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Cheryl Kernot will join the Centre for Social Impact as its first Director of Teaching and Learning, the Centre’s chief executive, Professor Peter Shergold, has announced.

The Chairman and CEO of News Limited has opened UNSW's prestigious Journalism and Media Research Centre.

A world-first trial for patients with schizophrenia will get underway this month.

Some of Australia’s top companies have provided mentors for a program aimed at helping female students achieve success in the corporate world.

Charities and environment groups joined researchers at UNSW this week to discuss one of the biggest challenges of an emissions trading scheme – ensuring fair distribution of the cost of carbon.

UNSW researcher Dr Carl Reidsema has received major grant to investigate possible reforms to the way engineering is taught in Australia.

UNSW researchers are part of an international group of 90 experts looking at how climate change will affect the world’s coast lines.

A study by a UNSW evolutionary biologist comparing 75 different ecosystems across the planet is revealing new facts about the secret lives of plants and what eats them - and some important lessons about how they will fare with climate change.

With Indigenous women making up almost a third of female inmates in NSW, UNSW researchers are working to break the cycle of social disadvantage which leads to ongoing high rates of incarceration.

Dean of UNSW Engineering Professor Graham Davies has won one of the UK’s most prestigious engineering and science awards for leadership in new materials development.

The architect of Poland’s "shock therapy" post-communist economic transformation, Professor Leszek Balcerowicz, will give a public lecture at the UNSW this week.

The bite force of a great white shark is the highest known for any living species, according to UNSW research to be published in the Journal of Zoology.

A research partnership led by UNSW aims to develop a new diagnostic tool to identify children with tuberculosis.

Indigenous knowledge can offer new solutions to lowering the numbers of Aboriginal children in welfare, according to an international expert speaking at UNSW.

Neither snap judgments nor sleeping on a problem are any better than conscious thinking for making complex decisions, according to UNSW research.

UNSW’s HIV researchers continue to cement their reputation as world leaders in their field.

UNSW researchers have claimed an unprecedented six awards in the 2008 Eureka Prizes, the strongest showing by any institution in the 19-year history of the awards.

The Queensland Government's management of floodplains on the environmentally important Paroo River has been called into question in a new study by UNSW researchers.

Elite debaters from Asia and Australia argued their way into an all-expenses paid trip to Sydney, a global television appearance and a slew of awards over the weekend.

UNSW will play a key role in providing a quality education to the growing number of Saudis studying overseas, according to a visiting Saudi minister.

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