So you've thought about blogging but have been too nervous to take the next step. UNE ecologist Dr Manu Saunders, a post-doctoral research fellow and avid blogger, offers a few tips and suggestions. How long have you been blogging? I've been blogging since 2009. I...
As glyphosate comes under intense scrutiny in the European Union (EU), University of New England (UNE) researchers are pondering the consequences of a ban on the herbicide in Australia. The EU Commission last week voted to renew a five-year licence for the use of...
It's like something out of a gangster movie. Coalitions, mob behaviour, individuals betraying one another, secret codes. Life for a noisy miner is full of mischief and intrigue. "It's a really complex and cutthroat society and there's a lot happening," UNE zoology...
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...
