The New York Times 30th August 2015 The summit of Mount McKinley in Alaska. The mountain will be renamed Denali, President Obama said Sunday, a day before traveling to the state. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times President Obama announced […]

Transurban’s Innovation Grant Scheme has enabled a new research Project focused on the development of Advanced Roadside Barrier Systems. Conventional roadside safety barriers are used in large numbers and thus are optimized for cost efficiency. However, they do have significant limitations […]

Our manuscript has been accepted in Materials Science and Engineering C 57 (2015) 288–293. The paper addresses the mechanical characterization of polycaprolactone (PCL)–bioglass (FastOs®BG) composites and scaffolds intended for use in tissue engineering. Tissue engineering scaffolds support the self-healing mechanism of the […]

Treating someone as an object aims to de-humanise them. Having women acting as fruit platters at an upmarket Sydney soiree is designed to perhaps titillate, and to certainly generate a reaction from the viewer. Pleasure? Discomfort? Horror? Uncertainty? The designer […]

Tomorrow is wear it purple day on campus! It’s time to put on your purple clothes and celebrate and support diversity on campus. Wear it Purple exists in order to help GLBTIQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) youth […]

Grounding techniques are simple quick and easy strategies to help you stay calm and reduce your symptoms of anxiety or panic. There are some really easy ones like counting to 10 or stamping your feet on the ground or holding […]

New Comprehensive System to Construct Speleothem Fabrics Time Series S. Frisia ¹ & A. Borsato [1] School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia SCOPE The systematic documentation of calcite fabrics in stalagmites and flowstones provides robustness to […]

tes, 24 August 2015 The subject is growing faster than any other in secondaries. One leading proponent explains the story behind the statistics As geography teachers return to school they will see their subject continuing to expand at all stages […]

The Conversation 21st August 2015 Fresh fish for sale in the Solomon Islands – one of the Pacific nations trialling more sustainable tuna fishing. Quentin Hanich, Author provided Amid growing demand for seafood, gas and other resources drawn from the […]

QLife is Australia’s first nationally-oriented counselling and referral service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people. it is a nation wide service which offers information ans early intervention and support for people experiencing  poor mental health, psychological distress, […]

Having never had the experience of coming out myself but being in receipt of the news I can’t say I know first hand about the difficulties and pain that comes with this decision. I do know that I can see […]

The Guardian, 14 August 2015 It used to be a Cinderella subject. Now, in a world that increasingly values people who can work across the physical and social sciences, geography’s all the rage A star is born. Geography, for so […]

Be Smart is a smartphone application designed to provide you with the principles of SMART goal setting and provide a platform to allow you to set and monitor goals. In addition to providing the description of the SMART principles it […]

Hi everyone, I’m coming to you from the sunny Surfer’s Paradise this week where I am lucky enough to be attending the 16th International Mental Health Conference. There is a whole day dedicated to e-mental health  so I will be […]

You may or may not have noticed that this week on campus all the buildings named after males have been renamed to female names. Why you ask? It’s blue stocking week. I must admit until last week I had never […]

Have you wanted to try mindfulness but all the workshops you can find are at times you can’t make? Or the cost is out of your budget? Monash university is hosting a free online series of workshops on learning more […]

Tomorrow is autonomy day at Callaghan and what this usually equates to is a day for students to let lose and drink. Now I have no problem with drinking or letting lose and I’ve certainly done both of these before […]

Well it’s the week of Autonomy on campus this week, and in preparation for tomorrow (the big day) I thought I would review a smartphone app that might help you pace yourself and make better decisions around drinking. Wise Drinking […]

Enhance your interpersonal communication skills with a free workshop Do you want to improve your effectiveness at getting what you want, asserting yourself or being taken seriously? If you answered yes then consider registering for this course which is free […]

A re-evaluation of the palaeoclimatic significance of Phosphorus variability in speleothems revealed by high-resolution synchrotron radiation micro XRF mapping   S. Frisia ¹, A. Borsato ¹, R. N. Drysdale ², B. Paul ³, A. Greig ³, and M. Cotte 4 […]