One of the country’s leading epidemiologists says crucial information is missing when NSW’s daily Covid-19 case numbers are announced that could help paint a clearer picture of how the virus is spreading. Professor Mary-Louise McLaws from the University of NSW said Sydney’s ...
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Neuroscientists and psychologists have developed a video game that provides insights into punishment and why some individuals will try almost anything to avoid it, while others are seemingly unfazed by it. For a long time it has been hypothesised that ...
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UNSW chancellor Professor David Gonski announced yesterday that one “of Australia’s most dynamic educational leaders”, Professor Attila Brungs, will become UNSW Sydney’s incoming President and Vice-Chancellor on 31 January 2022. Brungs is the current vice-chancellor and president of the University ...
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Local residents in the Lake Macquarie region in NSW are being recruited for a new marine habitat restoration project. Called Operation Posidonia, the project aims to restore endangered sea grasses in areas where they provide a critical habitat for marine ...
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There is a tension and dynamic playing out in the sector in many of our institutions of what comes next. Another budget has come and gone. It leaves us in no doubt that public funding relief for either our research, or ...
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The Gonski Institute for Education at UNSW has released a report calling for the highly controversial National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) to be ditched, not merely redesigned or tweaked. NAPLAN testing, which ended on Thursday and involved ...
More »HEDx Podcast – The Future of Higher Education is Hybrid – Episode 27
CampusReview · HEDx Podcast - The Future of Higher Education is Hybrid - Episode 27 Leading learning technology innovator Dr David Kellermann is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at UNSW in Sydney. He joins Martin and Karl to share his ...
More »Art vs machine: How will AI change creative fields?
Will the next great painter be AI? As algorithms get smarter, computers will play more of a role in creating music, art and other cultural artifacts, says a UNSW researcher. Associate Professor Oliver Bown, co-director of the Interactive Media Lab ...
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A study including people who are unable to visualise mental images has suggested that “imagery is an emotional thought amplifier”. For the study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers guided 46 study participants (22 with aphantasia, and ...
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Researchers from the University of NSW have developed a biosecurity program they say could have prevented COVID-19 and believe it will be instrumental in thwarting future pandemics. UNSW’s head of biosecurity research, Raina MacIntyre, has spearheaded an intelligence program called Epiwatch that ...
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