Melbourne-based artist and researcher Dr Erica Tandori has enabled people with low-vision or blindness to touch, feel and experience the world of infection, immunity and nutrition in a new exhibition. As part of Science Week 2021, Monash University’s Rossjohn lab ...
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The central theme of new Netflix drama The Chair is timely and gets a lot right about racial politics in modern American academia. Smart, incisive, nicely written and acted, it’s a genuinely rewarding binge watch. As senior academic women ourselves, ...
More »German university in shock as students, staff turn blue after suspected poisoning
A German University is on high alert after a suspected poisoning left students and staff turning blue, with one victim temporarily on life support. Seven people at Darmstadt Technical University were displaying symptoms of poisoning, six of whom needed hospital ...
More »CSU appoints Renée Leon Vice Chancellor
Renée Leon has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Charles Sturt University. Leon will become CSU's fifth VC since its inception in 1990 and she will start her role, based at the Bathurst campus, on September 1. A former senior public ...
More »Sydney Islamic leaders band together, USYD’s Marie Bashir Institute launch series of videos to push the vax message
Sydney Islamic leaders have banded together to push their communities to get vaccinated as authorities struggle to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the city’s west. The NSW government on Thursday 19 August revealed the suburbs with the fastest growing ...
More »Having a mentally stimulating job could help stave off dementia
People with boring jobs have a higher risk of dementia according to researchers at University College London (UCL). An investigation of seven large cohort studies suggests that people with mentally taxing jobs have a lower risk of dementia, as proteins ...
More »‘We can‘t tolerate that’: UOW students expelled from dorms for COVID breaches
A handful of students from a top university have been expelled from their accommodation after they hosted dorm room parties during lockdown. The students have been removed from Campus East of the University of Wollongong (UOW) for breaching NSW Health orders by having two gatherings ...
More »Logging increases severe fire risk near regional towns: ANU research
Logging near regional towns increases the risk of severe fires, according to researchers from ANU. The research found that young forests regenerating after logging, particularly between 10 and 40 years old, were susceptible to "very high severity fire". "Our findings ...
More »Social media platforms foster and reward moral outrage: research
People who use social media are being trained to express moral outrage with the reward of likes and shares, according to new research from Yale University. Researchers from the Yale Department of Psychology measured the expression of moral outrage on ...
More »Ex-UNSW employee and cricketer’s brother fights to be freed from jail
The brother of star cricketer Usman Khawaja, Arsalan, who was convicted over a fake terror plot, has taken his fight to be released from prison to the Federal Court. Khawaja admitted attempting to frame two men for terror offences in ...
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