carrick Senior Fellowship for his research into how university teachers can design better learning activities. 
A Bill Gates scholarship will allow a University of Sydney student to complete a PhD at Cambridge University in communist poetry.
New Head of Mathematics, Nalini Joshi, has had a life full of adventure, from her childhood growing up in Myanmar, to her adult life exploring the highly complex world of mathematics
In 2006 a group of architects, designers and planners from around the world spent 12 days amongst the disused and derelict dockyards, jail buildings and tunnels of Sydney Harbour's Cockatoo Island.
"Topo" - Neil Cole's play about legendary Rugby Union player, Enrique 'Topo' Rodriguez, and his struggle with bipolar disorder - premieres tonight at the Seymour Centre, sponsored by the University's Brain and Mind Research Institute. 
Women who receive aspirin or other antiplatelet drugs during pregnancy are at a lower risk of pre-eclampsia
A profile of Professor Ron McCallum, Dean of the University of Sydney Law School, appeared on the ABC Compass program this Sunday (13 May 2007). 
Developers should be obliged to include affordable housing options in all major urban developments, a University of Sydney academic will argue today.
Postgraduate students intending to enrol in a full-time PhD now have even more incentive to undertake their research at The University of Sydney.
ABC science broadcaster Robyn Williams and animal behaviour expert Professor Stephen Simpson will help the Macleay Museum celebrate this month's 300th birthday of revolutionary Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus.
Jill Forrest is responsible for the University of Sydney's most distinctive sound: the peal of carillon bells across the Quadrangle.
A University of Sydney academic is part of a team whose research could profoundly change the way we look at and treat dementia.
A multi-million dollar project led by the University of Sydney will investigate the murky world of insider trading and market manipulation in financial markets across the globe.
Sydney researchers have helped to produce the first genome sequence for a marsupial, which sheds light on the building blocks of the mammalian immune system 
Collective action and the involvement of ordinary people is the key to better public health, a leading University of Sydney academic will tell a public lecture tomorrow night.
Women should not drink alcohol while pregnant or planning to become pregnant, the Royal Australian College of Physicians was told today by Sydney Professor Elizabeth Elliott
For the first time, urban planners now have a single source of information to use when developing plans for land use in their local area, thanks to a new book by a University of Sydney academic.
Academics have a major role to play in the key federal election issue of workplace reform, the Opposition's industrial relations spokeswoman Julia Gillard told an audience at Sydney University last night.
An intricate new exhibition at the University Art Gallery takes a contemporary and feminine look at the legacies of war and explores the unique history of the gallery.
A review into judicial sleepiness and the case of NSW District Court Judge Ian Dodd has criticised the government's failure to recognise a medical condition that is reversible with appropriate treatment.
The workplace relations debate comes to the University of Sydney tomorrow night when Julia Gillard delivers the annual industrial relations lecture, the Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture.
An international solar weather monitoring project involving Sydney Physicists has produced the first 3D pictures of our Sun 
Citizens need to be encouraged to actively participate in modern democracies in order for them to work, political theorist and author Sir Bernard Crick said last night at Sydney Ideas.
Former WA premier Professor Geoff Gallop and security expert Professor Alan Dupont will join a distinguished line-up of speakers exploring the future of government, public health, global security and other big issues in a series of public talks.
Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales, is to be the next Chancellor of The University of Sydney.
How lesbians are represented on TV is the focus of both thesis and book by new English Department PhD graduate Rebecca Beirne.
Eminent UK-based political theorist and author Sir Bernard Crick will discuss what it means to be a citizen in a modern multinational democracy next Monday at Sydney Ideas.
Robert Elstone, CEO of the Australian Securities Exchange and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney, has called on university researchers to grapple with the complex opportunities and challenges presented by the booming financial sector.
An exhibition of coins on show at the University's Nicholson Museum reveals the Romans' subtle use of propaganda.
The University commemorated Anzac Day with a dawn service in the Quadrangle, led by the University Regiment.
Gillian Triggs, an expert in international law and a barrister in the Victorian Supreme Court, has been appointed the new Dean of Law.
Scientists are developing an optical signal processing device that would allow hundred-fold increases in the rate at which information is transmitted.
A University of Sydney researcher has found some married men who have sex with other men have contemplated suicide at the prospect of their wives or female partners finding out.
In the first Australian study of its kind, University of Sydney researchers have found two-thirds of food advertisements during children's high-rating television programs promote junk food.
Best-selling author and social commentator Clive Hamilton will go behind the scenes of the hottest debate in Australia when he discusses the "dirty politics" of climate change next Tuesday at Sydney Ideas.
George Brandis and Peter Garrett will launch the publication Australian Arts: Where the Bloody Hell Are You? at the University of Sydney tomorrow. 
The University of Sydney has awarded its first honorary Doctor of Visual Arts degrees to four distinguished artists.
A Sydney University researcher is helping to alert people in the Asia Pacific region to the deadly impact of smoking.
Images of a spectacular bipolar nebula christened The Red Square have been taken by a Sydney-led team 
University of Sydney architects Paul Pholeros and Col James will unveil a prototype home clinic and wash room for the Australian Indigenous community on Monday 16 April.
The University of Sydney will award its first honorary Doctor of Visual Arts degrees to four distinguished artists tomorrow. 
University archaeologists have helped to uncover a richly decorated 2000-year-old mural in Uzbekistan, one of the oldest wall paintings ever discovered in Central Asia.
Listen to a podcast of last night's Sydney Ideas lecture where Ed Blakely outlined his plans for the rebuilding of New Orleans.
At 7.30pm on Saturday, 31 March, Sydney University turned off its lights for an hour to help show that it's possible to take action on global warming.
A team of Sydney students is shining on the world stage after winning the prestigious Jessup International Law Moot in Washington DC.
Former NSW Premier Bob Carr and Cardinal George Pell are among a group of prominent Australians who will discuss the concept of power in a series of lectures to coincide with the opening of a new exhibition at the Nicholson Museum.
Award-winning poet John Bennett reads this Sunday and discusses his part in the Macleay Museum's current exhibition on Linnaeus.
An agreement between the University of Sydney and Australia's largest biodiesel company could lead to a gradual revolution in the production of bio-fuel.
In response to the exponential growth of business-to-business services, the University's School of IT has joined forces with IBM to develop a new postgraduate unit of study. 
The head of the New Orleans reconstruction team, Professor Ed Blakely, will reveal his bold new plan for New Orleans post-hurricane "Katrina" when he speaks at Sydney Ideas next Wednesday night.
A researcher from the University's School of Public Health is helping to shape Argentina's gun buyback program. 
Sydney College of the Arts dean, Colin Rhodes, presents a public lecture this Wednesday on that 'hot potato', Outsider Art and its impact on the mainstream.
Astrophysicist Anne Green has become the first woman head of the University's School of Physics.
A new illustrated guidebook celebrates the University of Sydney's great architectural past and looks at the new architectural renaissance underway on campus today. 
Two Sydney students are set to benefit from a new scholarship aimed at encouraging medical students to consider practicing in rural Australia.
While the virtual evacuation of current affairs from the commercial radio schedule is cause for concern, at its best talkback operates very much as news and current affairs journalism.
The man who did more than anyone to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney graduate and fellow of Senate John Bradfield, is being celebrated this weekend on the 75th anniversary of its opening.
Climate change and an inflexible water supply were key factors in the demise of the medieval city of Angkor, according to new discoveries by University of Sydney archeologists and their international colleagues.
Sydney University researchers have identified how crocodiles and other reptiles detect temperature - shedding new light on their adaptation to environmental changes and pointing to new pain treatments for humans
If the Independents win the balance of power at the March 24 NSW election don't expect a rerun of the reforming minority government politics of 1991 to 1995, says a University of Sydney politics expert.
SCA's 2007 exhibition program has opened with new works by award-winning graduates Judith Duquemin and Juliana Bartulin and artist-academics Merilyn Fairskye and Josephine Starrs. 
As President George W. Bush encounters further protests in his five-nation tour of Latin America, Sydney University is staging an important forum to examine Australia's relationship with the region. 
In a survey exhibition of his work, artist Michael Callaghan returns to the Tin Sheds where he first developed his radical art and politics 
Just two years after graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Caroline Wenborne has landed a principal position at the Vienna State Opera, considered by many to be the world's leading opera house.
The Constitution of the United States of America, written at the end of the eighteenth century, was a breathtaking experiment in the power of the written word, says Professor Helen Irving in the inaugural lecture for the returning holder of the Harvard Chair of Australian Studies.
The creation of an Interplanetary Internet (IPN) is one of the significant new developments users can expect over the next two decades, according to Google chief Internet evangelist, Vint Cerf.
A meaty, soulful comedy about three generations of Jewish women has opened for its Australian premiere season at the University's Seymour Theatre Centre.
The University of Sydney celebrates International Women's Day just days after being named an employer of choice for women.
Sydney University ophthalmologist, Roger Truscott, is the first Australian to win a US award for cataract research.
Sydney hosts the World Congress for Sexual Health next month, when the University's graduate program in sexual health will be hoping to shed light on the emerging field of internet sex.
Snoring doesn't have to be loud to cause health problems - especially in women, a University study finds. 
A provocative new exhibition, opening at the University Art Gallery on Friday night, throws a disturbing and intriguing new light on the domestic front.
University of Sydney archaeologists are uncovering the remains of a building used by travelling Persian royalty in the 5th century BC.
The Macleay Museum celebrates Chinese New Year this Saturday with a Dragons Day.
If Australia's current immigration rules were in place in the 1950s, Frank Lowy, co-founder of The Westfield Group, may not have been admitted into the country, suggested Philippe Legrain when he delivered the Sydney Ideas lecture last night.
Premier Morris Iemma announced $10 million to fund the construction of the Youth Mental Health Clinical Research Facility at the University's Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI), at a special ceremony today.
Land clearing in NSW could see the number of mammal species in the state being halved, a report co-authored by the University of Sydney's Professor Chris Dickman warns.
University of Sydney law students will be the first in Australia to benefit from an exchange program with one of the world's most renowned graduate law schools, Harvard Law School in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA.
Extreme social disadvantage in Australia is concentrated in a small number of locations, according to the University of Sydney's Professor Tony Vinson.
Nobel laureate Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, will present the University of Sydney Chemical Society Liversidge Lecture, entitled: From Supermolecular Chemistry to Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry, at the University on Tuesday 6 March. 
The next generation of school students is in safe hands according to Mercurius Goldstein and John Hughes.
A Sydney student has been invited to New York to present her play about the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. 
Controversial UK-based author and economist Philippe Legrain will voice a rarely heard view in the immigration debate at the first Sydney Ideas event of the year next Tuesday, 27 February, 2007.
A panel of sexuality and history experts will come together at the Nicholson Museum this Sunday to dispel the myths and explore the facts of same-sex love in antiquity.
An exhibition of works by three Sydney College of the Arts students poses a series of questions about memory, space and home.
Researchers have found that baby snakes behave like their parents, and probably for similar reasons as in humans
One of Australia's top humanities awards has gone to a University of Sydney academic who recently published a history of amateur and aspiring writers in twentieth century Britain.
A meal of starchy rice four hours before bedtime may solve your insomnia problems, new research from the University of Sydney has found.
Astrophysicist, Associate Professor Anne Green, has been appointed as the first female Head of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. 
The Macleay Museum will open a new exhibition on Monday, 19 February, 2007, to celebrate the life and legacy of Swedish doctor and naturalist - Carl Linnaeus.
Local and international researchers at Sydney are this week debating Australia's preparedness for an animal disease emergency.
Justice Kim Santow has announced that he will not be seeking re-election as Chancellor when his term of office comes to an end in May.
Associate Professor Helen Irving will deliver the inaugural lecture for the returning holder of the Harvard Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Sydney, on Thursday 8 March 2007.
A Sydney University academic warned in 2002 of the risk of the MV Wunma being swamped in cyclone conditions similar to those which battered the ship today.
Professor Anthony Welch has been awarded an internationally prestigious Fulbright New Century Scholarship for 2007/2008.
Despite its reputation for excellence, the Japanese classroom is unproductive and can learn much from its Australian counterpart, according to a visiting Japanese researcher. 
Emeritus Professor G.M (Max) Kelly, former Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics, graduate and University Medal winner, passed away on 26 January 2007. 
The work of seven talented photomedia students from the University is being screened nightly on a Darlinghurst shopfront. 
Four research projects aimed at providing a sustainable energy future for Australia have been awarded $1 million over three years, as part of the University of Sydney's inaugural Sustainable Research Grants Scheme. 
Quint de Loup, the latest show at the Tin Sheds Gallery, explores the relationship between hearing and memory. 
A conference on Australian literature will be held at Sydney University this week in honour of its retiring Professor of Australian Literature, Elizabeth Webby.
Attempts to lower house prices by liberalising planning regulations run the risk of creating bleak residential zones devoid of basic amenities, argues Dr Nicole Gurran.
As thousands of nervous parents wave goodbye for the first time this week, Sydney University child psychologist has suggested 12 ways to minimise parents' tears and children's fears. 
Find out how to get blink-free photos at the Macleay Museum this Sunday.
Rampant flag-waving merely reflects much deeper undercurrents, argues Dr Clifton Evers.
Macquarie Dictionary, based at the University of Sydney, has announced muffin top is the Word of the Year 2006.
Comet McNaught, hanging in the western evening skies this week, is the brightest comet in 80 years according to astronomers at the University of Sydney.
Performing tonight in 'Poptarts' is mathematician Melissa Cox turned singer-songwriter Black Sesame, about to release her debut CD.
The first two episodes of the groundbreaking television series "Women of the Sun" will be presented by the Macleay Museum at the University this Thursday - the day before the anniversary of colonisation.
New research has revealed that high blood pressure causes up to 66 per cent of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart disease and stroke, in the Asia-Pacific region. 
The University of Sydney has confirmed its place as the most popular NSW university, with more than one in five recent school leavers nominating courses at the University as their first preference.
Chinese prints from the University of Sydney Art Collection are on show in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Thirteen Sydney graduates will have their work seen by one million onlookers when it is screened in Melbourne's Federation Square over coming months.
An international team of astronomers which includes researchers from the University of Sydney has observed what they believe could be the formation of a new class of planetary system. 
East Asia security expert Alan Dupont has been honoured by the Japanese Government for work that has helped build understanding between Japan and Australia.
Blogs have replaced home pages as the favoured online format, visiting Internet culture expert Geert Lovink told an audience at the University of Sydney.
Two University of Sydney students have defeated teams from Oxford and Cambridge to become the world intervarsity debating champions.
Thousands of would-be students flocked to the University of Sydney today for Information Day.
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