UNE's Discovery Voyager program took out the the Research and Education category at the Northern Inland Innovation Awards, held at the Armidale Bowling Club last Friday night. UNE were also finalists in two other categories. Professor Chris Sharpley and his team in...
UNE Chemistry Senior Lecturer, Dr Erica Smith, has been named the Royal Australian Chemistry Institute’s Educator of the Year. Erica was presented with her award at a ceremony in Melbourne last Friday in recognition of both her teaching in the lecture theatre, and...
Maritime archaeologist Ian McCann was in the dying seconds of his last deep dive in the waters off Japan. Two weeks of fruitless searching for a sign of the Spanish galleon San Francisco, which sunk more than 400 years ago, were about to end. Then, through the...
Not too far from the glamorous tourist resorts and beautiful beaches of Fiji is another side to life in this tropical paradise - poverty in the small agricultural communities. Few locals profit from the regular influx of visitors and, instead, live simple,...
A University of New England (UNE) criminologist is set to take his career development to the next level when he undertakes a three-month fellowship at the University of Cambridge in the UK early next year. Dr Oluwagbenga “Michael” Akinlabi hopes to use the...
After pioneering distance education in the 1950s, the University of New England (UNE) is now a leader in the introduction of online exams. Online examinations are done by a student on their computer over the internet, at a location and time of their choice,...
Zoology PhD student Lucy Farrow has won an award for an Outstanding Student Talk at the Australasian Ornithological Conference recently held at Deakin University in Geelong. This conference is the premier ornithological conference for the region, and saw more than...
Research Impact: More than just a journal citation Eleanor Colla Research Services Librarian In this session the University Library will discuss the growing requirements to show research impact, provide suggestions on how and where to find it, and ways of...
Dr Joshua Nash, from UNE’s School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, will continue his studies of the Pitcairn Island language, Pitkern, courtesy of a $381,601 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). Having discovered that many Pitkern...
Last Friday saw the culmination of months of planning when 965 school children from 35 schools came onto campus over two days for the Far Out Science event. This is an important engagement activity for our community and also one of the many ways we aim to support...
