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The University of Sydney is the only Australian institution to be awarded a cancer research grant by the Lance Armstrong Foundation in 2008.
The University's Infoday will be held on Tuesday 6 January.
Researchers have discovered a connection between the break-up of the ancient supercontinent Pangaea and the topography of the deep ocean floor.
An orchestral version of Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man will launch an ambitious new project at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Sydney's University Art Gallery appoints new Senior Curator.
The United States Studies Centre has awarded $100,000 in research grants across nine Australian universities. 
Three of the University's top academics have been named in the Sydney Mornings Herald's 100 most influential people.
Anti-tobacco campaigner Simon Chapman has won the prestigious the Sidney Sax Public Health Medal.
Storm erosion and naturally occurring sand movement are disguising the true impact of sea-level rises.
Federal funding for the new Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease has been announced by the PM.
Sydney University researchers are behind a new $5 million trial to address the growing problem of type 2 diabetes among the NSW adult population.
A new book from Sydney University Press tells the inspiring story of Doc Evatt, the Australian who presided over the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Professor Nalini Joshi, Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, has been elected as President of the Australian Mathematical Society.
The work Sydney University academics and students have been doing to improve living standards in slums around the world is celebrated in a new exhibition at Customs House.
Director of the University's Electron Microscope Unit, Professor Simon Ringer talks about the need for world class collaborative facilities on the eve of the unit's 50th anniversary.
Another Sydney student has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship.
Sydney University will tomorrow host the Acting Provost of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, Dr Marwan Khraisheh.
Dr Catherine Leamey has been awarded the 2008 Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize for Medical Research.
The Institute of Sustainable Solutions has extended the deadline for EOIs for its Icon program, which comes with $500,000 in funding.
A new clue to help slow the nation's obesity epidemic has been discovered.
A Sydney PhD student has won an international competition to 'dance your Phd thesis'.
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning recently launched the Design Lab, an innovative new centre for digital design.
The terrorist onslaught in Mumbai is unprecedented in India for its scale, horror and sophistication, writes Dr Sheleyah A. Courtney.
University of Sydney researchers are helping to develop a world first technology that is able to detect when people are manipulating financial markets illegally to make a profit.
New research shows for the first time how cardiac myosin-binding protein binds to actin and maintains regular heart function.
Excerpts from Paradise Lost from the 4th centenary of John Milton's birth. Transcript of readings.
A leading international scientist will discuss the latest microscopic techniques in a public lecture to launch the Electron Microscope Unit's Golden Jubilee Symposium.
The University of Sydney has had remarkable success in applications for grants from The Ramaciotti Foundations announced recently.
The Labor Government's new Fair Work bill will give critical protection to many of Australia's lowest paid and most vulnerable workers according to Dr Rae Copper.
A huge crowd turned out for the 2008 graduate exhibition of works from final year Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning students last Friday.
The Faculty of Education and Social Work has been working on a project to improve Indigenous students' literacy and numeracy by encouraging them to write and illustrate their own stories.
The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia, held at the University this year, has taken out the "Best Event or Festival" category in the 2008 Limelight Awards. 
Existing materials will provide unlimited bandwidth in the near future according to Dr David Moss from CUDOS.
SydneyTalent is the University's new recruitment agency that finds course-related jobs for students.
Earlier detection and better treatment strategies are the focus of the Brain and Mind Research Institute's newly launched Parkinson's Disease clinic.
The winners of the inaugural Warren Centre National Energy Essay Competition were announced by the Vice-Chancellor last night at an awards ceremony held at Hyde Park Barracks.
Six members of the University's Faculty of Arts have been elected as Fellows of the prestigious Australian Academy of the Humanities.
The new Kolling Building at Royal North Shore Hospital has been officially opened by the NSW Health Minister and the Vice-Chancellor. 
A/Professor Sanjay Chawla says Barack Obama's victory was perhaps due more to the technology savviness of his campaign rather than just a triumph of political ideas
Sangkot Marzuki, the DNA expert who helped lead authorities to the Australian Embassy bombers, talks at the University tonight.
A major new collaborative study will improve the effectiveness and safety of patient care in Australia's hospitals.
Six University of Sydney researchers have secured funding to pursue international research collaborations.
Watch the video of the US election day celebrations in Manning Bar.
The Sydney College of the Arts annual Degree Shows will be on display from mid-November to mid-December 2008.
Associate Professor Sharon Kilbreath is the recipient of one of the two largest ever Career Fellowship grants handed down by the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).
Over 80 staff members, students, authors and friends last week celebrated the launch of cellar door, a selection of creative works by students from the University of Sydney.
Professor Bruce Robinson and Professor Kerry Goulston have been awarded the People's Health Medal.
Tireless anti-tobacco campaigner and Sydney University Professor of Public Health Simon Chapman has been named as a NSW finalist in the 2009 Australian of the Year awards.
A research study to recruit foreign language speaking cancer patients through Australian Cancer Registries will begin in New South Wales this month. 
Two University of Sydney students have been named as NSW finalists in the 2009 Young Australian of the Year awards.
The University's Macleay Museum was described as one of the best natural museums in the world in the latest episode of ABC-TV's Collectors.
Next week's information evening at the Faculty of Economics and business will show graduates how to best deal with the volatile economic market.
Next Tuesday the ABC's Leigh Sales will be moderating a US Studies Centre forum about the challenges facing Barack Obama.
A Sydney University psychiatrist has argued that a surgeon should be allowed to amputate a patient's healthy leg if that is what the patient wants.
Social researcher Hugh Mackay will discuss why increasing public participation in the arts will build a healthier Australia when he speaks at Sydney Ideas this Saturday.
After selling their web company to Google, the Faculty of Engineering and IT name Simon Ratner and Ryan Junee Young Alumni of the Year.
The University's United States Studies Centre is holding what is expected to be one of the biggest US Election Day events in Australia tomorrow.
Professor Ron McCallum AO has been elected as one of 12 experts to the first UN monitoring committee for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The Nicholson Museum will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of founder Sir Charles Nicholson with a new exhibition and retrospective.
Patrick Dodson delivers the City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture this Wednesday and Kevin Rudd presents him with the Sydney Peace Prize the following night.
A new study by the Marketing Discipline at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney has shown marketers lack basic strategic marketing skills.
Dr John Bennett, a Project Officer in the School of Public Health, has won the inaugural David Harold Tribe Poetry Award worth $11,000.
Sydney University Press publishes a new book about a 19th-century cross-dresser Edward de Lacy Evans.
The winner of the 2009 NSW Rhodes Scholarship is Natasha Simonsen, a University of Sydney economics/law graduate.
In the last year the number of workers struggling to cope financially has increased by four per cent according to University of Sydney researchers.
Dr Michael McDonnell took out a major award at this week's Premier's History Awards for a book about the state of Virginia during the American Revolution.
The Institute of Obesity, Nutrition & Exercise (IONE) will today draw together some of Australia's leading obesity experts to review the effectiveness of our response as a nation to the obesity epidemic.
Professor David Kinley, Chair in Human Rights Law, argues that in any remaking of the world financial system the poor must be front and centre.
Bob Hawke joined Bob Carr and Geoff Gallop in a panel discussion in the Great Hall.
Four outstanding researchers from the University received NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Awards last night 
Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma will tonight explore the issue of an Aboriginal Bill of Rights in the Charles Perkins Oration 2008 in the Great Hall.
A University of Sydney researcher has won a grant to study how exposure to drugs during adolescence affects the brain and behaviour.
The University's Union has won a prestigious marketing award taking out the top honour over 250 entries.
Former Foreign Minister - and honorary degree recipient - Gareth Evans will give a public lecture at the University this Friday.
The University is fostering a closer relationship with China during a visit by a Sydney delegation, which includes Dr Michael Spence and Marie Bashir.
Dr Maria Fiatarone Singh, geriatrician and Professor of Medicine and Exercise and Sport Science, has written a series of exercise guides for osteoporosis sufferers.
It's what the Republican Party stands for that makes McCain look bad, writes Dr Lesley Russell in The Canberra Times.
Chronic diseases such as diabetes and arthritis may be keeping more than 660,000 older Australians out of the workforce, Sydney University academics have found.
Sydney University's fourth Experience Day will bring more than 100 teenagers from five schools in western Sydney to campus.
Astronomers will have a much clearer picture of distant galaxies thanks to a cutting edge technology which was developed by a talented young Sydney astronomer.
Sydney Conservatorium of Music has won a spate of awards and scholarships.
The University of Sydney was this week awarded $51.8 million for 94 new grants in the National Health and Medical Research Council's project grants scheme.
Prescribing and administration errors could be reduced by newly designed information technology.
The University of Sydney leads the nation in new funding for 2009 from the Australian Research Council National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP). 
Children are invited to the Great Hall this Sunday to learn to play the pipe organ.
The University of Sydney has received $45.8 million in ARC Discovery Project Grants announced today, more than any other university in Australia.
Dr Paul McGreevy from Vet Sciences argues that it's time for a new approach to dog breeding.
Associate Professor Michelle Lincoln has won a major teaching award for a new national assessment tool for speech pathology students.
A series of special events will take place tomorrow to mark National Ride to Work Day 2008 at the University.
Peace journalism gives society the chance to consider non-violent responses to conflict, says Jake Lynch, director of the University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. 
The University joins the pink Global Illumination for breast cancer awareness month with a pink breakfast at Cumberland Campus and a gala dinner in the Great Hall.
The University of Sydney has maintained its position among the top 40 in this year's Times Higher Education rankings of World Universities and has climbed to second position in Australia.
A new initiative being developed in Health Sciences will help to reduce the impact of chronic lung disease on indigenous communities.
Thirty students from the Asia Pacific region will be able to undertake post graduate study in human rights after the University secured a significant grant from the European Union (EU). 
The research and teaching strengths of Peking University were showcased in Australia at the University of Sydney this week.
At Sydney Ideas on Tuesday Harvard political economist Sara Roy will discuss how Palestinians have suffered more losses in the past decade than they have since 1967.
Leading Australian obesity experts have called on Cricket Australia to end its sponsorship arrangements with KFC.
Professor Mark Adams, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, says that Australian research effort into native eucalypt forests is deficient.
Sydney academics have been awarded $200,000 by the World Bank for their innovative work on sustainable rice production.
It's not only the patients in GP surgeries who are getting older according to two new reports released today. 
At Sydney Ideas tonight David Marr talks about the controversy surrounding Bill Henson's photographs.
Homogenous packaging may help to kill the tobacco industry, write Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman in The Sydney Morning Herald.
The Faculty of Economics and Business is offering two $30,000 scholarships for its new pre-experience Master of Management degree.
Professor Stewart Truswell's long career has included a passionate engagement with public health and nutrution.
Two Sydney Conservatorium of Music staff members have won an Aria for best classical album.
Astronomer and ARC Federation Fellow Professor Bryan Gaensler argues that the current funding model stifles creativity in scientific research.
The Early Career Research Showcase will provide a snapshot of the work of the brightest and best early career researchers at the University tomorrow. 
An understanding of sexuality is a vital prerequisite for any professional who interacts with people on a day-to-day basis, according to Dr Patricia Weerakoon.
A new focus group has been set up to address the challenges facing country towns and other regional areas.
Professor Don Nutbeam has been appointed as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton.
Major breakthrough will lead to a greater understanding of the causes of and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
Personal partnerships within the arts are an inevitability but there should be transparency when conflicts arise, writes Peter McCallum in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Environmentalist Tim Flannery will give his verdict on what can be done to counteract climate change in a "call to arms" Sydney Ideas lecture this Monday.
The United States Studies Centre is to offer Australian academics research grants totalling $100,000 
The centre for Indigenous health which was founded by a $10 million donation has opened.
A world-first dementia treatment could hold the answer to one of society's most debilitating mental illnesses.
The Templeton Lecture 2008 will be presented tonight by Professor Lawrence M. Krauss, who is widely regarded as a "rock star" of physics.
Leading Canadian author Ronald Wright will argue that the world's number one superpower is "archaic" in a Sydney Ideas lecture this week. 
University of Sydney engineers have swept the pool of top awards at this year's Engineering Excellence Awards.
The University's expertise in the science and business of innovation has been rewarded with a half million dollar grant.
The current financial collapse in the US will affect the entire global economy, not to mention the presidential campaigns of Obama and McCain.
Dr Robert Kozinets, international on-line communities and branding expert, says consumers have awoken to the fact that they have power over marketers.
If you're a Sydney Science graduate let us know what you have been up to by filling in the online alumni survey by 3 October.
The annual and much anticipated Chancellor's Committee BookFest will be held in the Great Hall from this Saturday, 20 September.
Sydney University has been successful in securing a significant proportion of the federal funding for new international research projects announced this week. 
The team from the Archaeological Computing Laboratory devised a unique interface to bring the ABC project to life.
At the Tristan Jepson Memorial Oration tonight, Professor Ian Hickie will present findings from a large national study of law students and practitioners conducted by the University's Brain & Mind Research Institute. 
The Faculty of Arts launches its technology arm - Arts Digital - which attempts to solve the clash between humans and machines.
A specialist masters program could help significantly reduce the acute national shortage of speech pathologists, according to Dr Leanne Togher.
Second-year economics/law student, Nathaniel Ware took part in the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders program in New York last month.
This new text provides a best practice approach to the training of a huge variety of domestic and exotic species. 
Professor Chris Dickman, Director of the Institute of Wildlife Research in the School of Biological Sciences, has won the prestigious Whitley Medal. 
Seven months of preparation was all worth it for the winners of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia National Student Business Plan Competition.
Innovative courses, dynamic lecturers and new ways of thinking will be showcased next week at the 2009 Postgraduate (PG) Information Week.
Dr Rodney Syme, author of A Good Death: An argument for voluntary euthanasia, is speaking at the Sydney Law School this Thursday. 
The next president has a big job in front of him, whoever it may be, writes Geoffrey Garrett in The Sydney Morning Herald.
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addressed the University Fabian Society at a special dinner on Thursday, saying free education is a thing of the past.
The inaugural NSW Scientist of the Year Awards were announced late last week, with our own Professor Ben Eggleton one of the winners.
Despite its demonisation by the feminist movement of the 70s, the chastity belt has been exposed as a popular myth. 
This Thursday one of Australia's leading environmental economists and policy analysts asks whether humans can rise to the challenge of climate change.
Researchers have found that premium offer junk food ads are much more common during popular children's programs than popular adult programs. 
A new study shows that complications associated with diabetes could be prevented or delayed by taking a widely available cholesterol-lowering drug. 
Sydney's Olympic medallist return with their precious metals and plenty of Beijing stories.
Media representatives are invited to a special lunchtime preview this Wednesday of Chromatic Visions, a new show at the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA).
At a public talk this Wednesday evening Dr Kevin Varvell and Dr Karl Kruszelnicki will be giving the low down on the Large Hadron Collider
The University of Sydney's Nicholson and Macleay Museums have been named in Time Out magazine's top 10 museums of Sydney.
An innovative new course has become one of the first University programs in Australia to receive accreditation from the Media Federation of Australia (MFA). 
University of Sydney researchers have found heavy snorers have a higher risk of cholesterol plaque in the neck arteries, leading to increased stroke risk.
The line between art and science is blurred in a stunning new collection of works at the Macleay Museum by Pittwater-based artist Jenny Pollak.
Research has shown turtles breed more prolifically when coastal development is sparce.
Sydney and the ANU joined forces today to tackle biosecurity issues through the establishment of the National Centre for Biosecurity as a collaborative venture.
A new book eplores how Griffith Taylor, founder of geography at Sydney University, was well ahead of his time with his views on race, the environment and sustainability.
Best-selling author Maude Barlow will reveal the precarious state of the world's water supply at a Sydney Ideas lecture this week. 
The inaugural Ted Wheelwright lecture will investigate the "crisis of hegemony" enveloping the United States.
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Stephanie McCallum has recorded what is believed to be Beethoven's last piano work.
University of Sydney academics featured prominently in the world first wildlife pathology short course 
This weekend the University is giving potential students the chance to discover their limitless study options and experience campus life for a day.
The Chancellor of the University of Sydney hosted a VIP breakfast this morning for an AFL football team made up of Israelis and Palestinians.
Specialist laboratories opening at the Brain and Mind Research Institute this week will benefit shift-workers and those suffering from substance abuse.
Critically acclaimed UK actor and director Steven Berkoff will explore the art of provocation at an exclusive Sydney Ideas event. 
Biologist Professor Stephen Simpson received the prestigious 2008 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research at a gala dinner last night.
Professor Herbert Huppert, Director of Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, will talk about the physics of extreme natural hazards and their terrible consequences tonight.
Leading education academics have warned the number of schoolchildren labelled as ADHD will increase exponentially if new guidelines are accepted.
A new collection of works at the University Art Gallery puts a uniquely contemporary spin on the Victorian era.
A University of Sydney honorary professor has been presented with one of the highest honours for educators in NSW.
As the Australian men's eight team heads into Sunday's finals a rowing expert comments on what is unique about the stroke of six times Olympian James Tomkins.
Sydney University sportsman Robin Bell has won Australia's first ever Olympic medal in the men's C1 slalom event.
Sydney University researchers have suggested that children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to develop short-sightedness.
The most common use of stem cells in the near future will be in trials testing drugs for toxicity a world expert in the social effects of stem cell research says.
Best-selling author Clive Hamilton exposes the myths of modern-day freedom in his Sydney Ideas talk.
Sydney continues to rise in the rankings and has now joined two other Australian universities in the Shanghai Jiao Tong top 100 of World Universities.
We shouldn't be emphasising expensive high tech health cures at the expense of more low solutions, a young health researcher writes.
Professor John Rasko from the Gene and Stem Cell therapy Program talks about doping in sport on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Third year Pharmacy student, Natalie Tasker, has been named NSW Pharmacy Student of the Year by Pharmaceutical Society of Australia 
A new exhibition at the Macleay opens the doors to the fascinating world of microscopy.
Top athletes rub shoulders with political leaders at the opening of the University's "What Makes a Champion?" forum launched by Tony Blair.
Eight University of Sydney academics have today won citations and $10,000 each for their long-standing commitment to student learning and innovative teaching methods.
The environment, human genetics and medical trials are just some of the issues that will be investigated at a new research centre at the University.
Watch Simon Chapman discuss the new regulation on tobacco displays at ABC online.
Sydney chemists have gone some way towards providing a resolution to one of the most interesting unresolved problems that exist in the field of solid state theory.
Associate Professor Nick Wailes believes the announcement today of store closures by the US coffee chain is an economic omen.
A study of DNA from ancient and modern chickens has shed light on pre-historic Polynesian contact with the Americas.
Professor Andrew Webster, a leading UK sociologist, will present his public lecture, Stem Cell Research and Society, at the University on 7 August.
A world expert in the philosophy of game theory will present a free public lecture at the University of Sydney this Thursday.
Sixteen post graduate students from around Australia and the world have come together at the second annual Nation-Empire-Globe (NEG) Postgraduate Intensive.
Scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for the crippling childhood disease Friedreich's ataxia.
The first medal awarded to a University of Sydney student has been acquired by the University.
Sydney's Professor Steve Simpson has been nominated for this year's Eureka People's Choice Award.
Australia's first astronaut launched the inaugural National ICT Careers Week on campus this morning.
Read Professor Duncan Ivison's essay from News Review in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Professor of philosophy Mark Colyvan reflects on game theory in The Sydney Morning Herald.
The University's biggest-ever contingent heads to the Olympics.
Scott Menzies writes in the prestigious British Medical Journal that claims that the sun is not the key cause of melanomas are false.
In his inaugural lecture, Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence puts the case for core values in research, teaching and university governance.
Celebrity star Polaris doesn't want to grow old according to Sydney astronomers 
Award-winning author and Harvard Professor David Armitage will trace the path of deadly civil wars throughout history in a lecture this week.
This week's inaugural Sydney Cancer Conference will focus on the translation of research from bench to bedside
Close to 50 boxes of ancient Jericho bones held in the Nicholson Museum could hold the key to unlocking the causes of tuberculosis. 
The University's debating team Sydney 1 are the Australasian Debating Champions after defeating Monash University 6-1.
Podcast of Professor Jeffrey Sachs at the launch of the University's new Institute of Sustainable Solutions.
The University of Sydney today launches a new research group which will focus on some of the world's most urgent issues.
Professor John Robinson from the School of Mathematics and Statistics has been awarded the 2008 Pitman Medal. .jpg)
Dr Michael Spence takes office as the 25th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney
Sydney University has become the first Australian institution to win a prestigious grant from the US-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation..JPG)
After two years as Chairman of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Professor Gavin Brown has been farewelled at a dinner with the Japanese Prime Minister
A small scratch on a piece of glass will help increase our Internet speeds exponentially, University of Sydney researchers say.
Listen to the podcast, "Averting catastrophe: reasons and ways to tackle climate change", by Professor Barry Brook.
An inner city Sydney Church will host the first performance in 400 years of a series of sixteenth century chants last sung in Spain's Salamanca Cathedral.
New online tool designed to bring together top research students and prospective supervisors.
Research findings show that people do like Mondays.
Ms Quentin Bryce, Australia's next Governor-General, has unveiled a new portrait of herself at Women's College, where she was principal for six years.
Radical treatment to overcome fear combines therapy with medication. 
Beautifully maintained glass artefacts dating from more than two thousand years ago are now on display in the Nicholson Museum.
PhD student Michael Cahill receives top essay award at the world's largest database conference.
An award-winning photographer blends beauty and bleakness in an exhibition at the University Art Gallery. 
Turning science and technology into commercial applications will be the focus of a new Chair at the University.
PhD grants named in honour of Dr Paul Brock.
Sydney experts produce comprehensive review of Alzheimer's research
The outgoing vice-chancellor has a stirring send-off.
Delivered on Friday, June 20 in the Great Hall, Professor Brown's speech received a rousing ovation.
Going live this month is an online kit of syllabus-based physics tools
Elizabeth Heath speaks to Associate Professor Brett Hambly about the brand new tool connecting postgraduate students with their ideal supervisor.
Winsome Evans has become the first person ever to transcribe, arrange and embellish Bach's entire solo violin repertoire for keyboard.
John Micklethwait gave his exclusive insights into globalisation at the Seymour Centre.
A new treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) was pioneered at the University of Sydney.
The treasures of the Macleay Museum were revealed on ABC-TV's "Catalyst".
In the wake of the PM's call for Australia to become a more Asian-literate nation, the University of Sydney is opening the first Confucius Institute in NSW.
Joined by a mutual crisis, researchers in Mexico and Australia are pooling ideas on how to tackle water problems.
Provectus Pharmaceuticals and the University's Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group (ANZMTG) have joined forces 
Singaporean gaming company is funding the devlopment of games that will have a therapeutic benefit for children by improving social skills
From 1906 Olympian Nigel Barker, to cricketer Stuart Clark and world champion rower Liz Kell, the university has a proud sports history.
Sydney researchers have re-examined a long- forgotten radio source, which they argue is one of the youngest supernova remnants ever discovered
Associate professor in history Judith Keene looks at the issues around the excavation of Australian war dead in Fromelles.
Study finds cane toad invasion killing Australia's top predators 
The line between science, art and technology is blurred in a unique exhibition at the University of Sydney.
A recent social work graduate from the University has been named social worker of the year in the United Kingdom.
Cycling currently saves the government $227.2 million per year in health costs according to a national report launched today.
Corporations are discovering that partnerships with the poor and not-for-profits are mutually beneficial, the Reverend Tim Costello says. 
A former University of Sydney staff member took his first flight into space at the weekend as an astronaut on the shuttle Discovery.
Richard North profiles the legacy of a larrikin vice-chancellor.
The University of Sydney has purchased Australia's only copy of the recently released secret archives of the Knights Templar trials.
The furore over a proposed Islamic school in Camden highlights the need for planners and councils to help communities move beyond divisive positions, Dr Laura Beth Bugg writes..JPG)
Professor Gavin Brown will take on a new position as head of the prestigious Royal Institution of Australia when he retires as Vice-Chancellor in July,
New research provides and answer to why individuals will rear their siblings rather then reproduce themselves
One of the USA's most celebrated historians - Eric Foner - will speak exclusively at the University on Tuesday night.
In a world first scientists have identified how a gene associated with allergies works, providing new hope for drug treatments.
ARC Federation Fellow, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, recently won the Muhlmann Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
Sydney University offers exclusive international opportunities for work and study in its new management degree.
Three Sydney University academics have received Premier's Awards for their work fighting cancer and the causes of cancer, including a prestigious Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Research for Professor Simon Chapman
A multi million dollar vibrational spectroscopy facility was opened at the University this week 
Professor Yiu-Wing Mai, Director of the Centre for Advanced Materials Technology has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society
Sydney University's new $2.3 million canine facility, the Canine Teaching Hospital opened today.
William Christie has won the NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship for his biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson has been named the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize winner.
Parents would prefer sex education classes to focus on topics such as birth control and safe sex rather than abstinence, a university researcher has found. .JPG)
All eyes and ears were on Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens when he returned to the University for an alumni dinner
ResMed pioneer Professor Colin Sullivan has received a Clunies Ross Award
Children learn fair play, gender identity, self motivation and much more through participation in sport activities, a new book argues. 
Social animals will do anything to follow their friends, especially when they're away from the pack.
The University's First Grade Colts went on a 28-try, 20-goal rampage to defeat Penrith 180-nil at Nepean Rugby Park on Saturday, sending officials in search of the record books
The visual nuances and sacredness of books are the focus of a new exhibition at the University Art Gallery.
Research points to climate change as a major threat to one of Australia's national icons
Research reveals links between platypus venom and its potential benefits for advancing pain relief and antibiotic medication
Investigating the ruins of Angkor, working with NASA scientists, flying ultralight aircraft and dodging landmines is just part of the job for Damian Evans.
Professor Shine proposes teaching native animals to stay away from cane toads, by giving them a scare with a smaller, less poisonous cane toad
Researchers find white collar workers have a love/hate relationship with their BlackBerries.
DVC (International) Professor John Hearn has been appointed to the board of ANSTO
A doctor who died in a Japanese internment camp in WW2 has left $4 million to the University for research into pregnancy and childbirth.
Researchers have identified a DNA binding protein that could lead to improved cancer treatments
Physicist Peter Robinson has had his Federation Fellowship renewed.JPG)
For the first time Mapuche poets from Chile and Indigenous poets from Australia have combined in a book which bridges two ancient cultures
A whole range of support strategies are required to stop young people from falling into a life of crime, according to new research..JPG)
Professor Stephen Leeder gives his account of the recent 2020 Summit
Indigenous studies is an area students are increasingly interested in, but Indigenous studies teachers are under-resourced.
Internationally renowned philosopher David Armstrong has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Hal Kendig comments on the 2020 Summit's health recommendations
Tonga's Deputy Commissioner of Taxation has been studying at Sydney's Law School, supported by an AusAID Fellowship.
Breast cancer sufferers could expect improved quality of life thanks to three year study 
New evidence about Australian gun laws shows that public policy must differentiate between what does and does not work
This year Sydney University Regiment will continue to grow closer to the University by offering parallel careers to students.
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Lyn Carson reflects on her 2020 Summit experiences and a very different way of governing. 
2020 Summit participant Bryan Gaensler suggests a scheme for high achieving expats to make short visits home to pass on skills and experience.
Three Sydney academics receive funding for Australia-India research 
Lecturer in Australian literature David Brooks has been shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Child and youth mental health problems are the real issues confronting us as we look to 2020, Ian Hickie says.
A new facility for the training of the next generation of microsurgeons will be opened by the NSW Governor next week
Quentin Bryce, the former principal of Women's College, has been named Australia's next governor-general.
Associate Professor Anne Twomey, a constitutional law expert and 2020 Summit delegate, suggests 10 ideas for improving Australia's government.
The media's reporting of health and medicine is too often failing its audiences, so say a group of Sydney academics in a new book being launched tonight 
A conference which will bring together scholars and students to discuss the war in Iraq has been organised by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
The former Chancellor and Supreme Court Judge, the Hon.Kim Santow, AO has died after a brief illness.
A Sydney University professor's plan to use the oceans to tackle global warning will be featured on a Discovery Channel documentary next Monday night.
Australia's leading thinkers will give their vision for Australia under a Rudd Government in a fascinating prelude to the Government's Australia 2020 summit. 
Professor Nalini Joshi has been elected as a new member of the Australian Academy of Science
Sydney University's Associate Professor Andrew Martin has won a US award for early career academics rarely given outside the United States.
Researchers from the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences have found a new species of single-cell brown algae that is an evolutionary missing link
A book about the woman who founded modern nursing in Australia has been short listed for one of Australia's biggest literary awards.
The University joined millions around the world by proudly participating in Earth Hour last Saturday.
The University of Sydney's Associate Professor Alison Bashford has been appointed to the prized annual Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University for 2009.
University of Sydney academics feature strongly in the list of delegates to the Australia 2020 Summit
Australian nanotechnology research and development has received a boost with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding 
The rise of modernism between the two World Wars is depicted in a stunning selection of lino and wood prints at the University Art Gallery.
Children's literacy could be hindered by rigid reading lists that order books into age and sex appropriate categories.
The gender divide inherent in Australia's parental leave system continues to leave women in a vulnerable position in the workplace, says a Sydney academic.
New research in the respected international journal Health Policy suggests that Australian men may be benefiting from the introduction of national suicide prevention strategies in the mid to late 1990s
A rapid new diagnostic test developed by Sydney researchers will mean fewer tests and less trauma for cancer patients. The researchers hope the test will provide improved and more effective treatments and outcomes for cancer patients.
Sydney-based artist Karin Findeis celebrates her passion for collecting in a new exhibition of contemporary jewellery at the Macleay Museum.
As part of the University's major campus restoration project, the historic main gates have been returned to their original position on City Road.
Sydney obesity experts are calling for all levels of government to restrict the marketing of unhealthy food to children
Cigarettes should be sold in plain, dull cardboard packs, with nothing but the health warning and the brand name allowed, researchers at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health have argued. 
A new project will change the way medical, nursing and allied health professional are educated, with university courses set to put an increased emphasis on interprofessional teamwork, collaboration and learning.
A Sydney College of the Arts student who makes surrealist objects out of exquisitely etched glass has been winning awards and accolades.
The validity of new democracies and their unwillingness to uphold human rights will come into the spotlight this Thursday when the head of Human Rights Watch speaks at Sydney Ideas.
Eating foods the body quickly converts into blood glucose - such as highly processed breakfast cereals and most white breads - leads to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer.
The New Orleans city authorities who allowed unsuitable housing and oil drilling in the municipality are at least partly to blame for the damage done by Hurricane Katrina, according to the University of Sydney professor heading up the city's recovery.
A group led by Associate Professor Dietmar Müller from the School of Geosciences has reconstructed the volumes of ancient ocean basins from the Cretaceous period until the present
The University of Sydney has been named as one of Australia's top workplaces for women for the fourth year in a row.
A new exhibition of bark paintintgs at the Macleay Museum tells the stories of the Ancestors of Northeast Arnhem Land.
The Earth may be in the firing line when one of the sky's most beautiful objects explodes, according to University of Sydney astronomer Peter Tuthill.
Two scholarship-winning students from Timor-Leste have arrived at the University to take part in the graduate medical program, an intiative designed to bring long-term benefits to the country.
New students have been getting their first taste of University life at O-Week, launched this morning by the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor.
Nicholas Gage looked back on stories about JFK, Frank Sinatra and Richard Nixon in a lecture at the University exploring his life as a reporter.
UK-based Undercover Economist Tim Harford will reveal how economics rules every aspect of our lives when he presents the first Sydney Ideas lecture of 2008.
Zong-Yuan Zhao is Australia's newest, youngest - and fastest - chess Grandmaster.
A brown alga discovered in Sydney harbour by Sydney University scientists could provide the key to treating diseases that disable and kill millions each year.
For Professor Tony Vinson, saving children from disadvantage and social inequality is the "one burning social justice issue that Australians cannot afford to forget". The Honorary Professor in Education and Social Work was recently awarded an AM for services to social welfare.
A Gregorian chant that has been lost to the world for 500 years will be performed again thanks to the painstaking work of a Sydney academic.
It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought. 
One of Australia's most loved poets is the new visiting professor attached to Macquarie Dictionary.
The key to longevity is eating less protein - and not just fewer calories, as has previously been thought - scientists have discovered. 
Managers and administrators are less likely to suffer from cancers according to a University of Sydney study published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.
The University of Sydney's Kaye Placing has won the Distinguished Service Award from the Science Teachers Association of NSW.
The ability to make and keep good friendships is crucial for successful adaptation to school, says a researcher investigating how children make friends when they start school. 
University staff and students watched history unfold today as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said sorry to the Stolen Generations.
The University of Sydney historian Professor Peter Read, who coined the term "The Stolen Generations", will be cheering when Federal Parliament apologises to Indigenous Australians on Wednesday.
Physicist Heinrich Rohrer will discuss how nanotechnology can be harnessed to help sustain the environment in a talk at the University on Thursday.
The Sydney Law School team has won the Australian round of the 2008 Jessup International Law Moot. 
A team of musicians from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music has won a coveted spot at Beijing's Cultural Olympiad, a two-week series of concerts staged before the Olympic Games in August.
University of Sydney Honours at Graduation, Dean's list of academic excellence and prizes 2007
A new facility based at the University of Sydney could significantly advance our understanding of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
The politics of early anthropological study in Australia are explored in a timely new exhibition at the Macleay Museum.
Pod slurping - downloading large quantities of data from a computer to an MP3 player or memory stick - is Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year 2007.
Dr Andrew Harris from the University's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been named as one of 13 'people destined for great things in 2008'4.JPG)
The US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney has appointed the distinguished academic Dr Geoffrey Garrett as its Chief Executive Officer
As thousands of Year 7s start high school this week, University of Sydney researchers are setting out to solve a problem worrying many parents, teachers and future employers: why many students suddenly lose interest in maths on the way from primary to high school. 
The University has played an active part in G'Day USA, a 10-day program of events designed to raise Australia's profile in America. 
The Faculty of Medicine will establish a Centre for Indigenous Health following a $10million donation, the largest pledge by a living individual to the University of Sydney.
A stunning selection of videos created by emerging and established Queensland artists will be exhibited at the University Art Gallery.
University of Sydney researchers studying how sex is determined in certain reptiles have finally solved a conundrum that has been puzzling scientists for years.
A selection of exquisite personal antiquities belonging to the controversial founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud are on show at the University's Nicholson Museum.
Former Sydney student Vlad da Cunha has won the Luminaire photomedia competition for his striking portrayal of an air disaster in Sao Paulo.
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