The University of Newcastle’s (UON) partnership with edX has just been announced.  A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Natural History Illustration is to be first in the MOOC suite for UON. This MOOC is a world first in the field and is pioneering […]

Welcome back from mid semester break….well I’m a little early in the welcome back you still have a few days off. Enjoy them and be sure to return next week refreshed and ready to get stuck into the end of […]

Give your brain a rest and go 31 days in October without alcohol? Caffeine? Tobacco? Energy drinks? Take the challenge and feel the improvement in your health and well-being at the same time as raising funds for The Glen Centre […]

This weeks guest blogger is Claire Swan, Health Promotion Coordinator, Healthy UON. We have all heard one at some point. Admit it. There are many myths about sexual health and it’s surprising how many untruths are still widely believed. What […]

Our paper entitled “On the compressive behaviour of high porosity expanded Perlite-Metal Syntactic Foam (P-MSF)” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds 691 (2017) 690-697: A high porosity Perlite-Metal Syntactic Foam (P-MSF) is produced by the […]

This Thursday is RUOk day. This National awareness day targeting suicide prevention, was co-founded in 2009 by Gavin Larkin who experienced the suicide of his father years before. The day urges people to meaningfully ask someone, R U OK? On […]

I have performed a mapping of a headland with my friend Stefan Vollgger from Monash University. I will bring the students there for my second year structural geology course (GEOS2190). We did fly the UAV some 40m above the platform […]